Architectural & Design elements
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“Uh-oh” moment. “The master bath is above the dining room and the tub had to drain, which meant dropping the ceiling from 9½ to 8½ feet,” Kandler says. “But instead of dropping the entire ceiling, we dropped about 12 inches around the entire room and added a soffit, which gave us another opportunity to add an additional layer of crown molding and to paint the ceiling an unexpected color. The pale blue was chosen to mimic the sky and make the dining room feel open and light.”
Rock Gabion Formerly a purely utilitarian building style used for retaining slopes, gabion walls have increasingly been finding other uses in residential landscape design. Made from a combination of wire cages filled with chunks of rock, these often 2- to 3-foot-thick walls make one of the best sound barriers around. The uneven surfaces of the chunky rocks in the wire cage absorb more sound than a more traditional smooth rock wall does, as smooth walls simply cause noise to bounce back.
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