Our nearly finalized plan with Kent Homes is here! Just a couple of minor tweeks and we’ll be able to sign off and get scheduled. This image is very small, so if you’re like me and enjoy walking yourself through floor plans, click on this link for the larger sized PDF Plan Perhaps you’d enjoy…
DetailsNearly everything in our new house will do double duty. For instance, our dining table will have clever design features so we can place it against the wall, parallel to the refrigerator and at counter height for additional kitchen workspace. With a drop cloth over it, it will make a fine painting studio work table…
DetailsOK. We’re back. After two and half months of meetings, waiting for replies and researching options – all in an effort to stay the course of building small and staying within budget – we are surprisingly calm and feeling that all will fall into place in the best possible ways. The deadline of June 30th…
DetailsPerhaps 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′…
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