LIVING ROOM NEW HOUSE TEASER

We are going to have a large living room.  Family room?  TV room?  Never sure what they call them these days.

It's open to the kitchen and nice and large.

Here it is, it measures 16x20 feet.  Remember, you saw a bit of this in the teaser for the screened in porch because we are having this opening wall/door to the porch.

Normally, this floor plan has a wall of windows and the door to the screened-in porch would be off to the side of the dining room.  But we changed it to this so can enjoy (on those nice days) the indoor/outdoor vibe.

We're going to put our TV on this wall.  This is from a similar model to ours, only we'll have the opening wall of windows.  We are having them put extra support studs in the wall for a wall mounted TV as well as the outlet and cable wires mounted up high so there are no cords running down below for the clean look.  We're also going to buy a new, bigger TV.  

The ceiling is almost 11 feet high in this room so guess what means?  GIANT CHRISTMAS TREE IN THE CORNER!  It will be nice to have a big, open space.  We'll have plenty of room for furniture.

A nice sectional would be good so we can relax and maybe even nap.  Maybe L-shaped and leather. We'll just have to see what we can find when the time comes.

  

Or maybe U-shaped and fabric. It might even be cool to have an L-shaped sectional with swivel chairs on the opening wall side. Then we could open the doors to the screened-in porch so guests can sit and still be part of the conversation in both spaces.

As we have mentioned before, a lot of this will be easier once it's drywalled and we can walk around in it and visualize the space in 3D.

The one thing we didn't get but really contemplated, was a fireplace.  But alas, it was just so expensive.  We might regret it someday but literally the cost to put one in (on the big wall just like above which is a version of our floorplan) was over $15,000.  That was money better spent in the kitchen and other spaces to get what we really wanted there.  There are some options we've seen for something later, but we'll cross that bridge when we get there, ha. 

The room will have recessed lighting and a ceiling fan.  For the ceiling fan though, we went with the standard option.  We actually did that in each room so that it will be easier to swap out later (for something like the above) and get what we really want without "mortgaging" the cost of a ceiling fan, ha.

Next time, dining room, then laundry room and then the posts about kitchen and pantry.