I took another look at the front area (Living room, Dining room and Kitchen) and realized that there was just something a bit... off... about it. So, I've made a few adjustments... again
I took this picture while standing near the front door (it's visible on the right). I felt that the flooring was just a bit too dark (I'd used the dark wood texture so go figure
) and changed it to one of the English parquet textures. Since I'd changed it in this area, I had to change it in the hallway, and after doing that I thought it just plain weird to have a different wood flooring in the Sewing room and Sewing Storage room so I changed it in there too.
I also changed the material used on the couch; instead of brown leather I have it in a blue fabric. The bookshelf near the hallway seemed a bit too narrow so I widened it up.
You can also see (somewhat) that I added porch lights to the atrium area as it seemed to be a bit too dark. I put one on either side of the wide porch doors from the Living room, one next to the guest room door and one near the glass door in the back.
The Dining room and Kitchen areas also had some changes, but those changes are hard to see from this picture.
Here's a better view of those two areas. I felt that the woodwork was just a bit too "matchy-matchy" so i changed the wood of the dining room table and chairs to the dark wood, found a picture online for English Walnut and used that for the kitchen cabinetry, island and bar chairs. I also didn't quite like how the upper cabinets looked so different above the vintage oven so I made some adjustments to all of the upper cabinets. First I widened the ones over the oven so that the met up with the rest of the cabinets, then I adjusted the heights of the rest of the cabinets so that they were all even with the ones over the oven (ie to the ceiling).
I then realized after changing the wood that I didn't like the marble I'd used for the countertops. First, I'd changed it all to the light blue marble seen on the island, which was alright. Then, I thought that the room needed a backsplash, I changed the walls in the kitchen to have the light and dark blue marble tiles. No, it wasn't my intention to make the entire wall the backsplash, it should actually only come up to the base of the upper cabinets (except for the wall behind the vintage oven; that I intended to have covered in the tiles), but I didn't feel like creating a half wall then try and insert it so that it shows and doesn't mess up the rest of the room, so let's just pretend that the backsplash on the wall above the sink stops at the base of the cabinets and a bare beige wall that match the rest of the area is seen above that.
On the wall with the refrigerator the backsplash ends at the last of the upper/lower cabinets, right before the refrigerator. Below is the picture of the tile that I used for the backsplash.
After I'd taken the first picture and went to take the second it looked to me like the counters just blended weirdly with the backsplash and changed it (except for the island) to the dark blue marble.
Once again, the vintage oven and that curio cabinet didn't seem to want to render properly.
So, right now I'm working on getting a picture rendered from the kitchen and then I'll be working on one to show the lighting in the atrium.
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