Bath Before and After: A sitting room is sacrificed to make way for bigger baths
By: Linda Gallant, This Old House magazine
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A sitting room with linen privacy curtains doubles as a kids' hideaway.
The dining room boasts a custom artisan-crafted table, from Roberta Schilling's Brazilian collection.
Steuart designed the kitchen around an island resembling driftwood.
My sitting room probably comes closest to my ideal of a perfect room. It's a real mongrel - an old world fresco, leather-bound books that I can't live without, a Portuguese santos, a French bibleoteque, two Italian regency chairs, a Moroccan lantern, ...
In the sitting room the subtle pattern painted on putty-color walls plays off Hicks's abstract design in a turquoise-and-pale-blue rug, which was inspired, she says, by a pair of unusual insect wings that she found in her garden.
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In sitting rooms, dining rooms and studies, intense shades of crimson, claret, bottle green, sharp yellow, purple, mahogany, terra cotta and Persian blue are favored.
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The master suite is surrounded by luxury with a vaulted sitting room and a private vaulted bath. Brick facing and stucco accents create a fresh facade for this traditional neighborhood home.
In a private home, the parlor or sitting room is often reserved specifically for guests, and in the Victorian era the parlor was often closed during the week and opened only on Sundays, just for formal entertaining.
Incorporating modern technology into a formal sitting room is possible if the equipment can be stowed away when it's not in use.
When Hamish Bowles came to photograph our house for American Vogue, he found that the tropical flowers kept wilting after they were cut, so he went out into the garden and cut down huge palm fronds, which are now on our mantel in the sitting room.
Any respectable French boudoir or sitting room would not be complete without a chaise lounge (fainting couch) upholstered in a lovely toile fabric.
Check out the master suite on this plan, it has it all: master bedroom area, sitting room, private deck, french door entry, linen closet, massive walk-in closet, master bath with full size shower, large jetted tub, and split vanities.
The original concept of the living room was modeled after the historic design of early European parlors, sitting rooms, and salons.
Bedrooms and sitting rooms may also need regular tidying, while other rooms in the house may need cleaning less frequently. In the end, it will depend on what you consider important and whether you want your house to be spotless or merely tidy.
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If the space can also be used as a children's playroom or sitting room, built-in storage shelves or cabinets can help reduce clutter.
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A vaulted ceiling with exposed oak beams makes a great design feature that gives a room instant character - ideal for a kitchen, sitting room or master bedroom.
For instance a grand piano would be out scale in a small sitting room. Often people make mistakes in this area when it comes to choosing occasional tables, picking something too small or too large in proportion to the sofa and other furnishings.
The first floor would have kitchen, laundry room, dinette, dining room, huge den, two bathrooms, and two large bedrooms: also 1666 square feet. The third level would consist of guest bedrooms, sitting room, and space for later use.
This beautiful home offers large bedrooms with walk-in-closets, a large great room with a fireplace, a large kitchen with walk-in-pantry and a master suite with a private sitting room. In addition there's a home office off the entry, and a number of .
Again, fans should be placed away from the main living areas, such as bedrooms and sitting rooms. Lined ducts will carry air throughout the home and it will enter the room through ceiling-mounted supply grilles[source: MBS].
Recessed into the deck area, the top porch step provides a subtle separation of the entrance from the sitting area. The large bay window brings more space and light to the front sitting room.
The two types can have identical external appearances, so check the packing it is supplied with or the label inside. As a rule of thumb use ionisation alarms for areas like halls and bedrooms and optical alarms in the kitchen or sitting room.
The house had a full bathroom on the second floor that was very cramped, and a three quarter bath on the first floor. Beyond that there were two two large bedrooms on the second floor, one study, and one sitting room that we used as a bedroom - the ...
Great chamber The lord's solar, or bed-sitting room. Groined A roof with sharp edges at intersection of cross-vaults.
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