help! splitting dining room into office / playroom
Katie
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Comments (15)One more vote to explore raising the ceiling instead of lowering the floor. In addition to lowering your home's value and making it a "definite no" to a lot of future buyers, you would make your house more dangerous to young children, older visitors and completely off-limits to anyone with accessibility issues. I live with brain injury I sustained at age 32 caused by tripping. It didn't seem like a big deal at the time, but it ended my career, as well as any potential to do anything else. It wouldn't take much for a guest to trip and crack their head. Would you be able to live with that if they sustained the damage I did? Could you afford the lawsuit that might be leveled against you? The increase in your homeowner's insurance if they knew you had that danger in your house? PLEASE don't do this. I apologize for the strong response. I just can't stand the thought of someone living with the headaches, vertigo, nausea, blurry vision, memory loss, etc. etc. I face every day. Especially if it can so easily be avoided....See MorePlayroom in place of the living room
Comments (132)I've got the sofa downstairs now. I covered it with what I had on hand - a huge black blanket and a smaller white one. The red thing behind the sofa is a mattress. It's a safe place for the baby to sleep at night (I block the way out). Now I'm wondering if it makes sense to buy a table and a lamp for the armchair. This part of the living room could be the actual 'living' part, while the other side is dedicated to children and their play. How about some kind of a wall art? I'm sorry, and it probably sounds like I don't know what I want, but I would like this room to look more 'finished'. Do I expect too much? Maybe it would be best to wait for four or five more years and then redesign this space? But can I wait that long? I wish this house was arranged and I didn't have to worry about it all anymore! :( We've been living here for three years now and it upsets me that everything looks so awful. We don't even have a hardwood floor upstairs - just go with carpets on concrete floor. We are currently having a bathroom made, but imagine living all that time with temporary solutions :( There are only a few things that we actually bought for the house - the rest are hand me downs - nothing matches, everything old and not to my style. I'd like to turn this house to home at last. Maybe I should go to ikea, look at those timy flats they have there and order everything there is!!! I'm sorry I just needed to vent :(...See MoreNeed Floorplan Help! Bedroom/Nursey/Office/Playroom
Comments (1)Lovely view. I think the bed and the crib are in the best places already. Try moving the tea getting ready station under the window behind your desk. Or on the end of your desk near the window. That way it is out of the way of you and the little one. Place the babies changing station/dresser along the same wall as crib, where the soft chair is now. Move the soft chair in front of your desk under the window at an angle facing view out slider and room. Put a beautiful rug in front of the slider, it will delineate the play/lounging space in front of desk. Properly use (one or more depending on your needed amp load) high quality power strip with surge protection for the computer and other office equip (mounted on the desk not under it for safety) and turn them all off before bed. https://shedheads.net/power-strip-buyer-guide No or a very limited number of plants and only on a desk or dresser not on the floor in pots....See MorePlayroom Paint Color Help!
Comments (2)<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><md>I won’t be any help... I love the colors in your house and think the orange is fun and playful! I love how the rug you placed in your playroom modernizes the space. Beautiful new home! Congratulations!...See MoreKatie
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