Vacation Home Plan Kitchen Help
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Help with vacation home kitchen update
Comments (4)I'd work on 2 opposite walls for starters.The place looks deep-from the french doors...thru the kitchen to the wall with tV in family room[?] Take down the plates from above the french doors...get a large wrought iron type rod with rings and put fabric panels in the color/pattern that you are seeking-make sure it is a statement. Also paint that wall. Then do something complementary on that far wall in living/family room that is in view but has no character right now. These two walls/flooded with color will pull the visuals of the space in line whereas now it is just a long empty looking hallway. Maybe a semi circular rug in the foreground area by the frig also tying in to the colors. Probably wrought iron hardware on the cabs...wouldn't do much else right away. Pause a bit after color and see how you feel and what else you may or may not want to tackle... pulling off counters/changing floor/painting cabs-just not needed[right now] in my opinion....See MoreModest Vacation Home Plan Review
Comments (24)Chelwa, I really like the idea of the one wall galley. DH and I both like to cook and wanted plenty of counterspace, but I think we could still have that with the galley plan. You're right that it avoids the corner cabinet issues, it would also allow the stove to vent directly to the outside, and it would give us better use of the wall space if we go with the loft/ladder option. I'm going to work on that before going to the kitchen forum. Great idea, thank you. Still_waters, we have a similar laundry/mudroom setup now where we walk past the washer/ dryer and I'm fine with it but I do understand the issue - if the floor isn't clean you have to be careful taking your laundry out of the machines! For the back porch, we're in the south so keeping the back porch screened from insects is really needed, especially in a cove (mosquito heaven). I love sitting in the sun, in the winter with a cup of coffee, and will definitely find places for that. Door size: We actually have 28" doors on the bathrooms in the house we're in now, and it's the house we plan to age in! My fault entirely, it's a custom house and I was not thinking about aging in place at the time. For the lake house, as cpartist says from what I've read a wheelchair can access a 32" door if it is a straight approach (36" if you need to turn to enter). A straight approach could be done in the master bath in the lake house, and someone with a walker can access either bath....See MoreRedesigning 1972 kitchen in vacation condo. Comment on plans!
Comments (47)Anthony, that's a cool solution -- thanks for sharing the diagram and the photos! Claire, what would the key difference be in setting up a "breakfast bar" style eating area -- just trying to picture whether it's counter-height or narrow or??? Denita, I hadn't realized that overseeing installation would be another perk of getting a kitchen designer. I have some (really bad) real world experience with contractors, too. I'm trying not to let that paralyze me with fear. So mitigating that risk is important to me. We do have awesome property managers who live downstairs and I know would be happy to check on the progress daily for us, so I'll definitely being doing that as well. Flo, the upstairs has an open loft space on the half over the living room, and a third bedroom on the other side over the kitchen. No water plumbing up there of any kind. These upstairs rooms look ok on paper, but the ceiling height is crazy -- only 7" high at the apex (which is only 4 feet wide), and then sloping to 4 feet at the walls. So the spaces are very restrictive in terms of moving the stairs. The other two bedrooms and the two bathrooms are on the first level....See MoreShould I invert the floor plan of my vacation home to maximize views?
Comments (1)My $.02 is that once you're at "installing an elevator" levels of budget, this conversation should happen between you and your architect in light of the site plan, and the opinions of random people on the internet shouldn't carry much weight. I also think you should be much more concerned about how YOU want to live, as opposed to some hypothetical future purchaser of your home. Setting aside all of that, if a home has some significant views, I'd rather see them from the main living areas than from the bedrooms, even if that means getting in the elevator with my groceries....See MoreJillius
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