my south florida inspired house

[Paducah Home Theater]

As requested by dtel, here are several pics of my house as it was being built, pics obviously suck and were taken on a phone so I apologize.  We took inspiration from colorful houses we like in the Bahama's and Key West.  

 

 

Don't have a lot of finished ones on me but I took several facebook pics while it was being built.  I did most of the interior work, I painted the whole thing myself, did all the base boards, all the flooring, all the theater room wiring, all the insulation, all the design work, a good chunk of the electrical, and most all of the land development such as driveways, clearing trees, running trenches, my dad and me did all the porch rails and steps, etc.  It took forever, pretty much every night and every weekend plus three weeks of vacation just to do my part.  

 

Living room, yes the ceilings are blue, there is a southern tradition that came from the caribbean where people believed that a certain type of really mean spirits called "haints" could not cross water, and painting your ceiling sea green or light blue, especially over doorways, tricked them into thinking they could not come in.  Most "haint blue" has more green in it but my wife wanted it to match the sky more than water, which is harder than it sounds.  We tried matching pictures of the sky with a color but it just doesn't work.  

 

 

 

master bathroom, crema marfil countertops from near the eastern Mediterranean coast of Spain, mother of pearl mirrors, Italian tile:

 

front porch with a matching Mojito:

 

back porch, colors are off here for some reason.  We upholstered our own pillows with Sunbrella material.  

 

front while still being built, my dad and me did it all:

 

kitchen before completed, KraftMaid cabinets with blue pearl granite from Norway:

 

exterior at night:

 

 

kitchen now has shelves I made, there are Jimmy Buffett records and colorful fiestaware dishes on them:

 

All the bedrooms are sea green or blue, this one is Tiffany blue, you can't actually name it that due to copyrights but we got a Tiffany's bag and matched it.  

 

 

 

pirate room:

 

Edited November 4, 2014 by MetropolisLakeOutfitters

[ChuckAb3]

 

As requested by dtel, here are several pics of my house as it was being built, pics obviously suck and were taken on a phone so I apologize.  We took inspiration from colorful houses we like in the Bahama's and Key West.  

 

 

Don't have a lot of finished ones on me but I took several facebook pics while it was being built.  

 

Living room, yes the ceilings are blue, there is a southern tradition that came from the caribbean where people believed that a certain type of really mean spirits called "haints" could not cross water, and painting your ceiling sea green or light blue, especially over doorways, tricked them into thinking they could not come in.  Most "haint blue" has more green in it but my wife wanted it to match the sky more than water, which is harder than it sounds.  We tried matching pictures of the sky with a color but it just doesn't work.  

 

 

 

master bathroom, crema marfil countertops from near the eastern Mediterranean coast of Spain, mother of pearl mirrors:

 

front porch with a matching Mojito:

 

back porch:

 

front while still being built:

 

kitchen before completed, KraftMaid cabinets with blue pearl granite from Norway:

 

exterior at night:

 

 

kitchen now has shelves I made, there are Jimmy Buffett records and colorful fiestaware dishes on them:

 

All the bedrooms are sea green or blue, this one is Tiffany blue, you can't actually name it that due to copyrights but we got a Tiffany's bag and matched it.  

 

 

 

pirate room:

 

 

That looks great. Nice job from top to bottom. HT is especially attractive!!

[derrickdj1]

That is a very nice home.  I like the look of the theater!

[CECAA850]

Beautiful.. You should be very proud of how it came out.

[Ceptorman]

Looks awesome….congrats…..looks like a fun place.

[Paducah Home Theater]

Looks awesome….congrats…..looks like a fun place.

 

Thanks, yeah we aren't exactly serious and formal people.  Fun is exactly what we had in mind.  As one example of that, we actually have a hidden door as shown below.  It looks like a bookshelf, except when you pull on the classic "Alice in Wonderland" book, it opens up into a hidden room.  It is now white and is pretty full but you can see how it works here.  

 

 

[JL Sargent]

Really like some of your ideas. Thanks for sharing.

[angusruler]

very nice....I especially like the exterior color......goes great with the white trim....CONGRATS!!!!

[Paducah Home Theater]

very nice....I especially like the exterior color......goes great with the white trim....CONGRATS!!!!

 

Thanks, yeah it wouldn't look the same without the white.  We got the green idea from the Marquesa Hotel in Key West plus a vacation rental that we like in the Bahamas as shown below.  There are other sea green houses out there but they usually look like they were designed in the 70's.  Put that white up against it and it pops.  We were originally going to go with dark gray but we figured you only live once.  I wanted a standing seam white roof but standing seam would have put me way over budget, the roof would have cost way too much.  One guy quoted me as much as $550 a yard which is insane.  

 

Where the "white on green" idea came from:

 

http://www.shorecrestii.com/

 

Edited November 4, 2014 by MetropolisLakeOutfitters

[Coytee]

Excellent job!!  I love the hidden room!  (I MIGHT even show it to the wife however, I'm full of fear that she'll get some inspiration from it and add to my (never ending) list)

 

 

[Dr Morbius]

You know, that door is not so hidden anymore, but awesome house my friend!