Before and after

I like aches too!

I think we will just keep it and rent it out. I wish my sister in law would move here, she could live there for free, just pay the insurance and property tax since we don’t have a mortgage on it but she lives and works in Tampa.

You wouldn't have any problem renting your house, it's never looked better!

Crabbywoman says I'm the one who doesn't like arches in non spanish/mediterranean style houses.

You're going to need a new roof.

I'm with you on the arches.

this would drive me batty - looking through a random arch at a bunch of non-arch openings

I'm with you too! , he changes his mind so often I have no idea what will happen next! He said he’s going to texture the walls then paint after the arch is done. I’m afraid when we move he will tear the whole house down and start new projects!

I knew I liked you.

Man needs to go to design school. Natural talent but impulsive. That's my verdict. Best to do this stuff on paper.

He gets these ideas in his head then all of a sudden he's tearing down the walls! I hope the next house is a turn key and everything is finished to his liking.

Honestly I think he's going to get tired of the work, he doesn't have the free time like he use too.

We had a lot of chinese clients. Some of them, who had a big and good firm, paid no attention to feng shui in what they wanted as a design program (those sold well).

Some had horizontal mansions built and we did the landscape (though my boss sometimes did house remod and I was involved in the design drawings). As I remember, in one situation when we were called in the pool was already there and looked good to us. The owner had a feng shui expert over from china to give his ok, and the expert said no, move it. It had of course already been built.
The owner hired a new expert from the old country at great expense.
The pool stayed where it was.

I haven't reviewed the tenets in years but some of them made obvious sense and in my view some were weird superstition. I saw stuff like people angleing their front doors.

Don't tell that to JC.

Adds unsolicited advice - reading the history of architecture can be fascinating, and gradually inform your views, which then you may change and change again, but that's the way of it.

I don't know what are considered the best books out there now. I could recommend all sorts of books. Websites I'm less good at, but one with fabulous photography is ArtSpace.com. A news space on architecture that can get interesting is archnewsnow.com. They'll send updates. I still get those but post about all that less often now than I did a bunch of years ago on a2k. I pick and choose what I'm in the mood to read.

I'm still learning and I'm a million years old.

I was first a medical research technologist, and ended up in a high pressure but good firm I was nearly vested in, as a chief clinical tech. I was asked to be the manager but said no. The boss was sort of rocky with temper, though only once in many years at me. During those years I often took art classes after work. A lot of art classes. Then I signed up for landscape architecture classes, which took another four years after work. But that changed my world. Even after the first elementary design class I looked around more. Jobs after that had to do with the new interest.

Not that everybody should do this, change careers, especially now, but knowledge of both the natural and the built environment are eye openers.
And not a bad foundation for those who want to buy property.

Well, that reads as preachy.
I think JC has wonderful design instinct.

I will admit Morgan does do some pretty good work. I especially like they way he remodeled you guys is den, its beautiful!

I’m still working on the Florida room. I’ve already put in the new baseboards and painted the ceiling, next I’ll be putting in the crown molding, texture the walls and then I have to figure out what color I want to paint the room.

Thanks! Part of the business I’m starting will be design. Going to invest with a friend in a building downtown and we will be turning them into lofts! I’m excited about it.

If you're planning to move in the short term - think long and hard before texturing the walls.

Also - consider taking some time to plan out the whole house so that you get a nice flow - and try to be respectful of the design of your house and neighbourhood.

You've got a great instinct, but Jo is right - it could use focus and training.

Don't texture the walls!! If at anytime it must be fixed (furniture bumping the walls etc.) or needs to be rewired or whatever, the texture can never be replicated.

It kind of does flow because through the arch and to the left is the hall that leads to Antonio’s room where I installed the smaller arch.

I think I have to texture the walls because the previous owner textured them before and did a bad job. It will be a smooth texture.

Every home in the neighborhood is so different. When I had the outside painted, four other owners had their painted, similar to mind but different shades,

We won’t be selling this place, once we find another home we will just let the property management company take it over and rent it out.

Wait.. I did some texturing on my walls, but I used a marble plaster. The walls are very smooth and easily patched. I was thinking of the bumpy stuff, never use that shite ever.