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Miracle in the Making
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| love my house lots of windows lots of light its compy for me all doors are 36" the only thing i wish i had was in floor heating as i am just cold
i also love my home in the arena we built it was way to big but..... |
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Location: Whitney, NE | Slate tile and rough cut hardwood are beautiful, but so hard on your feet! It's crippling to walk around without shoes! |
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 Money Eating Baggage Owner
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Location: Phoenix | I despise our shower/bathtub combo with slider glass panels, so I advise against one of those. I would love to have a walk-in shower.
Backsplash in the bathroom/smaller mirror, think how clean your mirror would be if it were smaller, and you had a tile backsplash! |
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 Texas Tenderheart
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Location: Red Raiderland | sodapop - 2013-11-23 3:16 AM cow pie - 2013-11-21 12:44 PMI have rented 2 different houses. One was log outer (love) huge living room with full window to the east and full window to the west so the sun came in on rising and setting with a full rock fireplace and bedrooms on the end with sliding doors and mud room at the entrance. Warm in winter cool in summer Loved that house. the other was a log house front country porch fireplace with attached brick oven. all wood flooring bedrooms upstairs. Love wood floors fireplaces open floor plans and large windows . My current house has several large windows, wood flooring open floor plan. I just wish the bedrooms were at one end of the house, but it is peachy. We've re did the walls and put in new cabinets , all new windows next will be doors and back bedrooms. It's just peachy. If a person is building in say Oklahoma....or a place where it gets miserably hot in the summer.... I would not recommend lots of windows facing the west. The afternoon & evening sun in or on a west window will make the home blazing hot & cost more to keep it cool. It would require black out curtains/shades to help keep it cool.....no enjoying the west windows at all in the summer. The windows will be hot to the touch inside & outside.....an option would be tinted windows to help. I just wouldn't recommend many west windows in a hot place......unless you have a big covered porch helping to shade that side of the house. Even the east side with lots of windows can get the house pretty hot on a summer morning.
Soda, we are in Texas and we have 4 big windows in the back that will be facing southeast not directly east but we plan on putting the blackout shades on them and they are all under a fairly good sized covered porch. I wondered how hot it would get but the view is so gorgeous you couldn't not put windows there. It actually only had two windows in the original plans but we added two more.... I guess we'll see how it goes in the summertime this next year.... |
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Texas Tenderheart
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Location: Red Raiderland | Three 4 Luck - 2013-11-23 7:53 AM Kaycee - 2013-11-22 6:53 PM Delta Cowgirl - 2013-11-21 5:50 PM We will move into our new construction home around Christmas... we downsized and built a home at our farm. House is about 1800 total square feet heated / cooled. Husband retired this past March. We have a split plan.... big room in the middle of the house with cathedral ceiling (beaded cypress wood)..... with a gas log fireplace.... large kitchen island with Viking gas cook top in the island..... so husband (who loves to cook) can face everyone and visit / talk with everyone while he cooks ( ). It's been really fun to build. I would never hesitate to build another -- contractor has been wonderful and the stress level has been very low - I have enjoyed working on the interior and exterior design, etc., working with the contractor and all the subs, etc..... husband cooked hamburgers for everyone this past Monday. We have built a "farm house" with a "Mission / Shaker" interior style. No carpet. There will be no drapery / curtains..... the trim is very farm house... base boards are the old style.... six-inch width. Subdued "natural" colors. (We also added a storm cellar!!)
Ok, how do you see them on FB? Do you have to have FB to see them? Love all the house pics on here. Everyone needs to add pics. Love it!  |
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Texas Tenderheart
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Location: Red Raiderland | sorrel horse ranch - 2013-11-23 12:38 PM Kaycee - 2013-11-21 10:20 AM We are in the process of finishing up on our new house and it looks like we should start moving in in mid January so I won't know just yet what I love and what I hate about this house but I will totally agree with Canchasr1 that if you live in a tornado prone area invest in a storm/safe room. Ours is just big enough to get me, my husband,two weiner dogs and Doberman in but when a tornado is barreling down on you it's not going to matter how comfy you are just safe. 
Thanks SHR. Things were a little dicey there but they really did a great job on the foundation and now things seem to be really rolling. I'm actually visualizing us living there. |
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Texas Tenderheart
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Location: Red Raiderland | rodeomom3 - 2013-11-23 12:46 PM Kaycee - 2013-11-22 6:52 PM Canchasr1 - 2013-11-21 4:29 PM Kaycee - 2013-11-21 11:20 AM We are in the process of finishing up on our new house and it looks like we should start moving in in mid January so I won't know just yet what I love and what I hate about this house but I will totally agree with Canchasr1 that if you live in a tornado prone area invest in a storm/safe room. Ours is just big enough to get me, my husband,two weiner dogs and Doberman in but when a tornado is barreling down on you it's not going to matter how comfy you are just safe.
