Feedback on 3D floorplans please

11 years ago

I am starting the process of redecorating! I live in a small ranch. The carpet is wall-to-wall neutral berber. Right now things are pretty mis-matched, but I'd like to ultimately follow a Scandinavian-meets-Zen style (minimalist, clean, some artsy color). I like whimsy and bright (eclectic), but I don't like clutter. Most eclectic styles are just full of "stuff" which I feel makes it cozy, but too cluttered.

Anyway, I'd love for some feedback on the 3D floorplans I put together. The colors are not 100% accurate - it's more for layout. I'm thinking neutral walls and white/birch veneer/shabby chic style woods in the family/dining room. The aquarium is a 55 gallon on a light oak stand. We don't yet have a dining set.

Notes (before anyone asks, no, we didn't choose the current colors for the dining/family rooms!)

Living room: There are two white shelves on either side of the window and they are staggered. The 3D plan shows four on either side because that's all the program would let me do. They cannot easily be removed (we tried and there is no wallpaper behind them, ugh). Current wall color is bright blue/aqua. The wallpaper is textured.

Dining room: The aquarium cannot be easily moved, but I am interested in putting something on the wall behind it. The wallpaper is textured and the current color is bright lime green. What's the consensus on an area rug on top of berber? Is this a design faux pas or can it work to help warm things up?

We decided not to remove the wallpaper. I'm thinking non-textured sheers for the windows with Venetian blinds for privacy at nighttime in light wood colored or white. Or perhaps curtains with a small-scale print. Thoughts about which blind/curtain color/material would work best in a small space?

Bedroom: I am not sure what to do with the bedroom. I want to enjoy the room and it currently feels like a prison. Very bare and not relaxing. Right now we have a dresser/mirror on the side wall. I felt a wardrobe would be more functional and a decorative mirror could go someplace else in the room, but the room is quite small. The bed is oriented the way it is shown in the floorplan. The door opens into the foot of the bed. It is kept open, but it does clear the end of the bed by about 2 inches when opening/closing it.

Someone suggested eliminating the dresser or wardrobe altogether and just doing two nightstands and renovating the closet to provide for more space. I like this idea. The only obstacle is the insanely small (6x3!!) closet so I'd have to get creative with the organizers.

The walls in the bedroom are a pale lime (freshly painted) and the duvet isthis one

My concern with eliminating the dresser/mirror is having so much empty wall/floor space. This is the part of me that's *not* minimalist. I can't stand bare walls to be honest. :-/ I don't know how to get that "cozy lived in" feeling without filling the space.

On the floorplans, you can toggle between 2D and 3D in the upper right corner.

Bedroom with nightstands
Bedroom with dresser/mirror

Dining room/family room 1
Dining room/family room 2
Dining room/family room 3

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graywings123
11 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Welcome to gardenweb, handsforasl. The floorplans are a good start and help with layout planning, but they are not enough for me when it comes to fabrics and colors.

Could you post some actual photos of the rooms?

I'm wondering whether you had to place the bed in front of the window? Could you put it on the left wall?
handsforasl
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11 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Thank you for the feedback and welcome. I was hoping I wouldn't have to post pictures...lol I'm so embarrassed about the current state of things. You can tell nothing has been done. Most of what we have is being replaced. I'm open to any and all suggestions though!

Family room: the tv and stand stay, a new coffee table was just purchased (distressed light wood, low height). The sectional is being sold.

Dining room: the dining table is going. The dresser would be refinished and put on the short wall under a mirror, but I'm thinking it's too short.

Bedroom: we'd prefer to keep the bed centered for access from either side. It's a pain to crawl over each other...lol

Any suggestions are welcome. I love Ikea and maximizing small space, but I have a neuro issue that makes it hard for me visualize and put things together spatially.

Thanks! :-) I'm posting a link to the gallery of photos below.

