Which Switch? Planning open concept lighting
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Comments (5)If she's wanting to limit the gold, I would go with the granite on the right. With a little more help from accessories, I think it will pull the blue from her sofa nicely :) BTW, I love that you are creating a guest house for your kids! It sounds like it's going to look amazing and I hope you will post pictures :)...See Morehouse plans that are NOT open concept...
Comments (12)I too wanted a kitchen that was closed off but open (I know doesn't make sense). I relayed all of my wants and needs to our Architect and they came up with a plan that we are now building. We had to think a little outside the box but decided to divide the kitchen from the other public spaces by using pocket doors. Our ceilings are 11 ft. and the antique pocket doors are 9 ft. I can close them when I feel the need for quiet or open them for entertaining, or not. We also had other ideas but I've now forgotten them...been planning for 3 years and now focusing on our build. This is the last house I'm building and I wanted to get it right. I would look at home plans that have a center hall. It seems it may be easier to close or open a room with this kind of plan. I'm not a pro but this seems to have worked well for us....See MoreLighting in open concept floor plan
Comments (1)Sounds like a gorgeous home. Function informs form. You are going to need some type of lighting at night when the sun won't help you out through your lovely windows. The traditional fussy chandeliers are not as popular as they once were. There are so many options available now. It's hard for us to recommend a style without seeing photos and knowing what type of style you are after. I like to point people toward Visual Comfort & Co at Circa Lighting just because the quality of light from those fixtures is extraordinary. I wouldn't skip putting in lighting in all those places, but if you pick similar styles, then they should blend. No one really looks up at your light fixtures much, to be honest, so it's the effect of the light itself that is critical to get right....See MoreMain Floor - open concept or not? Floor Plan Included
Comments (5)The answers to your questions will change based on how people live--which may be different from how you or I live. My current home has a formal dining room at the front of the house, similar to your floor plan. We use that dining room once a year on Christmas, and only because I feel obligated; the other 364 days of the year are spent eating meals in our eat in kitchen, even when we're squeezing 10 people around our kitchen table. For our new, downsized home (we're in the final sketches with an architect) there will be no dining room, and a very large eat in area for a table in the kitchen. Because that's how we live. So in your floor plan, I'd turn the dining room into the living room as Patricia suggested, and put a table in the current great room. Whether you do that or leave the dining room at the front of the house, I'd personally leave the fireplace as a separating wall between the great room and living room. If you remove it, you'll then have a huge cavernous space (30'x20') that would then be broken up into different seating areas anyway. The fireplace just makes it easier to break up those areas and provide more of a barrier for times when someone might want to watch TV in one area while someone else would prefer to read or listen to music in the other area....See MoreAnglophilia
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