Using "No So Big" Ideas

View of living room (left) looking from the window seat toward the front door. The vacuum cabinet (upper right), holds canvas bags, plastic bags, keys, and other miscellaneous items as well as the vacuum. On top of it is a box of Bob's unread magazines: yet another attempt to organize the paper that inevitably ends up all over the table.  Our kitchen has cork flooring (lower right), which is a renewable resource that is also very comfortable to stand on.

Because our main floor is compact, we put storage where we had space for us, utilizing space that often goes wasted.  In this view, the stair landing has a shoe cabinet and a coat rack in place of  a closet.  We also store stuff under our window seat.

The flooring in the main living area is Madrone, a local wood that is rarely used.  It, and all of our floors were finished with a low-voc water based polyurethane.  Most of our door and window casings are salvaged fir. The shoe cabinet was made from cut off scrap from those casings.

The stair rail and newel post are one unit that can be removed in order to move furniture up the stairs.