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“I spend so much time thinking about floor plans,” he said, “that Hanh bought me trace paper for Christmas.”

“Kevin Livingston: junior architect,” joked Ms. Livingston, 42, a stay at home mother.

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Canada Goose Outlet The Livingstons also spent days researching materials. “It was such an education, which I didn’t realize would be so fun,” Ms. Livingston said. “Matt explained wood flooring to us, and the difference between rift sawn versus quarter sawn, and character versus no character. We canada goose store learned about veneer. We went to look at stone and pick out slabs.” Canada Goose Outlet

But it wasn’t all smiles and smooth sailing. One of the biggest points of contention between the Livingstons was the custom floor to ceiling, steel and glass wine storage wall that Mr. Miller proposed building between the foyer and the kitchen.

“That wasn’t on the list of things we had asked for,” said Mr. Livingston, who nevertheless thought it would be a novel way to allow sunlight from the exterior canada goose outlet windows to reach the canada goose foyer.

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