New House & Remodeling
Cora Lyn Uczekaj
5 years ago
So, we bought a house in Nevada that needed a little remodeling and refreshing in every room. First stop, the guest bathrooms. I think I’m a bit eclectic but curious what other people think of these bathroom redos....
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felizlady
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Comments (28)I love how you've kept the character alive in a tasteful eclectic mix. I think you may like a splash of colour in the bathroom by adding a canvas roman blind in a bold teal with a coordinating runner rug and some luxurious towels. A wall mounted rack for folded towels above the loo, will interrupt the monotone of the wall as may a plant or some. Also some woven floor baskets or quirky toiletpaper or magazine container to add interest....See MoreExtension/house "remodel" advice needed please!
Comments (14)Ok, so I've never commented on Houzz before (despite being a huge reader) but the shape of your house really intrigued me as it's very charming but quite tricky. Looking at just the ground floor, I think that an extension that fills in the 'rectangle' floorpan of the whole house might work. The loo and shower should be moved so that they are not blocking off movement flowing through the ground floor. To get a bigger hallway you could move back the wall currently going into the kitchen, so that you incorporate the small window into the hall. Remove the wall by the stairs and turn the stairway itself into a feature which would make the hallway - and stairs themselves - feel much roomier (I can't see from your floorpan whether they are already open to the hallway). What's currently the kitchen could become a utility with downstairs loo (move the shower upstairs into new bathroom over new extension, taking a bit from bedroom 1?). I have recently had an extension kitchen built on our own house and turned the old (tiny) kitchen into a laundry/boot room - best decision ever with a growing family! In the utility room you could put in a stacked wash/tumbler (if you want a tumbler, or else just cupboards/laundry on top) and a downstairs loo, as well as more storage. In the new kitchen, you could have double/french/sliding/bifold doors as per your taste looking out SE into the garden, creating a long sightline - and feeling of space - from the garden right through the kitchen into the far room. This would create a spacious-feeling kitchen tied into the rest of the house. You could block up the door into the current dining room and take out the wall between the dining/living. Keeping the dining room as dining, this gives you a cosy room there for small intimate dinners but also the potential to have big dinner parties on a long extended table stretching out into the living room. When not entertaining, that slightly self-contained room (as it's not a through-route as is the rest of the house) could be used as a study/quieter reading room. You now have a house that is welcoming for entertaining - guests come through the front door, where there's space for coats/hatstands, straight through the open door into the living room and are greeted by the fireplace ahead of them, and look round to see the dining table. Downstairs loo for guests nicely separated from all the action. Please excuse my very rough sketch of what I mean, and its lack of scale!...See MoreOld house... new home!
Comments (12)I personally wouldn’t pay an architect until I knew the house was pretty much mine. I don’t mean to be the voice of doom & gloom, but having an offer accepted doesn’t always mean you get the house. There might be issues with surveys or the seller might pull out. We were in a similar situation a few years back & survey issues meant the future value of the house was not as it should have been so we had to reluctantly pull out. We did have an architect around for a brief look) friend of a friend) so fortunately hadn’t paid anything & actually he advised us not to go any further with plans until the house was ours, which it later turned out not to be. Obviously this doesn’t ‘often’ happen, but it is a possibility. Fingers crossed your purchase will be straightforward!...See MoreHow would you remodel this house without costing the earth?
Comments (8)Taking out a load-bearing wall and building an extension at the front seems like quite a renovation, not a simple/cheap fix I would say. How about making that side entrance door into a window and moving the toilet over to the little nook to the left of it (looking at the door from inside the house), rather than to the right of that door? Might need the space in front of the new window to be part of the new toilet - with access from a new door put into the current space off of the Dining. Instead of removing the whole load-bearing wall, how about making a fairly big internal window in that wall, perhaps forming part of an island in the kitchen. Inserting a lintel above a window would be much easier and cheaper than knocking down the whole wall. Then replace those little windows out to the drive with larger windows including patio door/s for access to the side of the house. All of the above would get you light into your kitchen/dining, move the toilet away from the middle of the space and provide some walk-space as you enter the house to/from the patio side. Only issue is you'd probably have to walk through kitchen/dining to get outside....See More
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