So, I want to hang curtains in the area marked in the picture, what would be the best way to do it? The place is rented and I am not allowed to drill holes.

I explored a couple of solutions such as hooks with strings and a tension rod.

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I love how my dining room looks when the afternoon sun comes through the blinds. Reminds me of my childhood at my Nana’s house in the 60s.

Upstairs addition layout - comments?

We moved into a house with a large unfinished attic space (low ceiling height - will have to raise roof) on the second floor and would like to create a master suite there. There is already a staircase to second floor as there are 3 bedrooms and two baths there (but none of them is en suite.)

We drew this layout using an online tool and would like to get feedback. We struggled a bit to use the software so things aren’t exactly placed but pretty close.

A few comments -

1. We each want our own separate closets to keep marital harmony since one of us is a slob and the other more of a neat freak.

2. I am extremely sensitive to noise and my spouse keeps irregular hours, so we tried to buffer noise from the bathroom by surrounding it with closets and built-in bookshelves, etc.

3. It may not be clear on the diagram so just to clarify in advance:

The window all the way on the north wall opposite the entry door is supposed to be centered opposite the door (I kept dragging and clicking and it snapped back off-center, but imagine it is centered!)

The door on the left will swing in (as my spouse hates pocket doors) to a linen closet / bath storage closet. The next entry will be a pocket door to the WC. Then ANOTHER pocket door door from WC to main bath area. This is because we would like to be able for one of us to actually use the toilet and wash hands while the other person takes a ridiculously long bath or shower. Not naming names here!

We feel that 3 doors are a lot but not sure what to do about it. I wanted all 3 to be pocket doors but that was nixed and we compromised to have the WC and lavatory within pocket doors but all the rest of the doors will swing normally.

Dimensions might be hard to read.

Here are the major ones:

Overall space: 29’8” by 26’9”.

Entry door 36” into 4ft wide hall. All other doors 32” wide.

Left entry into linen closet (6’x4’ floor space but will build in shelves) then through pocket door into WC which is 6ft deep by 40” wide.

Then exit into main bath. The widget for the double vanity said it was 72” wide so we just defaulted to that. The tub and surround came out to be 64”x38” and the walk-in shower opposite tub is 6’x4’. We think need to push back shower away from tub a few more inches - it worked out to having a 34 3/8” width on floor between them and we read at least 36” is better, but that is possible as behind the shower is just a bookcase facing into room to absorb noise and give us a place to keep books (of course!)

Exiting bathroom into the other closet (6’x9’) we wondered which way the door should swing? In towards tub or in towards shower?

The three windows across west side of house were spaced in order to try to create external symmetry on façade, since that faces the street. We love natural light and really want a window in each space, but are a bit bummed it doesn’t seem the bathroom one will be able to be centered above tub. Does this even matter or how can one make it look good in bathroom?

We contemplated moving the bathroom to back of house facing East, but decided we’d rather have the flood of morning light into the main room.

One of us wanted to stretch the bath and closet across entire west side but the other really wanted western sun late in day to stream into main room (so tried to get that one window on NW corner.)

The furniture plan is just for scale to fit in king bed, side tables, a few seating areas.

North wall faces neighbors so for now we only placed one window there. Open to input.

East wall we just plunked down windows where we thought they made sense. Can be shifted a bit.

The rectangular protrusion on East wall near foot of bed is to accommodate some a/c supply ductwork - seems like it will be maybe 5’ long by 2’ deep. Still gathering info on this. It will be pumping a/c in zones to new upstairs addition AND a sun porch below that was enclosed before we moved here but has no a/c.

Thanks in advance for comments and ideas how to improve this layout.

Ignore the mess but I thought my living room looked cool in this light

Did some upgrades to my basement office. Much more space for my cables and tools and even some homemade scrap art.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AmateurRoomPorn/s/FxM9HzfFKL