Please critique floor plan

11 years ago

My husband and I are in the beginning stages of planning our retirement home. It will be around 1800 square feet and built on a 1/2 acre sloping lot with views to the north/northeast. We want the kitchen, dining room, living room and master bedroom on the view side. The basement will be walkout and unfinished at first, but eventually finishing one or two bedrooms and a bathroom. After perusing many house plan books we were unable to find a plan that suits our needs so we have come up with the following plan and I can't figure how to post the plan in my post (sorry), so I've posted a link to the plan. Please give us your thoughts.

Here is a link that might be useful: floor plan

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kirkhall
11 years ago
Floorplanner is nice and all, and I use it too, but it really is difficult to do anything with on this forum...

Also, you can email yourself the image from your floorplanner dashboard. Then, you can actually post the image.

But, you need to post it with some dimensions, and not just the dimension key/bar at the bottom.

For example, right now, it looks like your master bathroom is a smidge skinny in some ways... you need 2ft minimum infront of your toilet. And, it looks like you have a pretty small shower stall (only). That is fine to have a shower only, but this is a particularly small one.

Also, since I can't tell the dimensions very well, your closet is not likely to be able to hold as much as you think (you won't get 3 racks of clothes all the way around. It looks like it is probably 7 ft wide? You will get 2 racks, one on each side, and then you will need drawers or similar along the back wall...the corners will be useless otherwise.)

Other comments... I am concerned that your choices of an angling stair from up to down, going under the hall bath tub may not work. That will depend on your ceiling height in the basement.
flgargoyle
11 years ago
We'll need dimensions to comment for sure. Code is 30" minimum in front of a toilet. Those stairs aren't code, either. For one, you need at least 13 steps ordinarily to clear the floor framing. You need 6'8" clearance over the steps, and the rise is usually around 7-1/2" per step. Don't forget the thickness of the floor framing- usually around a foot.
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Well there's six feet of cubbies and hooks in the mudroom. We also need a closet somewhere, so it might as well be in the hallway, there's no room for it in the mudroom, we'll still be entering through the front door quite a bit (anytime we don't park in the garage), and it is the entrance guests will use. We need to put the coats somewhere. Having the closet in the hallway and hooks in the mudrooms covers both bases and assures that we won't run out of room. Regarding the bedrooms, I just don't see the issue sorry. The smallest bedroom is 105sqft which is the same size or bigger than the bedrooms my sisters and i grew up in, all of my friends grew up in, and all of my nieces and nephews are growing up in. As long as there's room to comfortably fit a twin bed, dresser, and a desk I'm happy. I even looked at about 20 1500-1800sqft plans online today and they all had 2nd and 3rd bedrooms in the ~100-120sqft range. Regarding the master bath, we could just move the sink over and add a couple of inches of counterspace, its not a big deal. A large shower is very important to us while a second sink couldn't be lower on the priority list. Different strokes :) The problem theballs plan is that to access the pantry we'd have to go through two doors instead of one and walk across all the dirt in the mudroom every time we wanted a can of soup or some potatoes. It just doesn't make sense, and as I've stated many times, I truly do not see the need to have direct access to the kitchen via the mudroom nor do I particularly want traffic coming and going through the heart of the kitchen where the sink and stove are. People will always choose the path of least resistance, put a door there and no one will ever use the hallway door. I doubt we'll get so lazy that walking that extra 10 feet will become an issue.
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Thank you all very much for the inputs. They are extremely valuable. Here is a drawing with the dimensions. For the next few years, the house will be for me and my girlfriend. Down the road, perhaps some kids but I will likely upgrade to something bigger then. This is a 2 story house and the bottom is all garage/undeveloped area because the house is on a slope. I will develop the downstairs later but it is a more complicated and costly affair. There is no internal garage access but I did not want to sacrifice the little space there is for stairs. The big windows to the right (in drawing) have very good views, so I try to preserve that. There are some views to the upper right as well, that is why the corner has windows. The windows can be moved if necessary but the only one I could practically see moving is the one above the sink. I considered making a wider island but as another poster guessed, I wanted to put a dining table by the windows to be able to dine and enjoy the views. The main room ends up being quite awkward because of its length and I have not figured out what to do with it. Indeed, the front door is directly across from the bathroom and that was something I couldn't quite get around. The original door was the same and although the bathroom was expanded, I could not come up with a practical way to move the door elsewhere. The prep sink and dedicated garbage are great ideas. How about a slide out garbage drawer in the island? Thanks again.
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lavender_lass
11 years ago
This one might be a good possibility :)

Here is a link that might be useful: Eplan home
prescotthouse
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11 years ago
Thank you for the critiques. Does anyone know of a fairly easy to use website to create a floor plan that includes measurements and is exportable? Lavender lass, I think I've seen that plan and at first had the kitchen more like that plan. Our view is to the north so the bedroom would block some of the view from the living room. Do you know if you can modify eplans online? Thanks for your help.
lavender_lass
11 years ago
It was just a guess from your description, since I couldn't see your link...but I'm glad you like parts of it :)

As for customizing it, you probably could do it online, but you might get some good help here, too. What do you like/not like about that plan...and do you have any other ones you that you like? Maybe a master bedroom/bath from one plan and a kitchen from another?
kirkhall
11 years ago
You can use the floorplanner dimension thing to add some dimensions. That would be helpful. Also, you can export it. On the right, you can find an export thing. You can tell it where to send it (to your email for example) and then you can post it in any image site--photobucket, picasaweb, etc.

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