Buying, Lifestyle, Luxury William Merchant Buying, Lifestyle, Luxury William Merchant

Home Theater vs Media Room: How to Tell Them Apart Before You Buy or List

Home theater vs media room: CEDIA calls a theater a dedicated, darkened room with fixed seating and a media room part of your living space, while the RP22 audio standard drops both names and rates rooms Level 1 to Level 4. Here is how to tell them apart at a showing, what 7.1.4 means, how the MLS labels the room, what a Florida inspector is not required to check, and why the TV is not on the contract’s list.

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Buying, Lifestyle, Luxury William Merchant Buying, Lifestyle, Luxury William Merchant

What Is a Morning Kitchen? Primary Suite Dressing Rooms and Dual Baths, Explained

What is a morning kitchen, and how is a dressing room different from a walk-in closet? This guide to primary suite features covers morning kitchens, dressing rooms, dual baths and two-closet layouts, why listings say both “primary” and “master” (RESO’s July 20, 2020 recommendation), NKBA bath planning figures as reported in 2008, what conveys under Florida’s AS IS contract, and what to check at a showing.

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Buying, Lifestyle, Luxury William Merchant Buying, Lifestyle, Luxury William Merchant

What Is a Summer Kitchen in Florida? Cabana Baths, Permits and Pool Door Rules

As one Florida builder uses the terms, a summer kitchen is a covered outdoor cooking and dining area on the lanai, and a cabana bath is a full bathroom with interior and exterior access. Neither is a value in the national MLS standard. Here is how listings label them, Martin County permits for outdoor kitchens and gas lines, who may install gas piping, the GFCI and grill cautions, why a cabana bath door matters under s. 515.27, and what conveys.

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Buying, Lifestyle, Luxury William Merchant Buying, Lifestyle, Luxury William Merchant

Wine Room vs Wine Cellar: How to Tell a Climate-Controlled Room From a Display

Wine room vs wine cellar: the names overlap, and the national MLS standard has neither as a room type. What separates a climate-controlled room from a display is how it is built. Here are the storage temperatures from Purdue Extension and the University of Minnesota, the five cooling unit types one manufacturer describes, how to tell a wine wall or wine refrigerator from a room, and what conveys under the Florida contract.

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