mountain cabin floor plan help needed!!!!
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Comments (29)Thanks for the great information ...patches I'll take a look at your plans...mightyanvil..thanks for taking the time to provide such great advice. This will be our "vacation" home..but it will really be a weekend get away place, that is if we can pull it off. The home will oriented so that the front of the home is north, the back south. We want views to the south and west. I was avoiding a second level because of cost, although considering a loft, but it sounds as though the rule of "cheaper to build up rather than out" applies. It's just DH, myself, and our chocolate lab. Originally we thought everything on one level but are now considering living room, kitchen, mudroom/bath on main level and bed and bath on above. We also considered a basement, as my DH wants the extra storage, but costs vs. it and just a slab foundation..not sure of the differences although there are those that say "might as well put in a basement while you're at it" We're not worried about excavation as we have a friend who'll do the job for us. We love open floor plan because we anticipate small footprint, we want back deck (but plan to build it on later) so outdoor spaces are important. We definitely want a mudroom...area to keep coats, boots, and area to rinse off dog after a run in the mud! We don't really need a garage..again, something we can add later... We live in Western Pa and do want a weather tight home, as we get more cold rainy weather than hot sunny...but want overhangs to keep direct sun out in summer, but still allow sun in winter (passive solar?)... Views to south (back) include woods and stream..views to west include woods and field. Weather hits us from north west...lots of wind from time to time. Why not a screened in porch? I love to sit out but hate the bugs! Ideally, we'd like to contract to get a "shell" built and finish the home ourselves as time/$ allow. Not sure what our options are there... I had to laugh about the home you'd described above with the various levels ..we currently have that set up...and have 5 levels and 4 sets of stairs and it drives me crazy! I can handle one set, but am a bit tired of 4. ;-)...See MoreThoughts on my modern cabin floor plan please....
Comments (28)It's a taste-specific design. Specific thoughts: - Your windows will be great ... though, as other posters have said, that can make indoor climate control difficult. Even with acreage, you'll also need window coverings ... or this place will feel very exposed, especially after dark. - I don't care for the very plain front or the double front doors. At the very least, I'd look into a stoop so guests could shelter from the weather as they wait for you to open the front door. - Where I would like double doors: on the office. Double glass doors lined up with a hallway window ... and also with double doors out to the deck. - In this looooong hall, things are a loooooong way from one another. Things that aren't convenient in such a lengthy house: walking out the door to work and remembering that you've left your phone on your bedside table ... coming home from work and wanting to drop your shoes in the closet ... turning on the hot water in the master and waiting for it to travel from its garage location. Personally, I'd consider making it into a "T" shape ... that is, keep the living areas as you've laid them out, but put the bedrooms onto the top portion of the "T" ... the master pushed towards the back and the secondary bedrooms pushed towards the front. - I'm iffy about a table on that deck ... it's fairly far from the kitchen, and convenience rules where people actually sit down to eat. - I'd look into a pass-through between the garage and the pantry ... it'd cut down on steps with groceries. - I'd flip the laundry and the two secondary bedrooms ... that is, place the laundry nearer the master bedroom. Perhaps you could open a pocket door between the laundry and the master closet. Even if you can't do that, it'll provide more privacy for the master. - I'd go with one nice-sized bathroom to be shared between the two secondary bedrooms instead of two minimal-sized bathrooms. - I agree with the above posters that the closets in the secondary bedrooms are lacking, as is storage throughout the rest of the house. I'd want to line the office with bookshelves /cabinets at the very least....See MoreMountain Cabin needs updating, help with choosing paint please!
Comments (31)The tone of your cabinets is going to play a major role in choosing the right paint. Take a cabinet door with you to the paint store (not the home store) and ask for their color matching expert to help you pick exactly the right off white. Just buy sample pots of the colors you find and get some big white poster board. Paint a square or rectangle of color in the middle of each board. The white boarder will help keep your current paint color from distorting the sample. Move the boards around in different light, times of day and night and weather conditions to find the one that stays the way you want it to look all the time. When you go back to buy it, find a compatible white to do the ceilings that are looking rather dingy. The paint specialist will be your best friend....See MoreFurnishing and decorating a mountain cabin
Comments (16)Thanks all! @Marta, interesting idea to switch the sectional orientation. We were not wanting to block the window seat, but maybe worth a try! I appreciate all the nods to turquoise, but for some reason it doesn't seem like its working in the space. I was wondering if it is the brown/olive hues in the tile. @decoenthusiaste, I actually already purchased a similar Ruggable (https://ruggable.com/products/hesperia-teal-rug?variant=14067889766455) to use in the kitchen, but now second guessing that one too. I haven't been back up the mountains to try it in the house yet. I'm wondering if I should try a red rug under the dining room table or go grey like LR or something more beige/brown to better match the floor? The house's style I think falls into "contemporary." My style preference would be rustic modern or rustic farmhouse. I think my husband prefers mid-century modern. We aren't going for "mountain" but right now it does feel like we've swung too far away from it....See Morelissapeeling
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