Brand New House with Clashing Designs and Poor Layout
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Color continuity when two design concepts clash?
Comments (13)I am trying to picture your spa blue/green and don't think it would clash horribly with navy, esp if it is not in the same room. I'd be more concerned if it were jarring from the hallway into the bedroom. I'd make sure the hallway works with the bedroom's interior as well as with the other rooms it connect to. The hallway is a perfect place for a neutral to be a bridge between room styles and colors. Our new configuration is a fully open plan in our living spaces and those have differing vibes within the open plan. The kitchen and den are done in a retro modern look with clean lines and no wood furniture. The adjacent dining room will have our traditional 1930's Thomasville set but has a chrome chandelier to add some more modern freshness to it and that ties it in to the other rooms with the chrome/white lighting theme. I plan on painting the table's top and the shield part of the chair backs with glossy black paint to help it tie in to the black accents in the den and kitchen and to hide the poor refinishing job I attempted to do on the table's top years ago and have tried to hide ever since, lol. It will still be predominantly wood though. Our living room up front will have very traditional wood antiques, some over 250 years old, but the walls are painted in a fresh bright green (BM's Wales Green), to give it a pop/twist from the expected as well. The furnishings will be traditional in all regards but in an eclectic setting. I think the juxtaposition will be what makes it fun. All the rooms have bright white wts in differing styles. The kitchen and den wts are on one wall and all match. The dining room wt is on another wall by itself and is different. The living room wt is yet another style up in the front of our house. The trim in the whole house is white too. It would be boring to me to have everything along a single theme or tone. Our master bedroom in particular looks like no other room in our house and is our retreat. It and the master bath are done in a more sophisticated/fancy way. It has the only colored ceiling in the house and while some of the colors or tones are similar in a sense, the look and feel are entirely different. Our master bath has marble in both white and black and is much more dressed up than the rest of the house. I don't think the master bedroom or master bath have to please anyone but the owners of the house. If you do your whole house entirely one way, then there is more chance that if it becomes dated or tiring to you someday later on, then you have so much more work to do to undo the unified look. It is the difference between wearing a matching suit or wearing separates....See MoreNeed help for New House Layout
Comments (48)Norm, would you be okay with three stories, instead of two? Just curious. :-) It really sounds like it would be a good idea to shop for a professional designer/architect. A lot/land that is only 56' wide (my production home is on a 55' wide lot, I think), by 90' long (mine is 125'), can't really support a huge house, in my opinion. I feel like *my* house is even too big for my lot, and it's a single story, 2060 sqft home that is roughly 36' wide by 57' long. Do you have a strict deadline for the design phase?...See MoreKitchen Layout Ideas for new house construction
Comments (61)I've been thinking about the first plan I posted, with the interior laundry and mudroom. I still like it. If you put the laundry/mudroom inside, you don't need anything in the garage but a couple of steps (between the garage bays, where the steps start on the original plan), so it shouldn't interfere with parking. Moving the door down, across from the MR door, would allow you to have a ROTS pantry beside the fridge, and you could also have shallow storage cabinets beside the entry door. They could be used for extra pantry storage, brooms and cleaning supplies, extra mudroom storage, candlesticks and linens for DR, etc. You wouldn't need to carry laundry through the kitchen, but the W/D are still close enough to monitor while you're cooking. Likewise, laundry isn't lugged back through the kitchen. I incorporated the front entry closet into this version, and it's all included in your 14.5 x 23' space. There's a stub wall beside the oven, so the profile view from the great room is uniform. If you feel that the oven would block light from the great room window, the sink window could be widened. Note: I used 6" for all interior walls because that's easier to draw on my grid; you'd actually have a little more space on either side of the wall. You'd also have more space for storage in the garage. I drew the garage entry traffic paths below--it's not exactly to scale, but close enough to give you the idea of how the interior laundry/MR impacts the plan: Original, for comparison: Of course, if you use a different plan, or have an architect design a custom home, this is moot. I just wanted you to consider all aspects of the interior laundry....See MoreHELP with new home layout
Comments (19)It sounds like this is starting out life as a "granny cottage". (btw, not an "in-law suite" posted above, since it's a separate building). What accessibility features would you like to incorporate? This means door sizes, handles, bathroom fixtures, outlets, lights, knobs on front of stove, not on back.... Think these through BEFORE you finalize any plan, since they can impact layout. The plans upthread seem optimistic in arrangement. I don't think a king-size bed is in the cards. 2 queens are going to be a stretch. When you add adequate closet space, the bedroom layout upthread is going to be too small. And I think the skinny kitchen isn't gonna work: it's too skinny. You have 10000 compromises ahead of you. Plan your windows so if it's hard for someone to get around they can still see out while seated, while in bed, while at the dining table, while at the desk, while at the kitchen. I really need to see this with scale. The inside wall thicknesses are really going to matter. Now that I think about it, I have photos of my interior to give you an idea of scale with people in it. My house is 8 months old, industrial style exterior (full solar), 2 "boxes" for a total of 14x50 feet (a 14x20 and a 14x30) arranged in a T-shape, 2 bedrooms, fully accessible bath. My exterior walls are 10" thick. Very budget-friendly. So, I'll attach some photos in the next post just to help you along....See MoreFalk Designs, LLC
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