On Jan 25, 8:12*pm, sandi > wrote:
> sf > wrote :
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> > On Tue, 25 Jan 2011 12:50:39 -0600, George Shirley
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> >> Since all guests end up in my kitchen I would like to have a
> >> house with about 1200 feet of open kitchen, dining area, and
> >> living room.
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> > Isn't that what the current Great Room composition is all
> > about?
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> >> At the
> >> far end of that would be three or four bedrooms and a couple
> >> of bathrooms. The kitchen must have a ten X ten pantry and a
> >> ten X ten office and a half bath would be nice too.
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> > My ideal house is H shaped with partially covered patios
> > (complete with overhead fans) in the open parts of the back to
> > back U's. *
> > One side is the bedroom wing and there will be a
> > private guest suite at the very end of it with a small
> > sink/refrigerator/burner unit for snacking purposes without
> > feeling like they're rummaging someone else's kitchen. *The
> > bedroom wing will have a hallway with a glass wall on the
> > interior side *The other side is the kitchen/family room wing,
> > connected by a living room area. *The courtyard facing the
> > street will have a wall with a gate. *The dining room will
> > face that courtyard and there will be a huge picture window
> > with doors that push back to let the outside in. *One of the
> > patios will have an outdoor kitchen and the other a fireplace,
> > but the locations switch depending on which dream I'm in at
> > the time.
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> I like your idea.
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> Mine would be a square o shape. *Courtyard in the middle of the o.
> (Perfect for the grand kids!)
> House would be the o, of course. *One side huge kitchen/family
> area, *other side bedrooms, top would be the entry area and lower
> part of the 0 would be the laundry, mud room area and garage.

Is that a complete O, or will there be some kind of gate so
landscapers
can bring in a bobcat or something?

Cindy Hamilton