If I Never See This Decor or Design Choice Again, or Please, No more….. (fireplace mantle, maple)
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I have never lived in anywhere that is more than 725 square feet, including the house I grew up in/lived in for a little over twenty years.
The coop I live in now is probably somewhere between 600-650 square feet. Because the LR/DR area and office area (depending on what you decide to make it, of course) has sort of an open feeling, it doesn't feel as enclosed as it could. My kitchen is TINY and closed off and I hate being in there---actually, my husband hates being in there with me so he waits for me to leave before he does anything because it's so tight.
Anyway, between the tight space, the closed off areas and the lack of windows, I wish it was more open. I do not get direct sunlight because of my placement in the building and I have no windows in the office area/kitchen, so everything feels on the darker-side to me. It adds to that closed/small/claustrophobic feeling.
Now, if you are talking a nice big house with lots of light and windows, you don't need to manipulate the house in order to make it feel "open."
Barn doors...all that big ugly exposed hardware just turns me off. I cringe every time Joanna Gaines puts one in, and the homeowners go gah-gah over it.
I agree, kind of like metal roofing. Unless you have a farm house or actual converted barn, it doesn't really belong. Although I like some of the homes she's re-done, they are all so repetitive, decoratively speaking. Watch two or three shows and you've watched them all. Get loan from the bank for double or more the value of the home (?), take walls down, check; hardwood flooring throughout, check; Ship-lap wall siding, check; pale painted walls, check. There, a Gaines home.
Location: Finally the house is done and we are in Port St. Lucie!
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Love your house!!
Thank you! We fell in love with it and it had all the rooms we needed, plus an extra one. No more having guests sleep in the living room when the kids and grandkids visit.
Now if they would just pour the slab! Once that happens, it shouldn't be but a few months before we can move in. LOL.
Barn doors...all that big ugly exposed hardware just turns me off. I cringe every time Joanna Gaines puts one in, and the homeowners go gah-gah over it.
I just visited 4 pricey new model homes down the street and every one of them had a set of huge barn doors in more than one location. On both the main level and upstairs. Hubby and I were staring blankly at them because we couldn't understand the value of them in the locations we saw. They were just for design. I'm curious how many people actually put them in their homes.
And someone mentioned turrets. There are lots of turrets in homes around me. Most of them are around 10 years old so maybe that's a trend that's played out.
Robino, I like your home design. This looks very livable to me because the kitchen is in a back corner, not in the center of everything, like mine. I would like my kitchen to be like that.
To circle back to the original post. I am bothered that everyone has to say "hardwood" floors, on TV.
In real life, doesn't everyone just say, "wood floors"?
Location: Finally the house is done and we are in Port St. Lucie!
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I just visited 4 pricey new model homes down the street and every one of them had a set of huge barn doors in more than one location. On both the main level and upstairs. Hubby and I were staring blankly at them because we couldn't understand the value of them in the locations we saw. They were just for design. I'm curious how many people actually put them in their homes.
And someone mentioned turrets. There are lots of turrets in homes around me. Most of them are around 10 years old so maybe that's a trend that's played out.
Robino, I like your home design. This looks very livable to me because the kitchen is in a back corner, not in the center of everything, like mine. I would like my kitchen to be like that.
Thank you
In the rental we are in now, our kitchen is pretty central also. I do like that the new place has the kitchen tucked in out of the main space.
The ceiling in the kitchen is also lower than the main rooms (dining and living). They (the main rooms) aren't cathedral but they are 12' ceilings. That should help with any of that echo that tends to happen with kitchens being 'open' to the rest of the house.
No, it really couldn't happen. Houses are inspected by the authorities at many phases throughout the building process and the build will be shut down if it doesn't pass, until the issue is rectified. No house is going to pass inspection and get a certificate of occupancy allowing for the builder to sell it without appropriate support beams in place.
I went through a new build with a tract builder and I lost track of how many city inspections there were, along with the inspector I hired myself, who did a foundation and framing inspection before the drywall went up, and then a final inspection before closing.
Maybe with new houses but there have been many DIY jobs that are not inspected.
No, it really couldn't happen. Houses are inspected by the authorities at many phases throughout the building process and the build will be shut down if it doesn't pass, until the issue is rectified. No house is going to pass inspection and get a certificate of occupancy allowing for the builder to sell it without appropriate support beams in place.
LMAO.
I have a bridge to sell you. No idea if it's been inspected or not ...
To circle back to the original post. I am bothered that everyone has to say "hardwood" floors, on TV.
In real life, doesn't everyone just say, "wood floors"?
I believe some very old floors are softwood. If the floors are oak, then to call them hardwood is accurate.
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