Bachelor pad bedroom design - WWYD?
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Comments (8)There are nine foot lots in the city. They are no longer legal to build on, but there was a house on a nine foot wide lot in the listing recently. It was combined with it's back to back partner to at least make it deep, but all the rooms were by definition hallway or bowling alley shaped. Keep in mind this is a realtor's wide angle shot. I also know a contractor who worked on the last installations of what he said could only be an o rgy room: carpeted platforms, speakers and elaborate scene lighting, a series of vinyl covered mattresses, mirrored walls (and some ceiling) and a large gang shower. Apparently different crews had been brougth in for different stages of the project to conceal its ultimate purpose but at the end --how could it not be apparent?...See MoreBesides bed, what is in your Master bedroom?
Comments (46)In re my points about no TV in the MBR 1. I've read that for maximum restfulness, the BR should be used only for sleeping and, not sleeping. I think that makes sense and try to adhere to it. 2. We have a no-TV-no-tech lakehouse and we found that when we stayed there we talked more, read more, and slept more. All things I value 3. Human nature is "path of least resistance". I try to configure my house to encourage behaviors I value most. 4. I personally have a very high sloth quotient. I could easily while away much of a sunny spring day watching really bad TV, like "The Learning Channel". When I am away, my DH has been known to stay up till odd hours watching old PBS documentaries. 5. That said, I forgot about news in the morning. I am now in the habit of going into my office to check the web for news and weather. I miss all of the morning news nonsense and popular culture though! 6. We need the Daily Show, daily, and it's followup. I really miss that at the lake. In re seating areas 1. In this home and the last, we never sat in the MBR. I still don't get that (though I love the lunch date someone described!). If our kids are up, I would want to be near them. If they are asleep, I would probably want to enjoy my house in solitude! 2. That said, right now there are 2 chairs and a settee in my MBR. Frankly more as storage than anything else....See MoreDesign Around #20 Post Real Estate REmodels.
Comments (60)We've always said it's never too late to post to a DAT, and I'm testing that theory. I've been working on this one since May. The house is another Oakland hills home, but definitely a nicer one than the one I previously posted. This one is on the uphill side of the road and so has an exterior elevation worth looking at. Here is a shot of the living area with the dining room in the background. The kitchen is through the door at the back of the dining room. The living room is all neutrals, but the kitchen walls are green and the bedrooms were all painted shades of blue, green and aqua. Here's the kitchen and the room past the peninsula: It looked to me as if the homeowner spruced up the kitchen for sale by painting the cabinets white and putting in new black counters. But the black and white seem too stark to me compared to the rest of the house, and with the large west-facing window, the kitchen gets a LOT of light, and it just makes the black and white more stark. Now, if I really bought this house, I would probably live with the kitchen indefinitely. This design is more about what I thought the homeowners should have done if they were staying, and I riffed off their design choices elsewhere in the house. I wanted the kitchen to be a bit softer, and transitional between the neutrals of the public spaces and the water colors of the rest of the house. The cabs read a bit pinker than I wanted; I was going for a creamy neutral. I took out the uppers on the outside wall and the suspended cabinets over the peninsula. I left the layout the same otherwise, including the cooktop on the peninsula, however questionable that may be, although if it is feasible (couldn't tell) I would look to moving it to the interior wall. The adjacent space beyond the peninsula looks like it was intended as a breakfast nook but with the dining room and peninsula seating already, more space for eating seemed like overkill. Since the deck is off that room, it seemed like it would be nice to have a space that worked for indoor/outdoor entertaining. So I turned it into living space. What I wanted to do, but didn't have enough energy to do a board for, would be to do a wet bar at the far end of the room, behind where the white loveseat is. The room also has what looked to me like mirrored closet doors, which I replaced with something I liked better. So below I did board for the window wall, a view of the peninsula, and the living area facing the interior wall. Kraftmaid cabinets, maple in canvas Counter: Silestone Unsui Kohler Iron/Tones sink in Palermo blue Heath tile robins egg blue Kohler Purist faucet Maytag dishwasher Paint Benjamin Moore Acadia Green White oak wood floors woodfloorsonline.com Wolf gas cooktop Rangecraft Landau range hood angelo:HOME Ennis Shoreline 3 piece sofa collection (Overstock.com), only used 2 pieces C.R. Laine Pendleton chair in Kyoto Wasabi Abaca ottoman (Overstock.com) (this is just like the one in the existing LR, although I didn't do that consciously) Target Andres seagrass barstools (I picked these before the ottoman and now I think it's too much seagrass, but I didn't have the energy to look for replacements) Closet door pic from door.clutchot.com Both paintings are from 1stdibs.com, Energy, and The Rose and the Nightingale....See MoreCurtains for a young bachelor?
Comments (24)Ok guys, lot os replies, thanks! "Unless I missed it - what's your budget for these window treatments? What are the dimensions of the windows, drape to the floor or just covering the window itself wanted?" No budget. The dimensions are 52" by 36", the top of the window is 81" off the floor. The curtains in my bedroom go all the way to the floor so I guess I could do that again in the living room, but I am willing to look at other designs. "Here's a grommet drape in chocolate. I don't know if the 84" length is right. What is the ceiling height?" The ceiling is 8'. I used 84" curtains on the bedroom windows. "IKEA has many modern/masculine curtains." I didn't notice any curtain section while I was there, I guess they were either spread out or I just have bad eyes lol. One thing I did notice at Ikea was pictures. I have this huge wall in my stairwell that is way too plain, I would like to hang something there. The open space is about 7' wide by 12' high. I have a coat rack hanging about 4' off the ground so that cuts the height to 8'....See MoreRelated Professionals
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