[Villages Kahuna]

I have to help out another Wolverine.

We have a Lantana and wanted to put a sofa in the front bedroom bumpout space. We went to Southern Lifestyles to look around. They have the floorplans for every model in their computers and quickly advised me and Mrs. Kahuna that we could only consider sofa-style pieces that were a maximum of 75-inches long. There was also a back height limitation, but the length was by far the most limiting factor. (The back height limitation could impact on trying to put a big, comfortable easy chair in that room though.)

The problem, when you look at the floorplan of a Lantana, is moving the furniture for the front bedroom from the main room into the hallway, around a corner, and then through a 68 by 32 inch doorway. After much experience the Southern Lifestyles folks know what will fit and what won't. We wound up buying a 75-inch long loveseat for the space. With two end tables, it fits fine in the Lanatana bumpout.

By the way, I might mention that really big pieces won't fit into the master bedroom either, pretty much for the same reason. We hadn't considered that and when the movers tried to move two large armoires into the master bedroom they got them in, but only by removing the door, the hinges, and a couple layers of paint on the doorjamb.

By the way, one other problem we encountered with the front bedroom. We use that room as our TV room and den. I bought a big screen TV and ordered DirecTV. When the time came to install the DVR in that room, we discovered that because TV only wires each room with a single TV cable/outlet, that the DirecTV DVR wouldn't be able to record anything other than the show being watched on the TV. This isn't a problem with Comcast DVR's which for some reason require only a single line, but those used with satellite dishes require two lines into the room. I wound up hiring an electrician. Even then he had to bring the additional cable line from its entry on the exterior garage wall, thru the attic, down the interior garage wall adjacent to the entry walkway, thru the wall, bury it under the walkway, then bring the cable up next to the house to get it thru the wall and into the outlet on the wall where the TV was sitting. Ours is CBS construction with interior raised ceilings but I don't think the problem with be different with frame construction.