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Comments (7)All of your inswing toilet room doors should be changed for safety, but esp in bd 1, where you can clearly see you'll have to stand atop the toilet to close the door. Outswing or pocket is the way to go. I still don't understand your back hall. Is there a reason to have 2 doors going to the outside within 5 feet there that I just don't know? I think I'd rather salvage that little space between the garage and the backhall (where a door enters the hall by the bathroom) and recover it as bathroom space or more mudroom, or more office. As it is, it just seems weird (and like a potential wind alley) to have 2 doors to the exterior right there. Has your architect maybe drawn in 2 DW? There appears to be another Dw to the right of the sink. Bedroom 2's closet, without dimentions, but just estimating, doesn't appear to function the way the "clothes" are drawn in, and I expect will function much smaller than as large as it appears. The back left corner will be dead space/difficult to get things into/out of. I'd rather have that corner occupied by the "s" in the bathroom than the front corner to keep things more accessible. (what is the "s"?) I like the feature of the seating area with railing on the front side, but do you think you'll use it? Right now, it kind of reads as wasted space and creates a really awkward entrance to bedroom 3 because of the limitation to keep the hallway to get to it. Just a thought. Finally, I think bedroom 3's entrance is very awkward. I think I'd try to rearrange the MB bath and closet spaces so that bedroom 3 has a nicer and more separated (from sound of MBath) bedroom and entrance. If you have a separated WC, you may not need to enter the closet from the bedroom, for example. And, that would open up some possibilities for a better arrangement of that mid-space between Bd 1 and 3....See MoreWould love your valued feedback on kitchen layout please
Comments (14)lisa_a... I am flabbergast! The ideas originating from this forum never cease to amaze me. That folks are able to take layouts and turn it around in a matter of hours, or less, and churn out something completely different simply amazes and delights me. Alright, DH loves your layout. He likes having a dedicated area for our kids near us, and especially one that is directly across and in line of sight of kitchen. We will likely still make our guest bedroom upstairs our office so kids aren't mucking in our stuff (missed bills are not a good thing!). While we'll keep the main floor office for our kids. It just makes sense to give them a space for arts & crafting/reading/playing while we cook. It'll also be easier to help them with homework later on, and yes, definitely easier to keep an eye on them surfing the internet. Concerns... We do entertain and have BBQs often in our backyard during the summer months. The most used path to our backyard is via the kitchen. Will the 42" entryway be sufficient space for people to go in and out of? Also, I'm not sure about putting a down-to-counter dish hutch by that backdoor. Post-BBQ, it's often a steady stream of dishes back into the kitchen for clean up. Would maximizing counter space here be more practical for post-party clean up? Did you perhaps mean an upper cabinetry-only dish hutch? That would afford me both cabinets and counter space. I really like the fridge location in your layout. Makes for an easy path to unload and store groceries when we get home from shopping. Should prep sink be relocated to fridge end of island instead? The current layout has both sinks so close to each other that I wonder if it's worth the extra money to put in two sinks. Also, assuming my dishes are stored in cabinets/drawers near the sink. Is that too far from the dining area? If I store them in buffet counter area, then I'd be carrying them across the kitchen from dishwasher to dining area. No matter what, a trek seems unavoidable. Any tips on how to get around/minimize this? Note, one of my kids' task when they feel up to helping is to put away dishes in dishwasher. So I've spent the past few hours trying to rework the layout to see if I can keep the existing wall between dining room and kitchen. This would save us a good chunk of money since that is a load bearing wall, whose removal would require us to put in a recessed steel beam. I've tried making our current dining room into kids' office/play area with pocket doors (we're loving the pocket doors!) and our office the dining area with perimeter counter space, but just haven't been able to make it work. Sigh! So it looks like the money will have to be spent. One improvement though (I think). I loathe the narrow hallway we currently have. It just seems like dead space to me. So rather than keep it, I've modified your layout to put our coat closet and duct work in the existing hallway space instead. This allows for a wider entry to the dining/kitchen area. This new closet would also be deeper that what we currently have, so I'd be willing to forgo the closet nook as I can stuff things into the deeper closet and also in the main floor office. I'm also tempted to extend the powderoom to 72" so the sink can go across the toilet, thus making the powder room foot print narrower and opening up the entry to the dining room even more. If I do this, I can then reposition the door as debrak2008 suggested to prevent toilet views....See MoreThis is about laundry room, but I would love your feedback on layout
Comments (11)Kooopons -- Your laundry room is amazing. Thanks for sharing. If you are able to measure, I would love to know how far off the ground your dryer controls are. I am the OP. Currently our washer and dryer are mismatched (because when we got a new washer there seemed to be no reason for a new dryer). If we stack, I will replace the dryer to match. I also plan on putting in new cabinetry and countertop. I can't do cubbies where the hooks are now because the room is just not wide enough. :-( If we stack and put in a tall cabinet, my thought is to do drawers on the bottom so things like the beach towels and dog towels will be more easily accessible. (Right now they are just shoved in the cabinet in a jumbled mess because they don't really all fit!) That will also give me a couple of shelves in a cabinet that are a little lower -- It is hard for me to reach the shelves in my upper cabinets! Stacking the dryer would actually be better for our venting. Our laundry room was clearly set up for the dryer on the left and the washer on the right. Because the door on the front loader only opens to the left, we put the washer on the left and the dryer on the right. This means the dryer vent has to come out the back and run behind the washer so both machines stick out a fair amount. If the dryer was on the left, the vent could come out the side and either go straight down and out the existing hole or we could put a vent in a little higher so it could go straight out. With respect to the drain pipes, if we want them directly behind the stacked unit, we would need to move them. If we stack and then put in a tall cabinet, I might just drill a hole in the cabinet so the hoses could run just as they do now to the existing drains but be out of site. I haven't priced out how much it would cost to move them so I don't know what might make the most sense....See Morekitchen layout: I'd love your feedback, please ;)
Comments (31)The last pic of your former plan shows an island overhang for seating. I understand what you’re saying. I was referring to the 12” cab between the laundry cab and 24” pantry. I would hang something like this on the inside wall of the 12” tall cab: https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/store/product/real-simple-reg-iron-caddy-board-holder/1018221497?skuId=18221497&&mrkgcl=609&mrkgadid=3253103175&rkg_id=0&enginename=google&mcid=PS_googlepla_nonbrand_closetlaundry_local&product_id=18221497&adtype=pla&product_channel=local&adpos=1o2&creative=232470226284&device=m&matchtype=&network=g&gclid=CjwKCAiAkrTjBRAoEiwAXpf9CfWWi9qDUSJ_1OFJJhzKUWTbnOzsGCB9bkAIwlkC4rLFJf79PwWoExoCtRkQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds Does your step stool collapse? You do need one relatively close....See Moregirl_wonder
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