Floor Plan Modification Suggestions
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Comments (11)Carve a few feet out of the MBR closet for a few cubbies and a seat? Stack the W/D and remove the hall door to the laundry? Enlarge one of the kid hall linen closets for a stack W/D? Steal a foot from the DR? If you are in a warm climate, put the W/D in the garage. Put the W/D in the basement. If it was me, I would prefer a W/D near the kid's rooms but then anywhere else but there. I would also make a bigger MBR shower and skip the tub since there are two other tubs. But, I am not a tub kinda gal. Is that one entry closet enough for your coats, hats, mittens, boots, vacuum, broom? I like that there is garage door to the back yard and that groceries will go right from the garage to the kitchen. This post was edited by nightowlrn on Tue, Dec 31, 13 at 2:57...See MoreStarting the planning process, floor plan suggestions please
Comments (7)Hi, Lucas Tx. That looks like a nice space you have to work with. My own kitchen needs are pretty much like yours. If it were mine my top priority, as always, would be simply to create a very good main place to work, a place I liked to be, with everything else placed to serve that spot efficiently. Your statement that "prep space between the sink and cooktop is small, I end up prepping on the other side of the sink" says something very important to me. Your prep space was never meant to be that little scrap between those two, it's that BIG area between the stove and fridge that you don't mention at all and don't like to work at. No matter what you do to the rest, if you don't move the sink you will always have a dysfunctional kitchen and be carrying stuff back and forth across the sink to where you want to work, as you do now. Therefore, if it were mine :), I'd open up the diagonal wall, decide where I really wanted to do my prep and cooking and then place everything else where it needed to be. Without much musing, I'm imagining the DW next to a widened doorway in (we could stroll right past with the DW door open), and the sink next to it looking out to the back yard; the DW side would be the cleaning side (where mess is gathered for cleanup) and the left the prep side (where freshly rinsed veggies were set for chopping, etc.) The stove would need to be slid somewhat farther left on the wall it's currently on, incidentally adding some more nice work space, but especially to avoid a competing-bottoms problem between the diagonal prep counter and the sink. This would create a pleasant and spacious main prep counter optimally between stove and water. The other cook could prep between stove and refrigerator. The rest is details. I'd do almost all drawers, though. I have them and love them. If I bought another old house, much as I love old kitchens, I'd eat beans and rice until I could afford to upgrade to drawers. Everything is so easy to put away and find, and there's so much more effective storage area (you don't have to leave search room for the questing arm and moving stuff around to get at the rest). Summary--plan on moving the sink. :)...See MoreSending my floor plan modifications to the architect. Ideas?
Comments (30)BTW I don't know how you'll be able to easily get large furniture into the master the way the entry is. I understand the need for it, but you need to make sure you can get a king size mattress in there or a wide dresser etc. without having to try to do it through a window. The same goes for the boy bedroom. The way the entry to that area is along with the linen closet and the door placement it seems like it would be hard to get furniture in there. At least the first part you can lift over the railing, but then that turn around the linen closet is awkward. You could straighten it out and have more space in the room with something similar to this. I'd still try to find a better spot for the linen closet or use a cabinet there with cabinet doors instead, or just make each kid have their stuff for the bath/sheets in their closets....See Moreplan modification, laundry room help needed
Comments (14)@hunt597, A little late here, but this is what I would do. Our mudroom closet is across from our garage door. We live in a four-seasons climate so it is nice to have the closet near the door. I would leave the broom closet where it is and place the coat closet on the opposite end of that wall with a sit-down bench in-between the closets with hooks and shoe depository. On the opposite wall, I would place the refrigerator where the coat closet is shown so that it is close to the kitchen. To the right of the refrigerator I would place the dryer, washer, then sink. I like having the sink next to the washer so that if I am pre-soaking something, I can easily shift it from the sink to the washing machine without too much dripping. Also in these days of COVID, it is nice to have a sink near the door for washing hands....See More- 7 years agolast modified: 7 years ago
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