Critique our house plans
Stephanie Abney
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First draft of our plan - please critique
Comments (9)You'd have to flip the powder room with whatever that is behind it, too, so the entrance to the powder room is off the garage hallway, next to the entrance to the basement stairs. Then incorporate whatever that is in that hallway now (I can't read it, maybe a closet?) into the mulit-space that is now laundry, desk, pantry, and (closet)? Or, you could re-locate the powder room to the back notch in the great room, where the entrance to the basement stairs is currently, then leave alone your garage hall closet. Now you can use what was powder room real estate to re-coup your pantry space. Also, critical problem: you have no front closet inside front entry. Take a notch out of that laundry room to make a front closet off your entry hallway. If you want to re-coup your launrdy room/desk space, then bump out the notch in front of the now powder room to make the house flat across the front there instead of notched. This should approximately get you back your space you lost from the staircase coming into that room. This post was edited by beautybutdebtfree on Sat, Jul 19, 14 at 13:12...See MoreCritique our kitchen plans??
Comments (51)Thanks! I've already done away with the wall at the end of the island, actually. We do need a column there but it can be narrow. I think we do need a column someplace along the sink wall. It's the original exterior wall of the house so very load-bearing. I think without it we would need a very huge new header, and since the ceilings are already very low (7'9") I don't want it to get too deep. Plus, this new design, while it solves a LOT of problems, is actually shorter on storage than our original plan (which had a remote pantry no longer possible with new layout). And- in the old plan I had a hanging pot rack over the side window for pots and pans. In the new plan, since it's dominating the house, I don't think I want the pot rack hanging in the middle of everything... so that means I need to give up substantial base cab space for those items. Anyway I am getting nervous about lack of space so I made that pantry full-height to compensate. However, to accomodate the structural column it can only be 18-20 inches deep, which is a pricey upgrade. Maybe it's not such a great solution. Can you guys think of any other ways to gain more storage while still keeping the openness? I am also having a heck of a time figuring out the detail of the end of the run of uppers (to the right of the range.) Is it totally weird that they'll have to end 4" or so in from the normal location, to accomodate that header? The backsplash would continue along 4 " before terminating at the corner. Weird, huh? Actual measurements are just slightly smaller than what's drawn on the plan above. I'll scan the larger scale drawing. Actual dimensions from the OUTSIDE of the stud wall next to the fridge, to the OUTSIDE of the new header (I lined the back of the bases up at that point to squeeze inches out, even though it looks a lot better to place then INSIDE that line) is 9'11" If I allow 8' from the fireplace wall to accomodate the chairs and traffic flow between them and pulled-out stools at the island, (allowing 39" aisle between range wall and island) it's only 10' wide. So basically 10 x 10. Can I make the aisles narrow than 39" since it is such a small kitchen? 36" would help... Any other suggestions? One thing is that I don't need cookbook storage, since they can go in the adjascent bookcases....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 MoreMy final plans; posting for sail_away
Comments (23)Thank you sail_away. cpartist, Thanks for posting this here. Looks like a great plan, and I love the elevations. How long would you say the process was for you to get your plan fine-tuned to its final form? We gave a deposit the beginning of March 2015, I believe. We received our first floor plan 3/20/15 and the second one about 5 days later. We were still fine tuning this past December when I finally was able to say with confidence that it was fine. It took longer than usual because I'd send the draftsman my changes drawn out and he'd come back with something of his own doing. For example, once I enclosed the loft area and turned it into my guest bedroom, I drew three windows for the front guest bedroom. The draftsman drew two windows twice as long as what I had drawn. When I questioned the builder, he said the draftsman said that because I had turned the area into a bedroom it needed an egress window. Well the draftsman had the closet going across the whole back wall in the guest bedroom. I took one look and said, why not cut the dang closet in half and put the egress on the side there? And I said put my front windows back the way I had drawn them. And that's what they did! However every single change was like that. Also, I have always loved a U-shaped main floor, but never fully pulled it off with any of our ideas. Yours is wonderful. Thank you. Thank you ILoveRed....See MorePPF.
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