Given all the moving talk...

[kona]

What is the best room in your house? Why?

ETA: If you could design the best room ever, what would it look like?

[kona]

I love our office. It's my favorite because it's the only room in the entire house that has windows on 2 sides of the house. There is so much natural light compared to the darkness of the rest of the house. I love to bright sunshine especially on a winter day when it reflects off of the snow.

[Stringy]

Our porch/sunroom. It's maybe 10x10 and has 6 sliding glass doors as walls and a heated wood floor. So it's good for a solid 3 seasons and the warmer ends of winter maybe. It's so bright and you can hear the breeze and is the best for naps.

[JustJudy]

Our family room for sure! I love our sectional and the beautiful big picture window. The big shelves in the family room we actually purchased when we lived here 8 years ago. Since it's been a rental my parents made sure that they stayed with the house and no tenants ever took them. We are getting new windows soon too. Yay! It's the first room we totally unpacked.
Here's a pic of it.

[karlamo]

That's a tough one for me. We redid the whole house and I love just about every room. I would say the favorites are my dining room. It's dark grey on top with the bottom half white with wainscoting. It has a new chandelier and is gorgeous if you can get past the red pasta sauce on the area rug. The other favorite is my backyard space. We have sliders in the kitchen that lead to a huge deck then we built a designated play space so to keep all plastic toys contained! It also has professional landscaping with beautiful flower beds. Gosh, why are we moving? Lol


New house is actually very similar to my current house but bigger, 4 beds, 4 baths. My two favorite things are the attached garage and walk out finished basement with a full bath down there. No more dragging dirty kids around the whole house to clean them.

[crazyaunt84]

Our outdoor space is far superior to the house. We've got a stamped concrete patio out back with a great dining set, grills, copper fire pit and vintage cooler. There is a stream behind it and one of our large flower beds on the side. It's very private and serene! We've also got a hot tub deck, and a sun deck.

[karlamo]

crazyaunt84, At the new house it has a terrible backyard. We are looking into doing stamped concrete. Was it a PITA to do? Pricey? Look cool?

[crazyaunt84]

Jun 20, 2016 11:33:30 GMT -5 karlamo said:

crazyaunt84, At the new house it has a terrible backyard. We are looking into doing stamped concrete. Was it a PITA to do? Pricey? Look cool?

C and her brother in law did it themselves. (To be fair, C and her BIL both own construction companies, so this was not unchartered territory for them) It was a huge PITA, but definitely saved on cost and it looks amazing. They dyed the concrete a slate color and did a rough rock look finished with high sheen glaze (which is mostly worn off now). I'll take a pic later and send it. We honestly use it so much that it was worth any expense, and it's zero maintenance.

[karlamo]

Jun 25, 2016 6:45:02 GMT -5 crazyaunt84 said:

Jun 20, 2016 11:33:30 GMT -5 karlamo said:

crazyaunt84 , At the new house it has a terrible backyard. We are looking into doing stamped concrete. Was it a PITA to do? Pricey? Look cool?

C and her brother in law did it themselves. (To be fair, C and her BIL both own construction companies, so this was not unchartered territory for them) It was a huge PITA, but definitely saved on cost and it looks amazing. They dyed the concrete a slate color and did a rough rock look finished with high sheen glaze (which is mostly worn off now). I'll take a pic later and send it. We honestly use it so much that it was worth any expense, and it's zero maintenance.

I was googling them and the first thing that came up, was this is not a do-it yourself project. LOL.  You get one shot at it.  I found a company I will be calling for a quote.  I'm trying to imagine how much it'll be, hopefully not over $5,000.  I want ours to look just like yours I think.  If I can take a picture of my new backyard, I'll post it and you can Pintrest it for me!

[cetcar]

Too bad we can't start with a drink in Stringy 's sunroom, while the kiddos play on karlamo 's deck, mistakenly meander into kona 's office when looking for the bathroom, have dinner out on crazyaunt84 's patio, and finish the night playing charades in @justjudy 's living room.

[cetcar]

We live in a small updated two bedroom Spanish style home. It has a lot of character- built ins, barrel ceilings, hard wood floors. I think our favorite room is the front room. It's quite large, gets lots of natural light, and opens up to the dining room. We also enjoy sitting out front in the morning because it's shady and in the back patio late afternoon/evening because the temperature tends to be perfect. We also like the location. Really close to the bay and ocean and within walking distance of a downtown area with lots of coffee shops, restaurants, and retail shops. One downside is during the summer it's pretty busy and street parking can be hard and it's fairly small.