Monday, March 9, 2009

Keeping Your Log Home Casual

Keeping your log home casual can be easily incorporated into your floorplan. Your home can be informal, meaning that you shouldn't get hung up on rules or traditions. Try to eliminate formal dining rooms and entry ways, maybe a better idea with your dining room is to make it a part of your kitchen and make your entry way really welcoming by hanging coats and hats on a tree hanger. Another idea of keeping your home casual would be to incorporate a sleeping porch, even if it is only for part of the year, it makes you feel like you are out of doors. Other ideas of informality is lack of clutter and simplicity, having too much stuff like knick-knacks and too much furniture doesn't make for a relaxing atmosphere. Having room to breathe is the atmosphere you want to create. Open floorplans lets us want to live in our homes because it feels more casual. Remember that open spaces does not allow for you to escape for quiet times. More successful houses have open areas as well as a room just for relaxing, reading, watching TV or exercising.

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