Flooring Suggestions Please..
taylorbritain
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Deciding on flooring, suggestions please
Comments (3)Wooden pallets are untreated wood. Termites will take them out in a single season. I used 12" pavers to make a 'walkway' though my HFGH, leaving a center bed for future planting in-ground as well as side beds. Also set the heat sink barrels on 12" pavers. Where the pavers did not fit the space, I pieced with brick and stones. One consideration: brick and/or concrete will add more thermal mass than treated lumber. Nell Here is a link that might be useful: More about my South Georgia HFGH...See MoreRevised floor plan: suggestions please
Comments (17)Thanks for all of the suggestions. The guests will enter from the front (walkways and parking). The kitchen is 22 1/2 x 16 1/2 so the space is there.I like the idea of swapping locations in the kitchen to seperate and allow for views of fireplace & pool area. The difficulty with configuration is there will be an 18 ft ceiling. The 18 ft limestone fireplace will be a focal point on one end and the range hood will have a stone or wood face extending up the 18 ft. on the opposite end. To move it to the side of the room will oook odd. The laundry was made small (10 x 6 1/2) as that was a compromise to allow for a large pantry (12 1/2 x 6 1/2)and a pass through. We looked at lengthening the laundry b 2 ft and shortening the pantry 2 ft but my wife is not to excited about that as our current laundry is 9 x 5 and we're fine with it. The garage is a standard 2 car because the plan will allow for a detached 2 car at the end of the driveway next to it. We were quoted $25k for a two car complete addition (also matching stucco and tile with same garage door)so that will be our next project along with the pool. We are negotioaing the addition of the foundation for it to have electrical and slab ready. Door swings are not correct on the plan though you have a great eye as I dint see that. Swings along with plumbing, electrical, television connections, etc will be decided once we have the correct plan configuration. Windows are also not finalized. At first we did not like the idea of a door near the bedroom. However, that room will initially be our oldest sons room and then become a guest room in a year or so. We like the idea of it now but we have also considered a door entry next to the garage door instead (enters into garage). However, once garage 2 is added it will be odd to walk from one garage into another instead of into the home....See MoreStarting the planning process, floor plan suggestions please
Comments (7)Hi, Lucas Tx. That looks like a nice space you have to work with. My own kitchen needs are pretty much like yours. If it were mine my top priority, as always, would be simply to create a very good main place to work, a place I liked to be, with everything else placed to serve that spot efficiently. Your statement that "prep space between the sink and cooktop is small, I end up prepping on the other side of the sink" says something very important to me. Your prep space was never meant to be that little scrap between those two, it's that BIG area between the stove and fridge that you don't mention at all and don't like to work at. No matter what you do to the rest, if you don't move the sink you will always have a dysfunctional kitchen and be carrying stuff back and forth across the sink to where you want to work, as you do now. Therefore, if it were mine :), I'd open up the diagonal wall, decide where I really wanted to do my prep and cooking and then place everything else where it needed to be. Without much musing, I'm imagining the DW next to a widened doorway in (we could stroll right past with the DW door open), and the sink next to it looking out to the back yard; the DW side would be the cleaning side (where mess is gathered for cleanup) and the left the prep side (where freshly rinsed veggies were set for chopping, etc.) The stove would need to be slid somewhat farther left on the wall it's currently on, incidentally adding some more nice work space, but especially to avoid a competing-bottoms problem between the diagonal prep counter and the sink. This would create a pleasant and spacious main prep counter optimally between stove and water. The other cook could prep between stove and refrigerator. The rest is details. I'd do almost all drawers, though. I have them and love them. If I bought another old house, much as I love old kitchens, I'd eat beans and rice until I could afford to upgrade to drawers. Everything is so easy to put away and find, and there's so much more effective storage area (you don't have to leave search room for the questing arm and moving stuff around to get at the rest). Summary--plan on moving the sink. :)...See MoreFlooring suggestions, please?
Comments (1)Turn on all the lights in your house then take some photos of your surfaces. Then, go to the local big box home store and see what is available to go with your existing surfaces. I am recommending the big boxes because their in-stock merchandise is a much better value than anything that you could special order. Since it varies with your local store’s fast moving inventory, I am not in a position to recommend anything....See Moretaylorbritain
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