Want to help stage a bunk room/sitting area for a beach house?
Hi, we are in the planning stages for a beach home. We come from large families and hope to provide lots of sleeping areas.
The downstairs has the Master bedroom and an open living/kitchen dining area.
The upstairs has two bedrooms and bathrooms, a small loft area and a long narrow dormer room across the front. This house has been popular in the area post Katrina. It has to be raised on pilings. This plan allows for more house on less pilings by being a story and a half. ( I have always loved 1.5 story homes anyway, so I fell in love with this house.) In many versions of this house, the narrow room across the front is small and has 4 bunks in a shed style dormer.
I have asked for a "Reverse Nantucket Dormer" meaning a gabled dormer with a slightly recessed shed dormer on either side. I am trying to create a second sitting area to send kids to watch tv if we don't want the to have the tv on downstairs.
Here is the house. Ours will have the side porch on the left side to get a better view. The front porch faces the beach. This house has two shed dormers. We plan to put a gabled "doghouse" dormer in the middle. The ceiling in that portion will be vaulted and that section will be about two feet deeper than the the sheds. I will attach a picture in the first comment to show and example of this type of "Reverse Nantucket" dormer.
Below are the preliminary plans and some ideas that I have. I appreciate any ideas that you might have for staging such a small space.
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Laurie Laville
5 years ago
Imagine the dormer that is over this garage being 12 feet across in the middle with each side being 5 feet. The middle section is 9 feet deep and the two sides are only 7 feet deep.Since this room is so long and narrow the middle ara will be the place to watch tv. I want to allow for privacy in the two shed areas that will serve as sleeping. I have decided to have drapes hung to enclose the two sleeping areas. One swill have a full sized bed sideways (I have already have a full sized sleigh bed that might work.) The other will have twin bunk beds and possibly a trundle.)
I love the coziness and ability to close the drapes for privacy and the nautical vibe of the blue and white striped drapes in this inspiration room. See below:Related Discussions
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Comments (12)I got something different each time I counted the squares, so I gave up)) Just posting another idea, assuming that you have 90" on the bedroom wall and 11' b/w the exterior wall and the laundry. I'm thinking 12" angled shelves b/w the exterior wall and the range and 6" open shelves for cutting boards on the other side. If o/h is 1" that would give you 47" b/w the peninsula and the exterior wall. The cab in the corner faces the laundry. On the peninsula, next to the corner open shelf for trays, cooking sheets, then drawers, I think the trash can be under the sink. You can have a 12" pull out for pantry storage next to the fridge, but it will probably be cheaper to have a broom closet there. On the other side, MW is on an upper shelf. I have pantry and a drop zone (hoping that door swing direction can be changed), where you now have the sink+DW....See MoreNeed Beach House Living Room Furniture Advice
Comments (15)well, I would suggest whatever sofa you get to lay down a throw if she is going to sit bare skin on it. White is difficult to keep clean unless you keep some sort of throw on the cushions. If you got a slip covered type, you could wash them as needed. any gray sofa would also work. light gray, dark, if you could swing a velvet material, that always looks good. Or a nice material, tweed-type, like this one: If you bring in a large area rug, you can cover most of the tile floor, only letting a bit of it peed through. do a large sisal and then layer another rug on top of it for some added color or pattern you could do white or pale walls, and a dark gray sofa. this will still go w/your tile. bring in wood elements or natural fiber elements. and plants. and since it's Fla, you can get away w/bold colors. keep the wall white, a large sisal type of rug, white sofa, and bring in colors w/plants, pots and accessories like they've done here I like these paint colors....Pale Oak for walls,, White Dove or any other bright white for ceilings and trimthis is BM Lacey Pearl. I like this grayish white tone. if you bring in a slip cover sofa like this, have her lay on a throw. do neutral pillows, wood/metal coffee table, poufs, fiddle leaf fig trees, a neutral rug like this will cover the tile. you're only showing a tiny piece of your tile so it's hard to visualize what will work in this room. best way is to clear out everything, paint and go from there....See Moremy Beach House living room is 14x11 - help!
Comments (16)For relaxing with the family, I'd do a sectional with the lounge end at the door (as long as it leaves you a walkway to the door). So do the set up melissa posted, but without the second chair and sofa with a lounge at that end. But it depends on how your family uses a living space. We like to flop and crowd onto a sectional, others like to sit in individual spaces upright. I'd then do a matching ottoman instead of a coffee table with a big round tray on it to hold stuff that would otherwise go on the coffee table....See MoreLaurie Laville
5 years agoNow for the Ikea hack ideas...I thought I could make a bench seat under the window and place two Pax wardrobes on either side. This will allow for seating and storage in the 2 foot deep section. I thought I could put a coffee table in front that with two occasional chairs. The tv would be mounted on the wall over either a small console or maybe a Hemnes shoe cabinet.
I wish I knew how to draw up a mock up to see what it would look like...Laurie Laville
5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoLaurie Laville
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5 years ago
B Carey
5 years agoSince you don’t have a great wall to put a tv on, what about smaller TVs on the walls at the foot of the bunk beds? This would actually be nice anyway for different age/sex kids. Something like these photos.
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoLaurie Laville thanked Mark Bischak, ArchitectLaurie Laville
5 years agoTv in the bed nooks are an interesting idea that I will keep in mind. I'll attach the prelim plans for the upstairs and see what beds or convertible sleeping (pop up sofas or daybed and trundles) might fit in various areas. The attic style roof might allow for little built in nooks in the knee walls of the bedrooms. I am so new at this and in the very preliminary planning stages and ignorant of the costs for things like built in bed nooks in the knee walls or built in bunk beds that I am a challenge to everyone including myself. It's a learning curve that our poor builder will have to deal with and possibly educate me about. That is part of the reason I reached out to the HOUZZ community. It is good to learn from others experiences.
Laurie Laville
5 years ago
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