If we remodel our house for accessibility, we’d like to add a roomier living room. I’ve kept this photo of my “dream room” for 30 years.

I know it’s been 30 years. Here’s the cover of the magazine:

See the date, Winter 1996. It’s a photo from the same room.

Now, the curved beams are delicious to me, but so impractical. For one, they are expensive, and for two, they’d be a nightmare to dust.

The room is also narrow for wheelchair mobility. The plan says 15ft. I changed it to 18. I kept the window seat, and lowered the vaulted ceiling. I covered that ceiling with wood.

I kept the arched window and echoed it with an arched doorway, which there is just a hint of in the version Chatgpt rendered:

I am exceedingly pleased!