Using A Bay Window To Open Up A Master Bedroom, Kitchen Or Living Room
Phillipp Schneeberger
Nice article. Just came across your blogs and there is a lot of information. Before reading this I was set on agreeable grey for my open floor plan east-west orientation living room. What do you think about agreeable room in east and west facing rooms. BTW when can I expect your post for west facing rooms. Thanks
Using a Bay Window to Open up a Master Bedroom, Kitchen or Living Room
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Hi Kylie,
Great post, I had almost missed this post. I am looking for a paint color for my East facing family room, open to kitchen. It has windows in NE and SE too, lots of green outside, it had dark gray from previous owner. We renovated kitchen with white/gray cabinets. And painted family room Behr Sage tint (looks similar to SW pearl gray), color looks nice bu t does not look like a family room color.
Thanks for the response Kylie, will sure keep in mind your online consulting for future use.
For now, painted family room SW Silver Strand, white molding (do not know exact color, painter said semi gloss white) and SW creamy for ceiling, breakfast nook and Kitchen of this Family room/breakfast nook/kitchen open area. Silver strand fits what I was looking for, nice balance of green and blue both, more like a neutral color. Its bit darker than Behr Sage mint I had earlier but not too dark. I had thought of reducing Silver strand by 25% which would have been fine too. Your blog helped a lot, I am a happy camper. Thanks a bunch!!
Love your ideas and suggestions for each room of house.
We have an East facing kitchen with no window. Lots of light in morning and gradually decreases throughout the day. We are going to be painting our U-Shaped kitchen cabinets soon and decided not to go with BM Chantilly Lace or BM Decorators White as they are to stark looking, in addition to the fact we have Dunn Edwards Miners Dust on the walls and throughout the living room which the kitchen opens into.
I am so glad I found your site this morning! I was about to make some color choice mistakes! I need to select a kitchen color. My kitchen faces the east and a good bit of my morning light is filtered because of a cluster of trees on the NE side of my back yard. The kitchen has a small breakfast seating area with big windows on the east and south walls. The appliances and sink are opposite of the windows in a U shape configuration with the sink placed in the peninsula facing the windows. I already determined that I need a reflective tile backslash to help make the U shaped area brighter (I ultimately need under cabinet lighting). I have white cabinets and nice crown molding detailing so I was initially thinking of going with a darker color to give the room some contrast between the wall, cabinets and moldings but from what I have read, I need to stay above a LRV of 62 which is a lighter color. I am tempted by gray but perhaps that would make the room drab most of the time because of the filtered light.
Brownell Hall offers suite-style living for four or six students in double-occupancy bedrooms. Each suite includes a bathroom, living room, and pantry. Some suites also include a kitchen, and all rooms are air-conditioned. Residents have access to open study spaces, a TV lounge/video game room and kitchen area on the third floor; pool and foosball tables; and laundry on the first floor. Brownell residents who live in a suite without a kitchen are required to purchase a full meal plan. Students living in on-campus apartments with a kitchen are required to purchase a per-semester block meal plan.
Farnham Hall is a traditional on-campus residence hall with double-occupancy rooms and community bathrooms. Residents have access to on-floor laundry, lounges, and kitchen areas; a video game room on the first floor; and additional recreation equipment in the building's spacious lobby lounge. Farnham Hall is also home to the Farnham Programming Space, Residence Life's evening and weekend programming venue open to all Southern students. There are also a limited amount of single-occupancy rooms.
Schwartz Hall offers housing accommodations for upperclassmen in two- or four-person apartments. All apartments are furnished and feature carpeting, air conditioning, storage space, and full kitchens. A community lounge is available on the first floor, and several campus resources are located within the building: Office of Residence Life; Violence Prevention, Victim Advocacy and Support Center (VPAS); and Wellness Center. A full laundry room is available for residents' use in the basement. Students living in on-campus apartments with a kitchen are required to purchase a per-semester block meal plan.
