Where should we place our switches?
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Comments (4)Maybe just prime and paint the barn the neutral white like on the yellow house trim. Match the shutter color and then when you decide and have the budget you can move forward with the entire change....See MoreWhere should we put the stairs off our back porch?
Comments (35)@Beverly @WestCoast Hopeful Oh my goodness, I love this porch idea SO much. It takes the porch and yard from two separate spaces to one big, friendly space. Our builder will 100% NOT do this for us, so we'd have to do it afterwards on our dime, but I love this transformative idea! We probably wouldn't lay concrete across the whole back, but maybe a smaller area with a gazebo or something. I stopped by the house this afternoon and walked around at ground level behind the house. (I haven't done this too much because we've had a lot of rain the last few months and it's super muddy.) When I was down there, I learned a few interesting things: First, the area that I thought was most usable -- directly below the porch -- is actually not the most usable. It has more of a slope than I thought. You can see it better here: It's still going to be useful, but the largest level part of the yard is in the corner where I was standing when I took this photo. Conveniently, this is also the area where the level part goes deepest towards the back of the lot, so it gives us the biggest usable level space. This slope right below the porch means that the big wide centered steps that @Beverly suggested would have to go out significantly further to actually reach the ground. It would probably consume most of the usable space below the porch. But that's more acceptable now that I know that the corner is the prime real estate in the yard. Here's another photo that might show the slope better: The other thing I learned is that the left side of the porch is actually not as high as it looked from above. Standing on the ground, the porch is slightly above my eye level, or about 5.5' up. And since the land keeps rising to the left, stairs going along the house would only have to cover about 5' vertically. We looked at the other stairs from our same builder and estimated that they're about 40 degrees from the horizontal. So one trig calculator later, and it looks like the stairs probably won't even come to the guest room window! So I think we'll go with the left stairs for now and then look into a set of fancy wide porch steps down the line. Thanks, everybody, for all your thoughts and suggestions! I'm really happy with the left stairs for now and the awesome stairs later....See MoreBathroom switch location
Comments (13)Check your local code for the required location of bathroom switches. Here is the code for electrical switches in bathrooms in California: Bathrooms must have at least one wall switch-controlled light The switch must be located near the entrance to the bathroom At least one luminaire shall be controlled by an occupant or vacancy sensor providing automatic-off functionality; it shall be initially configured to manual-on operation using the manual control required under Section 150.0(k)2C While the first and second requirements above suggest that the light switch can be in the hallway outside the bathroom, the requirement for a vacancy sensor clearly is intended to mean that the light automatically goes off when the bathroom is vacant, regardless of whether someone is in the hallway....See MoreHow should I place our tv?
Comments (2)Unless you are willing to cover the pass through from the kitchen, the fireplace looks like the only space....See MoreJulie K
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