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  Angel in a Sorrel Coat
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Location: In a happy place | Kaycee - 2013-11-24 12:28 PM sorrel horse ranch - 2013-11-23 12:38 PM Kaycee - 2013-11-21 10:20 AM We are in the process of finishing up on our new house and it looks like we should start moving in in mid January so I won't know just yet what I love and what I hate about this house but I will totally agree with Canchasr1 that if you live in a tornado prone area invest in a storm/safe room. Ours is just big enough to get me, my husband,two weiner dogs and Doberman in but when a tornado is barreling down on you it's not going to matter how comfy you are just safe.
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 Can You Hear Me Now?
Location: When you hit the middle of nowhere .. Keep driving | I love that my house is a bungalow with a very open concept and that the living area is separate from the bedrooms. We have lots of windows (at least 70 percent of our great room is windows. I love entertaining and when I'm cooking I can still interact with people instead of being in a separate room.
My friend has a house and the doors go the master are right off the living room. No privacy there at all. The kids rooms are on the opposite side of the house just placed randomly next to the garage and kitchen. I don't know what the designer was smoking when they built it. |
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| Kaycee - 2013-11-24 1:25 PM sodapop - 2013-11-23 3:16 AM cow pie - 2013-11-21 12:44 PMI have rented 2 different houses. One was log outer (love) huge living room with full window to the east and full window to the west so the sun came in on rising and setting with a full rock fireplace and bedrooms on the end with sliding doors and mud room at the entrance. Warm in winter cool in summer Loved that house. the other was a log house front country porch fireplace with attached brick oven. all wood flooring bedrooms upstairs. Love wood floors fireplaces open floor plans and large windows . My current house has several large windows, wood flooring open floor plan. I just wish the bedrooms were at one end of the house, but it is peachy. We've re did the walls and put in new cabinets , all new windows next will be doors and back bedrooms. It's just peachy. Â If a person is building in say Oklahoma....or a place where it gets miserably hot in the summer.... I would not recommend lots of windows facing the west. The afternoon & evening sun in or on a west window will make the home blazing hot & cost more to keep it cool. It would require black out curtains/shades to help keep it cool.....no enjoying the west windows at all in the summer. The windows will be hot to the touch inside & outside.....an option would be tinted windows to help. I just wouldn't recommend many west windows in a hot place......unless you have a big covered porch helping to shade that side of the house. Even the east side with lots of windows can get the house pretty hot on a summer morning.
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Texas Tenderheart
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Location: Red Raiderland | sodapop - 2013-11-24 8:01 PM Kaycee - 2013-11-24 1:25 PM sodapop - 2013-11-23 3:16 AM cow pie - 2013-11-21 12:44 PMI have rented 2 different houses. One was log outer (love) huge living room with full window to the east and full window to the west so the sun came in on rising and setting with a full rock fireplace and bedrooms on the end with sliding doors and mud room at the entrance. Warm in winter cool in summer Loved that house. the other was a log house front country porch fireplace with attached brick oven. all wood flooring bedrooms upstairs. Love wood floors fireplaces open floor plans and large windows . My current house has several large windows, wood flooring open floor plan. I just wish the bedrooms were at one end of the house, but it is peachy. We've re did the walls and put in new cabinets , all new windows next will be doors and back bedrooms. It's just peachy. If a person is building in say Oklahoma....or a place where it gets miserably hot in the summer.... I would not recommend lots of windows facing the west. The afternoon & evening sun in or on a west window will make the home blazing hot & cost more to keep it cool. It would require black out curtains/shades to help keep it cool.....no enjoying the west windows at all in the summer. The windows will be hot to the touch inside & outside.....an option would be tinted windows to help. I just wouldn't recommend many west windows in a hot place......unless you have a big covered porch helping to shade that side of the house. Even the east side with lots of windows can get the house pretty hot on a summer morning. I think you will be fine with them facing east with the covered porch & option of your blinds or blackout shades if needed, but facing the afternoon & evening sun on the west would be hot, hot without blinds or blackout shades in the summer. I know you guys get as hot or hotter than here in Oklahoma. I love your house!
You got me thinking about it today, I went over there and took some pics to post. I can say that while we have been building during the hot days the porch did get pretty hot during Aug/Sept. Yowza. I'll have to report back in the summer. We will have a couple of fans on the underside of the porch so hopefully that will help circulate the air because, yep, it gets a little toasty here.
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Texas Tenderheart
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Location: Red Raiderland | You see the bay window to left of the 4 windows? That is our breakfast nook window and I don't have plans for any shade, tint or even window treatment on that window. I wonder if I will change my mind on that? 
The view from these windows is so serene and beautiful I did not want to block anything from them.
