Vertical slats to let the light come down the stairwell from the skylight and south facing window on the top floor.
I want the vertical slats going to the floor or the ceiling. So like this for at the bottom:
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The top / cap to the vertical slats to be capped with a hand rail, as shown below:
The slats give a continually different view / aspect.
How about putting a “charging” station on the low wall between the dining room and the lounge. So also near the kitchen.
A charging station.With so many gadgets to charge these days, we’re all running out of outlets. Houzzers suggest having a designated charging station where they can get all the juice they need while staying neat and organized.
Scandinavian HWAM fires have a heat sensitive spring that auto regulates the amount of air going into the combustion chamber of the fire, so that you continually get optimised buring of the wood:
Video that shows the auto system (jump to 1 minute in !).
Above picture of the HWAM I30/55 that has the Nordic Ecolabel. For more info see
http://hwam.com/products/insert+selection/hwam+i+3055
Create a thermal mass, with the chimney around the fire, so that post the fire dying out heat is slowly released into the room.
HWAM have a page on their soapstone system at http://hwam.com/hwam+advantages/heat+storage
Any overhang could include down lights 🙂
How about, as suggested ages ago by Jo Brannan, reducing some of the north, sea facing glazing (glass windows, doors, panels) to have more of a frame on the view.
Yes it’s great to have some rooms where it’s full whack the view, where the end side walls, roof and floor are the frame.
But maybe some other rooms have less glazing. Walls are also much more thermally efficient and cheaper for the heating efficiency of the building.
This extreme framing (ie mostly wall Vs small window) works to amazing effect.
The above photo is from www.houzz.com
For this endless ocean view, instead of the windows going floor to ceiling, the designer chose to pull the focus tight by using a smaller window. The minimally framed window creates the look of art on the wall and brings your attention to the balance of sea and sky and the subtle gradient of color.
It seems almost any frame, can end up adding to the view:
OK, the front, sea facing, top of a cliff, overlooking Perranporth beach garden is going to, most of the time be windy and sometimes be crazy windy.
So how bout this idea of a built in table and benches, that can’t then blow away !
OK, skip the central water feature bit !
Saw this in a magazine article about properties being built on a slope:
I was planning / thinking that the rear courtyard would have a vertical wall, but like this idea of planted terrace steps.
It would also push the south facing courtyard wall back a bit and so let in more light to the lounge and courtyard.
OK, so this site is my notes, thoughts etc. as I scoop up ideas, inspiration etc. for the house project.
Spotted this and had to add it.
Wouldn’t this be great in at least one bathroom or over the downstairs loo sink ?
– maybe put up an empty picture frame with the text painted on the wall ?
As an alternative to a corner window for the top floor home office, a different idea, that could make the top half of the office floor look as if it’s lighter, but it floating, is a side slot:
This idea could be extended / used on all 3 floors of the building or just the top office.
– if used on all 3, the slot could be the longest / deepest on the top office floor.
A corner slot would mean less glass, which means better insulation (walls are better than windows for insulation) and lower cost.
(The pictures are from houzz.com.)
There is an idea to reduce the bulk / the massing of the top floor by putting a corner window on the NE corner.
So I’ve had a look at corner windows and found these on houzz.com
In the above building the corner window isn’t floor to ceiling and still seems to massively reduce the impact there would be if there was a solid corner.
A similar corner window would still allow the current block top floor where there isn’t a roof “cap” that extends beyond the walls.
Viewed from inside, this corner window isn’t floor to ceiling. Neither is the image above.
Both seem to work well.
Looking at another Houzz.com corner window gallery >>
Again, the window isn’t floor to ceiling, but close !
On the top floor this could then have a column, before a (from inside) a, to the floor door that opens out onto the terrace.
Having supporting columns at or near the corner seems to work well too !
Corner columns can also be fine.
Look at this corner from the outside and inside (season shift):
and this corner window, with a corner frame piece on, what looks like an office building.
This image is interesting, not only for the corner window, but also for the lounge where there could be a problem getting triple glazing to the height, so a top window band strip might be a solution.