Floor plan help please
11 months ago
Would love some thoughts on improving floor plan of our place. When we first moved in I thought move bed 3 to kitchen area and have kitchen on the back of the house. I think this would be a very expensive exercise so I am wondering if there may be alternative ideas. Even better is options that can be done in stages. We need 3 beds and a study/office.
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11 months ago
11 months agoThis option moves kitchen to laundry where you already have plumbing and keeps stove connection on same wall, just flipped. You would need to get plumbing to the new laundry though. I have used the bay window for the study. Is it worth keeping over having laundry and study in other orientation.
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Comments (13)realising that you did not mean to have one long narrow room but i think we all recommend an L shaped extension (not necessarily my suggested plan) because it will be much more cost effective than removing the whole back wall of the house and replacing all the separate ceilings and windows and not achieving much more than an enlarged bathroom, bedroom and small ensuite..the Lshape extension of similar sq m would create a more comfortable floorplan for the whole house with a simpler extension that also has the potential for a deck or alfesco to enjoy the bush view..photos of the roof and back of the house and measurements of the distance to the side and back fences and location of the pipes you mentioned and rough measurements of the bathroom, laundry, wardrobes and short hallways would allow a much more detailed floorplan to help invite more suggestions...See MoreFloor plan advice for newbies. Please help!
Comments (16)Hi Kieran, I've spent a fun Sunday playing around with this... thanks for the challenge! Jumping in to post it though, I think my ideas overlap with Siriuskey and Lucia. Isn't it funny how similar solutions can be arrived at independently! Key points: - As far as possible, I've tried to stick with the existing walls. - Since Bed 2 & Bed 3 are quite small already, even though I've encroached into each to achieve separate entries, the impact is minimal, particularly for Bed 3. - I've used pocket doors to both ends of the WIR and to the store room for optimal functionality. - I've depicted Caroma Urbane compact toilet suites with wall concealed cisterns because they save a bit of space and both toilets can use that extra space in that direction. - It's a very stageable design. You may for instance decide to build the ensuite/WIR and reconfigure the bed 2/3 entries without doing any of the kitchen changes. Or you may decide to save the expense and not move the main WC into the existing store, though it does add a fair area to the living space (I've used the exact existing footprint of the store to save cost and demolition pain which is workable with the Caroma Urbane, but alternatively you could demolish and rebuild the wall behind the pan for a more spacious loo). - The Family/Dining area ends up being fairly generous and very flexible. I've added a door to the end of the corridor to screen the loo a bit better from the dining area and for noise separation for the study, but you may prefer to leave this off. - I've not mucked around with your windows, figuring the important thing was to get the concept down for you, except in the ensuite. Really good idea there to have a central mirror with a narrow window to each side to throw light on your face at the mirror. Has the side benefit of a symmetrical effect which is always good aesthetically. - I've also flipped the main bathroom door to relate better to Bed 2/Bed 3, though not strictly necessary. - I originally used the Bed 1 robe space as a big walk-in-pantry, but it didn't relate particularly well to the kitchen and it also left no provision for general storage. Rather than take up a lot of valuable kitchen space with a pantry which would reduce the length of the peninsula breakfast bar (not ideal), I came up with the idea of shallow shelves with a roller shutter which I think you'll find give you an amazing amount of readily accessible storage. I'd like to think it would be possible to source a horizonal roller shutter that would coil back into the dead space at the back of the fridge, but perhaps better to just go with a vertical shutter and avoid the headache!...See Morefloor plan help please
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Comments (18)I'll throw a few ideas around . In spite of what you said about noise , I'd be tempted to go open plan and include the entry into the area . You said about the narrow hallway -- why not do an 825 or 850 wide door to the 'left' of the laundry door , slightly in the hallway ? One thing ( well 3 ) I'd seriously consider if you did go open plan would be to take out the right hand laundry wall , and enlarge it another 50cm or so 'right' into the old kitchen area , and second thing would be swing the external laundry door outwards , and then you could do as big a series of cupboards as you want in the laundry along the right side wall . There's sometimes a problem with condensation forming in cupboards if you use the dryer lots , but a fan exiting to outside should fix that . So , in a nutshell , a bigger laundry but with cupboards . The rest is totally up to personal choice -- you have more space by including the entrance , and more usable space as you don't have to worry about walls and doors . So maybe a TV on the wall where the entry is now , lounge around that , a dining in the middle or the far end , kitchen can be 'square' ( 2 or 3 high lots of cupboards in a square ) , or similar but only 2sided , or along that back wall . Decisions . . . . . . ....See More- 11 months ago
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