It seems like it was so long ago when we had a little cape cod but in reality, our little cape was intact up until November 19th--just two months ago! A little over two months ago, we were playing fetch with Ava in our empty 2nd floor because the backyard had a huge hole in it and this was the only open space we had.Now we have a full "colonial" sized 2nd floor instead of a sloped ceiling 2nd floor. Our cape cod 2nd floor used to be totally open -- no walls except for half walls around the stairwell. Now we have lots of walls since we now have 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms upstairs. And there is also now this odd bit of space around our stairwell.
I didn't quite realize that having bedrooms on either side of the stairwell also meant that the stairwell would be totally closed in on the 2nd floor. It made me realize that most stairwells have a "side landing" -- some sort of openess on the side of the stairwell and I guess that is partly to make the stairwell look open instead of what we have which is fairly closed in except for the top step where it opens up onto the landing.So are there any suggestions out there to make this look more open? I did think about putting a mirror straight across from the top step but then knowing me, I'd probably be looking in the mirror and lose my balance -- and that's probably a bad thing at the top of the stairs.
In the meantime, the whole house is sheetrocked and spackled -- yippee! Hardwood floors are going in within the next few days and then it is tiling, painting and floor finishing -- not sure if that is the correct order but the end appears to be in sight!
Which is good since Ava may be wearing out her welcome -- so far her tally is a pair of shoes, a pretty glass lawn ball ornament and some sod for the backyard -- it's coming out of her allowance :-)
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I guess they can't put a skylight there? Maybe lots of wall-hangings of various sizes so that it diminishes the feeling of being enclosed by uniform walls. My apartment has a narrow hallway leading into it, just two blank walls, and hanging pictures there kind of breaks it up.
No on the skylight. One thing we've learned is that contractors hate to install skylights -- most tend to leak in a few years and they don't want the responsibility of fixing them. We had two skylights in our old ceiling but they never leaked and when we had them installed we were told they probably won't leak because the pitch of our roof was so steep. It's nowhere near as steep now.
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