Posted on 08/07/2007 7:33:14 AM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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It's a lovely look, especially the exterior and the detail work on the interior.
But be warned -- it is DARK inside!!!!! The narrow windows and substantial overhangs, plus the heavy use of dark wood panelling and darker paint colors, means that you will have very little interior light.
If you don't mind having a darkish sort of house, that's not a problem. But I'm a sun worshipper. Our first house was a passive solar house and I LOVED it -- you never turned a light on in the daytime. The house we're living in now has a lot of light on the SE side, but the master bedroom is on the NE corner and it's DARK in here! My husband loves it because he likes to sleep dark, but I most definitely don't (I loved waking up at night in our first house and watching the moon and the stars coast across the clerestory windows. He didn't.)
You might look at transitional Frank Lloyd Wright -- it's basically Craftsman with more glass. But be sure the roof doesn't leak!
Shoot year I’ll share my house plans with you, but let me get them finalized first. No sense in showing you something that may or may not end up in the final design.
That’s funny about Bay and his plastic bags. You’d think he’d been traumatized by one in some way in a former life or something. Goofy horse! At least he believes you when you tell him it’s OK.
I’m with you about hating dark interiors, so I guess you’d say I’m building a transitional Craftsman already and just didn’t know it. The whole southern exposure of the family room and kitchen is nothing but windows. I got a lot of my design ideas from Craftsman style log homes, even thought my house won’t be made of logs, because they seem to like to use of a lot of glass. I’m seriously considering putting a solar collection system on the back roof, linked to a radiant heat system in floor, but I need to research it a little more. Ground-source heat pumps seem to be a good solution for heating and cooling too. I’d like this house to be as energy efficient as posslble, so I’m looking into all kinds of stuff like that. It’s interesting!
The beach house is nothing but windows, and during the daytime, it’s hot and you can’t see the TV because of the glare, so we pull the shades on a million dollar view so we can watch pictures on a box. Maybe that in itself doesn’t make a lot of sense, but the heat part does. I love dark when inside. Dark equals shady. Light equals glass where we’d pull the shades when it’s sunny anyway. :~)
The type of glass that you have makes a lot of difference. Low-E with a UV filter helps a lot. But another thing is to either have enough of an overhang or a deciduous tree nearby, so that the sun doesn’t shine directly in the window in the summer months when the angle of the sun is higher, but will shine in and help heat the house in the winter when the angle is lower or the leaves fall off.
I think we’ve discussed this before, but I just can’t take dark houses or lack of sunlight for long periods of time. I must have Seasonal Affective Disorder or something. When it gets real cloudy in the wintertime for days on end it just about drives me nuts. If I had to live where you do I would have either been crazy by now or have slit my wrists, one of the two! ;o)
Good morning.
Marking my spot.
I’m with you guys about the windows. That has been the big attraction for me to live here with the big front windows. I actually hate the idea of having to put up some type of window cover on them, but it’s a must considering the location:)
Altho it is in town, I love looking over at the park. I imagine that if the park wasn’t there, the idea of living here would not be so attractive. But I like watching the people go by too.
We put off the garage sale a week, btw. We’re just not ready, there’s more stuff to go through, and I only want to do this once. Plus the weather is iffy. I don’t want to risk getting rained on.
And there’s some heirloom stuff I want Dad and Ramius to look at and make sure they don’t want before I decide to sell it. It’s stuff of my grandpa’s on my dad’s side. Ornate Silver tea service and lots of cut crystal stuff. I’ll never have a lifestyle for it. I only want to keep a few things, not all of it. Pricing it won’t be easy. I’ve looked on ebay and the prices are all over the board.
Oh, I guess I didn’t read your post well enough. I thought you had said you liked bright rooms:)
I don’t mind things being a bit dark at night, but during the day, I have to have sunshine. There are lots of ways, as you said about keeping the heat out, but still having light rooms. It’s more just being able to see out side, so much more restful then being shut in.
Maybe it’s a culture of having air conditioning. Since we don’t have air conditioning up here, bright sun in windows = heat. :~) You guys can sit in these bright rooms and still be cool.
I do like my air conditioning! I’ve been working out in the yard and flower beds this morning, before it got hot. Now it’s about time to come INSIDE and work, where it’s cool. I’ve still got the blinds and the front door open though, so I can see out the glass storm door. This house, old as it is, was fairly well designed to beat the heat. It has eves that overhang about 2 feet or so, all the way around, and relatively small high-set windows on all but the north side, so direct sun never comes through the windows except in winter. I just went out and looked, and to be able to have full length windows be shaded on the south side, the overhang would need to be at least 4 feet, given an 8ft ceiling, at this latitude anyways. I gotta keep that in mind.
Well, before I get to work on organizing tasks, here's a Kitten Update!
A few pics from them out kittening around the last couple days.
And playing with Wicket. They're doing good... getting a little bolder and calmer every day. 
That’s great about the kittens, especially Brother. I had no worries about Sister because she came around so fast, but he was a little harder nut to crack. At the very least they’ll make good barn cats now, that you can handle if you need to. But I’ll bet once they get back outside they’ll be wanting to come in every now and again too. They get spoiled in a hurry!
Mine like it when I’m at home during the day. That way they can go out in the morning and do their thing, then come in and take a nap during the heat of the day, then go back out in the evening to play again. We had our first football game of the season across the street last night and they really like being out with those lights on. Of course I kind of do too. I didn’t think I’d ever say it, but I think I’m going to kind of miss this place when we finally move.
Here is Judy's two year old stallion Heza Sizzlin Dream. He won his class, the color futurity and was Reserve stallion under two judges and Grand under one (4 judges)
This weanling beat him in the Open Color Class. The weanling, also won the colt weanling futurity.
Grand and Reserve Champion mares and yes, those are Appaloosas!
It had been some time since I had attended a bigger show and saw the halter classes. I sure dont get the chain under the top lip deal. To me, that makes them act up all the more. How attractive is it, to have a horses tongue hanging out!
The keys (according to the architect who designed it) are the orientation, the window placement, and the roof overhang.
The house is not square, it's a trapezoid with the wide side facing south. Ideally, you back the north side of the house into the hill, but our lot sloped the wrong way < :-o > so it didn't. But you put most of the windows on the south side, a few windows on the east, fewer on the west, and none at all on the north. You also place all the closets, stairwells, and little-used space on the north side to provide insulation.
But the key to avoiding the scorching sun in the house in the summer time is to calculate the appropriate roof overhang for your latitude -- then the high summer sun is shaded out by the roof overhang, but in the winter the lower angle of the sun shines right in! You can tweak the overhang to have less or more spring and fall sun, depending on how cold it is at that time of year.
It really works! Our utility bills were almost nonexistent.
They are SO cute!
Hi, I just found your question as I was surfing the net. No, Im busched did not end up at a kill sale. He did get sold at a registered sale in Iowa and then ended up in California. I still own a 3 year old daughter by him. know that they did breed some Arab mares when they stood him.
Oh, he is a gorgeous stallion.
Isn’t that chain under the lip awful? Why do they do that? It appears to be a way to control the horse - it is painful and maybe acts like a twitch but I sure don’t understand it.
Some were even putting the chain on the little ones...maybe to keep them quiet. I just wonder if they do it at home too. Seems to me, your horse should be trained better than that. Or maybe, its a fad, like the fake tails! :)
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