Lighting is hugely important and pots are priceless (light with minimal glare). Have you considered nine pots in the family room instead of just six? And how about pots in the dining room to supplement candles without the chandelier?
As for outlets, consider some floor outlets under your living room windows just in case you decide to re-arrange things there. An outlet between the dining windows may come in handy one day (oh, I see the dining windows are different on the electrical plan). On the second floor, the bedrooms might benefit from more outlets, and how are you lighting the toilet closets?
I’ll stop annoying you now. All my life I’ve been a closet architect and I can’t help talking about it. I’ve even begun annoying builders with this: http://www.tcn.net/~severn/newhouse.html.
Been looking at your plans and they are indeed impressive. We built our retirement home (around 2000 square foot bungalow, finished the basement recently) up north and should have been more green but we did the best we could at the time. I was the general contractor. Some of our installations were: double glaze low-e argon gas windows (the norm now) 2 by 6 walls, wooden I beams like yours, laminated heavy beams called parallams then, garage on north-west side to cut wind and cold, pex water pipes (there is a pressure difference despite the use of manifolds), south facing large windows, large trees on the property which shade in summer and allow sunlight in for passive solar heat in the winter, 200 amp service and so on. Some details in basement construction included using supporting walls instead of steel beams which made the finishing easier. Good suggestion: install some outlets in the soffit for exterior lighting and make them switch controlled. There are many high priced lighting suggestions out there. You may have covered the lighting suggestion I have written but I have not read far enough to see it yet.
Hi,
Lighting is hugely important and pots are priceless (light with minimal glare). Have you considered nine pots in the family room instead of just six? And how about pots in the dining room to supplement candles without the chandelier?
As for outlets, consider some floor outlets under your living room windows just in case you decide to re-arrange things there. An outlet between the dining windows may come in handy one day (oh, I see the dining windows are different on the electrical plan). On the second floor, the bedrooms might benefit from more outlets, and how are you lighting the toilet closets?
I’ll stop annoying you now. All my life I’ve been a closet architect and I can’t help talking about it. I’ve even begun annoying builders with this: http://www.tcn.net/~severn/newhouse.html.
Good luck.
Eric.
Hi,
Been looking at your plans and they are indeed impressive. We built our retirement home (around 2000 square foot bungalow, finished the basement recently) up north and should have been more green but we did the best we could at the time. I was the general contractor. Some of our installations were: double glaze low-e argon gas windows (the norm now) 2 by 6 walls, wooden I beams like yours, laminated heavy beams called parallams then, garage on north-west side to cut wind and cold, pex water pipes (there is a pressure difference despite the use of manifolds), south facing large windows, large trees on the property which shade in summer and allow sunlight in for passive solar heat in the winter, 200 amp service and so on. Some details in basement construction included using supporting walls instead of steel beams which made the finishing easier. Good suggestion: install some outlets in the soffit for exterior lighting and make them switch controlled. There are many high priced lighting suggestions out there. You may have covered the lighting suggestion I have written but I have not read far enough to see it yet.
Tom
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