Bringing wood beams to the beach...

     We are still going back and forth with our architect on Chez Beach Cheeky, and by we...I mean me because Big D is really letting me fly solo on this.  I'm moving rooms, shrinking rooms, increasing the island size, adding windows, ya da, ya da, ya da, and the latest back and forth is over wood beams.  The plan that I am most excited about is a large open kitchen/dining/great room with four sets of french doors all down one side that open up to an old fashioned large back porch facing the lake to get the best views.  This will be the view looking out the french doors from the back porch area, sadly the tree will be gone and it's a really great Live Oak that I would have loved to have kept, but the builder said its gotta go!  We just cleared the lot of most of its underbrush...

View facing the beach from what will be our dock...

Since the main part of the downstairs is essentially one huge long room, we are thinking about adding in some wood beams to break up the space a bit.  He is suggesting white, but since the walls are already board on board white, I'm thinking we should go with a weathered wood beam look instead.  I think it will help anchor the room with out weighing it down too much since there will be so much white everywhere anyway.

Something like this, not this much wood, but the feel of it and the design...

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Or this

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Or this...

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The only hiccup in the whole thing is that wood beams like this are a wee bit more than the white ones he was suggesting to me, so I said 'define more' to Mr. Killing My Wood Beam Buzz, and he said potentially four times as much!  Wha?!  NOOOOOOOO! Come on man, get with my program here!  So we shall see if they stay or go, and by we, I mean Big D accidentally on purpose getting liquored up and me braking the news to him so he can approve said purchase of pricey beams! I'm going to peruse the internet for pricing options to see what I can come up with...and while I'm on there figure out how to make some saucy martinis...