Help design 800 square feet
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Comments (41)This is an ancient thread. (Hello from 2017!!) I wanted to briefly chime in for anyone perusing this thread for information regarding an older home that has like victoriajane and another poster which has lots of entryways and confusing layouts for walls. I have chosen for my guesthouse to have what is called an 'unfitted kitchen' It is well used in England. It's more like armoires and dressers look. Take a gander on the internet. Bing.com seems to have better photo selections for this than Google, FYI. I wish everyone the very best on their journey to a happy and productive kitchen and home....See MoreHGTV Urban Oasis (1,300 square feet)
Comments (17)Ehhh, overall I like it but don't love it. I agree that it no longer resembles a 1920s bungalow ... but I think that was the idea. Some of us look at this original house and see vintage charm, while others just see OLD. They've brought it "forward in time" so that it can no longer be defined as any particular style, but it's full of today's trends and is fully staged. I think they used the space well, especially in the living-dining-kitchen area. With the walls removed, the place looks so much bigger! The kitchen is the single room that shows the most improvement. Wow, though I would've liked lighter colors here. I like the blue. I think the idea is that using any one color throughout the house will make the space look larger -- and it definitely does look larger. Typically designers use white as their unifier-and-enlarger, but other colors can work just as well. In this case, I think the kick-back y'all are feeling is that they used a dark tone; I think if they'd gone with a nice pastel Carolina blue, more people would like it. Enlarging the windows played into the visual enlargement tremendously. I also like that they dropped the blue for the bedroom, making it seem "a world away". I do not like the tile fireplace. I don't know why "the powers that be" determined that good old brick fireplaces are passe', while tile is super-cool. I predict that in a few years tile will be O - U - T - OUT, especially when the tile is such a strong statement, as in this house. I do like the navy walls and gray hexagon tiles in the master bath. I don't like the loft. Yes, it provides additional living space, but it's not at all private, so it's barely a different living space -- more like an oddball extension of the living room. Sound would still travel up, so while it's more space, it's not really more quality space. Hauling things up and down the ladder wouldn't be all that easy. I think it would've been better to leave this as storage, something that is missing throughout the rest of the house. I also liked the porches better before. I don't buy into the trend of outdoor curtains. Seems like they won't last long, and they sort of look weird to me. The garage is a good "away space", but reaching it would mean leaving the main house -- not always a good choice. For example, if you have children, you can't use this "away space" as an office -- not if you expect to keep an ear out for what they're doing. Or if the weather's nasty, walking out to the detached garage isn't particularly inviting. Yes, it's more space, but I'd give it a grade of C at most. As I said above, it is very strong on the staging, but I don't know why I'm supposed to enjoy looking at pictures of flowers and wine glasses -- that doesn't help me make my own plans....See MoreBest 4 bedroom floor plan under 3,000 square feet? Really struggling.
Comments (23)We remodeled a classic old two story 1777 center chimney colonial, pretty sure it is 40 X 30, 2,400 square feet, not counting small 3rd floor bedroom and a little attic space under the roof. Plain rectangular shape, no frills outside. Quite open downstairs with kitchen, pantry or front closet under the stairs, dining room, good sized TV room for DH’s ginormous TV, living room with view, fireplace, downstairs bath with shower, constructed not metal circular staircase to basement, mud room area with bench, shelves and good sized closet at side, most used door, three bedrooms and two full baths on second floor, including large master and master bath and a fourth bedroom and pull down attic space under the roof, vaulted ceiling over the stairs. It is mind boggling to imagine what you have the opportunity to do without the constraints of pre-existing infrastructure and a good architect....See MoreHelp in designing a 70 square foot master bath
Comments (35)@Pamela — If you look up my other posts, you’ll see I participated in a discussion about building a new home to age in place in (someone else started the discussion). Lots of people participated in that discussion and you’ll find lots of good ideas there. If you want a shower that will accommodate a wheelchair, the shower needs to be a minimum of 5 x 5 (if you want a seat in the shower, that requires additional space). Leave a 5’ circle (minimum) from the vanity to the wall and in front of the toilet so a wheelchair user can make a U-turn. We are putting glass doors on our roll in showers for the time being but made the showers big enough so that even if we take the doors off down the road, we won’t have to worry about water getting outside of the shower and causing a slip and fall hazard. (The tiles in our showers are smaller than the tiles in the rest of the bathroom — the extra grout lines make the floor less slippery .) If possible, design the shower so that you — or an aide— can turn it on and off without getting wet. The faucets should be low enough in the shower to reach while in a wheelchair. The shower should have an anti-scald feature. There is a lot of online info that tells you where to place grab bars. You have to plan for all the grab bars so that they are taken into account when the space is framed. I‘ve been told a bidet is a wonderful appliance — I’ve never had the pleasure of using one 😁—- but we had the electrical and plumbing put in so we can add them later if we care to. Make sure your entry into the bathroom is at least 36” wide. We are using pocket doors throughout most of the house. (Looks like your plan has this.) Check out the American Standard ADA sink that extends forward from the vanity. It allows for a 13” deep vanity (you can make it deeper but don’t have to). If you design the vanity like a desk, with a single sink in the middle with a 36” opening under the sink, you can tuck a vanity stool under the sink now and sit down while drying your hair — and later it can be used for wheelchair access. I really think your double sink is not the best design/use of space for an aging in place bathroom (IMHO). In our MBR ADA bathroom with roll in shower, we are having the vanity custom built. For the first floor ADA bathroom, we are using a pedestal sink. Make sure someone seated at the vanity can see into the mirror. We are not using a backsplash in the MBR bath so we can bring the mirror all the way down to the countertop. Good lighting. Ideally, you would leave at least a 36” empty space next to the toilet — that allows a wheelchair user to back into that space and slide over to the toilet. You probably won’t have room for this. We are putting in a new model Nutone exhaust fan/light that also has a UV light to kill germs near the toilet. Put outlets and light switches where they can be reached. i don‘t want our bathrooms to look like we’re living in a nursing home so I didn’t use any of the pre-fab wheelchair vanities and I found grab bars that look like really nice towel bars. I don’t plan to use conventional towel bars for bath towels — just hooks — my DH never folds a towel properly to put on a towel bar! I’m just using small towel rings near the sinks for hand towels. This site is wonderful for getting good ideas (and some bad ones too) but also do a google search — you’ll find some additional good info. So — after all that — I suggest you use a much smaller vanity (or pedestal sink) in your bathroom. .. perhaps half the size of your current vanity (you probably won’t like this idea but I think you need the extra room for your shower).. Then your toilet and a much deeper shower. I’ve seen storage cabinets online that fit between the wall studs that are 5’ or 6’ tall. Perhaps you could place one in the wall opposite the sink (if it is not an exterior wall that is insulated) to give you extra storage....See MoreSam A
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