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Comments (1)Okay, I'll post something so it will sink. But you folks should check it out, it is full of energy-saving ideas. For a laugh, check out the ideas they did not use, too....See MoreWhat makes a 'smaller' home on this forum?
Comments (10)"A smaller home to me is one where there isn't room to "float" the furniture away from the walls. I wondered, Ellendi, if your friend with the 3000sq ft house was having difficulty with downsizing because she could not stand having furniture near the walls and not having vast open spaciousness around her. I think that we small homers sometimes get the opposite problem. We rearrange things and find an open space, and before you know it, we have something sitting in that open space!" Very interesting thought Nancy, I think this is what I do. might answer why I have so much crammed into our house.Maybe why I like a smaller house. And yet our house is not all that small at 1375SQ FT. Right now I am sitting in the middle of a HUGE mess. I have the sewing /guest /office room unloaded into the living room dinning room and laundry room with a little spill over into my studio. This is only a 13 by 9 foot room I had to clear and yet it takes up so much space in all the other rooms. Course I do have that other room space to put it in but it is very uncomfortable feeling now for me. Too closed in cluttered. And yet all that furniture back into it's space does not feel too cluttered for me. hummmmmmmmm We do have a love seat floating in our living room. It is a long room and I use the love seat to make a kind of entrance way at the side door. Also gives me added wall space. As I sit here with a 4 foot painted white china cabinet from sewing room in living room I am really liking the look of the white against the very soft greenpainted walls. Dang it all. That gun cabinet might be good oak but I am getting very close to painting it white. It is a great big dark piece of furniture. Also paint the secretary white and I think it would make this room look so light and airy which is the look I really like. I think it's dark oak days are numbered. LOL Chris...See MoreWhat is considered a 'small house'
Comments (31)Hey all! Glad to be a part of the forum - thanks for all the welcomes! I can already see that I have found a great group of people! :) xxxhugsxxx!!! We are slowly starting to get used to the colonial! We have stripped the old icky wallpaper from the dining room and painted it a lighter tanish-yellowish-whitish (think a sunny tan neutral color - lol!) and added some lace valances and it looks breathtaking! Can't wait to strip the mauve rose wallpaper from the entry hall and the living room and paint in there too! The entry hall will probably be painted a similar color to the dining room (the dining room is something like 9x12 feet (I think)) and the living room is 11x24 feet with a brick fireplace centered on the long interior wall, and then the kitchen is adjacent to both the living room and dining room and there is a little closet sized 1/2 bath tucked off of the kitchen(the first floor forms a horse-shoe shape around the entry hall). There is a room (which was added on, actually it was once the bottom half of a two-story porch that was part of the back of the house which both levels have been enclosed and beautifully finished as part of the interior of the house with hardwood floors and big beautiful windows and works VERY functionally well with the rest of the house, you would never even KNOW that it wasn't built like that!!!) anyways, the first story addition is right off of the living room and I use that as my photography studio - it is 9'x16'. In the front entry, there is a curved maple banister (eeek! gorgeous!!) and a little coat closet tucked next to the stairs on the back wall. In the entry hall if you look to the left, there's the dining room through an arched doorway, and to the right is the living room through another arched doorway. Upstairs there are 3 bedrooms ( one of which is the remodeled porch - once again you would never guess that it had been anything but the original house!) My two oldest daughters share a 9x17 foor bedroom with a wardrobe, window seat (that lifts up for toy storage!) and bookshelf accross the exterior end of the room and a good sized closet (it is so cozy for them and they LOVE sharing a room!!!) then there is a full bathroom upstairs, my youngest daughter's room (which is 9x16 feet with a nice big closet) there is also a 4th what you could call "bedroom" I guess which is 6x8 feet with a nice closet that we currently use for my kids' play kitchen set and my sewing machine and we use the closet for coat storage until we get more organized, however there are no windows in this room. Our bedroom is 11x17 feet. In the hallway upstairs, there are drawers and cupboards built into a wall in lieu of a closet - I love it!! There are also some of these built in drawers and cupboards in the master bedroom along with a walkin closet with built-in dressers. There is another door off of our bedroom which goes into a hallway with a window in it (this is the window that shows over the balcony over the front door in the center of the house, and off of this hallway is another door with stairs that go to an unfinished attic. We want to make this into our own little "space" eventually - we want to put carsiding (the wood cabiny-type paneling that you put on walls in a cabin), and hardwood floors with a fireplace up there and bookshelves built into the kneewalls :)... Projects for this year include a facelift on the kitchen (which is 11x8 feet) which will include new countertops ($80 total), a new backsplash ($200), a new dark hardwood floor ($150), and a couple of additional cupboards which my uncle is going to make for us :), rip out the wallpaper and paint. The bathroom downstairs is next, we're going to rip out the cheapy sink and put in a fluted pedestal sink, rip out the vinyl flooring and put tile down, put white bead board on the bottom half of the walls with chair rail, paint the upper half a dusky misty blue, put a new toilet in and update the electrical. The bathroom upstairs is next with new flooring, and ripping out the fake tile paneling on the walls and replacing the toilet. Next year is windows (only 3 of the 15 on the first floor can be opened as of right now), replacing the crown moulding in our room and eventually extending the other half of the house back 9 feet to meet the previous addition which will make our kitchen bigger :) yay. Anyways, I will try to get some pictures up asap! How do i do that by the way? Sorry I'm rambling here, it kinda helped me sort out my to-do-list! God bless guys! and Thanks again!...See MoreFeng Shui forum for Home Forums?
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