Featured Home Design: "The Karina" A Small Home, or Cottage Design...

The Karina | Flickr  <<<--------- photography here

Sweet, small but not too tiny ... cottage design,  small family, empty nest home, guest cottage.

The kitchen bar top is a major feature of the design of the Karina kitchen and one of the trickiest to pull off cohesively because there are many different materials coming together as well as it being a part of 3 rooms. We chose Lyptus butcher block for the counter top because of it's warmth and similar richness as the floor. 
We could have continued the drywall onto the 1/2 wall from the living room side, but I wanted to continue the front paneling of the peninsula around the side. 

To keep costs down and to make it more simple to build, we did not wrap the Lyptus top into a L shape, but changed materials to a painted trim top. The 1" trim top dies into the 1-1/2" thick Lyptus, while allowing the skirt trim directly below to wrap and be continuous to become like a window sill detail as it goes into the living room.

That same skirt trim turns the corner and then dies into the backsplash. The backsplash is the Chroma countertop material. We changed the outlet color to black and used stainless steel covers to better go with the counter & appliances.

Getting the right height was important...one for perch-ability (see the last photo), but also mechanically so that outlets could be included in the backsplash. Neil built a 41" high wall + the 1-1/2" counter. This is the right height to lean against. Even though there is enough overhang to pull a bar stool up to it, we thought of it more as a lean-against counter and buffet. It also hides dishes and the counter when sitting in the dining area and living.

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Other home build by this architect/designer/builder here "Chapucas" ... details of home: Chapucas

Small Homes, Small Minds, Small Ideas is UN Agenda 2030 Cult of Sustainable Development

 Backyard guest home, studio, office---sure! But...

Backyard homes..... Why? There is nothing but land - lots and lots of land - in Tantramarshire-- so there is no need to pack people in tightly and on top of each other so why promote it?

 Toronto city thinking isn't really even a fit for the spacious realm of Tantramarshire because we surely must be willing to dream a little bigger about life around here... and not 'get it wrong' as Toronto has!

Article is here:

People in Toronto can now legally build backyard apartments if they want to (blogto.com)

Shared this because this is what [from Ontario] former town councillor "Margaret Tusz-King" of Sackville New Brunswick [who incidentally has a number of homes and acreages] has recommended to the poor people struggling to find rental accommodation in the manufactured housing crisis that Sackville now faces -- more at their Facebook page "Coalition" -- housing is not the problem; UN Agenda 2030 controls and restrictions is the problem but no one is going to discuss their oppressive global agenda at play - and those pushing for government controls over all resources and lands ie they want to put everyone into a SMARTcity where they don't own anything but are rental slaves in a system that wants to see them poor, struggling and demoralized...

"Tantramar Affordable Housing Coalition" is run by Alice Cotton who ran for a spot as town councillor in the Town of Sackville -- more at  Tantramar Affordable Housing Initiative | Facebook

Commentary found at their Facebook group:

"Artie Kenny

So, do we think that there should be no incentives to build apartments? No incentives or benefits to taking the risks, to having initiative, to helping build a product to benefit a community? I think that’s called socialism or communism. Yes, there needs to be government involvement. I believe the government is not doing enough. One way to combat housing costs is supply. There needs to be a medium between capitalism and housing. Without incentive, we have the government building homes and we know how that would go."

1955 Housing posted in their Facebook group by Reggie Beal shown below:

The trend has been to build apartments and smartgrowth high density housing in Sackville which is in alignment with UN Agenda 2030 -- ask why that is and you'll understand why the reality now exists of housing that is affordable for families being difficult to find -- they don't want you to prosper, have a home or even a family -- sustainable development is an anti-human agenda.

You should not be afraid to speak this truth!