New vacation home living room and kitchen needs love
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Need help beach-ifying vacation house kitchen! Please help!
Comments (13)the good thing is when your house is at the beach, you don't need to try so hard. you don't need signs like 'this way to the beach' or 'manatee crossing'. you dont need lamps shaped like anchors. all of those items are for people whose houses are NOT at the beach. i recommend under decorating. under beachifying. nothing fussy, everything easy care. don't worry about your kitchen right now... stock up on olive oil and fresh veg, a good knife or two, make a great grill space outside. thats the good news. the bad news is even if you bought the place full cash and you have no mortgage, a second home is expensive. doubling all your utilities, your taxes, your trash pick up, etc etc etc. you'll be amazed how much it costs when you have to paint twice as often, replace roofs twice as often, its endless. don't spend a penny on your perfectly nice kitchen that you don't need to spend because it isnt quite the right color at this time. when things need to be painted, soon enough. anyway, thats more advice than you asked for, but there it is. enjoy your house near the beach. we've had ours for 18 years now and havent regretted a moment....See MoreNeed ideas for this living room on our new house!
Comments (1)have you thought about demoing out the raised portion? and just having a step down from the dining room instead, this would then allow you to put a sofa table and maybe a book case back there and just have it as a traffic path....See MoreNew (and first) house - need help with the living room
Comments (1)Hi there. Congratulations on buying such a sunny, beautiful home. Love your aesthetic. I am assuming that watching tv from the dining room is not a priority, I would move your sofa to the opposite wall and place the tv on the wall to the right. I think your front door is beside your bookcase so I would move it over to create a division between your dining room and front door, creating a bit of the foyer and then fill the shelfs with vases and ornamental pieces (see examples of pictures). You may need to add some items to the top of the bookcase to increase it's height and make sure the items are oversized and beautiful on both sides so that the shelf does not look cluttered. If you have enough room you could add a small bench to the long wall by the door to emphasize this as the entrance. I would get another bookcase like the one you have beside your tv and book end your tv console. This would reclaim the storage lost to the decorative vases and add some symmetry to the wall with the tv (again see pictures). Add a few decorative pieces that match the bookcase in with the books to tie the two spaces together and get a rug! Oh yes a rug with the colours from your dining chairs or a complementary colour would be awesome. And add some easy plants in baskets to tie it back to your dining room lights. I think your space is gorgeous....See MoreBuying new house, need ideas to decorate living rooms
Comments (6)How wonderful to have someone on this forum that knows the house. What is the dining area like? We ended up switching the dining area for the living room area and that worked really well. At least for the folks who ended up buying our house. But we lived with it like the folks have it in the pictures, for years. It was so cramped. I am certain that shirlpp can guide you through this because she knows the house. I don't know the measurements or what it is like in the dining area but I put this 3D rendition together on a whim knowing that it may not work. But hey why not throw the idea out there? In this you will find a small corner sectional, a padded ottoman with storage, a TV media surround with storage, 2 small chairs for extra seating for guests....See Moredeegw
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