Should we put an Island in
Kristen Ashley
6 years ago
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should we put different quartz on peninsulas?
Comments (10)Thank you so much for all your input. I have remodeled and planned many projects before but this quartz decision is killing me--and I appreciate your help! Sometimes I wish I would have foregone the copper sink (too late, the sink is here and cabinets come on Friday!) just to save me the trouble of obsessing over the need to choose the countertop around it! I have uploaded the Hanstone Liscia and I love, love the warmth and simplicity of it. I have seen the copper sink on display (it's hammered and antiqued) and the Liscia (thank you mudhouse for suggesting I upload it) seems to go along with it (the dark veins in Liscia suggest the copper color of the sink) but at the same time, that sink isn't "popping" around it either. Hence, my idea to use different materials on the sink/range counters and then use my precious Liscia on the peninsulas. But dcward89--exactly! I am worried the look will be, like you say, "disjointed." A little voice in my head was saying that all along! To further clarify the peninsulas--the one by the pantry will be used as a table (it adjoins a large dining area that has some family space). The peninsula closest to the sink separates the kitchen from family room (which is two steps down). This Friday, the cabinets will be here--off white with ameretto creme glaze and I will have to finally, FINALLY, make a decision on the quartz! I so so thank all of you for any input you have given and will so appreciate any might offer. Thanks again!...See MoreNeed a new roof! What shingle should we put on our house?
Comments (7)after extensive hail damage we have to get a new roof. I love the look of slate but it is out of our budget. One Roofer suggested Certainteed Landmark Pro Black Moire and another roofer suggested Timberline HD Charcoal. I need help! Going for a classic and timeless look!...See MoreShould we put 9 ft. or 10 ft. ceilings in a new Craftsman build?
Comments (100)cpartist give excellent suggestions for how to deal with 10 foot tall kitchens, keeping the ambiance Craftsman and attractive. I will note I find 9 foot tall ceilings plenty fine for me, but go with feels comfortable to you. Although I do have a cathedral ceiling in the public part of the house.... (No, my house is not Craftsman). As someone else noted, you'll have to change your door heights and other aspects of your home to go with the increase in ceiling height - and that's not going to be cheap. Even at six foot one, I don't feel cramped in homes that have 8 foot ceilings - I was just in one (probably built in the 60s or 70s) this past Sunday (after months of not being to get out and visit folk very often at all). It was fine. But 9 doesn't affect pricing as much as 10 feet would. Please don't do without upper cabinets. You'll hurt resale, as not everyone is going to want to stop everything and remodel as soon as they move in. Even though I mostly have drawers, the lowest one is always a pain to access anyway.....See MoreWhere should we put the stairs off our back porch?
Comments (35)@Beverly @WestCoast Hopeful Oh my goodness, I love this porch idea SO much. It takes the porch and yard from two separate spaces to one big, friendly space. Our builder will 100% NOT do this for us, so we'd have to do it afterwards on our dime, but I love this transformative idea! We probably wouldn't lay concrete across the whole back, but maybe a smaller area with a gazebo or something. I stopped by the house this afternoon and walked around at ground level behind the house. (I haven't done this too much because we've had a lot of rain the last few months and it's super muddy.) When I was down there, I learned a few interesting things: First, the area that I thought was most usable -- directly below the porch -- is actually not the most usable. It has more of a slope than I thought. You can see it better here: It's still going to be useful, but the largest level part of the yard is in the corner where I was standing when I took this photo. Conveniently, this is also the area where the level part goes deepest towards the back of the lot, so it gives us the biggest usable level space. This slope right below the porch means that the big wide centered steps that @Beverly suggested would have to go out significantly further to actually reach the ground. It would probably consume most of the usable space below the porch. But that's more acceptable now that I know that the corner is the prime real estate in the yard. Here's another photo that might show the slope better: The other thing I learned is that the left side of the porch is actually not as high as it looked from above. Standing on the ground, the porch is slightly above my eye level, or about 5.5' up. And since the land keeps rising to the left, stairs going along the house would only have to cover about 5' vertically. We looked at the other stairs from our same builder and estimated that they're about 40 degrees from the horizontal. So one trig calculator later, and it looks like the stairs probably won't even come to the guest room window! So I think we'll go with the left stairs for now and then look into a set of fancy wide porch steps down the line. Thanks, everybody, for all your thoughts and suggestions! I'm really happy with the left stairs for now and the awesome stairs later....See Moremama goose_gw zn6OH
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