Blaundee, thanks for letting me post some pics on your thread.  I don't mean to hijack. Building is starting to stress me!   |
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Location: Its on the House | I loved my house when we built back in the 80's. Not so much today. Cathederal ceilings, and 18 rooms later, I have had enough lol. 90 percent of the flooring is ceramic tile which are easy to maintain.. The biggest plus's are the 2 fireplaces and the woodstove. When you live in Illinois you appreciate them lol.
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Texas Tenderheart
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Location: Red Raiderland | jtd - 2013-11-24 10:24 PM
I loved my house when we built back in the 80's. Not so much today. Cathederal ceilings, and 18 rooms later, I have had enough lol. 90 percent of the flooring is ceramic tile which are easy to maintain.. The biggest plus's are the 2 fireplaces and the woodstove.  When you live in Illinois you appreciate them lol.
Love, love, love your place...even if it was built in the 80's. Beautiful! |
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 Dancing in my Mind
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Location: Eastern OH but my heart is in WV | jtd - 2013-11-24 10:24 PM
I loved my house when we built back in the 80's. Not so much today. Cathederal ceilings, and 18 rooms later, I have had enough lol. 90 percent of the flooring is ceramic tile which are easy to maintain.. The biggest plus's are the 2 fireplaces and the woodstove.  When you live in Illinois you appreciate them lol.
With a barn and riding arena like that, who needs a house?  You have a beautiful place! |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Kaycee - 2013-11-24 9:51 PM
You see the bay window to left of the 4 windows?  That is our breakfast nook window and I don't have plans for any shade, tint or even window treatment on that window.  I wonder if I will change my mind on that? The view from these windows is so serene and beautiful I did not want to block anything from them.  Blaundee, thanks for letting me post some pics on your thread.  I don't mean to hijack. Building is starting to stress me! Â
 Our back porch is southwest facing and we have 2 big picture windows (4x6) and a French door on the wall between living room and porch. It would get HOT in the summer, but was nice in the winter. The winter sun would blind you in the house tho.. I'm like you, I didn't want to impede my view. We added on to make it deeper, so it shades the house more and that made the whole setup work 1000 times better, besides having room to actually use it now. I can still see out but the sun doesn't come blazing in. The front of the house has the same 2 picture windows plus the front door is a 3/4 glass with double side lights, and open in the whole living area, so it has tons of natural light and I love that. If we weren't so isolated, we couldn't have built so open and left the windows uncovered, but you can barely see a quick glimpse of our house from the road, so it works. I have a 4x4 picture window above my tub in the master bath that is clear and uncovered, but there is no one to peek but the horses (and they do watch me sometimes LOL). I love natural light and being able to see out. I don't get as depressed as I used to in the winter. |
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Accident Prone
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Rolling J - 2013-11-24 10:43 PM
jtd - 2013-11-24 10:24 PM
I loved my house when we built back in the 80's. Not so much today. Cathederal ceilings, and 18 rooms later, I have had enough lol. 90 percent of the flooring is ceramic tile which are easy to maintain.. The biggest plus's are the 2 fireplaces and the woodstove.  When you live in Illinois you appreciate them lol.
With a barn and riding arena like that, who needs a house? You have a beautiful place!
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 Dust Bunny
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Location: Colorado | Three things I really, really don't like.
1. They put in white tile and white grout at every single entrance.
2. My kitchen is upstairs with all the bedrooms, and the living area is downstairs.
3. None of my exterior doors are oversized, so getting anything large (sofa, dishwasher, ect) in or out is a total nightmare. |
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Texas Tenderheart
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Location: Red Raiderland | Three 4 Luck - 2013-11-25 8:08 AM Kaycee - 2013-11-24 9:51 PM You see the bay window to left of the 4 windows? That is our breakfast nook window and I don't have plans for any shade, tint or even window treatment on that window. I wonder if I will change my mind on that?
The view from these windows is so serene and beautiful I did not want to block anything from them.
Blaundee, thanks for letting me post some pics on your thread. I don't mean to hijack. Building is starting to stress me!
How much did you add on in order to cut the sun but not lose all the light? Because of the pitch of our roof we could only go out so far, 9ft I believe.
I also have the big open windows in the master bath, but only the deer and hogs will be able to see in. Heck, it's a good way to scare off the hogs! |
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Texas Tenderheart
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Location: Red Raiderland | graciemay - 2013-11-25 8:35 AM Three things I really, really don't like.
1. They put in white tile and white grout at every single entrance.
2. My kitchen is upstairs with all the bedrooms, and the living area is downstairs.
3. None of my exterior doors are oversized, so getting anything large (sofa, dishwasher, ect) in or out is a total nightmare.
They put the kitchen upstairs with the bedrooms? That is a funky setup for sure. And white tile w/white grout? I dang sure feel for you on that one.  |
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