Flooring...would you use both?
Tina S
2 years ago
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Comments (4)It could be automated. All it takes is the right equipment. Obviously you have to avoid the loop. I've seen that in person, open doors right next to the exhaust fans. That assures that nether the doors nor the fans do much good. The trouble with a fan in the roof vent are at least a couple. Fans will be much smaller than what is needed for effective natural ventillation. My 1700 sq ft greenhouse has three 36 inch exhaust fans. Mostly I run only two. That area of roof vents would be totally inadequate. You'd need 10-20 times that area of passive roof venting. Also a fan in the vent area would impede air movement when the fan wasn't operating. To me roof vents are too expensive for what they do. With roll up sides I'd rather have a means to uncover the ends all the way to the peak. This would allow air into the sides and out the peak at both ends. Neither roof vents nor open ends sound cheap or easy. But I'd rather jury rig the ends than the top for venting. Roll up sides by themselves will work during cool weather. Then during the freeze free period, uncover the ends and replace with bird netting if critters might be an issue....See MoreWhat flooring would you use in my kitchen?
Comments (3)Hi warmfridge, I have 2 parrots too. We've lived in hardwood spaces with them for about two years now, an apartment and now our house. When we moved from the apartment after about a year, there was really no damage from the birds. I did keep the seed skirts on their cages so that may have helped. You're only doing this remodel once, so I would go for the oak. Perhaps you could go for a matte finish that would hold up a little better to the parrot cleanings. I find a razorblade takes the hard stuff up pretty well. If you do ever need to do touch-ups, you can lightly hand sand the oak just enough to scuff it a little, then take a rag with Poly and wipe it down. We did this to take out chair scratches in the apartment and it looked great. If you find they do end up causing major problems with the oak, I'd grab a clear office chair mat or shower curtain for the area. Heck, I'd even get some vinyl for the floor, maybe staple it down and treat it like a area rug :) I'm going to be doing prefinished hardwood in my living areas where the birds and dogs are. I'm more worried about dog nails, so we're doing a harder exotic :)...See MoreFlooring: Would you rather....
Comments (31)I've been hesitating to post, but I decided you need the opposite view. I hated my vinyl floor in my old kitchen. While it looked very nice for a short time after moving in, it quickly accumulated the gouges that come with dropping sharp things (knives, scissors, screwdrivers, etc.), as well as rips from moving a heavy item w/o some sort of platform under it. It also became visibly scratched over time...especially after we got our dogs (but there were plenty of scratches before then). I couldn't wait to get my tile! Yes, things do break when you drop them...but not always. I can't believe that I dropped a glass jar TWICE on our tile floor and it didn't break! But, that's definitely the exception. But, I would rather have a few things break... Our dogs don't scratch the floor either. Yes, tile is cold in the winter to walk on, but for us, we have more warm weather than cold and it was so nice to walk on in the spring/summer/fall. Even vinyl & wood are cold in the winter! (We have tile, wood, vinyl, and carpeting in our house...the only one that could be considered "warm" is the carpet!) I generally wear slippers in the winter anyway b/c I'm always cold, so it doesn't really matter. If you really hate the tile, I would look into an engineered wood floor instead of vinyl. Yes, it can get gouges, but they don't look as bad in wood and if you really want to, you can repair them...not so w/vinyl (at least not very successfully in my experience). Wood will look much nicer and be an asset when it comes time to sell...vinyl will not. If I were house hunting, I would look at any vinyl kitchen floor as a floor I would have to replace...thereby decreasing what I would be willing to pay for the house. If you do go the vinyl route, then make sure it's a good vinyl. There are several people here w/vinyl floors that don't look like typical vinyl...unfortunately, I cannot remember their user names right now!...See MoreWould you use the same light fixture for both locations ?
Comments (30)Here are a couple pictures of my sink area. Maybe that will help. There are 52 inches between the cabinets above the sink. Also, I saw this pretty globe light at West Elm, but I couldn't buy it yet since it's so new (our store is brand new, so some pf the stuff on their showroom isn't for sale yet?!). I don't know exact dimensions but it is not as wide as the industrial pendant that I also liked from there. Anyway, because it's one of those corded plugin lights I wanted to have it for my electrician to deal with, so I didn't buy it, But maybe I should just order it and deal with it being installed later by someone else?It won't ship till Dec. 1 at the earliest. Would this globe light look good with the industrial pendant over the sink and the globe light over the peninsula, maybe? I'm planning to head back to West Elm today or tomorrow. Oh, and TODAY IS COUNTERTOP DAY (SO EXCITED!!!!) so I can post a pic with counters later too!!! Seriously. It's like CHRISTMAS....See MoreTina S
2 years ago
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