critique please floor plan, outlets, window placement
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First Attempt at drawing floor plan - please critique!
Comments (45)Chisue, yes.. we actually are planning on not going with the vaulted ceilings. I'm torn.. like the cozy look of the lower ceilings, but also appreciate the vaulted. DH is firm.. don't know WHY he seems to be winning all the battles! LOL Our current bonus room's AC is zoned, so with zing and a door. we will not have to heat and cool when we are no longer using it. After studying and study this floor plan along with William Poole's original Eastern Shore Cottage, 2 other plans of his, (which have almost the same layout) and using a tape measure to measure my current breakfast nook.. I think I need to make that nook narrower! It's almost 15' wide!! I think I'll make it move the width of the kitchen, 11' should be more than enough, don't you think? creekside, good option for the colliding doors ( open shelves) or possible could have the door open from the hall..? We are definitely planning our having the William Poole team tweak the plan a bit for us, so I'm trying to get everything down that I want to discuss with them....See MorePlease critique - draft 1 of floor plan
Comments (5)I don't think the no windows in the kitchen is a big deal, because it's very open and I'm sure you're likely to have plenty of windows along the back wall of the family room, which will bring natural light in. My concern about the kitchen is traffic flow and distance from one counter to another. I'm just not sure it's the ideal kitchen layout. I, too, could imagine traffic issues -- the entrance to the gameroom from the kitchen just seems a little odd to me. I think the angled linen closet near the master is a little strange. It will limit the "usability" of the closet itself, and make for a wierd angled corner in the master bedroom. Would not be my preference. Do you really need a "linen" closet there? Your master bathroom is huge with lots of cabinet space. If it were me, I would put linen "cabinets" in the bathroom. (many people use a vertical "linen cabinet" to break up the "his" and "hers" sides of the vanity.) LOVE the huge shower in the master -- very jealous! Seems like that will be quite the engineered beam that will be needed to span the "arch" between the kitchen and family room! That will be $$$ I would think, but I have no idea if budget is an issue for you. The Dining Room -- okay, it does kind of seem like an odd placement for formal dining. I guess I say that because I'm assuming you're going to have windows along the left wall, and french doors onto the back porch. Think about traffic patterns. 12 feet wide isn't super wide -- and you'll probably have another piece of furniture -- buffet / sideboard / china cabinet along the right hand wall. It might be fine, but again, not where I'd put a formal dining room....See MorePlease critique my floor plan before we finalize it!!
Comments (5)funkycamper, thank you so much for the feedback! I did actually consider putting the refrigerator where the beverage center will be, and there were a couple of reasons I decided against it... The first is that the space is only 69" long, so there isn't enough space for the 48" built in refrigerator plus the pantries, so I'd still have to have some of the pantry space be over where we have it shown. One of the reasons we are getting rid of the pantry that is there now is that it's pretty annoying having the pantry space split across the kitchen like that, I frequently find myself running back and forth from one to the other. Plus, if there is something I need from the other pantry I would have to go over to that side anyway, so it would seem to be more convenient to have the pantries and fridge together so I only have to go to one area to get the food. The second reason is that currently we have a regular depth refrigerator in that space and the opening to the dining room is 2 ft 5 in. We are widening the doorway to 4 ft and putting in a built-in (therefore counter depth) refrigerator, so I figured that would keep the refrigerator doors from blocking the doorway when they are open. Although I do love the idea of getting as big windows into the space as we can, the reason we have the upper making that turn is that we are going to have an appliance garage under it to put my food processor, blender, and stand mixer. I didn't want them to be too far from the range since I will likely be using them either right before or right after things come off the stove/out of the oven....See MoreCritique floor plan please
Comments (38)We think of our great room as huge (we had to buy more furniture when we moved in so it didn't feel like so much of a cavern). It's 20' x 24', with an additional 15'x10' area on one ended that is a strange transition space between the entry and the great room without really being part of either - it makes the room feel bigger, but mostly just collects things that we haven't gotten around to finding a home for yet. In the combined space we have a grand piano, two full-size sofas, two reclining chairs, two other floating chairs, an oversized ottoman and coffee table, three other scattered occasional tables, and about 15' of built-in bookshelves. I just can't imagine dealing with a space any larger (and quite frankly if I were designing our house I'd be find with smaller). If they are really committed to the larger size, I'd suggest they lay out exactly the furniture they think they want in exactly the arrangement. There are certainly ways to make it work if they're committed, but they also might find a smaller space works better for what they want. The furniture currently shown looks like something put on without a lot of thought (what with the sofa facing away from the fire). They should also think about flooring - are they going with carpet or hardwood or something else? If a hard surface floor, will they want rugs? How will rugs lay out in their space? When we buy houses already build we just have to make it work, but when designing their own house they should be able to make the space accommodate what they want to put in it....See MoreMark Bischak, Architect
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