Design #1 versus Design # 2 ? (exterior from the front)
michaelraysmith
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Newbie - 2nd floor addition - exterior design help needed
Comments (11)Thanks Palimpsest for blowing it up and commenting and to other for their comments. I've been away but got together w/ and architect last week. Surprised at the estimate - $6000 for design/plans/working w/ city - permits. Is that in the range for a basic second floor addition to a 750sq ft house? Palimpsest - both 1st floor windows will be partially overshadowed by a front porch with sloping roof (this roof helps disguise the brick to siding transition and "heavy" look of the second floor being bigger than the first (taller due to running floor joists over existing trusses (sorry if my terms are wrong)....See MoreDesign Finalization is So Close - Option 1 or Option 2 - Thoughts???
Comments (3)Frankly, all I see is a barrier island which is an island blocking the major paths. You either need a smaller island or a small work table there to make things more functional and to gain better traffic flow. We cook from fridge to prep/sink to cooktop. (Do a search for a Ice Water Stone Fire for more info.) To go from the fridge to sink, you have to walk around the island. You also have to walk through the cooking area. It's better to eliminate or at least minimize walking through work zones. I don't think you have room for such a big island. And it looks like your aisles are only about 42" behind the range which aren't wide enough for people to walk behind the cook. Aisles should be minimum of 48" for that. Note that is a minimum. I can't read the aisle widths between island/fridge and island/sink but they look quite narrow. Again, you should really have 48" aisles, minimum. People often want wider in front of the fridge to allow for door swing. I don't think you have room for an island bigger than this. To be honest, in your situation I would probably go for a smaller, mobile work table/cart/butcher block. This gives enough width for someone to walk behind the range safely and to not have to veer to walk around a barrier island to prepare a meal....See MoreTransition from 2nd story front entrance to 1st story driveway/street
Comments (15)"... planning to bring the drive up as high as possible now, though ... we don't want it so high that it starts to block that lower-level window on the left." Your problem with getting good feedback is going to be that you're starting this process without properly introducing people to the surrounding site. We have only a snippet of information ... more or less a theoretical house front. Not a complete front yard or a driveway or even a good picture that shows the land/house relationship. As it is, every solution offered is already limited by your own preconceived notions, which limit what you show us. We've been here before and didn't come to a conclusion that you got excited. The set-up now is little different. Whatever you do architecturally, outside of changing the main entrance to the basement floor, will make no difference insofar as solving the problem, which has not yet been clearly identified (the path from parking-to-front-door problem.) No one can investigate how changing the approach to the house might work toward solving your problem. Most other threads on the forum seem to reach a more or less successful conclusion because they involve a little planting or a simple problem. Here, the problem is much more complex, but the base information is threadbare. Like a newspaper that starts with the front page headlines, and then goes to article titles, and then on to elaboration of details, is how you should be presenting information. We should see the whole front yard at a distance, some sequential pictures that show the present approach, some wide span scenes (from slightly overlapping pictures) that show the area from at least 2, or maybe three different points of view, since there is topography involved. (Each point of view should be a complete scene ... not a disconnected picture.) A landscape architect could not assess and explore the issue with so little information to go on. I'm not trying to be a downer about your thread or issue, but trying to say if you want to be happy when you leave, you've got to produce enough information to work with....See MoreNeed advice from architect, builder or designer on footprint/exterior
Comments (10)No one will notice the depth. Everyone will notice the width. If you’re nuts over symmetry, why hasn’t that made your radar before the inconsequential 1’ difference. If you didn’t notice that, then the 1’ depth issue is just a burr in the top side of your saddle blanket. It won’t bother the horse or the rider, or the next cowboy over either....See Morebpath
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