Suggest design ideas to add study/office desk in rumpus area
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design and layout struggles. need some ideas
Comments (12)Hi Ben, advise you engage a Pro to assist you with the front end design process. All these design decisions need to be founded securely on construction cost knowledge, and it's invariably about balancing your requirements to budget within context. Whether it's sub floor, 2nd storey or going out or whatever there are always options on how to achieve your needs and pro/cons & costs to stack up. Working out various configurations of spaces etc is relatively easy, however designing to budget is not, which is where you get the value of utilising professional services for this. These types of projects and investments involved are with all due respect too large, complex and significant to risk DIY'ing the critical front end. You can give it a go but I'll bet you continue to go round in circles. As we explain to our clients in the preliminary conversations, it's not your job to "work it out". All you need to "work out" at this stage is clarifying your particular living requirements and nominate a budget. The "how" and balancing up/negotiation/compromising between the project priorities/requirements and the budget limit is the job of the professional, what the design process deals with, and what we (as design professionals) have the superior capacity/experience to assist you working through it all to achieve the best solution for your particular situation/scenario. That's your best bet here. Hope this helps steer you in the right direction. Cheers PD...See MoreDesign ideas for 1970s house
Comments (16)attempting minimum changes to the original structure my suggestions use the rumpus for a new master suite, divides the original living into a media lounge and parents' retreat (a narrow hallway would be wasted space and the remaining lounge is big enough for generous furniture arrangement although there could be a pantry and narrow study?), i've sacrificed the original ens in favour of more space for bed 2 and twin biw for bed 1 and 2, moved the biw in bed 3 for easier furniture placement and a bush view, converted the original wiw into a study and added a mudroom (or open verandah?) to connect the garage to the house.. the main feature of this renovations is the new family room , laundry and pwdr with north and bush views ...size of the rooms will depend on angled boundary and north window in the meals area and there's a laundry and powder room with easy access indoors and out ... the kitchen has been rearranged to reduce traffic in the work areas and enlarge the dining room, the old meals storage moved to the other side of the room and the wall behind the fridge and wall cabinets lowered or an opening added to brighten the hallway (creates a wide shelf above the fridge and cabinets accessed from the hall for display?) and consider solar skylights for the hallway and parents retreat... raising the new floor of the extension to the same level as the kitchen/dining would be ideal with a flat ceiling (saves the expense of attempting to match the original raked ceilings an dteh lower ceiling in the family room will be cosier and focus the view outside) a low skillion roof and deep eaves with tall barge to emphasise the horizontal line of the "flat". roof.. OR a gable roof at right angles to the main house AND?OR the family room could also step down from the dining room but that would use up floor space and lose the breakfast bar stools and maybe there's already enough steps elsewhere in the house eg taking parents' washing around to the new laundry already uses three flight of steps so i've added a laundry chute from the ens..and for heating and cooling there should be opaque roller blinds on the most exposed windows and the outside wall of the deck and Reverse Cycle AC for the whole house plus a gas/electric log fire in the family room for visual appeal and the old garage would make a great rumpus, mancave or kids retreat ....hopefully these changes will make a more comfortable modern home without losing any of the original style and we updated our mission brown to a weathered copper that is less red without changing e original colour era and this version includes a pantry...See MorePlease help with design ideas for our rumpus room
Comments (13)I would do the full wall storage and I wouldn’t put the sofa against the back. The room is quite long so I add a 1/2 height nib wall parallel to the sliding door but leaving room to walk in and though. The TV then goes against the nib wall with the sofa facing it. Then in the space behind the sofa you can add a work table....See MoreStudy Design/lounge
Comments (9)Sorry for the delay. Thanks all. I've attached a plan below. Our house is in the middle of a reno so the lounge and master bedroom will be new additions. At the moment the study is acting as a bedroom, study and lounge. But this will change once our final renos are done- it will then only be a study/second lounge. Not too fussed about using as a spare room, as guests normally stay in our shed if needed. Thanks Dreamer, i love that photo of the TV with the desk either side and cupboards above. This is getting closer to what i've been looking at. The Study on the house plan is slightly not to scale. The window is actually more central and the space feels bigger than how it appears. i'll try to take more photos to illustrate. Jess89 the ikea bed looks nice. Macyjean, thanks for encouraging for more details. We can change any power points. At the moment the foxtel and tv points are wired to the corner where the the TV is now (see photo)....See MoreKate
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