The North Campus Residence Complex includes both the large Midrise building and the individual Townhouse units. Upper-class students can request four-person accommodations in either the Midrise or the Townhouses, both of which feature carpeting, air conditioning, storage spaces, and full kitchens. A community quiet study area and the North Campus computer lab are located on the first floor of the Midrise; both spaces are accessible to Midrise and Townhouse residents. Laundry facilities are located on each floor in the Midrise as well, and the first- floor Marketplace serves as a convenience store for all Southern students. Students living in on-campus apartments with a kitchen are required to purchase a per-semester block meal plan. There are also a limited amount of single-occupancy bedrooms in both the Midrise and Townhouse units.
3) Escape: A bedroom must have one other method of egress beyond the entrance point. A door to the exterior works as an exit point, and so does a window. According to the International Residential Code, a bedroom window can be between 24 and 44 inches from the floor, it needs at least 5.7 square feet for the opening, and it must measure no less than 24 inches high and 20 inches wide (R310.1).
The room is 7.5 by 16 with a closet window 48inches high by 58 baseboard heating and a a/c it has a 60 inch opening and want to enstall a 60 inch sliding French door. Is this considered a bedroom. The room was divided the other room is 10 1/2 by 18
What Pat is referring to is that builders are putting a room (that might or might not have a closet) near the main entry of the house. This room that is usually called a den by the builder. The realtor might call it a bedroom if it has a closet. In order to use a bathroom you would have to usually go through a good portion of the house to get to a bathroom. In the properties that I have seen you have to go past a formal dining room , past the living room, past a family room, past a kitchen to get to an opening in the hallway to use a bathroom or having to go through the main bedroom to use the main bathroom.
The upper room was built with a generous 3/4 bath and a walkin closet/storeroom. It was furnished like a studio apartment with and office-style kitchenette, a queen bed, a small sitting area, and a large desk/worktable. For egress it had several large windows and an exterior door onto a raised redwood deck which partially overshadowed the patio (directly over the bar area) and had a large hot-tub in the middle. The deck had additional egress directly into the master bedroom of the house (sliding glass door) and an exterior stairwell down to the patio.
Does this include a bedroom that is contained completely within a garage, all on the first floor?
one would have to go out a door from the living room into the garage, and then cross the garage and go into another door that is the bedroom? it also has windows and heating
If a home was built in 1970, prior to these written requirements, and a basement room has a small window (1218 for example), can this be considered as a bedroom?
A listing agent is saying that this room can be marketed as a bedroom, because it was built prior to the written requirement.
Thank you-
Hi, I have dining area inside my home which is currently have one side open (rest 3 sides have walls, no windows). I want to put a wall on the open side with an entry door. Also want to add 2 windows. Both windows and door will face inside the house (towards living area). Will this new room considered a bed room? I am in Dallas, Texas.
I have a question about bedroom definition. Attached to our master is a 1210 sitting room with its own entry door (from the hall) and a 76 entrance between the sitting room and the bedroom. It also has its own window too the outside. The sitting room as a switched wall lamp and an outlet as well. My question: If I close the opening between the rooms with framing and drywall, is it now considered a 4th bedroom (it was sold to us as 3+ bedrooms). Do I need to add a closet? Or could a permanent wardrobe work? We are in the SF area and I want to get classified as a 4 bedroom for a higher appraisal (and better LTV for refinance). Thanks for any insights.
This blog is very helpful! My master bedroom has a door to a retreat room which has both big windows and a good sized closet, but does not have a separated entry door. Recently I want to open a door to the hallway, so that it can be accessed directly and considered as a bedroom.
My question is: do I have to close out the door between the master bedroom and this new bedroom in order for it to be considered as a bedroom? In other words, if one bedroom has an optional access door to another bedroom, can it still be considered as a bedroom, although the door can be locked from both sides?
Hello. My daughter is currently living in an apartment with two other co-tenants. The other two are a couple and use the larger bedroom which is windowed, while my daughter has a room to herself which does not have a window nor a closet. The bedrooms are situated on the upper level of a two level loft style dwelling. The building is a converted hotel which is now used as a rental apartment building. My question to you is; In Ontario, if a dwelling is advertised as a two bedroom dwelling, do both bedrooms have to have windows and closets. The room my daughter uses has only one door, no windows and no ventilation. Not only am I concerned for her safety, I am also concerned for her health since the heat is not regulated per room. What exactly is the law for such an arrangement.
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