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Comments (43)So if we were to do a 1.5 story with the master on the main level, where would you put that, behind the garage then? My thought process would be to first determine priority of room placement in the most ideal location for the use of the room and then if conflicts between room placement develop then rank by how much time is spent and how time is used for each room as well as the importance of that use compared to the importance of the uses for the other rooms. If watching the sunrise from your bed pays off with more enjoyment than having the sunrise and morning sun striking your kitchen, then plan accordingly. For instance, do you plan on using your master suite as a parental get-away from the kids, using it during the day or will your non-sleeping uses be restricted to evenings only, meaning that any views from the rooms would be lost to the darkness of the night? If the views are not important, I'd bury the master suite near the garage in the above sketch. If however, views and day time use are important, then I'd move the master to the east/south/west walls, perhaps right off the entry or in the back off of the kitchen. I'm not necessarily saying to put the master off the entry or off the kitchen, though you could, I'm just using these as examples that reference the above sketch. The way I'm designing my own home is to use a very self-reflective process which tries to understand how I actually live my life rather than trying to contort my lifestyle into architectural trends which presuppose how people SHOULD live their lives. So, to continue on the questioning, why exactly do you appreciate a main-floor master? Is it so that you can avoid stairs? Is it so that you can hear the comings and goings of the kids at night as they try to leave the house, is it because you don't want the kids too near your bedroom, is it because you don't want noise transmission from the master to be easily heard by the kids, and so on? Once you can articulate to yourself why you want something then you can find the best solution for your plan, rather than adopting a cookie-cutter approach. For instance, what I found amusing in some plans was a main floor master with a child's bedroom directly over it on the 2nd. Now, to me, if the goal was to reduce noise transmission from either the child's room to the parent's room or vice versa, the separation by floor, while having intuitive appeal, would fail to achieve the mission. The example I used in an earlier comment was to have a master suite separated by a stairway corridor AND a children's hallway which together create a 7'-8' dead zone, possibly with some walls other than the master and child's bedroom walls also added in between. There are no common walls shared, there is a huge dead zone in between and the goal of reducing noise transmission is, I believe, better served than a downstairs master with an upstairs child's bedroom directly over top, sharing common ceiling/floor as well as sound transmission paths down the walls. Of course, if sound transmission has nothing to do with the appeal of a downstairs master suite, then what I've sketched out is a solution to a problem which doesn't exist, or doesn't matter. I was thinking the master/office space on one side and then the kitchen, dining, great room on the other. That makes sense to me. Would you move the great room from the center of the house below to the front where the dining study is and move the study to where the great room is? Lots of configurations can make sense, but they must make sense in relation to how you envision yourself using the space and the particulars of your lifestyle and preferences. I'd say grab some graph paper, or even blank paper, and just block out the rooms and see how they interplay with each other, note how you foresee traffic patterns within and throughout the space, imagine daily routines taking place within the space. Once you have an idea of how you live, or how you want to live in the new space, then get the graph paper and try to get a better handle on size and furniture placement, and traffic patterns and by the end of this process you should have a very good understanding of how you want the space to be configured. I did the same for my house and this has resulted in me doing away with a formal living room from the now traditional LR/FR combo pack and reallocating the space elsewhere in the home, such as combining the entry with the LR space in order to create a larger sense of space/volume, has led me to create a larger kitchen than would be warranted in relation to the size of the informal living room, has led me to other design changes that likely violate what trained architects use as benchmarks for how homes should be designed. Thank you for the garage tip also - I thought 24x24 was rather large? We will be getting an oversize door for sure. I'd say measure your cars, block out a 24 x 24 space on your lawn, use cardboard boxes or something else to fill the space of your cars, then throw in the other junk you're likely to store alongside the walls of the garage, and see how much space you actually need. Try to get out of your car and see if the door bangs the wall or the other car. A 24 x 24 garage is actually pretty good considering that many designed give a 20 x 23 or something similarly ridiculous....See MoreHelp! Do I want to use angled power strips? Do I want UCL? Ahhh...
Comments (10)You don't have to use the angled plug strips, you can get low profile strips that can be installed under the cabinets and be completely hidden with a small light rail. There is the plug mold type and low profile outlets. I have the latter and they are much more cost effective. I also have outlets low and horizontal in places were the appliances "live" full time on the counter. I do recommend LED cabinet lighting, even in a small area and your 120/130" walls. They make for a great lighting alternative to the overhead lights at night, plus are useful for their primary purpose. (We used InspiredLED and were quite impressed with the service, price and product, and so were my GC and electrician)....See MoreCosts To Hire Someone To Make new Home Selections
Comments (18)I often get people using indeterminate or non specific words to indicate their design style, or even, "I don't know". The phrase I most often use when I encounter that is, "Show me a picture that illustrates what you mean." Or, "Show me some pictures that appeal to you." It can mean more expense up front to a customer for me to explore their style together. But I have sat down with clients and created Houzz idea books based on a few key phrases that they have uttered, and then we analyze them together to figure out what they are responding to. That means not overwhelming them with too much at once, and watching their facial expressions and body language. Designing is a lot of psychology, actually! Between that, looking at their existing home, their wardrobe, and their leisure activities, I can usually dial it in close enough to limit 1000 selections to just 3-4. But it takes time to do that up front getting to know you before beginning the actual design work of pulling together selections. The hardest clients are those who don't know what they want, but aren't willing to trust me and let go of some control for me to help them. We both end up frustrated....See MoreHow much does it cost on average to build house like this
Comments (18)I just entered our information into the program below and it was amazingly accurate, about 1.5% or approximately 25,000 higher than actual cost. However we built July, 2016-October 2017 year and it may have been adjusted since then for increases in costs.. Cost to build I remember doing this from plans before we built and hoped that it would be wrong (overestimated by a greater percentage. Unfortunately, That wasn't the case. Other results mat be different, but it is an interesting exercise....See MoreLuAnn_in_PA
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