Here is a link that might be useful: Gallery of photos for critique
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The generic Paint program works fine for copy/paste, draw lines, etc. Your image of the boys brushing their teeth side by side cracked me up. I haven't been exposed to that many sets of boys close in age, but of the ones I have experience with, that would not be something that would last very long! Actually, I would say boy/girl would need the most privacy, and girl/girl would need the least with boy/boy in the middle. Girls tend to congregate in the bathroom together - still do as adults. My sister and I had separate vanities, but we often made sure to be in there getting dressed at the same time to have someone to talk to or to get an opinion real quick. The small sink in the toilet/tub area was more of an idea of just a bathroom within a bathroom. Even though you will not use bedroom 4 as a bedroom, the next occupant might and for this size of house, 3 bedrooms sharing one bathroom is not something I have really seen.
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Stove, as a symbolic hearth, rules; sink slinks as much out of sight as possible because, IMO, not only is it not nearly as handsome as many are encouraged to think to justify expensive hardware, but it tends to collect uncharming detritus around it. Let the eyes just pass on by, which is happily an era-compliant look. They didn't know a sink was supposed to be, even could be, a wow! feature back then. BTW, they also didn't tend to know about large, deep 1-sink sinks into which a whole dinner's worth of mess could just disappear. I LOVE mine. BTW, the stove doesn't HAVE to rule, of course; that's a more current idea, and it actually often wasn't a feature at all in those days. Your kitchen might benefit by letting it also disappear into a handsome unified design meant to rule as a whole. My own (sort of traditional kitchen) is a drop-in cooktop with drawers beneath--so the counter and counter line are straight and uninterrupted. The oven's under counter elsewhere where it's not very visible from outside. (In my case, attention goes to the decorative wood vent hood above the stove and the windows flanking it.) I'd definitely keep to a simple open galley, as symmetric as possible--most attractive and space efficient of all layouts when it must be totally open (except a very symmetric U, which takes more space and may have function problems if not equipped with an island). A galley is also among the most highly functional of all layouts. If there's nothing going on at the right end of the island, why not slide a stool around there? Then someone could sit without presenting his back to everyone else in the room. I love white kitchens and have one, but if you're going to do flat-panel simple cabinets to go with the architecture, wood, even very light wood, I think is more handsome than plain white, which usually seems to lack something, even for me. (There is a higher-end high-gloss that looks very good, though; my DIL is trying to talk our son into it, and I'm on her side.) In any case, although I've never wanted wood, in your case I'd at least consider seeing just how light I could go with Ikea flat-panel wood for the lower cabinets, blending with a similarly pale honey-colored maple floor (one of my very favorite features from that general era), and then go white or off-white for the uppers to blend in with the walls. BTW, I don't remember her name offhand, but someone just posted a picture of her simple modern kitchen with green stone counters that's just gorgeous. Shot my "I-would" wad. I'll enjoy seeing your personal vision for your new home develop.
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I have been looking at this and intuitively feel like the bedroom side of the plan could be much better. So I started a very rough layout. First, your numbers on the plan don't work to scale. So, I'm going to post this mainly for thought, rather than specifics, because the sizing just doesn't make sense. Maybe I am misreading it and it is 1:30 am for me! But. First, I would see if a front closet could be put in place over the high end of the stairway. Second, I felt that having a guest room where a guest has to traverse a public hallway to get to the bathroom, is not a good idea. So, I configured the bathrooms on the end of the house back to back so the guest bath could be both "guest bathroom" and "powder room" for guests. I also changed the dimensions of the office and guest bedroom a bit, but again, measurements aren't real accurate. Since I put some plumbing on outside walls, proper pipe protection and insulation would be required to ensure no pipes freeze in mid-west winters. That is easily accomplished with today's products. I also put a "cabinet" bed in the guest room to better utilize the space. An additional closet for storage then goes in the guest bedroom. I feel you are lacking storage. The extra sized garage provides nice potential for storage but not in heated space. This could accommodate off season clothing, sports clothing, etc. I put a bigger shower in the Master bath and made guest/powder bath standard 5' wide by 9' approx. size. Hope this inspires some further slightly creative thinking about the layout. I haven't tackled the other end of the house yet. Have a wonderful 4th of July! The property and setting sounds really nice and you have a good starting point for sure. Sorry this is so dark, but it is dark out and I couldn't get it lighter. This is using 1/4"=1' scale so each little square is equal to one sq. ft.
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Thanks nidnay for posting pics. That gives me a fair idea. And as you rightly guessed we can't afford an architect or a custom build at this point. The main reason why we chose this lot was it's location, liked the neighborhood and schools, commute is easy for current job and future job opportunities in this infamous Austin traffic. Like anywhere else the farther I go the better value and square footage I'll get for my money but that's not a possibility for various reasons. The option I've is look into different floorplans which I'll do as no natural light in kitchen would be bothersome for me. Few of the problems pointed out are not really deal breaker for me and can live with those. Appreciate all the feedback everyone. Gave me lot of ideas, will decide on what works for our family. Thanks.
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handsforasl
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11 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Here is the couch we are considering:

Here is a link that might be useful: PS: Here's the couch we're considering as the replacement
camlan
11 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Handsforas1, I think your floorplans are a good start. They will show you what works and what doesn't work, what will fit and what won't in your rooms.

But the placement of furniture is only part of the process. As graywings points out, there's a lot more to home decorating.

I think what you are really looking for is a styleboard. That's where you put all the elements of the room together to see if they harmonize.

To start a style board for your living room, copy the picture of your planned sofa, in the color fabric that you are thinking of, into a Word document. Add in pictures of the furniture and other things that you have that you are keeping. Then, as you search the web and catalogs and stores, you'll find a rug you like, curtains you like, side tables and coffee tables and artwork and lamps and paint colors that you like. Copy those images to the same document. That will give you a feel for how the things in the room will work together (or not), at least as far as color and style go.

You can make as many styleboards as you like.
handsforasl
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11 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
Here is the couch we are considering:

Here is a link that might be useful: PS: Here's the couch we're considering as the replacement
handsforasl
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11 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago
That sounds like a good idea and fun too. Thank you!

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