...furniture in the sun-room.
It's not that big only 19' long X 10' wide, it used to be a screen room with vinyl panels before Hurricane Charley in 2004. There were sliding doors out to it from the dinette, and a large triple slider out to the covered patio that we added before (none) and after the hurricane (due to being blown away). This was our third and final home in Florida and two out of the three did have screened porches that especially when in or by water tend to harbor mildew and mold, never understood the screen pool areas, ours have been fenced. So as we did with our house on the other coast we turned the room into an air-conditioned space, although the one on the other coast was enlarged significantly to a 28' X 24' space with a third full bathroom and five more skylights, and a fifteen foot soda bar complete with a commercial grade ice maker, one skylight was put into the new bathroom and four into the game-room, yup that house had one in the kitchen and one in the large master bath when we bought it.
I had wanted to put a couple of them in this tiny home to brighten it up, especially when we took the kitchen window out and turned it into a pantry. You see that window was only looking out to what had been the carport that we immediately enclosed into a garage, so no view anyway.
I think that after the hurricane taking off our roof is when we changed our minds about a skylight.
Besides since we took down the partition non-load bearing wall from the kitchen into the living room our nine foot long floor to ceiling height nearly living-room picture window allows plenty of light in with the open space, the sink even faces that window, ha. At night we have six recessed pan lights on a dimmer in the kitchen, besides under cabinet lighting too.
We had made the laundry also indoors, for some reason these little cottage type homes all had access from outside for their laundry facilities, ours had a clunky old washer and dryer in it that you could barely move in the room and the duet danced on the floor when used. We determined that through our foyer that was not a load bearing wall that we could open that into a doorway and leave the doorway to what was now our garage there. We installed our smaller stackable washer and dryer from our fifth wheel RV, at the time the pair were two years old and Kenmore brand, they lasted twenty years and were replaced just two years ago with the same ones. Hubby had made custom cabinets all around them, but after the hurricane we had new ones installed with a broom closet too, all white raised paneled with brass nautical styled handles, another room that could use a skylight, but again... hurricanes? An electric shell covered light works well.
Back to the sun-room that for some reason Hubby insists is the den, right after the hurricane again the bed in that guest- room, a full sized one, had the only broken window spew glass all over it and so without weeks of electric we chucked the bed onto the curb with almost all our furniture and eventually bought a very nice white convertible full sized couch for that room. Then Hubby's Mom came down and she was not doing well with her dementia, and so I bought one of those full sized mattresses in a box online that also could be ordered with a very strong frame, and they arrived and I put it together easily and the couch ended up in the sun-room with our lovely blue queen sized sleep sofa. So now with me being on wheels more often than not these last two years...the turning radius has been too close for comfort, and so also with Aussie soiling the couch and even though it has one of those protective covers on it, it's been a lot of work washing it so much!
We have decided to donate the couch... I called the two usual ones we do donate such things to, the Charlotte County Cultural Center and Suncoast Animal League, both have thrift shops they sell them in and we have been waiting on the one to see if this time they will pick it up. The other one we would have to wait weeks for, hopefully this one it will be sooner.
It must go, Hubby has put things, a chair and two bar stools across it with pillows so Aussie would not go on it, he is so tall and agile he has jumped over them on occasion and it is dangerous for him.
All our doormats have been washed and left outside, since while still mostly house broken, but not 100% he was using them to make on and our whole house is tile, so why did he do that?
Anyway, when he is 100% they will come back in, I hope so anyway.
Thus the reason for making more room.
A desk with shelving around it takes up one wall, the filing cabinet has a big screen TV our Number One Son gave us on it on another wall, there is a bookcase on another wall and also an oak china cabinet caddy cornered, so too much, not to mention a wooden castered trunk... too much!
Redecorating!
Fun!
Happy good night to all!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!
Aussie is still AWESOME, but he is also STILL A PUPPY!
And we do understand.
It's not that big only 19' long X 10' wide, it used to be a screen room with vinyl panels before Hurricane Charley in 2004. There were sliding doors out to it from the dinette, and a large triple slider out to the covered patio that we added before (none) and after the hurricane (due to being blown away). This was our third and final home in Florida and two out of the three did have screened porches that especially when in or by water tend to harbor mildew and mold, never understood the screen pool areas, ours have been fenced. So as we did with our house on the other coast we turned the room into an air-conditioned space, although the one on the other coast was enlarged significantly to a 28' X 24' space with a third full bathroom and five more skylights, and a fifteen foot soda bar complete with a commercial grade ice maker, one skylight was put into the new bathroom and four into the game-room, yup that house had one in the kitchen and one in the large master bath when we bought it.
I had wanted to put a couple of them in this tiny home to brighten it up, especially when we took the kitchen window out and turned it into a pantry. You see that window was only looking out to what had been the carport that we immediately enclosed into a garage, so no view anyway.
I think that after the hurricane taking off our roof is when we changed our minds about a skylight.
Besides since we took down the partition non-load bearing wall from the kitchen into the living room our nine foot long floor to ceiling height nearly living-room picture window allows plenty of light in with the open space, the sink even faces that window, ha. At night we have six recessed pan lights on a dimmer in the kitchen, besides under cabinet lighting too.
We had made the laundry also indoors, for some reason these little cottage type homes all had access from outside for their laundry facilities, ours had a clunky old washer and dryer in it that you could barely move in the room and the duet danced on the floor when used. We determined that through our foyer that was not a load bearing wall that we could open that into a doorway and leave the doorway to what was now our garage there. We installed our smaller stackable washer and dryer from our fifth wheel RV, at the time the pair were two years old and Kenmore brand, they lasted twenty years and were replaced just two years ago with the same ones. Hubby had made custom cabinets all around them, but after the hurricane we had new ones installed with a broom closet too, all white raised paneled with brass nautical styled handles, another room that could use a skylight, but again... hurricanes? An electric shell covered light works well.
Back to the sun-room that for some reason Hubby insists is the den, right after the hurricane again the bed in that guest- room, a full sized one, had the only broken window spew glass all over it and so without weeks of electric we chucked the bed onto the curb with almost all our furniture and eventually bought a very nice white convertible full sized couch for that room. Then Hubby's Mom came down and she was not doing well with her dementia, and so I bought one of those full sized mattresses in a box online that also could be ordered with a very strong frame, and they arrived and I put it together easily and the couch ended up in the sun-room with our lovely blue queen sized sleep sofa. So now with me being on wheels more often than not these last two years...the turning radius has been too close for comfort, and so also with Aussie soiling the couch and even though it has one of those protective covers on it, it's been a lot of work washing it so much!
We have decided to donate the couch... I called the two usual ones we do donate such things to, the Charlotte County Cultural Center and Suncoast Animal League, both have thrift shops they sell them in and we have been waiting on the one to see if this time they will pick it up. The other one we would have to wait weeks for, hopefully this one it will be sooner.
It must go, Hubby has put things, a chair and two bar stools across it with pillows so Aussie would not go on it, he is so tall and agile he has jumped over them on occasion and it is dangerous for him.
All our doormats have been washed and left outside, since while still mostly house broken, but not 100% he was using them to make on and our whole house is tile, so why did he do that?
Anyway, when he is 100% they will come back in, I hope so anyway.
Thus the reason for making more room.
A desk with shelving around it takes up one wall, the filing cabinet has a big screen TV our Number One Son gave us on it on another wall, there is a bookcase on another wall and also an oak china cabinet caddy cornered, so too much, not to mention a wooden castered trunk... too much!
Redecorating!
Fun!
Happy good night to all!
And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!
Aussie is still AWESOME, but he is also STILL A PUPPY!
And we do understand.
