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Comments (78)Cp, thank you for those photos and again for all your input. Your staircase is beautiful: I think I’ve covered the rest of your questions. bedroom one dimensions are 14’1” x 13’8.5”. Closet is currently 8.5’ by 5’1”. In the kitchen if you're planning on keeping the fridge where it is, I'd put a prep sink on the island. Otherwise move the fridge to the right of the sink. (Although I believe the prep sink is a better option since then the fridge and pantry are next to one another making it easier to put away groceries or take food stuff out when cooking. —I don’t like anything in the island but would consider your suggestion about the other option. I recently set up a cardboard life size layout of the kitchen (because I’m just that nuts I suppose) and felt good about the arrangement that we currently have. But I’m not married to it. The weird jog in the kitchen is unintentional (at least I think!) The change there was in an effort to shave off some square footage and I asked to see the kitchen (and rec room) 1-2 feet narrower. It looks to me like he moved part of the wall, but somehow not all of it. That wall will stay straight whatever dimension we end up with. Don't love the afterthought door out to the backyard from the living room. -I haven’t given much thought to it. For me it could stay or go. Double doors never work as well. First of all they leak air and air leaks in. Secondly where do you put light switches? Better to have a single door with sidelights. -I know there are disadvantages. But there also some pluses- much easier to move big furniture through. Mainly I just like the way they look. I don’t plan on them looking anything like in the rough elevation though- I’m thinking 3/4 glass doors. Clothing can't turn corners in closets. A bedroom closet isn't important enough to need double doors into a walk in closet. -yes....this needs to be fixed When you walk into a house, a bedroom should not be the very first thing you see. -I know this is a big qualm most people would have with this plan. I don’t think it would be the FIRST thing people would notice when opening the front door and I personally don’t mind it there. I can see why most people would. Do you have plans that show how the house sits on the land? That's something any good architect would do from the start. -No, though he did visit the site. The master bedroom suffers from the same problem as bedroom 1. -We’re in Tennessee. We are adding a window to both bedroom one and master because I’m a fan of natural light. It will face west but I don’t think that matter much as we won’t usually be in the bedrooms when the sun would affect us. Again clothes can't turn corners. At the very least have the clothes on the two long walls and have the entrance to the closet (a single door) as you enter the bedroom. I have thought about moving the entrance closer to the bedroom door. I don’t know how I feel about having those close possibly cross paths. Whatever route we go, it won’t be double doors. And if it’s kept on the wall it’s currently on, I was thinking of moving it to the far right so we’d have room on that wall for a piece of furniture. Also again are you ok if your spouse turns on the light in the bathroom in the middle of the night? I’d sleep right through it I’m sure. :) I don’t suspect that would happen; the few times either of us have stumbled to the bathroom (only one bath upstairs at our current house, not a master bath) I do note that we don’t turn the main light on anyway. Too bright. The hidden room is cute but if it were me, I'd rather have an extra closet in the hallway and a window in the bathroom. -I’m committed to the idea of the fort room. I worked and worked to try to figure out a way to have both an exterior bathroom that was not aJack and Jill along with the secret room but couldn’t come up with another solution. Neither could the architect. I’ve thought about doing a solar tube light in the bathroom...but I’m concerned about roof leaks (metal roof). If I could warm up to the idea of Jack and Jill maybe I’d change my mind about this, but I’m stuck on the disadvantages....See MoreFloor plan feedback requested — dining room? the
Comments (13)No, you are right we do not need that big walk in closet! Reach in closets would probably be fine. I wonder if we could put a stackable washer dryer in the closet space in the master so that we wouldn’t need to have the washer dryer right off the dining room. The house will be in western North Carolina. It snows in the winter but we would eat outdoors 8 months out of the year. Woodsy backyard with a babbling stream. Views of the mountains in the distance but the house is a flat lot in the valley. We could also put a patio off the back deck if we needed more room but we plan for outdoor dining on the deck. Our youngest will be 3 by the time the house is ready so the open loft doesn’t worry me much. Our plan for the upstairs bedrooms is a bunk bed and twin in one room. Queen guest bed in the other. Our kids can share when we have company and spread out when it’s just us. It’s not a ton of space but if guests are cramped after 3 nights, it is time for them to move on anyway!! There is TONS to do outdoors in the area and no one needs to spend that much time inside anyway....See MoreDesign help: Kitchen / pantry / floor plan feedback?
