Summer House Living Room Design
After a long winter, it’s incredibly nice to be able to go to your summer house and “open” it for the season. One of the first considerations you may have is how your summer house living room should be designed. You’re not looking for the same type of coziness that you have at home. You want something that’s still conducive to family, but will encourage warm breezes and long walks on the beach, not long stays indoors.
Whether you will visit this home on weekends throughout the warm season, or if it will become a semi-permanent home, the living room is a space that’s important to family and also important for entertaining. The living room is probably the second most used rooms of the house, the first being the kitchen, of course. This room will be where guests will be entertained and families will come together when they’re not out playing on the beach.
A wonderfully freeing addition to a summer living room is the use of bead board on the walls. This adds to the cottage type atmosphere that you’re looking to create. The walls should either be painted a stark white that would contrast nicely with the wood grains of the trim around the doorways and along the floors, or they should be painted a light color such as field green or sky blue. A summer house living room should give the feel of being outdoors even when stuck in the house on a rainy day. These colors will help create that look and feel within your living room.
Another nice touch to this style living room is small knickknacks that have to do with the outdoors and beaches. Seashells are a wonderful choice of décor when creating the illusion of bringing the beach and ocean into your very own living room. Shells can be used to surround the bottom of candles on a glass tray. They can be bagged and displayed through their mesh bags on a shelf next to a framed picture of you and your family on the beach or outdoors together.
Sparse collections of greenery either real or fake will enhance the “outside on the beach” feel of this living room. If you take a few plants that may vary in size and place them in a few strategic places, they will do a great job of adding a little green to your summer living room. If you’re thumb is no more green than your is your forefinger, then choose plants that require little care or choose fake plants. Like their real counterparts, fake trees and plants are available just about everywhere. Be on the lookout and grab one or two that will truly enhance your living room.
Living rooms can be wonderful locations within the home and summer home. When everyone is at home over the summer, bonding can truly take home in a room that was well thought about and decided upon. Create your very own living space in the summer room style because you never know when you could be getting a new room to decorate.
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……………lord, help the starving children in africa.
Amen.
I agree that it would soon become very difficult to retrieve items, as others got tossed in on top of them, but I see the problem with an l-shaped living room, as well.
Is there any way the storage could actually go outside the front door, rather than inside it? Rubbermaid makes several pretty good weather tight storage minis that would fit along a back wall. Others are available, of course. Just search for outdoor storage.
Since this is a new construction and a house, arrange the space so that you routinely enter the back door rather than the front, and the front entry and living room stay nice for guests and for living in. We had a similar problem, and just coming in a different door helped us sort it all out. We had a "mud room" at the back door, and that's where sports gear and hats, coats, gloves, and so on were stowed in easy reach yet still out of sight.
ADDED AS AN EDIT AFTER THE "NO BACK DOOR" EXPLANATION: I see….yes, the outside storage is not going to work at all. I agree with you, though. The "hallway" space would have what-ever you used most recently at the front, and what-ever you needed to use next somewhere along the back. Unless you are positively obsessive about order, it wouldn't take long….
How about turning the hallway sideways – a wall devoted to storage with sliding or bifold doors so that you could get into the entire space by opening the right set of doors? (Prams behind one set, hats and coats behind a second, rain or bad weather gear behind a third) prefer bifold to sliding, because they fold open and out of the way, where sliding doors only allow access to half the space at any one time. A long line of slender panel doors might add some interest to an otherwise blank bland wall. This is how we "hid" our laundry in plain sight in a kitchen.
The solution avoids the L shaped rooms, and avoids the accessibility issues.
Second edit – the second poster mentioned a staircase. The space UNDER the stairs might be perfect for storage. with french close doors (both singing out from the middle, opening a wider space) or bifold doors.
I loved reading about your house, your relatives,the neighborhood and all your memories. You're a good writer. I have made several changes, as you read over it you'll find them. Good Luck!
Living in my house is not like living in the typical house. Do you want to find out what's intriguing? I live with both of my grandparents, dad (-), mom (-), brother (-), and Me. My home is designed proportional to those bungalow houses you have seen. It was built way back in 1938, thus, it is still standing strong for 71 years. Imagine that! And because it could be considered as an 'antique' house, the exterior before was different. But after some years, we have given our house a new look; the exterior of the house before was different, but since the house was really old and we had to give a new look from the outside, we decided to put siding in. We had also replaced our old windows to add a fresher look. Another thing that I like about it is that it has been established in a quiet neighborhood. Our house is also pretty close to school. That's an advantage for me as a pupil studying there. Going in to the interior part of our house, it also has an amazing feature; it has three doors mainly used for our entrance (and exit). Of all those, my favorite door is the one we mostly use, that could take us to the kitchen. Speaking of which, we have nine rooms in our house. Specifically, we have four bedrooms, two bathrooms, an average-sized living room, dining room, and of course, my favorite, the kitchen. Adding to that, we also have a concrete basement. Can you imagine how spacious our house is? But if I would be given a chance to re-model our house, I'd probably give much focus on the area of the bedrooms and the basement. And of course, the basement is too dark and horrible that a family of ghost could reside in it. Then there’s the hipped style roof, and I really like it because it’s an old look of the house and not a lot of people now days have that kind of roof. My house was made for one-family house because there are not that many bedrooms, or space; however, about a couple of yards away we have the 2 car garage and that’s not attached to the house. The important part is what about the people residing in it? I am so glad to have a complete family residing in our two-story house. I live with my complete family plus my loving grandparents.
