How to set up a new lake house- dining, family and great room
ntarbell
10 months ago
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Comments (8)Ok cool - what a great space to work with. What are the Ikea chairs like? Or are they the wicker ones you mentioned? Since they are white walls and lighter timber floors, I'd keep the furniture light to accentuate space and not close it in. This is living space, right? Are you planning on having a television too?...See MoreFeedback wanted for a new kitchen/living family friendly floorplan
Comments (24)Love the choice of kitchen - shaker style! I have that style myself and I love it. An interior designer definitely will be able to help you with design and configuration, colour scheme etc. Just letting you know, we had to put 5 structural beams in our ceiling for support and the cost blew us away, it is a very expensive exercise. You'll need an engineer to draw these up. Your draftsman will know of an engineer. Also, as a rule you have to allow for budget blowout. Everyone who has ever done a renovation will tell you. Once you start on the journey, you're emotionally involved and you want it all to be right, and you always add on more changes as you go along. It might be worth pricing things from your kitchen to floorboards to fixtures and fittings, ovens, fridges, lighting choices etc and then draw up your own costings. Builders generally don't do costings, they allow a budget for certain things, like $5 a handle, but then if you choose a $7 handle, then you get hit with a bill at the end of the job with all the extra costs. Make sure you know what the builder has allowed for when it comes to the kitchen, fixtures and fittings etc. I also agree with the others, the oven is too tight in that spot. I would swap that with the sink and put the sink in the island. Hope this is helpful. Good luck with it all, it's very exciting!...See MoreHELP! Any ideas how to fix the living room end of our dining room?
Comments (25)First ,is removing excess furniture an option? Second, why bar fridge in the dining area, that really ruins the look. Seems that you can not move dining table closer to the kitchen because you have light pendant above the table, so can you move piano where your black couch is and couch on the other side of the room instead of creamy colour sofa . I notice the luck of coffee tables and side tables,that's probably why you like to sit around dining table, it is not visitors friendly and doesn't encourage conversation or interaction. I will come back to it have to study photos more. Are the arm chain the other room similar colour to the couch in the dining area?...See MoreNeed help with Kitchen, Dining, and Family room layout plan
Comments (8)Thanks everyone, we appreciate the ideas. We've considered similar plans to the ones shown but I think the general take-away of more rotating and re-arranging of furniture in the plan is the way to go at the moment. The alcove "study nook" in the Family Room is definitely an odd space that we have been very puzzled about, but our longer term plan is definitely to close it off and extend the en-suite as some of you have suggested....See Moresiriuskey
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