Our Tack Room

With the roof nearly on, progress is moving to the interior. This raises the opportunity to cover interior details between the significant way points. What better place than to start at the heart of the remodel - Our Tack Room.

With the exterior door now in the Tack Room, Laura & I decided it was time for another Job Dog episode with Dash. He eagerly inspected the whole job, demonstrating his enjoyment by rolling in the family room. He willingly posed for this picture of his future realm.

Most folks will see the Tack Room as a really big laundry room. During our early planning, we recognized many modern laundry rooms include a mop sink. That gave us an idea. Instead of that, we decided to size it to include an indoor dog bath.

We also sized it to hold four dog crates (# 400 wire crates for those who know them). Yes, we currently have 3 dogs. Yes, we wanted room for expansion as we intend to breed one of our girls someday. Plus, we figure this pack is going to want to have room for houseguests, just like we will.

Elsewhere, the kitchen skylights are in and electrical elements are about to be strung. Those fixtures meant we had a choice to make on the placement for the dining room chandelier. We'd chosen the locations of doors from the living room and to the back yard without considering this. To allow room for a table away from the doors and the kitchen island, we chose to place the dining room fixture off center on those doors. Now that we can walk through the space, it's sinking in that our rectangular dining room table may need to be replaced. Hmmm. I think it'll be pretty easy to fit in a table from Berkeley Mills like the one to the right. Doesn't it go well with the craftsman theme?