Recommendation for a floorplanner program to help me plan window sizes
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Comments (1)I don't know of a program that does what you wish. Typical affordable landscape design programs allow you to see -- kind of -- what you're creating, but other than that, they don't help with design decisions. They don't do a very good job of making plants look good and realistic. From what I've seen, it's not worth the time and trouble it takes to learn a program only to build a single yard from your efforts. Working it out on tracing paper over the top of a "to scale" base plan is more intuitive and is an easy way to do it if you can draw a circle. (There are circle templates.) That said, like most people, I think you are going about creating a landscape in a backwards way. You are focused on the objects you will use (your "dream list" of plants) and not on the space itself and how to make it into better property. Creating and preparing food is another design field with similar considerations. If you wanted to create a gourmet meal, would you first make a list of your favorite ("dream") ingredients? ... And then hope that after they were collected, you could come up with a delicious and beautiful gourmet meal by using all of them? I don't think it would happen! For the same reason, those who start out with a dream list of plants usually make something like a hodgepodge. Instead of thinking about any plants, it would be better to make an intense examination of the space itself, determining what is right and what is wrong with it. (This will mainly be views and grade.) Then think about the uses that it might serve ... a place for veg. garden, fire pit, swim pool, patio, car park, play turf, etc. And how auto and pedestrian traffic would flow so that access to all the yard's features would work without impediment. (This thread would be a good place to show that phase schemed out and get feedback on it.) Along the way, you would be thinking about how you're going to form the ceiling, walls and floor of the space you call your property. and how to create "windows" and "skylights" to the larger world outside of it. Ceilings and roofs come in package units called trees. "Walls" of any height are made of shrubs lined up in a row or from fence panels. The "floor" may change levels (with grade or groundcover) in order to assist with traffic control or for a dramatic effect, or to aid in long term maintenance. After all the needs have been determined and it has been figured out what shapes and forms the solutions will come in, it is time to think about what plants (primarily because of their shape and size characteristics) can be used to make them. As well, one would need/want artistic displays here and there. Those will be made of plants or plant groupings so there is plenty of opportunity to incorporate the plants that one finds appealing. In thinking about the needs before proposing solutions and developing a list of "building materials (plants), it is more likely that the finished product will function well and be attractive....See MoreE-mail Program Recommendations
Comments (31)bugsybanks : Finally get back to this . . . . re : "Regarding the change to IMAP, I have 3 e-mail addresses set up through my server on the desktop and all 3 are now POP3 on that computer. Do I delete each account and then recreate it as IMAP? Will I lose the e-mails that have been saved under Local Folders? " One thing . . . my "Local folders" only contain Trash & Outbox. All my other Inboxes, etc. are within separate acct folders. I.E., each other acct. contains an Inbox, Drafts, Sent, etc. - outside of "Local Folders." Anyway, there's a good chance that after you create an IMAP acct., the email that you have already downloaded using POP mail, and deleted from the server - won't show up in the IMAP Inbox. You'd have to import them back in. Just to be safe, I would export all your email first so that you have it as backup. Then make new accts as IMAP. See if everything looks correct, or if you need to import anything from the backup you just made. Finally, delete the POP accts. There is a really handy addon tool for TB : ImportExportTools https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/importexporttools/?src=search (That page looks complicated, but the use of the tool is not) The two different ways to export using that tool are - (and you get to the choices by right clicking on "Inbox" or any other folder) : 1) "Export folder" (w/ or w/o structure) This makes an Mbox file of everything that you export. It makes for just a few simple files that aggregate everything within the respective folders. So you will end up w/ one Inbox file, one Drafts file, etc. "Structure" just means you will keep the nested structure of the folders. The disadvantage is that you can't read them later w/o importing them back first (using ImportExportTools). 2) "Export all Messages" (and choose "eml" format here) This exports each email as a .eml file - and you can identify and read each one separately later after exporting. So if you export 500 emails, you'll get 500 .eml files. You can batch import them though using ImportExportTools. And you can read them just by clicking on them individually. There's no harm in exporting both ways if you like. Just create separate folders so you can keep it all straight. Play around with it a bit until you get the hang of it. For all the people recommending this way to do email or that - this debate has been going on for years. There are advantages and disadvantages to each - it really depends on your needs. I wouldn't say that any one of them is "unusual" as someone commented - what's unusual to one is likely normal to someone else. Personally I use them all, and all for different purposes - no one method seems to work for every purpose. I do use web based email for the most part though. Hope that helped. -Kent This post was edited by kbarb on Mon, Oct 20, 14 at 0:42...See MoreLayout Experts, please help me sort out this kitchen plan.
Comments (12)Hmmm, that looks like a good spot for a chimney cupboard, then. I'm not sure what to think about the extra bar seating in the family room. I don't know if it would get used or not. I'm willing to do that if we'd really use it. I just went through (too many) images looking for pass through window inspiration. I'm finding very little that looks like what I'm thinking of doing. Does that make me ultra-original...or whacko? LOL So, my thought was to put open shelves in the pass-through windows and use them for storing some of my prettier functional items. Good looking bowls, canisters, etc. Or, to do glass cabinet doors, something like the article in the scullery thread a bit ago. I linked the kitchen from Fine Home Building with the pass through cupboards below. Here's one image that sort of comes close. I don't have modernist leanings (that I know of), so this is a bit off, but it's close. Here is a link that might be useful: Maybe cupboards like this in the passthroughs, with glass doors on both sides?...See MorePlease me plan my future Great room size
Comments (60)We aimed to build a 2000 sf house and ended up at 2150. No basement, because we're in Hawai'i. Our great room (kitchen + dining + living) is 18 x 33, open on 3 sides to the outside. We would have loved bigger (who doesn't love bigger!) but everything seems to fit and we have the option of moving our dining room outside to a covered patio, since we have year round good weather. The great room is connected to another 800sf of outdoor living space. It really helped us to layout our furniture and go from there....See MoreRelated Professionals
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