Optimal Ace Interiors

08/19/2021

All updated work on new house will be revealed when house is finished along with all pictures throughout the journey.

08/19/2021

https://youtu.be/ZsJI58zMnEg

Converted garage and downstairs of split level home into an apartment. My 2nd project.

08/19/2021

https://youtu.be/HKGxYXgb_GM

08/19/2021

Sketchup model of living room and kitchen design for the new house.

08/19/2021

Hey everyone! It’s been a long time since I have made a post here. John Aytes Designs is still going strong. Been putting a lot of effort into the house as well as practicing my computer drafting design skills. Going to share some projects that I have been working on recently. Hope everyone has been doing great!!!

01/17/2021

I said I would update when we make progress on the house. Well today we got the chimney added for the wood stove! It’s super secure and everything meets all code requirements. Let me tell you though, this was not easy and scary at times with it being so heavy and the wind blowing. But somehow we made it and now just gotta hook up and the inside pipe. Then we can be warm while we are working on the inside.

12/02/2020

Well it’s my favorite time of the year and I have really been working hard on the inside of our little home. Decorating for Christmas is my favorite part about designing and decorating. I wait all year for this!!!
This is the last Christmas in this house so I wanted to go all out. Here are all my trees that I have up and all of our stockings.
If you were wondering which tree is my favorite, I would have to say that it would be the one with the multicolor lights. Over 90% of the ornaments on the tree were made by my grandmother and now she has passed. So I always like to put up that tree with all her ornaments in remembrance of her because this was also her favorite time of the year.
Then I would say the rest all come in with a tie in 2nd place. They each have their own uniqueness that makes them all just as great. 

11/10/2020

So my favorite part about this year has been the construction of our new home. We had been going back and forth if we were gonna move, get a modular home or just build for about 2 years. We ended up deciding to build on the same property where we currently live. The foundation, exterior walls and roof were all built by Master Designs in Spring City Tennessee. Anything you see inside has been completed by us. With me still being an interior design student, I figured I could use the experience.

Our new home is 2 bedroom, 1 bath and 800 square feet. So it is a small cottage home. I designed the whole house myself: the size, floor plan, placement of windows and doors, etc. The sketch you see is my blueprints for the home. It’s been really amazing to see something that I sketched out on paper, actually come to life. It has been a lot of watching YouTube videos, learning, trial and error and trust me there has been quite a bit of yelling too. 😂😂😂

There is not one room that is completely finished at this time and what you see towards the end is where we are currently at. This has been such an exciting adventure for us. We still have so much more to do before we can move in. I have learned that you do not set a timeline to get a project this big completed, especially doing it ourselves and learning as we go, working full time and going to school. I’m grateful God has given us this opportunity. We feel more than blessed. I will of course share more photos as we make progress.

10/14/2020

When I started working at home back in March I started on a fold out table and then moved to an old hexagon kitchen table. Having two monitors on a hexagon table is not the most comfortable work space. I looked at Amazon, Walmart, Target, EBay, Wayfair, Overstock... I really went through them all trying to find something the right size, make and price I wanted, but nothing. We had lots of wood leftover from where we built our deck and framed the inside walls of the new house so I just decided to build a desk. It’s super solid and will last me years to come. I couldn’t be happier with it. Plus besides being a desk it could also serve as an extra dining table when entertaining a few extra guests.

10/04/2020

Before we decided to build our new house, we were going to expand our current house. Turn our current living space into 2 bedrooms and was going to add a new living room, kitchen and bathroom off the other side. We ultimately changed our mind and went a different route but this is the 3D plan that I came up with on my laptop for that space.