Garage steps with storage? Yay or nay?
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Friends & Family entrance for our Georgian home--yay/nay?
Comments (8)Still cant view them! You need to put them in Photobucket or tinypic and then click on the HMTL link and paste here. It is telling me no permission to view. . . We don't have a circular driveway - doesnt work with our lot (which has an island in front of it) and interferes with the play yard we need there (3 boys). There are lots of beautiful landcaping ways to differentiate the front and back of the home. We don't have a side door because our lot is narrow and long, but a side door would have been a good option. Going through the garage is ok if the only folks who are visiting are family but do you want your kids friends coming through the garage? It sounds like your kids are young, but what about teenagers? Do you want to leave your garage door open for kids to enter? I don't know how far your friends entry is pushed back, but for us it is obvious even without landscaping where you should enter. We are doing two parking pads - one directly across from the front walkway (to encourage people to park and walk to the front door), and another opposite the garage for turn around/kids parking,etc. We went through all of this with our landscape architect and even though I haven't seen it all implemented I do believe him when he says there are ways to differentiate entrances. I just think you might regret not having it and there are certainly landscape solutions for it. As far as the doors go - we did do a more prominent door on the front with sidelights, but a raised panel 9 light door on the back. One will have a formal portico entrance, the other will have a copper swoop roof on brackets. Both will have gas lanterns. I think if you pay attention to the details, people won't be ringing your back door :)...See MoreGlass Pantry Doors? Yay or Nay?
Comments (13)Thank you all for your opinions. I feel like I'll get tired of seeing "pantry" etched out and it does seem fairly trendy which is why I asked in the first place. You confirmed my hunch. I really like it now but its something I can see myself getting tired of and we don't plan on staying in our house forever so its probably better to keep things simple. I'll check out some other options for glass doors to see if there is something different I can do to break it up but the doors will probably end up staying as is. Thanks again, much appreciated!...See MoreAlmost final exterior choices - yay or nay?
Comments (6)Hi, The full range plum looks good on the screen. but ...... Have you seen a house done in either of these bricks? I can't tell you how many houses in Ontario we drove to based on seeing promising red brick hand samples. So often they looked good in the hand samples, but on a full wall was not what we were hoping for. Have you requested some bricks in the brick size you want ? Remember different sized bricks and/or bricks made at different times can look very different, yet all be called the same name. If you post pictures of the brick samples beside your other exterior colours it would be easier for folks to give you an opinion. Colours on a website can be very deceiving. Seeing a house done in the same sized brick (recently done so die lot is same) is always best. Brick sample are better than pictures though, but a house done in the same size and in same die lot is best. Best of luck. Choosing brick is hard! Carol...See MoreAppliance lift, yay or nay?
Comments (26)I am repurposing a lower 36" cabinet that I had a shelf taken out of, and a vertical divider wall placed into it thereby making it a set of singular cabinets inside. It still has two smaller drawers at the top. I didn't have the divider wall go all the way to the drawers (obviously) as the outlet I want to use is on the opposite side of the divider wall of the side I want to put the mixer lift on (of course). I plan on laying the cord over the divider wall into the other cabinet compartment to plug it in. My concern here is the two drawers on top. I own a 28 lb KA mixer (empty), although it's 17 years old it's massive, the 6qt pro series. and the head does not tilt back (which I hate but that's a story for another day). I think I'm going with the RAS soft close heavy duty but I am concerned about what type of shelf to have made. I think a butcher block is what I'm going to have to do. I grew up with a mixer lift and my Mom always had granite/quartz blocks to match but I think here it'll be too heavy. Anyone have success with butcher blocks? Under the drawer mounting with a monster KA mixer they don't move? TIA....See Moregirl_wonder
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