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Aug. 10th, 2010 10:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sethrakToday's writer's block question: Home sweet home
Do you have a favorite aesthetic style in terms of home design? If money were no object, how would you change your home?
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I personally love the mission/craftsman style of furnishing and construction. (For those of you with kids the right age, check out the movie Zathara. Crappy movie, which I was compelled to watch entirely too many times, on a loop, when I worked in KMart's electronics department. ((Kids would enjoy it more, I expect.)) But damn that house was gorgeous! Even had a working dumbwaiter. :D )
I would probably build a low, rambling, cottage/bungalow style of Craftsman house, with a spacious basement for storage anddavner's man-cave. Perhaps an outbuilding or two designed like an era-appropriate stable, to keep the car in and serve as a tool shed or a workroom, if Dav gets into woodworking or fly-fishing in his retirement years.
Plenty of space for rooms lined in bookcases. :D A sewing/reading room for me. :D Lots of windows, esp. if we are lucky enough to get land with mountain views. Built in china cabinets like the ones in the houses I grew up in. Stained and beveled glass accent panels, in both windows and cabinet doors.
And if money were really no object, possibly build a quasi-Victorian house - but still mostly furnished in Craftsman style, because while fainting couches and the like are lovely to look at, I don't think they'd work well with my lifestyle.
Do you have a favorite aesthetic style in terms of home design? If money were no object, how would you change your home?
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I personally love the mission/craftsman style of furnishing and construction. (For those of you with kids the right age, check out the movie Zathara. Crappy movie, which I was compelled to watch entirely too many times, on a loop, when I worked in KMart's electronics department. ((Kids would enjoy it more, I expect.)) But damn that house was gorgeous! Even had a working dumbwaiter. :D )
I would probably build a low, rambling, cottage/bungalow style of Craftsman house, with a spacious basement for storage and
davner's man-cave. Perhaps an outbuilding or two designed like an era-appropriate stable, to keep the car in and serve as a tool shed or a workroom, if Dav gets into woodworking or fly-fishing in his retirement years.Plenty of space for rooms lined in bookcases. :D A sewing/reading room for me. :D Lots of windows, esp. if we are lucky enough to get land with mountain views. Built in china cabinets like the ones in the houses I grew up in. Stained and beveled glass accent panels, in both windows and cabinet doors.
And if money were really no object, possibly build a quasi-Victorian house - but still mostly furnished in Craftsman style, because while fainting couches and the like are lovely to look at, I don't think they'd work well with my lifestyle.
