Sometimes just one family room won’t do. The owners of the family lodge pictured on thee two pages wanted a family room to accommodate the frequent visits of their many relatives –not to mention stopovers by enumerable friends. When it became, clear that space available inside the house would be too small. The architect turned the owner’s attention to the garage.

A garden view, plenty of flight, and an indoor – outdoor feeling add up to the family sunroom. The rooms on these pages catch sunbeams into different ways- by converting patios and by adding on. Either way, the indoor – outdoor atmosphere relies on abundant use of windows or sliding glass doors.

Shown on this page or two “between” rooms –family rooms made from patio space between the house and the garage. The owner had to pour new

If the focal point in your family room is a picture, it deserves special lighting. The simplest, least expensive way to illuminate graphic art is to mount a picture light on the frame or on the wall behind the frame. Another, more subtle approach is to install recessed, ceiling mounted, or track mounted fixtures and aim them at the picture. A projector frame, unlike a spotlight or cylinder reflector, places light precisely on the picture. Best aiming angle is 300 from the vertical. Place the light too close to the wall and it will cast

You don’t have to be a Broadway director to stage dramatic lighting. Spotlight, floodlight, down lights, track light, wall washers, dimmers –these are just some of the fixtures and devices now available for home lighting. Once you have worked out your furniture arrangement and know what you want hung on the walls, you are ready to think theatrical and produce your lighting effects. For the family room, as for other multi-activity rooms, you will want to plan for good overall lighting that casts glare-free light on major