@ Gogo, Dane & Lily
The texture on the clounters is metal, I agree with you all that I should look into a different texture for the stove and fridge.
Dane, your ideas about adding that Industrial style to the house are very interesting. I will play around with it a bit, see what I come up with. It may not work due to the "feel" I'm trying to create in the house, but perhaps I can find a way to blend the two into a perfect balance.
Lily, personally I miss some heavy colour too. I was just thinking I may add some jewel-tones in line with the Industrial side of the interior, that way you get both without it being too much. I'll see if I can make the blue pop some more as well. Personally I love this colour but I agree with you that it doesn't pop enough.
As always, thanks for the input! It's very much appreciated.
@ Dane
I love the style you went for in this house Dane, it's very warm, comfortable, and "home-y". I especially love that child's room! Hopefully I'll get around to installing my Generation copy next weekend.
@ Chronic
The landscaping isn't awful, in my opinion it's just not there. What you try to do when landscaping, is creating something that will fit your house. In a good design, house and landscape are extension of each other. The current hexagon shape of your vegetable garden doesn't compliment the house well, because the house is a hexagon shape of it's own. What I would try to do is start with your front entrance, and let the landscaping fold out to the edges of those foundation. Then, for the back yard, I'd extend lineair from those foundation edges again, creating a big square. Within the square you can create little hexagons to house different functions. The trick is to not make them too obvious, the entire square should be filled and not just the hexagons. You could also try to create some axes starting out your backdoor and waving outwards. Those can be your main pathways through your garden; your house shape lends itself really well for broad landscape designs like that.
If you need some inspiration, try to look at some Baroque gardens. They also had main axes for sights and circulations with little terraces (your hexagons) throughout the garden. The rest is mostly hedges and very cultivated flowerbeds. You don't have to go that route, I'd try to go for a more "overgrown" look to balance the rigid geometric shapes of your hexagons and axes.
I hope this was helpful. Just remember that the options are endless, and my suggestion is only one of many ways to go, and certainly not the only correct way to design your garden.
