Plan for first house build - your thoughts or suggestions?
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Comments (17)Without knowing the site or its constraints I say its quite good. Another possibility is to have bedrooms behind garage and move living areas to the north, north east as well as to the north west. As I said I don't know the site or constraints so it may be impossible..... Its not too big, fairly efficient design and every part would probably be used. Two big Eco/Sustainable ticks there! One issue I do see is the large areas of glazing to the north west. While you may have a nice outlook, etc. this will heat up the house in summer and lose internal heat in winter. Not so Eco.... Therefore to have the best of both investigate shading to the north west and north using a motorised awnings. While also increasing northern glazing on the meals area, reduce the north west. You'll be surprised that less is more when you have a great outlook. The smaller glazing will frame the view. Depending on your location and state, when you do the Energy efficiency certifications (BASIX in NSW for example) you may find that there is no way to have such large areas of glazing, even with double glazing & high performance frames for example. An independent assessment of its efficiency may be worthwhile. Speaking of glazing look at using louvre windows in conjunction with the external door systems. These are great for ventilation, can also be combined with sliding windows and fixed glass for example. Choose building materials carefully as these have a big effect on, well, everything!...See MoreYour thoughts on our kitchen plan?
Comments (63)Hi Helga, 1 ). The Island is 3.5m x 900cm ( the ridge down the middle is part of the railing system I used to get the posts so that won't be there) 2 ). Small appliance cupboard is 1m to Island (trying to get as much family space as possible and to fit the support beam/s in) my kitchen is 1100 between island and bench and I find that heaps and could easily be 1m. 3 ). The DW, window bench to Island is 1.225m , The fridge is 700deep so is 1.125m from the island, 4 ). The window bench with ovens is 1.125m to the wall of the small appliances and 950cm between ovens and pantry cabinets on the plan to allow for opening. All of these can be re positioned to line up correctly depending on what you thought, The Ovens can be swapped over to the far end of the Appliance cupboard and possibly move your appliances to where the ovens were. I think the twin beams could look great in your kitchen, I have worked artistic calculations for the beams so not sure how close I am. cheers...See Morefirst time building - what do you think of our plans
Comments (9)My first question would be where are you located? Cairns will have very different requirements to Tasmania, due to their different climates. While I agree with other posters, that flipping the plan will give you more light, the living areas will be similar in any case. Receiving N, E & S light. Flipping the plan will give additional bedrooms northern light, instead of the garage. But the main point is trying to get northern light into your living areas, & direct sunlight into those living areas in winter. This is difficult on such a narrow block. So my next question is what is to the north of your block? A neighbouring property I presume? If this is a two story property it will badly shade your living areas, no matter what you do. So what's the best way to get northern light (other than going up & building a two storey home, to get northern light into the top storey)? It's to build as close to the southern boundary as possible, so your northern windows are as far from your boundary as possible. This will reduce overshadowing from your northern neighbour. It looks like you have a zero lot boundary for your garage. How far is it from your meals area to the boundary, & how far is it from the kitchen to the boundary? If the plan is flipped, how far will it be from the family room to the boundary? What I'm getting at is, which orientation is less likely to have overshadowing of your northern neighbour of your living areas?...See MoreWhat are your thoughts on this ensuite and WIR plan?
Comments (14)Thanks @oklouise! Is that a queen bed in the room? Attached is the full floorplan. Absent measurements since we've only asked this architect to specifically help us with this bedroom and ensuite for now. Currently the door for the bedroom is on the wall from the entry way. It's unconventional, but we'd like to move the door from that the wall facing the hallway/adjacent the kitchen because we'd really like to use the extra entry wall space to put a drop zone/hall tree and improve the feel of our entry way. As you can see from all the random, jutting out bits of wall the previous owner moved/removed some walls to make the floorplan more open. There's so much we want to do/think we want to do down the line, but want to spend a couple of years editing our ideas before we work on the rest of house. Bedroom 1 won't be the main bedroom forever, the vision is to extend out the back and add an upstairs on the back half of the house as well at which point we'll build a larger main bedroom suite. Kitchen and laundry will move to the back of the house when we extend, so we'd need to think about what to do with that space. Maybe a chance then to extend bedroom 1 and have a luxe guest suite! We'll have to see what our needs are after we have a kid or two....See More- 7 years ago
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