Thoughts on contemporary exterior elevations? Windows in closet?
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Comments (25)Agree with Virgil about context being everything, so without that, there's lots of guessing. We also have a house on a narrow lot (vintage 1919) and houses nearby, though not as close as in one of the photos above. We did take into account which windows line up with which of our neighbors. On one side, we used obscured glass in the bathroom window and the other window has a cellular shade that is always down. It still brings in a wonderful soft light. the other side of our house is downhill and we leave the dining room window shades halfway down to obscure the roof of the one-story house, but open up the view to the sky. My point is that you just want to make sure you've thought all that through so you are not surprised or disappointed. Our house is very light for this climate, but it might look odd on a floor plan to see where the windows are placed. I would like to see some sketches of your house with a gabled roof, though....See MoreFinal Floor Plan and Elevation Thoughts
Comments (27)It's a big house but with a very small living area. When furniture is floated and traffic must go through a room, there is very little space left for furniture. Think about this. I like to sleep in, too. Since your house faces East, you won't get morning sun in the bedroom and can still have more windows/light. My own very large bedroom faces west and has two windows on that wall and one on the north wall. I also live in KY and morning light comes late here unless you're in the Central time zone part of KY. Even then, it's not broad daylight at 5 AM in the summer the way it is on the East Coast! The way the plan is now, you're ruining what could be a lovely master suite. With two teenage grandsons and having had two children of my own, the last thing on earth I would want is the garage entrance right next to their bedrooms! Even the nicest, best child WILL sneak out at some time and you're inviting it and also inviting "guest" you might not want in your house at an inappropriate time of day. You have acreage - for heavens sake get rid of that garage where it is now! That plan is for small subdivision lots! I can see the reason for the two baths if this is truly your "forever" home - when children are married and come home with their families, an extra bedroom will be very welcome. In a big house with the bedrooms on separate sides, I'd want my main laundry to be near the children's bedrooms as that is where the majority of laundry will be. I'd also want a stacking w/d in the area of the MBR so you don't have to haul your own sheets/towels/clothes all the way across the house. Do you really want your master bath right on the front of the house? With the tub at the front window? I'd want it on the back where I could bathe with no window covering and look out at my property, not the driveway and a guest who might arrive early! There is a reason that houses had halls for many decades - even centuries! It means one does not have to walk through rooms to get to another. It means there are walls on which to place furniture. It also separates space. I know - "open concept! open concept"! Sometimes separation of space is a very good thing! If you're having adult entertaining, do you really want children walking through the living room/great room? Your dining room is VERY small! My own DR is 13x13 and I'd kill for an additional 2 ft in length and width! It's very tight when people are at the table - I can't even walk all the way around the table to serve. And I hate passing plates across someone. If my lot were not so narrow, that's one wall I WOULD knock out and expand that room, but alas, not to be. You have a huge lot - make that a room that you can seat your entire family at someday when your children are grown. As others have said, the drawings are faint and my old eyes have had trouble reading the plans. I agree with all about that gigantic roof. You'll thank us someday when you have to re-roof that thing and it costs a year's college tuition to do so! And it won't be In-State in KY! Okay - wife wants a vaulted ceiling. Your living room will be cold in the winter and hot in the summer. Your heating/ac bills will be enormous. It will be noisy. You live in KY - it does get cold in the winter and Lord knows it gets VERY hot and humid in the summer! If I were going to spend this much money to built a large house, I would hire an architect and I would listen to his advice - especially your wife needs to listen. My own house is only about 2800 sq feet but I have more true living space than you do - bigger rooms. You can do better than this....See MoreThoughts on our floor plan and elevation?
