Farmhouse Window Treatment HELP
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Comments (14)Hmmm, is there a way to edit the title of my post? I tried to post a thank you last night, but I don't see it today. So, thanks for the input and pictures and the terminology education. I hate not knowing the right words for things! Oooh, kateskouros - I forgot that I like prairie style windows, we don't see them very much. lsst, I'm afraid the lower mullions will bother me. I've learned in my old age that visual clutter is a problem for me. Ponydoc - I wish we could afford to go with Connor. But we are closely imitating that house. I think your house turned out terrific!...See Morered windows on french country farmhouse
Comments (9)We used an Armand but made a lot of changes. For one, we added 6ft to the length (2 ft in three areas), changed garage to 3 cars, deleted stairs in kitchen that went to (deleted) room over garage, bath and bedroom (no views and did not need the room), main level bedroom off breakfast area was made into sunroom, that bedroom closet was made the kitchen pantry by moving door, moved closet to make main level laundry bigger/longer, took shared bathroom from deleted bedroom (sunroom) so that main level guest bedroom has private bath, added powder room off kitchen and a lower level the size of the main level (library hallways, exercise room, two baths, two bedrooms, second laundry room within a storage room, storage closet under stairs, storage room under DR and a single garage for equipment storage plus a room under front veranda for storage of more equipment/tools, The lower is opened on three sides. We live on a point, on a lake, so lots and lots of big windows for views of it and the mountain ridge. I LOVE our home! You will love yours too! I'm not sure what the difference is in our plans. Don't have the sheet on that one, but have a 3190. Does yours have the brick/wood garage or board and batten main house with stone garage? We changed the board and batten to brick (wanted low maintenance and with the carpenter bees and dirt dobbers, boy I am glad we did!) Most of the floor plans are similar. There are several different elevations. Would love to see yours when you have time to post. You can also email me through GW. Good luck with your build. Have you started yet? If not, my best advice is to get everything you can picked out ahead of time, and start ordering what you'll need first. Our garage looked like a warehouse. I ordered sinks, toilets, faucets, shower heads online. All of our light fixtures too. Are you doing the copper cupola? At the time, I found the maker for theirs online and ordered at a big savings. Prices on copper have gone up, so they are closer in price now. I can look him up, if you'd like. Good luck!...See MoreWindow placement on the front of a farm house
Comments (35)Beth- I have been through a similar experience to what is going on here with a simple question ([mine[(https://www.houzz.com/discussions/looking-for-feedback-on-ikea-kitchen-plan-for-new-construction-dsvw-vd~5253147) was on the kitchen forum) turning into a thread where suddenly you are inundated with critiques on a plan you loved. Our plan was very, very similar to yours. At first my husband and I just wanted to dig in our heels and go forward. After all, it wasn’t perfect, but it was good enough, right? After a few days we started trying to make some additional changes in order to address the issues mentioned here. Inadequate light, too much space devoted to walkways, etc. We had already had our plans engineered, and we really did not want to start over. I even started a [thread[(https://www.houzz.com/discussions/i-didnt-realize-farmhouses-were-such-a-big-trend-dsvw-vd~5269101) in this forum as a sort of last ditch effort to convince myself that it would be ok. I did not post the floor plan this time because I was too afraid of what the feedback might be! I received a lot of helpful advice regarding farmhouses in that thread, by the way, so you should definitely check it out. These forums can be brutal, but you can also learn a ton by using the search tool and coming up with a list of books that are recommended here to help you as you undertake this enormous commitment. Some of them (A Pattern Language, The Not So Big House) I had read a few years ago, but went ahead ahead and re-read (or skimmed). Ultimately I came to the conclusion that I just could not go forward with the plan we had. It didn’t fit the lot. We could “do better,” as is said so often here. Is it painful to think about starting from scratch, especially since we have sold our home and moved into a smaller duplex already? Yes. Have I spent restless nights rearranging our house plans in my dreams (not to mention all day long in my head) trying to come up with a way to just make it work? Yes. But I feel like the thing that I would regret the most is going forward with a house plan that just wasn't right because I didn't want to spend the extra time and money upfront to get something that is "right." I am not saying that you have to come to the same conclusion, but I do hope you give some serious consideration to the comments on your thread, because they truly are trying to help you build a house that you will love for years to come. Often we "don't know what we don't know," and the posters here can bring issues to your attention that you may not have even considered. If you consider them and decide to go forward with your plans, at least you are going forward with your eyes open. Best wishes with your house!...See MoreFarmhouse kitchen not so charming (help and advice)
Comments (19)The wood cabinets look pretty substantial in the photos --- I am guessing either custom made locally or from a pretty high end cabinetry shop, based on the depth of the raised panels. Lucky for you! I love wood cabinets that have a little bit of a rustic look, and think that works really well with a blue and white kitchen color scheme. There is a certain shade of blue I call cobalt that has been a traditional kitchen color forever, and it's easy to find all kinds of accessories in that color family. See also this story about thrift shop finds.... [https://www.houzz.com/discussions/thrift-store-find-blue-and-white-dishes-my-first-dsvw-vd~2266363[(https://www.houzz.com/discussions/thrift-store-find-blue-and-white-dishes-my-first-dsvw-vd~2266363) While you are living with this kitchen until you own it and can make changes with less risk, remember that you can hang things on the walls in colors you like to cover up some of the big expanses of green -- the blue and white plates are just an example. Could be posters that make you happy! If I lived there and realized that the border is the thing that bothered me THE MOST, in the short term I would probably just cover it up! I'd paint some big sheets of construction paper with the color that's on the walls (you can use the cheap kids' tempera paints for this, just mix til you get close to the shade) and then cut the sheets to the right size so I could tape them over the offending border. What a relief! Then you can live without that "distraction" while you work on plans for your ultimate changes once you own, since as others have said, removing layers of wall paper is a major pain. I honestly think that with enough blue and white you might be OK with the green, if you lie blue that is. And agree that better lighting can really brighten things up in an old kitchen. FINALLY the subject of green in a kitchen reminded me that the cabinets in Julia Child's kitchen (now in the Smithsonian!) were green. Her husband made them for her -- they are a lighter shade than your walls. But I did find this intriguing photo of a kitchen she used in Southern France, with dark wood cabinetry and yet another strategy for covering kitchen walls -- pegboard to keep tools handy!...See Moreebm125
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