Where is your TV?
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Comments (6)Thanks for your input Renovator8. Are all of the major spaces awkward? Which ones in particular look the worst? Do you have any suggestions on how I could make this flow better? We've looked at how we live on a day to day basis and how we would like our home to function. This plan seems to be the best flow for our lifestyle, but some help from GW may help us change it for the better. If you were to provide some more feedback I may understand why it is so awkward. I'm definetly an amateur so I would love some input on how to make things flow better. I do recognize that some aspects of our plan is not traditional in the way most houses are being built: i.e. stairs are by the entrance, not accessed easily from the interior of the home. Living room is at the back of the home and not accessed through an entry to the home. There are some reasons why we chose to do this. On the east coast of Canada we have a much more informal way of living. We entertain in the kitchen/ dining room (kitchen parties) rather than the living room. We will have a covered deck off the kitchen since we do have so many kitchen parties. Sometimes women and children gather in the kitchen/ dining and the men will go to the living room or the garage. Many people including us do not use their basements other than storage and utilities such as hot water heater, furnace etc. The stairs are usually only accessed to store seldom used things such as extra supplies, seasonal wear and seasonal decorations. Our lot is set up so that all of the outdoor living and access to the home is on the south side. The north side is 100 acres of family woodland that won't be accessed. I hope these extra details of our lifestyle and how we would like our home to function will help you provide us with some input....See MoreWhere is your TV???
Comments (18)http://ths.gardenweb.com/forums/load/smallerhomes/msg0212593512065.html Hope this link works first time I tried to do the clippings. I am one that believes that in a small house, such as mine, you need to make all your furniture function for more than one thing, I shopped for years to find the right piece of furniture here, I do want my TV hidden when not in use, this is my living room, my husband has a similar set up in the family room, only his has a huge stereo system as well as his t v..and his books. we are both big book people..i have bookcases in nearly every room in my house..all my furniture must have storage, or eventually it will be gone. (oh except the seating..my sofas don't..i do store things under my beds though)...See MoreDining (table) between kitchen & living or separate dining area?
Comments (14)Wow! Lots of questions! Haha! Let's see. We live in New Orleans and are a very casual, fun, energetic family. DH and I are in our mid 30's and have a 9 year old and a 6 year old. Both kids are active outside of school. TV is a big part of our lives because of sports, movies, kids, etc. But Mike's Den is where lots of the sports programming will take place. :) We are planning to offset the TV and put it to the side of the fireplace for two reasons....1) Now that the kitchen is further over, if someone is in there, it will be more centered to the room as a whole and 2) it can be a bit lower and more at eye-level if it's not above the fireplace. We can make the built-ins accommodate the TV at a level more comfortable for viewing. There will also be a playroom/media room upstairs for the kids. So the Living Room TV will be the group/family TV I suppose. We take turns cooking but both work. So we aren't gourmet cooks but we enjoy cooking meals. We enjoy conversations from the kitchen, thus wanting the open plan. I'd say that because of kids' evening activities, we probably cook 3-4 days a week maybe? Other nights we grill or get take out, pick something up or go out to eat on the way home. The porch. The house (again, in New Orleans...flooding) must be elevated a bit). This porch is elevated with the house. I know we will also have lower space for a table and chairs and the grill, that we haven't laid out yet. We actually did talk about widening the porch. How wide would you suggest? My dad suggested 1-3 feet wider. What do you think? The front door...you see the stairs to the right of the kitchen? And the open pass-through there under the stairs in the drawing? If you go through that pass through...actually straight from the back door, you'd pass the turned stairs above you and a guest room above, master below (in the drawing) and the front door is that way. It's a narrow, New Orleans lot...50x122, which has made things interesting to lay out! :) Thanks again guys! Your feedback is great! Oh, and again, the furniture placement and the kitchen appliances, etc. is just there in the drawings as a guide. It's not fixed or anything. It's just a visual thing for reference....See MoreChopping up (and furnishing) a great room
Comments (13)Well, I'm changing my mind. Now that I see the chandy and slight recess lower right, I think that area might be better for dining. My reasoning is that the doorways out of the left side of your space are further from that corner, more convenient for exiting the social areas, and the dining area will be out of constant traffic circulation. A nice buffet can go in the recess as well. Make a TV corner at the fan area. Mount TV on the wall right of the bedroom hallway; float a sofa perpendicular to the wall between the window and mudroom door with the sofa back dividing the living and kitchen. If you have space, use a sofa table behind it. A pair of chairs can face the window or flank a coffee table. In front of the three windows set up a comfy conversation spot with four chairs around a coffee table. If you can finalize the seating areas, you can have some floor outlets installed before the new floors go in, so you can have convenient lamps for floating furniture in such a large space. You don't want to have all your lighting hugging the walls because that's where the outlets are. Not sure I'd build in a closet to block up the spacious feeling. If you need a coat closet, perhaps a pretty armoire could stand on that wall to visually counterbalance the TV on the other side of the hallway....See More- 10 years ago
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