what can I ask here?

6 years ago

Live in rural area. Built our house bi. Before internet.
We are in the last stages of finishing blueprints and builders build.
I’m focused on a classic craftsman farmhouse style remodel of a 2000 sqft ranch style 1993 house.
Gut job.

I have about 10-15 pertinent questions regarding our rehab gut job. We have lived in this house for 30 years. Beautiful view and private.

I have detailed floor plan to scale. architect is going to properly engineer a new roof. lvl stuff.
Questions are frame/structure first. Most answered but after lengthy search to be completed properly.

Home design Styles question vs our front elevation drawing?

We are refacing the front of house. All windows and doors house wide.

I Would like to ask a few questions?

How can I get a very close and affordable rendering of the front of our house with the products selected? Like a killer outdoor 3-D model I guess… can do frame of house w drone.

We do have interior design questions. We have close pictures but want to capture a spirit instead of a carbon copy of one image.

Kitchen remodel advice? We have a good custom cabinet maker. He will do the design that we agree on. we have zero experience at this.im a Middle-age OK kind of guy but I didn’t go to school for kitchen design. But we need advice.

General advice? I don’t have them at the tip of my mind currently.
. But tomorrow the ball moves forward again.

Our house has been through 2 water damage events. we have a mold issue. We have an insurance claim in place from storm damage late last summer.

Before the big storm We Had planned to total remodel. So We are turning lemons into lemonade.

I’ll familiarize myself with the forum Just wanted to ask what I might be able to ask and get some hands-on advice. I’ll check the rules as well. So here are a couple of project teasers and see if anyone might chime in...

Cheers

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6 years ago

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This isn’t a tip or tweak that you need. You need full, complete, design services. Hire a good local designer. The cost will be less than making a mistake that you have to backtrack and fix.

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Mary Glickman
6 years ago
Welcome! Sounds like an exciting project - please stick around and share photos, ask questions as they come up. This place is a wonderful source of inspiration and advice, and I’m sure people with similar projects will be excited to see what your architect/gc/designers recommend and share notes with one another. :)
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stricklandproject
Original Author
6 years ago
Hey thanks for the responses. I just didn’t want to be the newbie that didn’t read three years worth of back posts. I do that on a couple other forms.

We actually met with an architect and a home designer yesterday who could translate my mind. He’s has links of our photos.

I don’t like mistakes. OVer plan, under promise and over deliver. That was my old sales motto. I hope it applies here.???

I am more of a spirit of the room picture kind of guy. Not the nuts and bolts my wife is.

Again what is the easiest way to attach multiple photographs? To people on this forum enjoy looking at 15 Dash 20+ photos. Do you want short explanations as well? Noted on the photos? Thanks again!

I will look to see if I can send a link to a shared photo library. Is this an acceptable way of the forum? If not what’s the preferred way?

I’m hammering this down to final photos. Roof design. Interior design. Kitchen design. Not sure how saving photos works within this app. But my wife said that through email and I can explainMost of the photos. There are about four or five Debt if we could mailed them together I would really like the kitchen my wife put together.
stricklandproject
Original Author
6 years ago
Kitchen?
This is a blend of “enjoyable” kitchens. I think compromise will be kitchen consensus. I liked craftsman classy/fancy sawn cut wood look. She likes the “white”look. We are industrial strength needs people. Lots of family/friends/grandkids/adult children. Kids toor up most of everything to a point then move out...lol.
Think wife likes dark cabinets with the light top.
stricklandproject
Original Author
6 years ago
A few more of her likes...
Liveable, tan a good designer “meld”(?) combine liked elements into an agreeable pretty kitchen?
stricklandproject
Original Author
6 years ago
My top few.
User
6 years ago
last modified: 6 years ago
Find an architect or Kitchen Designer. This isn’t a small project. It’s far outside the scope of minimal free advice.
stricklandproject
Original Author
6 years ago
This is why I ask. We have 2.
Thank you