In conclusion, I have realized that a house can be a place where you can treasure everything — old socks, delicious food, broken windows and etc. But most importantly, a house can treasure lifetime memories.
The one thing I like about my house is the location it’s a very nice, quiet neighborhood and the yard is really big, so during the summer I have friends over, and we go outside and have fun by playing sports and etc.
If I could change anything to the house it would probably be the bedrooms to be a little bigger although we have four bedrooms, they are too small for an individual. The basement, as I said, its pretty scary looking there right now and desperately needs remodeling.
The best memory that would be associated to this house that I live in right now, would be when we first moved in, my uncle and his family had to live with us too, and we all had so much fun living together because there where always so many people around the house and the time would go by really fast, just by talking to each other, playing games, and etc. So I think that would be the BEST memory about the house, when my uncle’s family and my family all lived together.
I think Hillery Clinton summarized Saddam's relationship with 9/11 best ..
In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members. It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons."
Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct 10, 2002
As a sanctuary and an aid to al qaeda the threat of WMD including nuclear possibilities made him an important target for the well being of the US and the world. Afghanistan alone is not a threat , it did not have the capabilities of Iraq which is why both areas became targets..
Make sure everything has a home and that things are put away rather than tossed down. Decide where things belong and put them there. It takes less time to do that than have to face a pile or piles later. I don't allow anything on furniture that doesn't belong there. I have a box on the wall inside the door that handles keys and ingoing and outgoing mail and stamps. No clothes on the floor or tossed onto furniture at any time. I clean something every day whether it's dusting a room or rooms, vacuuming, sweeping, or cleaning bathrooms. I do the laundry twice a week (there are only two of us) and put it away immediately. I am definitely neatnik but anyone can come to my house unannounced and I wouldn't be embarrassed. It's all about setting a routine and following it. Clutter can only happen if you let it. Start now to maintain it and when you have kids you will be happier for it.
First of all, say "differed vastly" instead of "vastly differentiated." Differentiated means to become different or to make something different; it is an act. Differed means to be different from.
In the beginning of the next paragraph, I think you should remove "had." If you just say "evolved," it seems more like you are explaining the process and really drawing the reader into it. And do you mean "location" of the houses? I'm not sure exactly if that is the right word. Do you mean the style of the houses evolved due to the climate or that the locations specifically were chosen due to the climate? "Those who came from salubrious climate" should be pluralized as "climates." That just looks like you made a typo, maybe.
"Most distinctive" would make more sense as "most distinct." "Distinctive" doesn't tend to be used with "most." It's not incorrect as far as I know, but it just seems redundant to me. In the same paragraph you also say "the houses" plural and then say "the house" singular. It's best to stick with one grammatical number. So say "the house" or "the houses," and don't switch, or it sounds less academic and credible.
"Despite all the time working hard labor" is also a bit redundant. "Working and labor" mean the same thing, so maybe find a way to revise that sentence so you only include one of those words. You could say "Despite spending much of their time on hard labor, the early colonists …" etc.
Put a comman before "racing" when you list the games. Without the comma it seems like you're saying their skills are racing, swimming and wrestling, not that those are the games that test their skills.
As far as how to finish it, I'm not sure. What is your thesis? What are you trying to say overall? You have moved away from architecture in the last paragraph, so maybe find a way to link it all back together with a summary. Like say "The people of colonial times led multi-layered, often amusing lives, but their lives were not without hardship. Surviving (maybe list various climate elements, such as winter?) was difficult and their home structures reflected their need to be sheltered. The European settlers' homes were also expressions of the building styles of their homelands.
Something like that. I mean, I just wrote that quickly so it's not worded well, but I mean, just go over all the points you made and try to bring them all together. You need to unify everything.
Thanks for the interesting information; I learned some stuff!
I enjoyed it, but two suggestions.
1) The dream at the beginning was kind of irrelevent to never be mentioned again. Maybe start with, "My grandfather was a carpenter."
2) Break it up into paragraphs instead of a daunting wall of text.
Best Wishes!
I'm not sure where you got all of that from, but I think you need to try again. Layout codes are long, but not usually THAT long. I would advise not to use this code.