Dreaming of a Window Seat

I think we've definitely decided to add a window seat to the upstairs loft.   It will solve the problem of how to transition into the newly "bumped out" space I shared about here and  here.  To show my husband how it could look, I did a little rendering of the space using this image as a starting point.

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He likes the idea.  I'm glad.  I think the "it's cheap furniture" argument, combined with reminding him that he has six siblings and we'd like to be able to sleep them all, plus spouse and entourage, won him over in the end.  A twin sized mattress will fit perfectly under the right two windows of the bump out -- almost as if it were intentional.

Remember what we're starting with?  The funny bump out with a weird transition of materials, where we enclosed one of our loft decks?   I shared a little about that in this post.

Somewhere, I have the world's coolest vintage tulip pendant lamp.  It's kind of a cross between a Louis Poulsen Artichoke lamp and a tulip lamp:

And it's in storage. So I can't share a picture, but I've been wondering where we could use the pendant in the beach house.

And, in spite of the miles and miles of rotted grasscloth I've been stripping on this beach house project, I think I want to add a little wallpaper.  Something slightly retro, and slightly traditional, and a little bit modern, with a big bold pattern. 

Amy Butler Temple Tulips

So, here's what I came up with.

(edit:  when I originally posted this, it was late at night, and I forgot to layer 

in a horizon line, so this window seat looks like it's flying :)  Keep scrolling 

down to see the corrected version)

Here's the "before" again.

And here is the "after" one more time.

What do you think? 

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Thrifty Decor Chic
Funky Junk Interiors
Under the Table and Dreaming 
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Reading Nooks and Window Seats or "When Life Gives You Lemons," and a Feature

Before I share a beach house update, I must give a shout out to Tamara, from Etcetorize.  Tamara is amazingly creative, and so it was such an honor to find House Revivals had been featured on her blog!  She gave the nicest review.  Thank you, Tamara!

In a post a week or so ago I mentioned some design changes to our beach house renovation.  It happens on most projects, and sometimes it's easier to roll with the changes than others.  One of our design changes involves the street side deck of the house's third level loft.

It's this funny little deck above the main entrance of the house.  If you exit the house onto the deck, you can actually go through another door and enter the funny little attic spaces over the garage wing that I talked about here. 

It's kind of a funky little area, but everyone always enjoys discovering a completely different part of the house.

Well, the deck is leaking.  When you get 67 inches of rain combined with wind every winter, water finds its way in through every little crevice.  It appears water is being blown into the house around the edges of the doors.  For years water has seeped down the interior of a hallway wall from this leak.  When I was stripping all that grass cloth a couple of weeks ago, I discovered how bad the damage was.

After a heart to heart with my contractor, we made the decision to enclose that deck.  We could replace the doors and thresholds and repair the wall, but those would be band-aid solutions.  We need to get aggressive about keeping the water out.

 A Bloomsbury Life

I was pretty bummed about losing a deck and started madly sketching -- on the backs of envelopes, napkins, anything that was handy. 

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We're going to have this funny little interior space adjoining the loft, and we need to make sense of it.  The space is about three feet wide, and about ten feet long. It will have lots of windows.

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What do you do with a funny little space like that?

 Maple Seed Renovation

Any ideas?