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   DoubleB | Dec 21, 2006 05:59pm | #1

   Sorry. I forgot a pic....wanted to add one of the exterior to give a feel for the overall style.

   
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   JMadson | Dec 21, 2006 11:04pm | #4

   Your picture files are rather large, do you have smaller versions?

   Also, I have no problem with rooms having different styles, I actually prefer it. As long as the room divisions are clearly defined. In other words, if your family room and kitchen are part of a great-room, don't try to make them different. But to make rooms different adds character to your house IMHO.

   Joe“The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds..” – Hume

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   JeffHeath | Dec 21, 2006 06:05pm | #2

   DB

   I do work in houses ranging in value from $500K to well past $2M, and quite frequently different rooms in these houses have different themes.  I also recently toured the Parade of Homes here in Northern Illinois, which is a group effort between high end builders to build one of a kind high end homes in a neighborhood, and have the public pay to tour these homes.  Innovative ideas run amuck in these homes, and many of them had different trim and woodworking packages throughout the home.

   If it were my home, I wouldn' hesitate to build what you want.  QSWO is not going to detract at all from the trim in the rest of the house, especially since it sounds like it's going to be in it's own room. 

   Don't let material costs deter you, either.  It's only a fraction of the big picture, and you'll be happy you built what you wanted 2 years from now, and didn't worry about the few hundred bucks potentially saved.  Since you're building it yourself, look at all the money you've saved in the labor, which is the majority of cost in a project of this nature.

   Good luck, and post pics when you're done.

   Jeff

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   ring | Dec 21, 2006 06:52pm | #3

   You could consider combining #1 and #3, that is, do it in painted MDF etc but integrate certain parts of QSWO. That said, I wouldn't hesitate to do the whole thing from oak. The room stands alone as a unit and doesn't need to coordinate with the others.

   David Ring

   http://www.touchwood.co.il/?id=1&lang=e

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   YesMaam27577 | Dec 22, 2006 12:00am | #5

   Don't forget -- there's about a million homes built originally in the craftsman style, built in the early part of the last century. And a HUGE number of them never had any stained/fumed QSWO.

   I owned a 1917 craftsman in that category. It was quite nice -- and most of the trim was loblolly pine, painted white.

   If you do a search here, you might find a picture that was posted a couple of years ago, of some truly beautiful craftsman style wainscotting. (It was white, but could just as easily be done in stained finish.

    

    

   Unless you're the lead dog, the view just never changes.

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   Hazlett | Dec 22, 2006 12:54am | #6

    do it in the QSWO

   ya know ya want to---and ya know ya will always regret it if you don't

   soooooo if it makes ya feel any better, I hereby give ya permission.

    BTW, almost directly across the street from my house is a house built probably 80 years ago by Mr. Carter, one of the principals in  the Carter Jones  Lumber  Co.( It's kind of a chain stretching from PA., Ohio, and down into timber land I think in the Ozarks.)

    anyhow- i have worked on the outside of the house, Never been inside---but the neighbors tell me EVERY room in the house is trimmed out in a different wood.

   also ,locally a lot of the houses here were trimmed in the Craftsman style---1st floor oak, 2nd floor painted white pine--all molding profiles exactly the same.

    the way you want  to do it will be fine.

    best wishes, Stephen

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   stantheman | Dec 22, 2006 02:50am | #7

   DoubleB

   My thoughts - I am not a builder or carpenter, just an observant homeowner and woodworker. 

   I was going to say build it how you want it if it will make you smile when you look at it.  Then I looked over the pictures, internal and external.  Your home looks a lot like my bro-in-law's.  So here's some questions to consider (w/o appropriate answer)

   JMadson hit it right.  If the rooms are separate and distinct, OK with different style.  But if open (like bro-in-laws) it is a bit jarring to see transitions, not just wood and style, but color.  That bright white trim, in open rooms, doesn't seem to go very well with the heavy masculine look of mission to me anyway. 

   Wife would ask:  (1)how long do you plan to keep the home?  Mission is popular now (people here think it is retro-fashionable), but in 10 years?  A friends advice was do what looks "normal" unless you're an artist, if you want it to sell.  Just take the pleasure in doing it better.  (2) what's your furniture, flooring style?  I have architect friend who is painstakingly restoring the interior wood of his 1900 home, but has modern tables and chairs, and modern carpet.  Doesn't look right.  

   If it is going to be an agonizing and expensive decision, perhaps get an interior designer's opinion?