Comments (34)OK, spent some time with cabinet & ID. We created access to the pantry and modified based on the incredibly helpful feedback from everyone (especially @mama goose_gw zn6OH & @Buehl!). Attached here is the latest floor plan. Having access to the pantry is great, and having the dishwasher on the outside makes cleanup zone much improved, close proximity to dish cabinet, and trash seems better positioned. Still wondering if the primary prep zone is sufficient (about 38" on either side of the sink on island). Also, per your feedback @Buehl, wondering if we should change our potfiller to something like this: https://www.houzz.com/discussions/2699429/prep-sink-next-to-range-how-close-is-perrrrfect, so that we have a secondary prep zone with access to water. Any other thoughts? I love the cleanup zone you had proposed @Buehl, but not sure how to get that while managing our window constraints & pantry access. One option maybe would be to shift from two windows to one? Not sure. Already feeling this is wildly improved, so very thankful to you all for your help!...See MoreFloor plan feedback please
Comments (25)I'm a bit worried there is too much empty, unused space in the middle of the house, but we can’t move the internal walls easily, and the architect thinks it will be a feature with the curved staircase and skylight above and will make the house feel spacious. It seems that the middle of the house exists just so the two staircases and lift can happen. Thing is, with all the space devoted to staircases, they don't seem to be particularly practical: Spiral staircases aren't really comfortable /easy to use ... yet this is going to be your everyday in-and-out staircase. Okay, you've got the lift as well ... but it only goes to the first floor, while your biggest storage area is on the second floor. I don’t know what it is currently, but I do find it odd that the main entry goes through very private area, where the bedroom and study are. (and yes, don’t have double doors to the bedroom, but perhaps to the study instead. Agree. While we're talking about the master suite, I don't like that you have to go through the closet to reach the bedroom. I'd like to see a door opened between the closet and the laundry ... so many steps you could save. Does the laundry room close off with a pocket door? It should, but I can't quite see whether it does. Ditto for the pantry. My sons have two sinks at their vanity and one goes unused and just gets dusty. They could have better used one sink and more drawer storage on either side of it. Agree. Drawer storage at the sink always trumps a duplicate sink. I don’t see a reason why the primare bedroom and bath can’t swap places. That sounds like a good idea. Other thoughts: - You have four public spaces: living room, sitting room, study and rumpus room -- seems like overkill. Do you have specific ideas on what activities will happen in each? - On the same theme: You have a whole room for "study", but you also have a desk in the kitchen. - In the master bathroom, where will shower towels be hung? - You have a full bathroom downstairs. With no bedroom attached, why not a half bath? - Alternative thought: If you were to add a door between this bathroom and the study + add a closet ... you'd have another potential bedroom. Maybe you don't need it now, but life is long and things happen. Or a second downstairs bedroom could be appealing to a potential buyer at resale. A small bit of work, it seems, could make a big potential difference. And flexibility is good. - I like that the bookcase between the living room and the sitting room (TV room) will provide acoustical privacy. - I'm not familiar with this car turntable system, but it seems like a potential for trouble. If the power goes out, you can't take your cars out? Does your lot not allow for any other garage entry option? I'm guessing this is a narrow lot? - Consider how this turntable is going to work in this layout: You'll pull into the garage, stop on the turntable, then -- what? -- either back into a parking space OR, later, back onto the turntable again. This doesn't sound easy. I think it'd be more practical to have a turntable against the wall for each car -- but will that fit? - Where will guests park? Will they have a direct, easily visible route to the front door? - Also, if you do this turntable thing, I'd say go with motion-sensored lights -- enough to light up the night -- so you'll have excellent visibility as you go through this complicated parking method. - Upstairs, Bedroom 2 has a fairly long walk to the bathroom door. - The kids' bathroom is large, but it doesn't have a linen closet or any real space for at-sink storage. I think you have ample space to add better storage for them. - With all the space in this house, I'd like to see the kids' closets enlarged a bit. I'd rather have a good-sized closet rather than a large bedroom. - Glad you're adding a laundry chute for the kids, but with a house this size, it might make more sense to add a second laundry room upstairs for their use. Even if they only have to carry baskets of clothes "up", it'll still be a chore. You could carve out a small laundry room from that attic space. - The outswing door on the upstairs balcony will impede furniture placement....See Morestawzy32
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