Building House-Kitchen Layout Help Please!
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Need help with house design and layout- want to build this year
Comments (8)A master with three additional bedrooms upstairs. So that wouldn't include the dining being converted or would? I think you will have a hard time getting the wish list of master bath ideas and all the rooms plus a bath for other rooms in a 40x32 space upstairs. If one if the three rooms is the dining downstairs then it might work. Or maybe in my head I'm allotting too much room to closets. Not sure. If you omit the butlers pantry you get rid of a LOT of food storage space. Fill us in on your family lifestyle. How many are in the crew? Is it small kids who would need a playroom? Do you want flex space above the garage? Do you cook most meals. This kitchen wouldn't be big enough for me. If you want cost effective omit the bump outs on the footer. And keep plumbing centralized in one 1/4 or so, of the house. If you have a basement then you would loose the entry closet for guests. With your list it might be adventageous to enlist in the help of a designer/architect. Jen...See Moreplease help on kitchen layout (and house layout)
Comments (35)I'm offering the following as a devil's advocate. Both positions for your kitchen are viable choices with nice reasons to go each way. That's why you need to draw up all possibilities to consider. If the middle is right for you guys, this will end up reinforcing that decision. Versatility and size? That 15x30 room is looking very, very nice as it is, but the far end is prize square footage with all those exterior walls (light/views in up to 3 directions), and right now you plan to actually dine there very little--pretty but underused. If you put the kitchen down there, that addition would be used as intensively as it deserves to be. The living area for furniture placement would be the same, but it would be more strongly defined. Nevertheless the whole should still appear very spacious because it would still be part of a 15x30 room with kitchen on end and still be open to the north, which would extend additional living activities that direction, instead of east. The dining room might well end up used more for various activities in the middle of the house. In considering this alternative layout, how about a pretty door to the outside from a middle/dining room, French perhaps? And for that matter, are you sure you wouldn't have a door directly out from the kitchen? You have an entry in that end that looks as if it would need some reconfiguring too. Would it enter the middle/dining room? Last night I also thought of one other -- possible -- advantage to switching the kitchen and dining room: the step down. This could be a design asset for a dining room, setting it off as special as viewed from the living room. Since you don't plan to eat there a lot, even with young children you could have a nice rug under the table if you wanted it. You'd take that step mostly on the way back to the children's rooms--longer journeys. For the kitchen, you guys'd be making all the many, many little daily journeys between the living room and kitchen on a level floor. Morning sun in kids' hallway? Have sunshine everywhere and you eliminate the pleasure of entering a sunny room. A dim hallway is often a design asset because it makes the rooms opening off it all the more inviting. I can't see what that cabinet in the hall is, but with a little attention to attractiveness and interest, the hall looks pretty good to me. The only way I could imagine to improve it would be to extend it to come back around on itself -- children love to run in circles. :) As it is now, though, the hall enters a sunny middle room in the mornings, setting that room off really nicely, however it's used....See MoreFIrst home - kitchen layout help, please...
Comments (6)Thank you so much for your feedback, lavender_lass. I cannot believe how much your design opened up the space. I previously though that a wine fridge would have een out of the question, but am beginning to rethink that given the way you redesigned the space. Thank you very much!!...See MoreNew Build - Busy Kitchen Layout Help Please!
Comments (3)"Sorry, it's blurry" oh yes! my eyes - thought I was going blind - lol! a clear pic would be good - with measurements and size of sink and fridge and oven. is that the fridge between cooktop and doorway? measurements of pantry also....See MoreB P
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