I have been assigned some serious homework related to the engineering of the house. Everything from picking out the actual doors to picking the location of all the lighting. Not just lighting BUT the switches that will control the lights as well. The obsessive compulsive part of my artsy brain has been turned on. I have spent the last 7 days on these details drawing color coded lighting plans on the floor plan.
Back when this house was only a dream a friend warned me about this aspect of building your own house. Every itty bitty detail is your choice. Your choice to get it right or to get it wrong. There is definitely a part of me that loves this and a part of me that is sure I will be super annoyed if I get it wrong. But I am determined to embrace these choices and not get frustrated.
Mr. Dometastic and I have lived in 14 different homes together. After 14 different places you definitely get a feel for what you love and hate. With all those others we could just hate it and blame the mysterious builder who made weird choices but not this time folks. Last night I tried to get Mr. Dometastic to sit with me to help make the lighting location choices and he clearly wants it done "right" but doesn't have a ton of interest if figuring it all out. This means I will be blamed when it comes out wrong!
The fun part last night was picking out the doors. I found a company that makes beautiful wood doors. We just needed to pick the actual doors and windows so we have the rough in dimensions for the augments on the dome.
The finalists:
The front door will be a double. That comes from having to move furniture 14 times. And yes those "speak easy" grates do cover a small door you can open!
The back door is a single but Mr. Dometastic surprised me. He thought the one with glass was the way to go. All those iron bars definitely helped. Iron bars = difficult for hoards of attacking neighbors to get in.
Back when this house was only a dream a friend warned me about this aspect of building your own house. Every itty bitty detail is your choice. Your choice to get it right or to get it wrong. There is definitely a part of me that loves this and a part of me that is sure I will be super annoyed if I get it wrong. But I am determined to embrace these choices and not get frustrated.
Mr. Dometastic and I have lived in 14 different homes together. After 14 different places you definitely get a feel for what you love and hate. With all those others we could just hate it and blame the mysterious builder who made weird choices but not this time folks. Last night I tried to get Mr. Dometastic to sit with me to help make the lighting location choices and he clearly wants it done "right" but doesn't have a ton of interest if figuring it all out. This means I will be blamed when it comes out wrong!
The fun part last night was picking out the doors. I found a company that makes beautiful wood doors. We just needed to pick the actual doors and windows so we have the rough in dimensions for the augments on the dome.
The finalists:
The front door will be a double. That comes from having to move furniture 14 times. And yes those "speak easy" grates do cover a small door you can open!
The back door is a single but Mr. Dometastic surprised me. He thought the one with glass was the way to go. All those iron bars definitely helped. Iron bars = difficult for hoards of attacking neighbors to get in.
Our garage people door will be simpler.
The window choices I have covered in previous posts. We are using 48" round windows, one 18 foot wide Panoramic Door system and 8 inch thermally broken glass blocks grouped into 4's to create a window like the below image.
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