Lighting Advice for DR
Becky Cox
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Comments (11)Thank you so much for the input! And apologies for my delay in responding. My internet connection decided to act up this week. Olga, I'm glad to hear that yours is planted so close to the fence. I squinted so hard at your photos trying to gauge it, but of course, it's hard to judge from a picture, especially when your roses always have such incredible foliage. The fence is quite long, so if Dr Reynaud wants to grow those monster canes, he has the space to do so. I hope he does! Alexis and Rosefolly, thank you! It's good to hear confirmation from people in climates more like my own. Right now, my baby is acting more like Marcel Proust than like a "hunk" per se. He's got a touch of PM. Already! Oh, *rose.* Ah, well. It's been a bad spring for it here, and I knew when I decided to accept a Bourbon into my garden that my no-spray days were almost certainly over. I'm still hoping that he'll improve in the ground. All of my roses have become much healthier once they're planted. I don't think that I have any knack at all for tending to them in pots....See MoreDR Window Treatment Advice?
Comments (9)I think we often worry far too much about covering a little bit of a window or a sidelight opening with drapery. Curtains will almost always cover some of the side of the glass, particularly when the builder or designer has slammed the opening up against an interior corner. The point of drapery is only partly to close off the light or the ability to see into the house. You hang lovely things as part of furnishing a room with a cohesive scheme. So thinking only of the relationship to the window instead of the larger relationship to the room and the house makes the job much harder, and more likely to produce an unsatisfying result. So in your case, I think you should curtain both windows in the same way, from the ceiling to the floor, with panels that are the same width, and generous enough to look good in the room, even though you don't need to close them for privacy. The panels on the high window can hang out to the sides, covering only the side trim, while the others can cover part of the sidelights. In this way, you will equalize the visual width of the two windows, and add warmth and softeness to your pretty, simple dining room. I would also recommend that you find another spot for the cabinet we see at the left of the photo, and add a long, shallow table to stand under the high window to ground it on that wall. Paint the HVAC register to match the wall, and you will have a cohesive, balanced, welcoming place....See MorePossibly flipping DR and Kitchen, Advice Needed
Comments (7)emilyam819, I am sorry, I thought I replied to your comment, must not have hit the submit button and I got rid of the tab so now I am reconstructing my response :-( Behind our bay window is a finished enclosed porch, we will not be flattening it and we also have a lot of pipes in that short wall to the right of the door from the porch that we don't want to move, so I don't think we can do the expanded laundry/mudroom/entry way you suggested. I did try working with the bay window kind of like what buehl showed in this thread HERE, but those five openings into my breakfast room area just make that area DIFFICULT to work with if I stick with the kitchen/breakfast room area. C X, my biggest concern about putting the DR in the breakfast room/kitchen is the traffic flow. The size of the current DR is so much better for the kitchen, but I don't know how the traffic flow is going to work. I have been playing around with the idea you suggested (modified), it has some potential to kind of separate the new kitchen area from the current breakfast room (and some of the kitchen) to make a room, just haven't figured it out yet....See MoreNeed advice on furniture placement in open plan LR/DR
Comments (10)In the living area, use a sofa on the long wall, two armchairs facing the windows with their backs to the kitchen, and one more chair angled into the seating area under the windows. Loveseats take up a lot of space. You also need to leave enough room for small end tables. Since your island is so narrow, I would forgo using island stools, which gives you more space for a table and chairs. Look for a narrow rectangular table that can be placed fairly close to the wall, and pulled out slightly when you need to use the back side two/three chairs. You can use the two end chairs and two or three side chairs on a daily basis. Don't buy any furniture until you're actually in the space, so you can measure precisely and understand how things will fit....See MoreBecky Cox
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