New home - Making living area special
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Moving to new home, need advice for decorating living area
Comments (7)If this were to be my house the first thing I would do is paint the fireplace the color of the wall. It looks rather dated and also makes the room look smaller. If you were to put the entertainment center in the corner it will compete with the fireplace and chop up the area even more if the fireplace stays as it is. One of your first priorities should probably be to decide on a color scheme so that you'll know what to look for in terms of drapes and a carpet. If you find a carpet you love you can pull out different colors from it for your furniture and drapes, which might simplify the process. Having a lot of dark furniture with dark floors might be too much unless you're only talking about wood furniture and not couches and chairs. Just remember you'll spend a lot of time in this room so take your time to pick items you really love in colors that make you feel happy....See MoreWhat makes your house special?
Comments (19)Yet another crazy project but this will be definitely be our last major project and definitely unique and mouth watering. Ours is in it's final design stage; 100% designed and architected from scratch by me with ton's of input from my good wife and critique from my daughter. Absolutely unique and nothing like this out there however will be built to provide significant resale value after we are gone and proceeds split between my two kids. With close to 7500sf 124x62 footprint (per floor), we cut the design down from two storey (same footprint) with walkout basement to a single storey with walkout basement. Highlights will be floor to ceiling glass to the rear in the 20' ceiling 1179sf family room and 10' ceiling 755sf kitchen/casual dining providing breathtaking views of the harbor and snow clad mountains to the north and east. A 22' ceiling circular split level entry foyer flanked by curved stairs leading to the 12' ceiling basement, two full size bowling lanes in the basement, 6'-4" corridors on 1st floor, a 38x24 suspended 3 car garage on 1st floor above basement, another 1 car garage with car lift just below in the basement, a 124x16 deck on the rear with glass railings (to preserve amazing views to the rear). 20KVA ground based solar system, 4 zone heating/cooling with multi-zone radiant floor heating (yet to decide if geothermal or electric, waiting for survey) . A sub-basement wine cellar with an elevator leading to basement and 1st floor (in kitchen, in planning). The list is endless. Everything computer and remote controlled (I'm a computer guy). Perhaps not the way most would build it but I like to do things my way, code permitting. Build time 18-24 months and significant work will be done my me. Here is a link that might be useful: Link to my thread. This post was edited by Pinebaron on Fri, Jan 30, 15 at 8:41...See MoreJust moved into new home. Need help with decorating living area.
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Comments (33)Sorry mark but there is nothing misleading in my statement. An Architect does not qualify as an engineer without a P.E. or S.E. Architects use the code books for engineering data, Engineers do the calculations for the data. but don't worry Mark you're still special and usually make more than an Engineer....See Moremarcommom
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