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The team has made tremendous progress in the past couple of weeks. With the walls completed, we have a real sense of the proportions and flow between the spaces of the house. Like Alice in Wonderland, various rooms have seemed to shrink and grow at different stages in the building process. Now they are all a [...] One space in the house that I am really excited about is our screened porch. This isn’t your father’s screened porch, but a virtual outdoor living room. The screened porch will serve as the transition space between the house and the back yard. It will be accessed by both the mudroom and the kitchen. There [...] In addition to developing the layout, we also had to work with our builder and his team to design the exterior of the house. Although the area where we live is full of colonials, we wanted something different. And with lots of stone! I really wanted a varied roofline, instead of a large monolithic box with [...]
As I mentioned in the previous post, the house was really designed around the mudroom. With four busy people, we need a space in the house for triage. (I can only imagine what this is like with a larger family). Where will the kids put their gloves when they come in from playing outside? Where will I [...]
So after all these posts about the lot, it is time to see the house (or at least the inside of it)! The house was designed to be attractive, but also with keen attention on function, particularly for a busy family. So basically, it is a house created around a mudroom, kitchen pantry and master closets! Developing a [...] We are soooo close. After months of drawing and meeting and redrawing, it looks like the shape of our new house is coming into focus. Probably bigger than we originally envisioned. Definitely bigger than we need. But not the biggest house on the block (we hope!) About three months ago I sat out on our back [...] |
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