Comments (14)Laundry room size? Will 6ft wide be enough? My laundry room is 6' wide, and it is not spacious -- but that's because I have front-loader machines. If I had more compact traditional machines, it'd be more comfortable. I'd prefer a laundry room with more width. While we're talking about laundry rooms, consider the pathway you'll take (and back) every time you carry a basket of clothes from the master to the laundry ... so many turns, so many doorways : I want a locker/laundry combined. This area is our messiest. Closing it off just makes sense for us. This issue is connected to the laundry room issue ... your mudroom is quite large, yet it's essentially just a hallway. Thoughts: - Remove the wall /allow the whole space to be an open work room. You say this is the messiest part of the house ... so place doors in the red circle spots; this'll allow access to the half-bath, while still closing off the messy stuff. - I "flipped" the half bath so the door would accommodate the above idea. On the subject of the half-bath, I'd definitely remove the divider between the toilet and the sink ... a small two-piece bath doesn't need to be further divided. - I do like the location of the half-bath. Tucked away, yet accessible. Large enough for comfort. - Move the garage entrance to the red arrow spot ... this means you don't have to walk to the trunk of your car, then the length of the laundry room every time you enter the house. - Move the washer/dryer to the far left ... this will allow the dryer to vent sideways towards the porch ... will keep the laundry relegated to that corner /not right by the common entrance ... and will mean that when kids bring their laundry down the stairs, it's dead-ahead of them. - Place a good-sized island in the middle of the room to divide of the laundry portion. You'll have storage under this island, and it'll allow the bit of light from the one window to spread across the room. It would be a great spot for art projects, etc. that you need to leave out a couple days. - You have plenty of space in this area, so I'd enlarge the coat closet /make it a walk-through ... could be two hanging sides, or one hanging side and one shelf side. - Finally, I'd move the stairs forward a bit, eliminating that bump ... the stairs don't need to be "set back" in a little indent. - Of course, this means that anyone going upstairs must walk through your laundry area ... but that's essentially true of the original plan too. I don't really care for the location of the stairs. They're an expensive, large, lovely part of the house ... and they're tucked away past the laundry? - You have so much space in this area ... I wonder if this mudroom /laundry couldn't also encompass the office? You have ample space for a built-in desk. Does the house look heavy on the garage side? What do you suggest to balance it out? Simplify everything. It's overdone. Too much roofline. Too many gee-gaws, just too much for the eye to take in. I dislike the two portions circled in red. I dislike that you have two doors facing the front of the house. If guests can see that porch door, they're going to enter it ... instead of walking around the garage and into the entryway. You're going to the trouble of creating a lovely front foyer ... position your entrances so guests will use it! I'm guessing you don't like a house filled with natural light because this house will lack that. This is what is considered a fat house in that it has more than 1-2 rooms deep. Seconded. Another problem noted below by the red is the majority of your house is pathways to and from spaces and not actual usable space. Yeah, you're looking at perhaps 40% of your downstairs being hallways /pathways. That's a very awkward path into the master bedroom by having to turn a 90 degree turn. Why? I could understand if it were a dressing area for example, but it's just a narrow and dark hallway. Gotta agree with this ... I can see it creates privacy for the bedroom, but it'll not be a welcoming entrance. On the positive side, the master is nice and private, and the pantry provides a good sound buffer. Why the angled door into the bathroom? Square up the door and put it in that poor hallway. At least then the hallway would have a purpose. I'd be tempted to place the bathroom entrance off this hallway ... with a glass door or a transom, you could get some light into that hallway. It would also keep bathroom light from spilling out into the bedroom. In my current house, bathroom light falls right onto my side of the bed ... I hate it. What's the point of the fireplace since it really doesn't have enough room in front of it for sitting. Especially since you have doors out to the backyard on either side of it. This is really different. I'm imagining two overstuffed chairs and a small table in front of this fireplace ... a nice little seating area, but people don't usually put nice little seating areas smack-dab in the middle of everything else. Your living room being enclosed like it is will probably not encourage people to go into the room. I'm okay with the living room. It's a break from the all-too-common great room that doubles as hallway. long haul from garage to pantry. Yes, I noted that too. I'd either use pocket doors or swinging doors on the pantry. The pantry is huge ... but only has storage on one side /inefficient. I'd put in one more foot so you could have shelves on both sides ... or at least go with floor-to-ceiling pegboards on the other side /so much can hang on a pegboard. I like the concept of "small kitchen paired with large pantry" ... with minimal cabinets and all straight-run cabinets, your kitchen will be inexpensive to build (well, inexpensive as kitchens go). I think this would be enough counter space ... IF you had an "away counter space" as well. What I mean is, I think you have just the right amount of counter space for cooking ... plenty for cooking, yet not so much that clutter will accumulate ... but I don't think you have a space for the coffee pot to live, for a cake or a bowl of fruit to sit, etc. Unless you're looking at these things being in the pantry? Refrigerators need a "landing space" for the things you'll set down ... are you okay with this being the island behind the refrigerator? I'd want to bump the dishwasher to the other side of the island ... this would make it more convenient to the table /the dirty dishes ... and it would allow you to have a drawer for storage of glassware /you're going to want to store glasses next to the refrigerator. drumset falling down the stairs That's a descriptive phrase! Overall, I'd say this house contains some lovely details ... but they are surrounded and encompassed by cliches and poorly wrought ideas so that the lovelies are almost lost....See MoreHelp Please - Best Exterior Colors for Prairie Contemporary Elevation
Comments (23)Funny. Who knew the internet needed things so drawn out. Benjamin Moore Storm Not a bowel movement nor a 💩storm The reality is to the OP the colour that looks good on your home needs to be your choice, in the light and location you have. Get some samples, paint some big pages and see what works. We did not have storm as our top choice before doing the samples. There are so so many grey colours...See MoreJennifer C
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