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Comments (9)Their PDF format wouldn't load, so I have only the opening drawing to crit. First, do check the widths of all doorways. The kitchen especially seems to have narrow entries. Imagine trying to navigate while on crutches! When guests come, are you really going to take their coats and heft them to... where? It's okay to ignore me because I am admittedly anti-island. But you're going to have to go around that island every time you need to get to the fridge. Think about fixing breakfast, especially if you are too sleepy to remember all the ingredients at one go. Where is the microwave in relation to everything? Do you take cream in your coffee? How many times are you going to have to walk around that island during each meal preparation? I like the thriftiness of the utility room off the garage, but it's way too far away from the MB. If there is mostly only two of you, it seems a bit ridiculous to have to carry laundry past the MB closests, past the bath, down the hall and past the LR and the foyer and the DR, and through the kitchen to finally get to the washer. And back again. I'd give up that odd-shaped MB closet to put the W/D where it would be more convenient. I understand about needing an expandable DR, but I'm not sure just where a table for 12 is going to go in this design. Make a scale model of the area and a scale of the table w/chairs.... and don't forget to allow enough room for folks walk around a seated person. And speaking of seated folks, I highly recommend door widths, entries, and toilets be accessible for a wheelchair. Whether it's a broken leg or something worse, we have no guarantees but that someday it might be us in that wheelchair. BTW, a wheelchair is far more difficult to manuveur than are crutches, but I don't think I want to have either when trying to use the bathrooms. I guess basically I like the layout, although no way would *I* want 3 or 4 extra [bed] rooms just for the visiting grandchild. I'd rather put most of that square footage into conveniences I'd live with everyday....See MoreFloor plan needs your help/opinions
Comments (2)I would do everything possible to avoid breaking the kitchen counter for the pantry door and get the range away from the passageway. Perhaps the pantry could go where the mudroom half bath is and that bath could move elsewhere. The Library needs the additional space as well. I would also try to reduce the distance between the kitchen counters to 42"min and 48" max perhaps by using a wide rectangular island. The stair winders are drawn backward and are not allowed by any national building code. I assume the stairs are mislabeled. The door to the study should open into the study and perhaps relate better to the entry hall maybe even be a pair of doors. The garage doors appear small. The furniture seems undersized and the dining table is short and wide. You should measure your furniture....See MoreFloor Plan Feedback as well as Expert Opinion on Roof Lines
Comments (11)coreymays22 Rather than demean the design, as others have already done, I would recommend taking the floor plan to an experienced architect as a starting point. There are some good things that you can work with and they can help you weed out the bad. Identify the areas that you really like and why. There may be ways to capitalize on those areas and enhance the floor plan to meet your needs. A new home is too important and expensive to spend money on a stock floor plan you don't love. Spend the money upfront on a good designer and they will help you save more money on the back end and will help you create a home you will love. An experienced architect should be able to iron out the issues on the exterior. I would recommend working with someone that works in 3D modeling. That way you can get a better since of the overall look from all angles. Good luck!...See MoreNeed Your Opinions & Advice on Custom Home Floor Plan, Please!
Comments (47)I would like to thank everyone who took the time to read through these posts and to post advice and suggestions and constructive criticism. I am taking all of it into consideration and some of it was not what i wanted nor expected to hear, but what I needed to hear. I feel as if a little more explanation is needed. We found a builder that we really like and everyone that he has built for has been really happy. He had several plans that we could look at or if we had any plans he could build whatever we liked. He has a gentleman that could draw and customize a home for us. We thought it was architect at first and the price was so good because we were going through him and he would then be able to have our house plan to use in the future. Upon our first meeting with the gentleman that was going to draw up of dream home so we could make it a reality, we learned that he was not an architect, or designer. He's retired now from 40 years of experience woking on/building homes and is good with the software. He is very kind and has been very patient with the many changes we have made along the way. However, we soon discovered that he really has no design ideas or suggestions. He just draws whatever we ask him to or whatever I draw to send to him. If we wanted something a changed, the standard procedure was to just make part of the house bigger, we had gotten up to almost 4400 square feet! If we didn't like the way something worked and asked for a change, he would fix that issue and cause 2 more. I got so frustrated that we are trying to build our dream home and pretty much the only person I had for design help was myself. Uhm, I really want someone with much more skill and talented and better taste to design my home. I know what I want, I just do't know how to get there. We have been working on this for 8 months. I got so frustrated that I gave up for 3 months. Our neighbors are using the same builder and they had difficulties getting their design as well. However they had found a floor plan that they liked and just had him make changes to it and add a mother in law plan. I firmly believe that we are his first truly start from scratch home. Again, this is the guy the builder sent us to to have plans drawn, not our builder. Giving him credit he has taking my very very basic sketches and turned them into something the builder can build from, but pretty much the design is about 99% me, not that I wanted it that way. Here is where I'm at, so you can see that he is doing all the builder type stuff. We don't want to be difficult, but we want a good design. We don't want the builder to think that we are difficult or indecisive because we just can't get there with his guy. I'm at a loss! Several people wanted to know the lot dimensions. So here they are: It is at the top of a ridge, has some slope to it and has a nice open are in the middle. Of course we want the house to sit about at the arrows part of the lot. There is an utility easement of 20 feet on the right side of the lot, but the utility poles are more like 30 feet inside the property. I really do appreciate all of your insight. It has been eye opening. I'll make another post addressing questions and comments. Sorry to be so long winded....See MoreDesign Inside - Chicago
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