One room colder than other rooms in the house
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Anything other than elec baseboard to heat a family room
Comments (8)Even though the room is on a slab, there most likely is a way to get water pipes into the room to install hot water baseboard. You only need one point of entry into the room. You can loop the return water back to the beginning of the baseboard inside of the housing. Anything electric based will be the same efficiency - even the old units you removed. Another thing to look at is whether there is insulation around the perimeter of the slab. If there isn't any, you should dig down a foot or so and put some pink foam board up against the concrete. This will help greatly....See MoreRug size for family room and few other ?s for our new house!
Comments (8)Bosegirl, you are sending mixed messages!! "I don't want to rush like we did with our first home" and "We need a kitchen table ASAP". I would use your old kitchen table for now or put it in the dining room for now and eat there. Nothing wrong with using a card table for a while! I don't think a glass kitchen table is unsafe. Make sure it is a thick high quality glass. I had a glass table with a metal frame when my kids were little. For your toddler get her room set up as soon as possible. Spend time doing this instead of looking for a new kitchen table! Once she has her own room then you will have better control of her sleeping routine. Do you have someone to take her outside or to a park while you get stuff done? Area rug - a little big is better than too small. Use one of the online room planners to lay out your room and furniture and then lay out different sized rugs. Is the furniture in the room? Use blue painters tape or old sheets to outline the size of rug and look at it for a few days....See MoreNight rooms vs. Day rooms: how to turn one into the other?
Comments (12)Hmmm, my rooms look good to me during the day and also at night. Your question, though, has gotten me thinking as to why they do. And why other rooms wouldn't. I always first decorate a room during the day. And then add, subtract or change what doesn't work during the evenings, if that makes sense. I need my rooms to feel cozy, comfortable and welcoming at all times, as I'm a person who is greatly affected by my surroundings. Ideas: - Lighting: I always have enough lamps with warm, 3-way bulbs to give any room a cozy feeling at night. Lamps tall enough to be useful for reading. Too-small lamps look clutter-y to me. Perhaps eliminating some of the candle clutter in favor of a few lamps with 3-way bulbs that have a low first setting might help? - Color: all my rooms tend to have warm colors, rather than cool colors. My walls are all painted a warm cream. Not a dark tannish cream, but a light, almost-white cream. A more blue-ish white, IMO, would make the rooms feel colder (to me). My accent colors are on the warm side, too. If you know me from my years here on this forum, you know that my rooms tend to all be a warm cream with the warm brick floors and an abundance of art, colored accents and Middle Eastern rugs. But, even in my living room, with it's twin cream-colored sofas, there is enough warmer, darker accents around the room to keep it cozy. And lamps. At least in my opinion it does look warm, welcoming and cozy. I can imagine a room with all cool colors that would work, but it would need enough of darker accents via pillows, throws, furniture, art, rugs, etc., and enough lamps to make it feel cozy in the evenings. Well, those are my initial thoughts on your important that is....See MoreCan soundproofing a room end up making that room colder or warmer?
Comments (4)3onthetree- I agree that insulation per se does not make rooms hotter or colder, but it does affect the speed of heat flow into or out of the insulated space which means that whatever is going on in the rest of the house can lag considerably in insulated rooms. And this does turn it into an HVAC balancing issue. An insulated room in winter can have enough heat loss through, for example, windows that the room will be cooler because the thermostat can be elsewhere and the heating is not sufficient to keep the room as warm as the rest of the house....See MoreCharles Ross Homes
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