Now it's time for the dining room.
The dining room is off the kitchen and is at the back of the house. It measures 13'4" wide by 11'4" deep. To the left (as looking from above) is the living room and screened in porch, on the right is the hallway to the garage, utility room and pantry and on the other side is the kitchen. When you walk in the front door after you go through the foyer, you'll see the dining room at the back of the house.
This is the almost finished dining room from our actual floor plan (later progress of the above framing photo).
We made some changes to the original plan.
First of all, we made our kitchen bigger (longer) so we could have a bigger island and make some appliance changes. That, in turn, lengthened the dining room. And that in turn gave us the space to be able to have the screened porch. This picture is the bigger dining room we will have (minus that door with the X on it, ha).
We also chose for a continuous windowsill here (we like that look) and these windows won't open, so they'll be big sheets of glass (double pane/insulated) to give us a view. This will be the view of what we used to see from the back of the farmhouse, the orchard area will be visible from here and the 200 acres behind us that is used for cattle (we should get some fun views).
Here is the electrical plan for the dining room:
As with our other rooms, you can never have too many electrical outlets. Here, we have one on every wall (and two on the window wall). This room will not have recessed lighting like the others and no ceiling fan of course but will instead have a hanging fixture. We picked one, from the list of the ones that are included, but they are simple (like the one in the photo above). We want something dramatic but without having to finance it for years in the mortgage, ha.
Maybe something like this. We like it, it's kind of retro cool. But we'll find just the right one and may even have it put up before closing.
The dining room, being at the other end of the kitchen so to speak will make it kind of like an eat in kitchen but still in its own defined space.
We'll even have easy dining room table access to a wine fridge in the island...oops, we're getting ahead of ourselves! More on that soon.
Next week, the laundry room...
All this has got to be so much fun for you. You probably only do something like this once in your life, so enjoy every minute of it. When I built my log home years ago I did 90% of the building my self and was consumed by that for most of a year and kind of had to plan things as I went. I had the basic plan in mind but was able to modify it as I went along if I did not deviate from the approved plans too much. It was one of the highlights of my life and that house will be there long after I am gone. A little legacy that nobody will ever know about.
ReplyDeleteYou both have put so much thought into your plans. The flow of the living room, screened porch, dining room, and kitchen has been done so well. It’s all going to be so perfect for your new life at the Farm.
ReplyDeleteI love everything y'all have done with making the plan your own. And you are right, you can never have too many plugs
ReplyDeleteI have a dining room cabinet like you pictured but it has a drawer between the top and bottom. It has a story. When we married, we were on a very small budget. My husband found the cabinet in a small thrift store. It had a lot of paint on it as people used to paint the kitchen and everything in it the same color. My husband stripped it to the wood and put a light stain finish on it. It is well over one hundred years old. We used it for a number of years and my daughter in law said she would like to have it one day, so we gave it to them. The were military so it has many miles on it now. We bought it in a small town in Ohio and moved it to Mississippi and then to Florida. I bet the man that built it never dreamed of the history it would have. It went from Florida to Wash. State, to Texas, to New York and then to Germany, they moved three times in Germany, so the cabinet moved, later they moved to Dubai with the cabinet. When they retired and came to Florida, they brought it, it came by ship through New York and from there a moving van. It is in their home here now. It has glass doors that are the original glass. All those miles and not one chip in the glass. This got a little long but I just needed to tell you my story.
ReplyDeleteI do like the open floor plan. You both thought out the plans for each and every room really well.
ReplyDeleteNow, I can't wait to see pictures of the ground digging, etc.
Can Never have to many outlets. We only have 1 outside outlet; and wish we would have had a couple more put in.
You both have a wonderful weekend.