House plan thoughts?
Bri Bosh
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Comments (19)When we built our last home, we had an unfinished room under our living room and waited til we moved in our furniture and then installed two floor outlets. Of course a few years later after we finished the rec room below and relocated our upstairs furniture downstairs, we bought new furniture and found a better furniture layout which mean't one of our outlets was under the area rug. You are not supposed to use outlets under a rug or run electrical cord under a rug, so we covered that outlet up. (it was a brass plated raised outlet.) Recently we moved to a home where the floor outlets were in a totally unusable area. We removed the offending outlet, had the wood floor fixed and refinished (which it needed) and relocated the floor outlet between the back of the sofa and the sofa table. We used a double round brass FLAT floor outlet that was recommended by the electrician (it is great) easy to sweep over and cover if you change your furniture around. We got an outlet where the plug covers can be removed and store them in a safe place....See MoreSmall house floor plan, thoughts?
Comments (6)Have you checked out countryplans.com? They have neat small and affordable designs, and there is a great forum with friendly and helpful people. I've gotten a lot of ideas and inspiration there. It fits in nicely with the true DIY (like me) with a limited budget. Even if you design your own place, which I'm doing as well, there's a lot of good info there, and you don't have to buy their plans to post on the site. I've thought about building our place in stages, but decided I'm too old. Once my place is done, that's it! Our needs are quite different- empty-nesters nearing retirement....See MoreFlatfish Island Designs
Comments (3)I have been looking again at these houses. Robotropolis suggested in another thread that I take a closer look at the Perch houses -- the vaulted porch on those is a feature I really like. We had looked into doing a raised house with a porch like that (though a really different floorplan -- would have been three stories with the crawlspace at head height for garage and storage and additional bedrooms on top) when we started planning. So although I love the porch, I hadn't looked so closely at the floorplan. We do want cottage-y, but this seemed at first glance a little too small in some spaces, namely the kitchen and secondary bedrooms. What if we made those bedrooms and the great room a little bit wider and ran the kitchen the other way? Any thoughts on this one? Maybe I am reaching for straws now. I do quite like the Tide collection, but no vaulted ceilings in those. Here is a link that might be useful: Seven Reaches Perch...See MoreHouse plan thoughts
Comments (20)Ironically, I find my best clients are lawyers and doctors (especially psychiatrists). Not only do they readily accept the benefit of professional assistance but they think my fee is a bargain. Heh. Maybe that's why my architect seems to like me. I'm a veterinarian. I get the whole "this is harder than it looks" aspect of a professional design. I don't expect you to wander into my office and ask to spay your own cat, after all. ;-) I take everything he says, go away, and think it over. And I've warned him that that's my intellectual style - I'll give you a knee-jerk, "no," then wander off, ponder, and come back and say, "yes, if...." I need time to get used to ideas I hadn't had on my radar screen. I've gotten over the need for my bedroom to be upstairs BUT I do prefer it on the back of the house. I'm perennially amazed at these stock plans with either bedroom or sometimes bathroom (?!?!??) windows on the porch or at least in the prime spot on the front of the house. Rly? You want to watch people come up the drive as you bathe? One of my requests of my architect was to put some effort into keeping the private areas of the house just that....See MoreSusan Murin
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