Floor plan Feedback
Jennifer Leavitt
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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! Particularly the kitchen layout.
Comments (22)Have you mentally walked through the entire plan to see how well it will work for you and your family and how you will feel from the time you drive onto your property, how you will exit the property and how each member of the family will go through their day inside this home. First thing I notice is the entire front is driveway. Side entrance garages are great when they allow for greater curb appeal and easier turn arounds to exit. I don't really see the point of yours. It would be easier to pull straight into the garage and would look better with some yard in front. Only the first car can back out and turn to drive down the driveway without futzing around. You walk into a 10 x 12 entry - No closet. What do you do with that space? You have a full bath between the office and the entry. Not bad if you are planning on the office someday being a granny suite or guest bedroom, but if you are using it as a work at home office you just need a powder room. An office with a center desk and 2 chairs. Do you meet with clients in this office or is a real working office where you will have a computer Are you getting floor outlets so that the computer can be plugged in and not have cords running across the floor When you walk through the entry into the living room you walk into the side of the sofa or need to walk around the sofa. Have you given any thought on how you will use the living room? You can sit and have great conversations, but watching TV is the most common living room activity and you really only have the space over the fireplace to place the TV and have it viewable from the short side of the sectional sofa. I agree with the others that the kitchen is not well planned. Both working areas have only 4' walkways. You have the space that you could have had a great kitchen without a sink in the island and with at least one wall that wasn't broken by doorways. The room marked office is confusing - is that a dumping ground for mail? You have a sink in the mudroom, but no counter area around it and you have a sink in the powder room, one in the scullery and one in the kitchen. How many sinks do you need? Why all walk in closets that are too small to work well. Reach in closets and reach in pantries are so much more efficient than small walk ins. Oh, and you walk into the house and walk into the side of the island. The same stuff is going on upstairs. Another lounge area? Does every bedroom need a private bath? Why is your closet so massive while the other bedrooms have unusable corner walk ins? Do you realize that if you hung 2 bars (upper and lower) on just the back wall you could hang 454 items of clothing. (16 per linear feet) Your closet will hold enough outfits that you wouldn't need to wear anything twice in a year. a 6' reach in closet in each of the other bedrooms would provide better clothing storage and take less square footage than all those 5x5 or 6x5 walk in closets. Why have a hallway linen closet when their isn't a communal bathroom anywhere?...See MoreFloor Plan feedback
Comments (26)It is a bit of an inside joke with Architectrunnerguy and those that follow his comments. He at times will post examples of his beautiful work, and in his illustrations of the homes he will normally have smoke coming from the chimney and some stylize clouds that I will sometimes poke fun at. Check out his work, it is inspiring....See MoreCustom home floor plan feedback, round 1 of ?
Comments (50)Thanks for clarifying. I'm not super quick to picture these suggestions (especially with the mental inertia that this design has). So I need to spend some time to try to sketch and see what that means on each level (right now swapping the entry/stairs sounds to me like opening the door into the guest suite or into the kitchen/living space). We were trying to keep mudroom and entry close (for flooring/tiles and easy path to coat closet -- an entry zone like bpath mentions), and rest assured the walls won't be blank. The upstairs purposefully walks into a wall as well rather than walking right into the bath, but maybe to make the left end of that hallway more meaningful, we can pull the office south so the doors are the end of the hallway? (rather than doors off of the hallway, and it ending in a not-to-be-blank wall) I see it's worth addressing each area where the angle disrupts rather than improves, though, and the three different segments of the stairs is one of those areas (the open basement might be the only space that "improves" with the angle, or perhaps it isn't as awkward as the others to draw attention to itself). If the area can't be fixed (kitchen seems like it needs some thought), then that really drives us to a different footprint....See MoreJennifer Leavitt
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