Perhaps you’re wondering what’s been happening with our project. It’s been a while since I’ve posted. During this time, we’ve been sourcing building bids and investigating prefab versus site-built options. To enable this information gathering comparison of apples to apples, we’ve needed to play our cards close to our chests. This is still the case,…
DetailsFor safety reasons, stairs need to be lit properly in all buildings, including your home. Often, in renovations and new builds, I see that little to no thought is directed toward how this could be done. Here are some brilliant ideas to light your stairs in creative and beautiful, yet functional ways. LED Tape Light…
DetailsRecessed lights, like all directional lights, make for excellent task lighting. They’re designed to direct light onto surfaces. Sadly, sometimes we see recessed lights laid out in even, tidy rows on the ceiling in an effort to achieve ambient lighting. This grid approach certainly does light things up, but the effect is flat and the…
DetailsMy lighting plan is complete and not likely to change very much from now until the end of construction. Deciding what to light and how to light it was, for me, the easy part. Deciding which light fixtures to use, proves to be not quite so easy. In my everyday role as a Lighting Designer, I’m on the outside, not emotionally…
DetailsIn the spring issue of Fine Homes, we, at Atlantic Lighting Studio, are featured on page 34. Click here and enjoy the read!
DetailsAppliances. Over many years, we’ve thought about features we’d want in a new refrigerator or cook stove and, since the purchasers of our last house wanted our appliances, our imaginings of modern appliance features opened up to becoming reality. While we were shopping around, comparing features and prices, we had the good fortune to meet Dan at Leon’s in…
DetailsBudget Clarification and Trimming. Met with Architect Vincent and his Architectural Technologist, Dan, today. We looked at the numbers again and realized that we weren’t exactly comparing apples to apples on Sunday. My calculations were a little off, so here’s how the numbers really break down to dollars per square foot: Angie’s 18′ x 20′…
DetailsOn this snow-stormy Sunday, I turn my attention to the ‘B’ word – no, not blizzard… budget. Michael and I are still in a daze after Wednesday’s budget meeting with Architect Vincent and Builder Nick. Last night was our first opportunity to talk openly with friends about our budget, plans, goals and compromises to our dream home to-date. It…
DetailsLets head upstairs for a look at the upper level floor plan. An excellent design technique for building small is to create rooms which serve more than one purpose. This ties in directly with being very honest with yourself about how you really live. For instance, do you seldom have overnight guests? Then perhaps a guest bedroom…
DetailsDesign touches are what make a home your built-for-you home. In this post, I’ll introduce our lower level house plans with a walk through of a few of the design features. Let’s start with the exterior: We dream of achieving minimal outdoor maintenance and maximum outdoor living and here are a few design elements to take us there: Planting…
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