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Comments (13)Here is what I was thinking about for turning Bath 3 into a hall bath that could be easily shared by unrelated by different gender and/or non-related kids. If you didn't put a lock on the outer door, but have locks on the toilet room and tub room doors, two people could use the space at the same time with reasonable privacy and no one could lock the other out of space that wasn't actually being used. Obviously, there is no privacy at the sink when brushing teeth, washing hands, fixing hair, or putting on make-up. Most of us are reasonably okay with that and Besides, those of us who grew up in the days when entire families shared a single bath learned to take our hair and make-up primping to our bedrooms to free up the bathroom anyway. But, if you absolutely hate pocket doors then this won't work very well because you'd have too many doors opening into too small a space. But it is an idea. I personally think it would look okay to have the door to bedroom 3 moved forward... but then I'm not that hung up on symmetry. Another option would be to move the door to bedroom 3 all the way to the front of the house so that it is straight across from the top of the stairs. That would give you a different kind of symmetry. But it would also mean whoever had bedroom 3 would have a rather long walk to reach his/her bathroom. Alternatively, you just could do a more traditional hall bath like this and just leave the door to bedroom 3 right where it is. Since you have room in the attic area to build a closet for the study if/when you want to turn it into a bedroom, this would work fine. As for getting furniture into bedroom 4, with 3'6" hallways, you're probably okay as long as you're not planning on putting anything really massive in there. Dressers can be tipped up on one end to get them thru the hallways. Mattresses can be bent a little bit to get them around tight corners. The biggest problem would probably be the box springs if you were trying to get a queen or king size bed into the room. As long as it's a child's room and you plan to stick with a twin or full-size bed, I wouldn't worry about it. It's great that you have a kitchen designer helping you plan the kitchen but you might also want to post your plan on the kitchen forum here on GW. Those folks are AMAZING when it comes to designing kitchens. It's also great that you have a second garage for the bicycles and stuff like that! I'd still want my laundry room and mud room to be larger tho. I agree with your reasoning about having the downstairs "bonus room." In fact, if you can find a way to do it while redesigning the kitchen space, I'd recommend a "pass thru" opening from the kitchen to the family room so that you can see the kids while working in the kitchen. But, tho I agree with you about having a downstairs bonus room, I'm not sure I agree that it needs to be quite so big. Are you planning to put a pool table or ping-pong table in there or are we just talking board games, TV, and room for little ones to scatter their toys and run around a bit? If you're thinking family night with board games, it is unlikely that half your family will be watching TV while the other half plays board games in the same room. The noise from the two activities isn't exactly compatible so it's likely that the TV watchers would drift off to the living room to watch their shows in peace or the board game players would move out to the nook or dining room. So, I'd still probably steal about a 5 ft wide strip out of the bottom of the family room to expand the laundry room and mud room....See Morebest lending company for pre owned manufactured home loan
Comments (1)Our bank gave us the original loan on ours. It was a year old when we bought it. Last year we took out a home improvement loan on it at the same bank. They were happy to give us the loans....See MoreWill you lend me your creative minds/ideas?
Comments (13)Thanks all, to be honest that was not necessarily the name I would use, more just along the lines of a "style" or look. I have a very small scale nursery resale business that I have named Meadow View Gardens and may expand on that? or maybe just use that name. how do you like Fleur du Jardin? anyway, I'll be thinking on that too. I am definitely looking into unique tags, considered doing a fluer de lis, using a stamp on parchment paper with pink curling ribbon, or I have a variety (understatement) of ribbon to use. I found 2 more bookshelves tonight $10 each, that I can paint, so I'll have the 3 cubbies, and 3 6 ft bookcases. I also have a few other pieces to put in there to display stuff on. Question/poll: paint all the bookcases white? or maybe some of them pink? I will of course know what fits and looks right when I get it all down there and start setting it up. I'm planning to use the waverly fabric hemmed and with an opening for a pvc pipe with a corner fitting joining the two together, which will be hung from the ceiling using white chain hanging from the front and side of the space. The space next to me has a full length black fabric curtain wall, so that will help me too. And I have a whole bunch of white/cream tulle to use, have not put that together yet. might make like a canopy over the middle of the space, that notion is still in the developement stages :) as to how to hang it and what to make it look like. I also love the old door wall idea, will have to see about finding some to use, I'd only need like 3 or 4, I also considered using picket fence pieces behind the white cubbies, anyway, It will all come together and I'm really excited about it. thanks for all the comments and suggestions, (keep em coming, you never know when something you suggest will be just the ticket) I will do my best to keep my space unifed and interesting with great "finds" and will definitely be repurposing old furniture. Found a great woodend dresser tonight for $20 have my request in for another piece that will be great to paint and fix up....See MoreArticle on Interest rate cut/lending/housing prices
Comments (4)I've seen that article in several places, one is below. IMO any bailout should be limited to individials or companies who were actually defrauded in some way. I do not believe in government bailing out individuals OR businesses who acted irresponsibly. Mark my words though, any bailout will be promoted as if it's "for Americans to hold onto the dream of homeownership," but in reality it will help shady businesses continue their shady practices, (the stuff that caused this problem in the first place). I find it almost disgusting that people who pushed these bad loans on unqualified buyers shunned regulation or law enforcement attempts, and now they want the government to get involved. Tax payers would not really notice the relatively low cost of helping true victims of fraud, but we will all notice the much higher cost of enabling crooks to continue. Here is a link that might be useful: Article...See MoreUser
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