donforrester1947 posted: " To everything, there is a season. Solomon wrote there is no new thing under the sun. He may be right but I can truthfully say we've never done it this way before. The home we are building is an attempt to hang on to the traditional and incorporate mo" Carpe Diem
To everything, there is a season. Solomon wrote there is no new thing under the sun. He may be right but I can truthfully say we've never done it this way before. The home we are building is an attempt to hang on to the traditional and incorporate modern in the scheme of things. If we fail, it will be a mistake. Somehow we've convinced ourselves that a blending of the old and the new can work.
Our last home had a lot of glass. This one will have even more. In terms of style, we'd probably describe the architecture as a modern farmhouse. Sixty percent of the house will be rock, the remainder will be board and batten with large windows on both the north and south side. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. Those ends of the house don't have windows.
I've always heard that people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. That doesn't represent a problem for me. However, the lack of available space to hang artwork does pose a problem. Seriously, if you choose to accentuate the view, you limit space to hang artwork.
The view from the back of the house is the golf course with a panoramic glimpse of hills in the background. That is most evident in the second-floor living area.
The entry foyer to the house from the front porch is double doors with windows on each side. As I said, we are building a glass house.
On Thursday we went to San Antonio to look at door designs. We've never had a steel front door before but in keeping with our commitment to having a home filled with light, the steel wraps around four large panes of glass on each door.
So we must be certifiably crazy. We are having steel doors made and filling the steel door with four large panes of glass. I guess you could say it is both durable and breakable.
There is absolutely nothing traditional about the design of the doors. Yet instead of stepping inside to marble floors or polished concrete, we are going with wooden floors throughout the home. How's that for blending the traditional with the new?
To balance the warmth of wooden floors with the new, we are opting for white walls. We've never had white walls before for any appreciable length of time. They may have been painted white when we purchased the home, but as quickly as we could, we repainted the rooms one at a time.
This time there is no plan to alter the white. In fact, the color the General chose is Sherwin Williams Pure White.
If my daughter was selecting the cabinets, she'd opt for white. I'm sorry, this is our last home. I can't bend that far. The cabinet selection offers an opportunity to incorporate traditional with new. We are going with stained rustic hickory cabinets.
My daughter has convinced us that less is more. Everything we own has been in storage for the past eight or nine months. Consequently, we have determined that everything in storage isn't coming back inside our home.
My daughter's posture is, that if you've lived without it this long, you don't need it anyway. Just start over and move on. There seems to be a method to her madness.
We may be delusional, but the General and I are on the same page with this and we have high hopes. The home will be a blending of the old and the new.
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