#so loooots of built ins.

[hellenhighwater]

Hmm....how hard can large scale mosaic possibly be? I feel like my plans for the room I'm working on could use something really shiny and impactful and maybe I want to make a fold-down cutting table and maybe I want to do it out of mosaic, even though that will be ungodly heavy.

It's a fun idea. I'm not sure if it's a good idea.

I haven't done mosaic since a one-off high school art class but I feel like the component skills are ones I already have, sooooo....

I have been keeping to a blue and gold celestial theme for both my guest room and my art workspaces, because if and when I move those spaces are likely to be combined. Cutting table, even though it would be for a different room, falls in the same vein, so I'm thinking something with a nice dark night sky and maybe some branches or leaves...

#if nothing else #I am likely to bleed less on my project than I did on the one in high school. #i sliced my arm open and bled profusely and never quite got all of it out #the third bedroom in my house is basically a junk room rn because the layout is awful #and i have been rotating that room in my head for weeks trying to see how it fits together in a functional way #it's going to still be storage but also my digital workspace/home for my modern tools #aka four ink printers #the laminator the 3d printer the laser engraver the cutting mats the paper storage #and also random crap like luggage and wrapping paper. #i think im settling on a library/bindery vibe #so loooots of built ins. #on a budget level i cannot afford to start this room for a while yet #and the same is also true on a time management scale #but for each project like this I tend to prefer to have everything fully realized in my head before i start #so im doing that now #mentally putting together lumber cut lists and figuring out if im going to have to buy a jigsaw

[coffee-and-corsets]

Hiiii 🙈 cider and bonfire for the autumnal asks pls?? 🍂🧡

You have made a grave mistake cause this will be long.

Cider- Ok so I had a lot of food aversions as a child to the point that I didn't eat meat until I was like four or five and I didn't eat red meat at all until I was like six, and not with any regularity until I was like ten. (I am now a pescatarian and it was very easy for me to transition to that, surprise surprise.)

Ummm...probably the most like, significant one is sushi/raw fish of any variety. I now love ceviche and we get poke or sushi twice a month or so. It was a texture thing. I just legit could not swallow it for some reason.

Bonfire - oh man oh man I am spending a LOT of time thinking about this. As you may know we have started the process of buying a home (we're getting a loan officer this week!), So my partner and I are spending basically all of our free time looking at houses and talking about what we want. So far our ideals are:

To me the two most important rooms in a house are the kitchen, which is pretty much the modern hearth and heart of a home, and the bathroom which is a sanctuary to me. I'm hoping we get a house with a gas line hookup and sizeable kitchen. I bake a lot, and my partner loves to cook, so that's important to us. Stone counter tops, lots of light, large freezer, butcher block island, tile flooring, six burner gas range in a dream scenario. Deck or patio off the kitchen would be lovely.

Loooots of natural light. I'm talking a large bay window with a seat in the living room or office, french doors off the dining room to outside, a balcony off the master bedroom, etc.

A en suite master bathroom with a separate shower and tub would be a dream. I love baths, they are practically (and honestly sometimes literally) a religious and spiritual experience for me. We're looking for at least two bathrooms, ideally 2.5+, because we have never had to share a bathroom in either of our places together and we don't want to start now. Tile floors, large shower with a rain head and bench, soaking (NOT jetted) tub. Heated floors, or honestly just a heat source in the bathroom. Adjoined to a closet/dressing room.

Large enough for us to both have separate work spaces, AND a guest room. So at least 1500 sq ft., most places we're looking at are actually 2000. We enjoy being able to entertain and host people. So ideally this means we also have an entertaining space like a finished basement. It would be great for this space to have built ins that could double as a library. We'd really like an office space for each of us, a gaming space for our personal computers (we literally want nothing in our bedroom besides the bed.), Our room of course, a guest room, an entertaining space, and then the kitchen and dining or living room. In a dream world of I could also get a hard floored room to use as a dance space that would be sick.

Hardwood floors throughout, with plush rugs where needed. I HATE carpet honestly. Sumptuous velvet curtains in the office, frosted windows or crystal vinyl in the bathroom. Stained glass above the front door. Textured goth wall paper of my dreams (I have a very specific flocked one in mind) in my office, along with a green velvet sofa.

I don't want a pre-fab house that looks like every house next to it. Because we -are- considering rowhouses though I am willing to accept the distinguishing feature being cool shutters or a fun deck or screen room.

We'd also like a detached garage or space to build a shed to set up a maker space, and if we're talking a true off the rails dream home, a space that I can do aerial rigging in for silks. So that would in a fantasy land world be a barn with a 20ft ceiling. Realistically we just want to have room to park and for his motorcycle, plus a place for me to lift.

I could keep going but this is already very long my bad.

EDIT: IMPORTANT DETAIL I FORGOT. Mirrors. Mirrors everywhere. I love and hate mirrors but they bring so much light into spaces and really can elevate a room if placed correctly, plus they have lovely frame options or overlays. A curved staircase would also be lovely, along with multiple chandeliers.

I'm Extra af and kinda gaudy but I don't care.

#celes answers #answered asks #clockworkgraystairs