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Comments (14)@ dpusa - I agree with the prep sink. I think we are going to want to enlarge the island and put a prep sink in there. In our current house we have the sink in the penisula and it tends to splash when people are on the other side. That bothers us quite a bit. The 1 bathroom upstairs will serve both boys. The third bedroom will be a scrapbook room for the wife, but another bathroom might be something for us to consider for resale purposes. Hi lavender_lass, that is funny you mention that cause this is actually our 2nd set of drawings and the first set had the flipped. We asked him to put it this way so it would be easy to access the kitchen from the garage. So basically the architect agreed with you lol. I think that it is almost a toss up of which one would be better. UGH... Did anyone say this was going to be easy?...See MoreLooking for feedback on floor plan
Comments (11)How big is the pantry? What's in there now? How do you use it? What's in the foyer where the china cupboard is? Pictures are good, but quick sketches are also fine. I'm looking for ways to push your functional space out into the areas, by leaving the wall intact (if load bearing) but maybe creating pocket openings into which stuff can be recessed. Diagonal sinks, IMO, use up much more space than they save. A good-sized,, but not ginormous single bowl may be the best option in a small kitchen Do you need to have all the small appliances out on a daily basis? Perhaps some can live in the pantry. Have you considered making your counters and cabs deeper than normal (30" instead of 24") to get more countertop and cab space. Both options are a bit more costly but in your case, which such a small kitchen (and few cabs and modest amount of countertop surface - which is priced per square foot) it might be a very cost-effective upgrade. Search for references here and google 30" deep counters for more info. It also allows regular depth fridges to be tucked in a bit more resulting in a more counter-depth look without the extra cost, or loss of space, for a true counter-depth model. Fridges can't be installed slap against a wall as that will (if hinged on the wall side) interfere with the door opening fully and access to the hinge-side crisper drawer. Have you considered a smaller range (24 or 27")? In small kitchens every inch counts and for the same number of burners you have less space "wasted" in the middle of the cooking top itself. Ovens are smaller, though that may not be an issue. I was wondering if you had considered swapping the range and fridge locations. Put a narrow tall cab (could be the broom closet) beside the fridge against the currently proposed broom closet cupboard (which could be used for something else.) HAve a counter on the pantry entrance side of the fridge. Prevents having a cramped, slot of counter space between fridge side and chimney wall. On the exterior (sink) wall have a narrow-ish cupboard against the living room wall (to keep the range from being against a wall and give pot handles a bit of elbow space, especially if you consider a 24" range), the range, counter/cab, then the sink under the window and an 18" DW against the foyer wall. Moving the range to the exterior wall would make ventilation easier (and better and cheaper) and you could get rid of the OTR MW/fan. I am really interested in the pantry space as I think therein lies some useful solutions to your pretty tight space. Maybe the wall and doorway into the pantry can be completely eliminated and that space incorporated into the kitchen proper. A very useful tool is to sketch proposed options on graph paper, allows for easy sizing of potential items. Much easier to work with when doodling around than a computer drawing. It's the "what-ifs" stage, when all things are on the table that some of the best solutions appear. At the planning stage don't rule anything out (e.g.can't move electrical service for range, too expensive). While any one thing may be costly the expense in one are that solves another problem sometimes balances things out. Things can also be done in stages, as well, when there are budgetary restraints. And don't think that even the priciest/biggest of kitchens don't also have both space and budget issues, cause they do. Just different ones. Also are the openings you have measured for the doorways actual openings, or the dimensions including trim on either side. Those are very wide openings and you might be able to harvest a few very-needed inches from each - assuming you don't have any need for universal design, or wheel chair access at the moment. (The actual openings in the doors in my house vary between 29-31", I even have a pantry door that was only 24" wide, but we had to change it to get a freezer in that room.) Just looking at all the options you may have. HTH L....See MoreFloor Plan Feedback
Comments (32)Not sure if I’m allowed to post the Roseburg plan on this post or not? And should have probably started a new thread for this but.... With the Roseburg plan we’ll definitely modify it much like the photos. We’ll take 2 ft or so from the laundry room and widen the hall to make that a hallway 5.5+’ wide with backpack hooks and a bench. The laundry room door would move to the wet bar side like I think the photos depict. The kitchen appears to be more like 19 ft wide which should allow for a possible 7x7 island, 7 ft / 3 seat by a 2 seat+base on the fridge/GR side. We have 52” aisles in our kitchen now but I would think 42” should be fine? (19 ft = 2’ counters on either side, 7 ft of aisle and 7ft island + a 1’ of wiggle room) The point about the guest bath was exactly what we were thinking. One option is to keep the layout and add a pocket door to the bath from the bedroom ( don’t know about 2 doors to a hall bath) and if it’s a guest bedroom / future kids bedroom how it would be for privacy with a door opening to the foyer? We could also do a study with bunk beds for our kids to sleep when company comes. The third option would be to add the guest bed door where the hall bath is and bring the bath down and squeeze a reach in closet somewhere. Fourth, we could also add a 1/2 bath near the garage ($$) and close off the bath to the guest room. The last modification we’d make would be to take out the stairs on the patio side of the hall and shrink the bathroom/ closets on the other side of the hall between the other two bedrooms, and change it to a segmented bath 14x5 and go with reach in closets, and add a 18x14’ teen room at the end of the hall. We would also need an alarm or chime and high locks to keep the kids. Our 2 yr old is an escape artist....See MoreHere goes....floor plan feedback
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 Moredoc5md
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