This is how a renovation should be done
The top notch and effective Victoria ran a wonderful put up at the blog Design Ties the day prior to this and I experience pressured to draw greater attention to it.
Victoria is an indoors fashion designer in Vancouver and her buddy Kelly is an indoors designer in Ottawa. Together, they write a weblog called Design Ties. Between the two of them, that weblog is continually full of interesting photos of the tasks they work on in their respective practices and neither of them are shy about the use of their personal houses to demonstrate a point.
Yesterday, Victoria wrote a put up approximately the floor plan changes she and her husband made of their cutting-edge home and I was struck through how easy and fashionable their technique to an intersecting archway became. Stroll over to Victoria's submit on Design Ties and read her body by means of body description.
In rearranging the floor plan of their first floor, they had three rooms that led into one another and in order to open up the rooms, they decided to construct two intersecting door ways. So rather than leaving them as squared off shapes, they looked to the cove ceiling in their existing living room and interpreted the shape. The result is two shouldered flat arches that could stop traffic they're so beautiful. This was a brilliant idea that in the big scheme of things didn't add a whole lot to the scope of their project. But what it did was honor the architecture of their home and it made this renovation uniquely theirs.
It's the perfect tie-in to Sarah Susanka and Marc Vassallo's new book, Not So Big Remodeling: Tailoring Your Home for the Way You Really Live 
Bravo, bravo, bravo and bravo I say again. Structurally, this hallway of the intersecting archways is a winner and of that there can be no doubt. But the real thrill is available in when she introduced the paint colorations she did. I'm out of superlatives. Really.