Open floor plan - where to store stuff?
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Comments (10)I have peg boards and nails in the garage walls for gardening tools and other hardware. There is also a small workshop on the back of the garage which is now garden/lawn storage. One year I went to a garage sale in the neighborhood and bought two small dressers to put in my garage for garden storage. Gloves, small tools, yarn, hose connectors, bags, etc. go in those. The tools I use every day, trowel, and hand weeder, go in the bottom of a pail by the back door. Like gmjan, I have multiples that I don't often use but might. My favorites go in the pail so I don't have to dig through the drawer. I like the idea of a place to hang them so will consider that. We used to move every 6-8 years but have been here 13 years and "stuff" has increased exponentially. Need to do a good sorting and culling....See MoreFinal floor plan review (open floor plan) What do you think?
Comments (17)Thanks for all of the reviews. I will make sure to change the swing of the bathroom doors and will most likely make the pantry door a single outward swinging door. As for the family room, it's 18 x 18'2 including fireplace and built-ins. I'd like it a little bigger but we're tweaking an original plan and trying to only make minor changes to keep the costs down. I think since it's an open plan, I'm ok with the size. I've measured the size against our current family room and I've seen pictures of the family room in a built house and it seems large enough. lyfia, I hear what you're saying about the location of the laundry room but it doesn't really bother me. As for the front porch, I think it's 7' but that is the one last thing I have to confirm. I agree that 7' should be the minimum. Yes, we'll change the french doors to sliders. That works much better. gobruno, I hear what you're saying about the bedroom with the small dormer as the only source of natural light. Unfortunately, in order to keep the elevation the same, I don't think there's much we can do. I'm going to look at pictures of larger dormers to see if we want to make them larger. There are skylights in the playroom but I think we're going to add a large dormer instead. Thank you all for the reviews!...See MoreFlooring with Open Floor Plan
Comments (16)I wouldn't get 'cute' by using a cut-out on plywood for the carpeted area of the Great Room. I've seen that done by cheap builders and in hotels (where they have to replace carpeting often). This would work against you when the house is for sale: buyers perceive it as a cheap shortcut. If you don't want an area rug or rugs, you can have carpeting cut to size and bound. You can lay whatever depth of padding you want underneath. You can carpet OVER the hardwood, as Colleen suggested. Point is, the hardwood is THERE, and it matches the rest of the house. (A friend's house was only three years old, but she couldn't find matching wood to lay in place of the carpeting in her DR.) OK, if you *must* have a pantry that large...I sure wouldn't sacrifice kitchen windows for it! Can't it go between the kitchen and the garage instead? Your kitchen appears to have lots of upper cabinets. How often would you access the pantry? Wouldn't it be just as close in a 'back hall'. I would want a half bath in a back hall too, near the family entrance. Ours is the most used facility in the house. In your plan one must trek through the house to the hall bath. BR #2 would benefit from having natural light from two sources -- not just one window. Won't a shelf interfere with accessing your walk-in shower? I see no house plans with large linen closets IN bathrooms....See MoreTwo Wood Floors - one mostly open floor plan - crazy?
Comments (5)Brooklyn Limestone's blog has great photos of how they added new wood floors to blend with existing wood in an old house. The living room and other rooms have hardwood with a parquet border; they took down the wall between the kitchen and living room, so there was a 6-inch gap between the living room floor and kitchen. They laid a new wood floor with a different border, and it's absolutely lovely. I think it's successful because they didn't try to be too matchy-matchy, and let the different woods define each space. The post discusses how difficult it is to get the height exactly right to match up, but as other posters have said, a pro can do it. See link below. Here is a link that might be useful: Brooklyn Limestone wood floor...See Moreklhansen4
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