Help with proportions
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Comments (7)Actual window boxes that work well would probably be custom made, which might be more than you want to spend on a house you're selling. You might slap some decent ones together yourself since it's a fairly simple operation to build an "open box." The key to good window boxes is making them large enough to hold enough soil to actually grow plants that aren't panting for water on an hourly basis. To make them look good, hang them somewhat below the window so that what grows in them doesn't screen the window itself. Include pendulous plants so that much of the window box itself is covered by foliage and/or flowers and works to obscure some of the blank space below the windows. If you want shrubs below the windows, you might consider regular Nandina for a look that is not too "tight." (Your photo does not allow us to see the ground space in that vicinity.) I like the portico being white much better than the dark green. For shutters and window boxes you might explore one of the many variations of TAUPE, a color that goes almost anywhere with almost any thing. Trying some paint samples will be more productive than discussing color theory for hours or days....See Morepls help lantern proportion/look (pics)
Comments (1)I'm thinking the larger ones meet the criteria and look that you've described you're hoping for. This was the hardest part for me...Knowing how the scale of the lighting would work in the actual room. If you can, create a mock up of the size and shape and hang them up. That's what I did with paper plates, tape and string, to determine the size and length of my schoolhouse lights for my kitchen. If I'm figuring right, that larger light would hang approx 70" from the floor, which would be about 40" up from the table top. I intentionally hung the lights over both our dining room table and kitchen table at about 6 ft off the floor, so if we moved the table to clean, we wouldn't have to worry about tying them up so people wouldn't walk into them, plus I just don't like the lighting at eye level when I'm standing or walking around in the room....See Moredisplaying dimensional art
Comments (4)Do a Google image search for African baskets on wall, and you will see some samples. Do you already own these baskets? I find it a bit unusual to see so much blue in these baskets, and you seem to show every color on the color wheel there. I would probably start by sorting the baskets by color combinations and maybe do two groupings - one that contains blue and purple and one that does not. I've bought baskets like these myself, but I have given most as gifts. If you have flat ones, you can use those to go under your plates on the dining table, but I would want a fairly matched set for that. I gave a set to my sister for her table, and she hung them on her kitchen wall instead....See Morehelp with window proportions?
Comments (37)Unfortunately what happens to so many of us is we get design fatigue where we've looked at the plans for so long we are unwilling to make anymore changes. I know that feeling myself. Just ask architectrunnerguy when he made a suggestion to me near the end of my design phase. After lots of grumbling on my part, I did listen to his advice. While I didn't use exactly what he had suggested to me, it did spark me to redesign my bathroom/closet layout for a much more efficient and better designed space. And of course the more we look at the plan, the more we fall in love with it or become used to it. The problem is there is good enough, or it's better than I have now, and not what should be, which is it's the best it can be. Now that doesn't mean perfect and it certainly doesn't mean mistakes won't be made. After all, we're all human. But, it's a heck of a lot cheaper to make changes at this phase of the build than once you start building. While not all comments were in relation to the windows, indirectly they are all in relation to how one feels as one enters the house, and how one lives in the house. As mentioned over and over, whatever is done on the interior does affect the exterior as you're unfortunately seeing now. It's always your decision whether or not to take the advice but as mentioned over and over, you can't just change a window without it affecting other parts of the house....See Moreatlnative
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