Floor plan advice
Luisa
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Comments (29)Hi Renai, there are a couple of things about the kitchen that trouble me. To me in some ways it looks like a hybrid of 1990's kitchens and the current direction design is taking. The L-shaped return looks like it has a breakfast bar, but so does the island bench - a duality that does the kitchen no favours. I would ditch the L- return. This achieves a number of things: 1 - It facilitates better traffic flow between the kitchen and dining room; 2- it eliminates the awkward corner cupboard, always a problem that none of the many high tech "solutions" address adequately; 3 - it simplifies the construction of the kitchen, with potential savings; I would move the island bench up the page (possibly even make it longer), providing a free wall for tall storage cabinets, and or alternative fridge location. The door to the walk in pantry would need to move slightly to best achieve this. The corner location where you have the fridge now is not good for one main reason: you will often need to open fridge doors up wider than 90° to pull out drawers and shelves for cleaning, and even at 90° most modern fridge doors require more space than just the fridge recess allows....See MoreFloor Plan Advice
Comments (3)Life’s a compromise Hannah. I can see what you are doing amd it will make the house more usable, In answer to your questions. The ideal bedroom size is 3.6x3 which allows 0.6 depth for cupboard. But there are plenty of people with much smaller bedrooms. The biggest prob I see is the toilet with no basin. Not nice if bathroom occupied. The laundry is fine but you don’t seem to have any general storage. Think What do you need to store. Toys, books, linen, bags, Xmas decorations, brooms, vacuum, coats….....See MoreFirst draft floor plan advice
Comments (24)hi, IF you are on acreage, I do NOT understand WHY you are not ORIENTATING the House to have the MAJORITY of the rooms facing NORTH. ( the Living room + Dining + your Master Bedroom and leading to a nice sunny Outdoor Entertaining area on the deep-verandah etc).. Read up on "Passive Solar Design" = - orientate the main living areas to capture the Northern sun . and - minimum 500mm Eaves (you have the Verandah's, so this will be good. and - minimum 1500mm Eaves for the rooms facing West; and - provide plenty of flow thru ventilation. - I love my Louvre Windows.. and - insulation & floors and walls that are thicjk. and - double-glazing (if you can afford it) - utility areas such as bathrooms, robes, kitchen can be on the Southern side of the house.. Railing - yes, you are right that it is not needed - the 2 pictures that you have provided are lovely. Access to Outdoor Entertaining - if I am reading your floor plan correctly - access is ONLY to the Front yard / side yard - to the HEAXAGONAL Porch section -- this is lovely - but will it and the 2 metre porch be enough space? - WHERE are you going to put your BBQ etc? oklouise - I totally agree with you - NEED to decide WHERE the Garage, driveway etc will be. bigreader - I agree with all of your comments and especially that the Lounge/ dining size is not big enough....See MoreFloor Plan Advice
Comments (7)Where are you building, as regards climate? The relevance of some of my reply depends on that. Is the patio covered? If it is not covered you have good solar access for the living area, but with 2.5 acres you could make use of that for the bedrooms too. A plain rectangle could give you more energy saving solar access and a simpler cheaper roofline. Walk-in storage is not necessarily good value for the additional floorspace and cost. I'm not saying don't have it if it fits, but don't equate the larger size of a walk-in with more actual storage space. What are you planning to use the property for? Would a mudroom be useful? At the moment you have no back porch or coat cupboard or any sort of practical coming inside zone. Having bedrooms off the front entry is not typically ideal. The west facing windows are the worst in summer. The fourth bedroom has no noise buffer from the master bedroom. It works as a nursery or study but doesn't provide good flexibility for use as a bedroom for an older child....See Morewendyec
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