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Comments (17)Hi Bella D, Option 3 is a winner hands down. A few things to consider: * You do not want a bathroom/toilet directly off your or dining area. While that might be ok when it's just your family at home, it won't be with guests and toilet noise. * The bathroom placement restricts the amount of heat moving up the stair case. This is a major problem in open plan two-storey homes. In summer upstairs becomes unusable because it's so hot and in winter downstairs is freezing. * You could move the bathroom to the left so it is under your ensuite. Having all the water use areas in one spot (upstairs and down) reduces how much hot water travels and sits unused in pipes - it can be a considerable energy cost over a year. Locate your hot water as close as poss. This position would also block noise to the bedrooms. * The only prob is you have no laundry in this design. Could you move the kitchen towards the back wall and re-arrange a small laundry/bathroom here. How much washing/ironing do you have. I don't need a huge laundry in my modest house. I don't want to spend too much time in there. Just need storage for dirty and clean clothes plus machines. Good luck. BTW, which way is north - your whole design should have the living areas facing north and excluding summer sun from the east and west and have minimal windows facing south - they just give poor quality light and add to heat loss in winter.....See MoreFloor plan feedback - anything I'm missing?
Comments (10)My rough scratch , I think there's wasted space in the Master ensuite/WIR, by moving that along allows more space for the WIP/Laundry/Powder Room. I think you really need to consider a separate toilet as the others aren't very convenient. Move Fridge oven cook top. You mention a family of five so I think a study computer space with storage would be ideal to keep an eye on the kids while you are preparing meals, it also gives more room in the family area etc. A rear entrance via the laundry/WIP for easy acces from the car under the covered breezeway? I have also extended the wall into the Master for more privacy, I would even consider sliding panels to close the bed off from the entrance. cheers...See MoreFloor-plan feedback/ideas needed -What do you think of this floor-plan
Comments (51)siriuskey, Yes, the courtyard is open to the sky (no roof over it), I assume this is what you mean by double story. Ref. below photos, I would love to get this look, especially the first and last photo, where you can see family living space from the first floor. I can't achieve this in my plan as it eats a lot of floor space upstairs. The referred plan (photos) has a very big void combining staircase, hallway and dining area. I know it is not easy with cooling and heating when you have such a big void. So, I explored a few ideas (with my limited knowledge on this topic) before achieving the current floorplan. I have also thought about, in my current plan, extending the void on the staircase to the dining area (it is more like L shape) but i wasn't sure if that makes any difference. keen to hear your thoughts....See MoreFloor Plan feedback
Comments (54)siriuskey. great work OKL. once again giving so much of your time with floorplans to give Gloria ideas to work with when she employs her local professional which I personally feel should be an architect to allow the best possible use of the block, it's sub division and two dwellings. The single dwelling on the left/corner is a great starting point showing building to ratio for that block. With what OKL has already provided you will save time and money when working with a clever local architect which will be well worth it to max this development and the investment. One other thing, I would swap the 3rd bedroom into the original kitchen and open up the existing 3 rooms on the battleaxe side into one long space opening to the front garden and parking of the original house, but then your architect could have other ideas...See Moreme me
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