floor plan advice

6 days ago

We are renovating our home to bring it into the current century. Am toying with some changes to the floor plan. Attached are two concepts from our draftsperson.

Essentially everything in the back half of the house is gutted and we can play around with how it all pieces in. We need in this section:

Fourth bedroom - they’ve denoted a study in this space but one of the front bedrooms is actually smaller than depicted on here and so that will be the study.
Family bathroom with bathtub
Laundry
Extra storage
Open plan kitchen, living, dining

The concept also has sliding / stacker doors all at the back. This is a bit OTT for us, so just going to have some walls and a normal sized sliding door. The current slider is towards the bottom of the current design / near the proposed kitchen.

I was working off option 3 mostly. My thoughts are to make the laundry a bit of a galley style with a run of cupboards on one side, and then bench top on the other, as opposed to a cupboard in the hall way. I’m also thinking of nixxing the walk in pantry.

Have analysis paralysis so would welcome your thoughts.

North is to the top of the page.

We are a family of two adults and three young children. May need to accomodate an elderly parent in the future.

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Kate
6 days ago
I like option 2. But distance between island and bench on side wall is too big. 1200 would be ample imo
dreamer
6 days ago
How is the house positioned on your block. Is it just small walkways on north and south? What yard is at the rear on the west side? Agree with Kate, the space from island to benches should only be 1200-1300mm. Otherwise it is not a practical space.
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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.
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before making any realistic suggestions we need to understand the existing spaces but your plan shows bed 2 and 3 as projecting out further than bed 1 but the roof doesn't show a corresponding change of shape?...assuming that the roof is correct you need to add dimensions for width of kitchen, laundry, toilet, bathroom and width of original bed 3 and can you please show locations of windows and external doors and what is space beyond the existing living? ... pending confirmation of details my suggestions would be to build new kids bedrooms and bathroom at the back with part of bed 3 as the rumpus, have a master suite at the front with part of bed 3 as wiw and original bathroom as ens and powder room and rearrange the old laundry or add a new extra laundry with the new kids rooms and use original laundry for a pantry...the biggest challenge will be the new roof but maybe the extension could have a skillion roof tucked under the original eaves but that depends on available ceiling heights
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Hello there, I am assuming the bed, rumpus, bed is the facade of the house, but which way is north? I like the tweaks OK Louise has made: but half and half robe for the minor bedrooms would be good. I like the ensuite off the robe and 4 m long is huge!Maybe that side as long and half hanging and narrower boxes or shelves backing the ensuite. Rather than the internal toilet, what about pinching a tad where the little window(OKL's plan) in the corner is in master: (4.5 is still very generous for it) pop the loo there with a window and you can have a WIL. The ensuite is good and IMO you do not need more width in WIR pop it into the bedrooms.... Good one!
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why not make the laundry toilet as a powder room for guests (or use the toilet in the bathroom) and make a private ensuite and if there is a step down from kitchen to family room it would be better to have a kitchen peninsula with tall stools as there isn't enough space in the kitchen for a big island and stools and consider losing the side entry from laundry or family room and having access to the garden through the dining area out to a deck at the rear instead
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Cee
5 days ago
Re the potential elder needs, I just re-googled the Livable Housing Australia levels. Silver is now standard. Gold includes 1200mm in front of kitchen bench/island. Gold level accomodates a person using a 4WF. Platinum level would be required for full wheelchair accessability. But so many ifs.. IF you decide you will house an elderly relative & IF they had mobility/health issues, you could have an OT advise on equipment at that time.

For now, what will fit your family? Young children? That laundry/storage room will be needed for sure!
Cee
5 days ago
Re the options: What's better for the dining table? Eating takes up a lot of family time.. will it be the hub for all office/homework/kid's craft too?

Option 2 is an easy kitchen, serve to table, or keep on to outside (outdoor table outside?) But laundry is further from slider door (do you line dry?)

Option 3 I like the kit-laundry-bath in a row for close plumbing. But will you have to walk via the living to serve up? Nope I can't decide either!
Kate
5 days ago
Can you put a window behind sink? That would be a high priority for me but I don’t know orientation of house or view but would be good for natural light even if shuttered a little
oklouise
5 days ago
with small kids and potential for a senior resident my suggestions include a more comfortable sharing family bathroom, kitchen with small pantry or WIL from generous laundry, flexible MPR that can change to suite needs from playroom to full time guest room but we need more information about the site to be more specific about windows and outdoors

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