INSIDE OUR PLANS FOR WEST MEADE MANOR

Taking this house from 2,300 square feet and a single story to two stories over 6,200 square feet, 6 beds and 6.5 baths with a dedicated office and a rec room and three-car garage means a whole lot of work on the plans. We’ve been working hard on the plans for the last few months and had an awesome opportunity to work with Walk Your Plans Nashville to make sure they were absolutely perfect.

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Our fifth project in our fifth year. Fitting!

This house is right down the road from Bresslyn Manor, so when I heard it was coming on the market I jumped at it. To be honest there are so many houses in this neighborhood that I would love to get my hands on, not only because they have so much potential, but because there are so many builders in the area putting up copy+paste homes right next to each other.

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THE STORY BEHIND THE EQUESTRIAN-CHIC MUDROOM

It also started with the floor tile..

Let me set the scene for you; there is French cobblestone tile in your mudroom, you want to feel like you live in London and that at any moment you could grab your chore coat and rain boots to head outside to the garden, what does that mudroom look like to you?

Hopefully it’s this!

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THE STORIES BEHIND BRESSLYN MANOR’S BATHROOM DESIGNS

There are 7 of them…

Honestly I felt a little overwhelmed when I first started thinking through the designs of the bathrooms because I always try and give each bathroom their own identity. But once I found the core behind each bathroom and the anchor in the design it was smooth sailing. The original home only had three bathrooms, and the original primary was very typical of this age and size of home; a single vanity and a tiny corner shower.

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Here we are! Sharing the finished Bresslyn Manor, and I could not be more thrilled. This house was going to be a special project from the beginning, because of the location, size, and potential. But as we got further into planning, each space carried a special design experience for me that I am so thankful to have had. I am thrilled to be able to take you deeper into the designs of the biggest project that we have done yet.

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I did it again…

And when I tell you this one had me nervous, that’s a bit of an understatement! So, I actually bought this house a year and a half ago, which was before we even bought The Manor Cottage! It was at a time that we were right in the middle of Woodvale construction and had no idea we would end up holding three properties at one time, but this was a property that we could not pass up.

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What we think they did a few decades ago was close in a single car garage and then add this living room space on to the original home. The space had a large wall closing it off and had 8 foot ceilings and literally no light. Other than the two windows on either side of the fireplace, this space didn’t even have recessed lighting!

The first thing we did was take this wall out!

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Relocating this kitchen was a no-brainer.

We took in the old side door entry, and powder room/laundry room and turned that into a larger, open floor plan kitchen and living room. Now this old space where the kitchen used to be is a walk-in pantry and laundry + mudroom so not only were we able to update the kitchen but also add more function to the first floor in its entirety.

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This space seems to be everyone’s favorite on social media, so let’s take a closer look.

One of the most ignored spaces in builder homes are the utility spaces like the mudroom, laundry room, pantry, etc. which has never made sense to me. These are spaces you use literally every single day! So why wouldn’t you make them as functional as possible, as well as in style with the rest of the home.

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Seeing as I don’t get to furnish or really decorate these houses the way that I have dreamed in my head for 18 months of working on it, I make sure that I go really big when I can. Bathrooms and utility areas (while some people overlook and find boring), are a great place to show off character and design. I just cringe when builders leave a laundry room empty with everything but the washer/dryer and a sink, or when they have a great sized bathroom and they just do white subway tile and a glass shower door… come on!

Continue reading THE BATHROOM TILE AT WOODVALE MANOR at Manor Design.