Floorplan / layout critiques & suggestions for new country home
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Comments (10)I've looked at your plan several times, but have found it difficult to come up with ideas since I'm not clear on what can be changed, and it's hard to see the measurements. Looking at your second plan, it's guesswork to see what the old plan was. It would be very helpful to see the original, existing plan. But I'll take a stab at it. What is it that you don't like about the MBR, besides the location of the WIC door? You said you're redoing the bathrooms. Can their fixtures be relocated? Can the kitchen cabinets along the dining room wall be changed? Seems like there must be a better way to do the butler's pantry, which is inconvenient in its present location. Can the locations of the appliances be changed in the kitchen? The great room seems huge--what are the measurements? Do you really need it that large? The reason I ask is that it seems like you have space in it for the dining table at the end towards the kitchen. If so, I'd go back to the 3 car garage, and just attach it to the house. Then I'd rework the present dining room, mudroom, and butler's pantry. How many people/ what ages are living in this house? Is there a reason the mudroom is so large in Baton Rouge, especially with the laundry elsewhere? I assume you need 4 active bedrooms, and wouldn't want to convert one to a study/guest bedroom? Living in the north, I don't know much about life styles in Louisiana. How much of the year are the doors and windows open, or do you mostly close up and use air conditioning down there? Which way is south on this house plan? How wide is the lot, and how close to the lot line are the doors of the present 3 car garage? More info and the original plan will help! Anne...See MorePlease review/critique my new house floorplan
Comments (1)Congrats and good luck on your build! I too am an engineer and we're just finishing up the build of our custom home (close on Dec-2!). I can tell you that from an engineering standpoint your drawing is very thorough but from a garden web standpoint it is very busy and difficult to read! We're building a two story so I can't comment on much of your layout, but I would consider knocking down the seperation between the kitchen and the living area. Take functionality over symmetry. As the designated cook, I like my time in the kitchen much more when I'm not seperated from friends and family and football. I love the mudroom, keeps the clutter and mess out of the rest of the house. I also love the 3 car garage. That is, unless you have 3 cars, then you need a 4 car garage....See MoreBuilding a new home looking for floor plan critique
Comments (15)Mark, thanks for the info we will definitely reconsider using an architect. It was not a we don't like the Yugo now we don't need a car it was a someone showed us a bike now we don't think we need a car. For the pantry we are considering cantilevering some space into the garage to widen the space. It would allow room for shelving on both sides. We are also looking into venting it. We thought about doors on both ends and may still make that change. That is a hall that looks all the way down to the "mud room". You are right we may end up with a pile of crap there that is an eye sore but in our current house this is the case and we can live with it. There will be a closet and then a bench/locker on the front side of the hoise that will hopefully contain a lot of the crap. Then the stairs thing, it's a 2 story house with a partially finished walkout basement....See MoreNew Home Construction Floor Plan - Advice / Feedback / Critique please
Comments (52)There's no such thing as truly free advice. If you post here, you "pay" by having to have a thick skin, not having control of where comments go, not having control of how they're delivered, and having to wade through conflicting and bad advice to get to a few gems. That said, you're not paying actual dollars and you're getting professional and high-level amateur feedback, so I'm of the view that you shouldn't complain about the "price." (Idioms about gift horses and mouths and free lunches come to mind). Ignore the irrelevant, wrong, and insensitively delivered advice if you like, take what's of value, and be glad this forum exists. Or at least that's what I remind myself. When I've posted my plan I've gotten all sorts of comments; while the negative (especially the unnecessarily rude, irrelevant, and wrong) can be painful, it's more than outweighed by the valuable comments I've gotten....See Morecpartist
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