Please critique our rough plans.
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Comments (7)I don't think you did anything wrong, you just posted lots all at once, and if you post on your own post (or if anyone responds to your post), it drops down the page. Had you only posted in a single post, it would have stayed at the top until someone looked at it and commented. Is it so important to have 2 doors to the guest suite/hall bath? I'd eliminate one of them. One is bound to be locked 99% of the time anyway. The house is sizeable, to say the least. Will it also have a basement? (Where is your TV?) If you only have the family room, the plan may be "too open" for the family to function well in multiple capacities/rooms. ie, it will be difficult to run the blender in the kitchen and have someone be able to listen to the TV simultaneously. Extend that to when you have company over, the main floor will function as a single space, and may not really be that intimate. Who lives here? Who will live here? How long? What climate?...See MorePlease Critique Our Plan!
Comments (27)Maybe there is a way to build an elevated house facing south, like what they do on the coasts where flooding is more of an issue? Like this: http://sandcastlecoastalhomes.com/wp-content/themes/sandcastle/images/slideshow/8.jpg I live in a west-facing condo, and it is hot as blazes every afternoon. I have to run the air conditioning for about 45 minutes every day at sunset. Other than some extra insulation and a stucco exterior, we don't have thick windows or a large roof overhang or any other measures to mitigate the sun. But it is bad enough now that it is hard to imagine any measures could work well enough to make me not have to run the air conditioner every day. In your situation, I'd have to be able to go at sunset and stand inside a west-facing house built with the sun/heat mitigating measures that were going to be used on my house and experience for myself that they fixed the issue. Otherwise, I just wouldn't believe it....See MorePlease critique our house plan
Comments (35)I'm also including the updated floor plan for downstairs. So I can reach into the closet cabinets in the laundry area, I'm told the only solution is to use bifold doors which I hate with a passion. The width of the closet is about 7'3". Originally if you notice in the original plan he had regular doors but the wall cut my cabinet area in half so it would have been useless. Any other ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated! PS As per suggested in the bath forum, I switched the door into the bathroom to a pocket door. Not ideal as I don't love them either, but this way the swinging door for the toilet closet won't now bang into the door to the bath. Oh and the kitchen in this is incorrect. See above thread for corrected kitchen....See MorePlease Critique Our Plan
Comments (15)Where do you anticipate the kids playing most often? If in the back yard, it would be nice to have a back door off the laundry for quick access to the mudroom and powder room. Same for you for doing yard work, or if you ever have a dog it's nice for letting it out back. How about a front hall closet? Even in warm climates you'll want a place for rain jackets, etc. Maybe push the pantry up to be level with that wall by the kitchen, and put a small closet where the pantry starts now. (I know that will change the shape of the FR, so you'll want to do some furniture layouts to see how that will work.) Your kitchen has the potential to be dark. Consider having no uppers on the right wall and making that windows (although with a porch there it's still not going to be sunny.) Look into getting some Solatubes in there....See MoreMark Bischak, Architect
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