Floors in children’s rooms get filthy. Face up to that fact from the start and you are half-way to making a good choice. It’s no good and not fair to ecpect that you can ever make children be careful with furnishings in their own room. So choose something that wont look sordid when messy. Smooth floor coverings such as linoleum and foam backed vinyls are aspecially easy to clean thoroughly.
The terrace, if you have one, will be the transitional area between house and garden, and is the one place outside that is likely to get the greatest amount of usage. You might create the feeling of a green room by having some sort of overhead structure supported by the run of wall which often separates properties. Or you might achieve this indoors/outdoors feeling by sinking an area of the terrace.
If you can afford to install heating on the terrace, it will make it possible for you to use the terrace or patio more, so that it virtually becomes a room.
While some architects continue to favor the vast scenes that present themselves through wide ribbons of glass, others like to work on a series of smaller canvases. Their windows cut up views into more intimate pictures which become unique additions to each room. To be inside such houses is to be treated to many different experiences, where moving from room to room is a series of close encounters with the surrounding world. These encourage a slowing of pace and lingering and finding the favorite spot of the moment.
