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Counseling needed! Framed rooms seem tiny!
Comments (13)BREATHE! ;-) The optical illusion that framed in rooms seem much smaller than they should be has been discussed here many times over the years. Below is a link to one of those old threads. First-time builders often panic at this stage. I know I did. When my house was framed in, I'd have sworn the entire garage was barely big enough to hold a single VW bug...much less three cars. The secondary bedrooms looked like closets and I couldn't see how we could possibly fit a full-sized bed into our master bedroom. LOL! The illusion apparently has something to do with your mind comparing the rooms to the whole out-doors which you can still see through the wide open walls. Once everything is enclosed and you have windows and doors, it may suddenly look huge. And then, once the sheetrock and flooring is in, it should settle down to looking the right size. Now, whether an 18'x20' great room will feel and look big to you depends on several factors including just how much furniture you intend to put in the room and what all you intend to do in it and how big a great room you're currently used to If your "great room" is going to be a combined living area and dining area, 18x20 would be a bit tight because you would be trying to put a dining room table and chairs plus living room furniture into that space. But if your great room is really just a renamed living room (aka "family room", aka "den") then 18x20 ought to be plenty big unless you have really over-sized furniture and a lot of it. Here is a link that might be useful: size looks small while framing?...See MoreLooking for small(er) toilet (short depth) for small half-bath?
Comments (6)Thanks for the responses. The bathroom is roughly 40" wide from wall to wall. I was measuring and think my current toilet only extends to about 24", so maybe I'm doing as well as I can? Its a standard round bowl, which isn't my favorite, but oh well. Appreciate the ideas!...See Morelooking for guidance - two light fixture too small for mirror size?
Comments (4)The size of the 3 light is a good size. Yes, I think these look kind of heavy. Maybe if your frame on the mirror is a really thick frame, that might help. Other than that I would go for something with a thinner bar. See some options below. If you get a chance, please post a picture of your mirror. [Quoizel 3-Light Bath Vanity Light, Western Bronze[(https://www.houzz.com/products/edison-3-light-bathroom-vanity-lights-western-bronze-prvw-vr~27746958) [Capital Lighting 8303BB-128 Baxter Burnished Bronze 3 Light Vanity[(https://www.houzz.com/products/capital-lighting-baxter-burnished-bronze-urban-vanity-w-3-light-100w-prvw-vr~19381625)...See MoreFrame is going up and the house looks small!!
Comments (20)I had the same thing when building our new 2700 sq ft home with full basement. When the foundation and basement floors were poured I walked around them and thought this is small. My sis-in-law stopped by and thought it looked huge. Just for fun I measured the half-basement of the 1400 sq ft 100+yr old house we had been in for 22 years, which had our laundry, canning jars/root vegetables, holiday decorations, overflow junk etc. The basement of our old house was only the size of the back basement room in the new house, that made the new house feel huge once I realized the scale. Now that I am living there and having farther to walk to get everytrhing than in the small "starter home" we lived in for 22 years, it feels really really huge. I find myself missing those tight quarters sometimes, because everything I needed was easy to reach!...See Morewhidbey
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