Sunday, September 14, 2008

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The room: A rectangular living room in Khakum Wood in Greenwich. It has 10-foot ceilings, hardwood floors, a carved limestone fireplace, walk-in bay window, and painted, raised, decorative paneling.
The challenges
How to arrange the furniture? A fireplace is always a focal point, whether the primary one or not. The two long walls have large archways leading into the foyer and sun porch. This is part of the main traffic flow and problematic: any furniture placed too close to the fireplace would interfere with the flow.
How to create conversation groups? At the other end of the room, two fairly large walls face each other



Susanka would probably agree with that. She describes her talent as explaining to us lay people facts that architects know and do automatically.
'A house doesn't have to be a mansion to be wonderful,' said Victoria Ranney, president of Prairie Holdings Corp., developer of Prairie Crossing in Lake County. 'We emphasized that there would be all kinds of community things - the farm and trails and charter school and retail shopping.'
And one 1,600-square-foot model she remembers in the development demonstrated quality rather than size with details like a fireplace, 9-foot ceilings and energy efficiency. Single-family homes sold out three years ago, and condominiums are still available.
When you walk into a home designed by Wright you experience the way he handled the third dimension of architecture, said Susanka - the things you can't see on a floor plan.
'We are beginning to understand the importance of this dimension that most of us are unaware of and how it affects how we feel,' she said in a recent telephone interview




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