Displaying objects in small home
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Comments (5)I love the idea! :) My man did a similar thing for me, but focused on just the house. So each year, at the same time, he takes one picture of the house in the same spot, frames it and dates it. While right now it's just one pic of the house in tyvek, it's a super cute idea, and I love that each year we'll watch the house get siding, the garage go up, the lawn appear...and if we had children, I think it would be awesome if they suddenly appeared in the pictures too. I say go for it. I can't help on the collage aspect, but welcome to pintrest. Someone has a diy collage you can steal!...See MoreSmaller Homes
Comments (187)Licksch, those are nice windows and the sills are still plenty deep for small plants and such. I would be growing my spring veggies and flowers in there every March! TribbleTrouble, welcome fellow Star Trek fan! I have ramped our front porch and the 6" step going from our kitchen to our family room. It makes it so much better for my terrible knees. Here are some photos:In this photo you can see the ramp next to the sofa. The runner is level in the kitchen in front of the cabinet, then it hits the dark metal strip in the flooring and starts going down the ramp. The ramp ends where the runner hits the rug that is in front of the sofa. You cannot see it, but there is a bright brass handrail on the wall to hold onto as you descend the ramp. The flooring is linoleum, Marmoleum sheet flooring by Forbo. Originally, these two rooms were completely open to each other with a 6" drop-off all the way across the room until the kitchen cabinets started and acted like a half wall for the last 6 to 8 feet. It felt very open, but cluttered. When we remodeled the kitchen, we added a floor-to-ceiling pantry and a corner cabinet that used to be for a double wall oven. We turned it into a cabinet for a dishwasher, raised a foot off the floor so it would be easier to load. These cabinets required the construction of a wall, so we continued the wall as a half-wall behind the desk cabinets. This also gave us the ability to have electrical outlets at the desk. We got extra electrical outlets in the family room, too. Before we did this construction, my step-mother twice walked right off the edge of the kitchen floor and fell into the family room. She just did not see the floor change! Here is our outdoor ramp. It is too steep for regulations, but it fits the space perfectly! Enlarge the picture by clicking on it and you can see the ramp in "redwood" colored Trex against the wall of the garage. Our contractor made a contoured concrete ramp-end that melds it right into the sidewalk. The Japanese Maple tree blocks the view of the front door, but there is plenty of room to turn a chair or even a gurney onto the porch, then a bit of a tight turn for a gurney to get into the house, but the turn is fine for a wheelchair. My father-in-law lived with us at the end of his life and he entered and exited the home in both of those plenty of times! I believe the height of the step up to the porch is about a foot, and the ramp is 8 ft long when it should be 12 ft long according to regulations.Once inside the house, we have a 4 inch step up from the foyer to the hall. I have an aluminum ramp that we used when Dad was here for that step. If we had to use it again, it would be a bit of a bother, because we now have french doors going into the living room (which is our library/music room) from the foyer. The ramp would partially block the primary functioning door of the french doors. I suppose if I was permanently unable to walk, we would just remount the doors in the other direction. This is the ramp I have for there. I also have several left for the other 6 inch and 2 inch steps that used to exist in this house. https://www.ezaccess.com/catalog/allProducts/43/transitions-174-modular-entry-ramp If you scroll down, you can see the longer ramps for the higher steps. They are made of aircraft aluminum and they slide together in sections, so that each section becomes a strut holding up the ramp. They say the ramps can hold 700 lbs. I would guess that is a low estimate....See MorePlease help-need to store/display safely 30+ instruments in a house
Comments (6)Is your house climate controlled--especially for humidity? How many of them are wood (reed or string) instruments? Any silver? Are any/all of them valuable? Do you play them all? I don't display my string instruments--but I used to play professionally and they are the most expensive things I own. They are too sensitive to humidity fluctuations (and that's with a whole-house humidifier for the piano). But if yours are valuable and/or sensitive, some type of storage with glass doors might help keep the climate consistent enough (put a humidity gauge inside). Silver instruments can tarnish if left out. Brass instruments, form what I've read, can be hung without much concern (though my husband refuses to let me hang his out of their cases because he insists it will ruin them). I don't know much about earthquake issues, but I believe you can get lockable hanging hooks (like some music stores use to prevent you from going up and taking instruments off the wall without prior permission). You can also get floor stands for a lot of bigger instruments, but some of those are flimsy and not meant for long term. Those would worry me in an earthquake. But you can also have custom stands made that are much more solid....See MoreA home as display space
Comments (60)Interesting in that I am right now reading a book written by the woman who ran the B&B we just visited. It's a memoir of her experiences and also tips for anyone considering doing it. One of the pluses she mentioned about running a B&B was that it gave you an opportunity to let your creativity and decorating juices run free with decorating the rooms (within reason and she outlines some things that won't fly that she learned along the way). BTW, the B&B was full of collectables, which I loved. The woman had been an antiques dealer and furnished the place with all second hand eclectic stuff. I loved, loved the place but I know some would find it cluttered. She collected antique toys from the 50's. I loved seeing them all around the place but I am a kid at heart. The room was quiet and comfortable, the location excellent, and the food was fantastic, so I had no complaints. In the memoir she says that for her running a B&B is fun (they are almost always booked full up due to their location) but it's not a big money maker. It was something she and her husband did after the kids flew the coop and they already had retired from their first round of careers as college administrators. I have another family friend who ran a B&B for a couple of decades, she and her Mom always had fun decorating the place, which they redid every so often to keep it looking "fresh." But it is a tight market and AirBnB and the like are cutting into it....See Moreliasch
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