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Comments (21)Have you considered a residential elevator? Might open your options up to other plans as well. Just throwing out ideas here and they are worth what you paid for them ;) What other plans might be available as a starting point. I can see plenty of ways to re-arrange things so it might work better overall. How much freedom do you have with changes since you mentioned semi-custom? Since you won't be using the upstairs it seems like you'd have a massive roof on this as a one story and thus a lot of extra cost to build something you wouldn't use. How wide can the house be? The location of some of the rooms, the choppiness with the room re-arranging and the sizes of rooms seem less than ideal for long term living and may make you feel the house isn't as nice as you wish when you live in it so hence my questions to see if we can help you achieve your goals, save you some money, and have a well thought out house that will work for you and your family as well as your care-giver. Our very good friends and next door neighbors have a handicap accessible house that works really well for our neighbor who is in a wheel chair and ours is built with handicap features as well and he can navigate just fine in our house. I think the way their house is laid out might work well for your needs and be able to create a care-giver's area with 2 extra bedrooms. It is a fairly simple shape, but they do have a detached garage. What are your requirements beyond accessibility? Square footage, garage, max width/depth of house? Here's an idea of how you could re-arrange it a little differently, but still has an addition at the back. I made the laundry the common access point, unless you absolutely want that to be separate. It could be accomplished. By moving the laundry I also made it easier to vent to the outside. It seems to me like if you can arrange your house space a little separate from the care-givers it will flow a little better, be more private for both. Just one wall to make sure noise doesn't travel and the house seems a little more integrated and not spread out so far. A little more like a duplex and the care-givers guests won't need to even walk by your front door to visit and inadvertently ring the wrong door bell. It is more like a duplex type design. This is just an idea to illustrate the concept and the layout could still be better, but just to give you some ideas of what I'm talking about. If you absolutely have to stick with the other design I would consider at least changing the bathroom up to be more like the one I drew in the care-givers area so you can get some more space for the kitchenette and sitting area. The other bathroom wastes a lot of space and since used by only one person for the most part could be simplified and use the space elsewhere....See MorePlease help! Floor plan critique
Comments (31)Not a pro and I'm having trouble seeing the details in the plans, but I have to agree with Lindsey_CA 100%. My "laundry room" is very small, probably 5x8 and leads directly to the garage so it's our main entry into the house. It's one of the things I despise about my house. I also have 2 kids who are now high school aged and between all of us, we do laundry at least once a day. My kids both play sports, so sometimes I have to do laundry more than once because the washer and dryer only hold so much. I can't tell you how many times people come flying through the garage and hit someone with the garage door. Or come through the kitchen trying to get out because they're late only to run into the open dryer door. I have to move the laundry to the family room to fold it because there is no counter space in that room. I'd love to relocate the washer and dryer but my husband does not want them moved to the basement, and we would lose a bedroom moving it upstairs, so we are stuck. We have a utility sink that gets a lot of use (much more than I thought it would) and I can't see if one is in your plan, but definitely put one in. Also make sure you have more closet space than you think you will need. I also agree that the exterior has too many juts which makes roofing lines more difficult. I also don't like having to go through the game room to get to the kids' bedrooms. While I do understand wanting to separate the kids from the master suite, when they get to be older, you are going to want to know what's going on in their rooms. I have a two story and can open my bedroom door and tell who is still up. : )...See MoreFloor Plan Critique
Comments (13)Hi Jae T, Congratulations on buying a home in the Bay Area!! Having moved from there 2 years ago and experienced the bidding wars and ever escalating prices, I know this is a huge feat in and of itself so congrats!! Knowing how expensive land and new construction are in the Bay Area I think renovating and adding onto your home makes sense and it sounds like you have a team of professionals ready to help you through it. As for your floor plan question, a few suggestions: * I would suggest losing the half bath and giving that space back to the kitchen pantry and master bath/ closet or creating a mud room/ pantry entry off the garage. Bathrooms and kitchens are the most expensive remodels and it would definitely not be ideal to have people walk through a back of house space like the pantry to get to the powder bath. * I would recommend speaking with your Architect about removing the walls around your existing kitchen and rethinking the layout in order to create a larger, more open kitchen/ dining/ living space. * Also, love the office opening onto the master bedroom * You have likely already done this but I'd speak with your Architect about phasing. There may be a better way to approach this so you aren't paying people to remobilize on site 5 separate times or going in for 5 separate permits to the city. Hope this helps, best of luck with the renovation !...See MoreFloor plan critique
Comments (23)Mark- yes, we have thought of it, and the architect will be quoting us a price to do just that. I’m worried that cost will be prohibitive. If it is in the 10k or less range, that is likely what we will do, just using this plan to illustrate a lot of the things we like so he has an understanding of where to start. If it is 50k plus, then we will have to make due with a stock plan. Estimates that I’ve read online about architecture services differ so wildly that I am not sure what to expect. We know a plan would be most useful if planned specifically for us, but also know that this stock plan will suit us well enough if cost keeps us from having a customized home. I know it is the better option, but I am preparing myself that it may not be the option we have available to us based on cost. cp- we own the plan with the right to have it used and changed. If a draftsman within the firm will be the one to take on the project because the architect would rather not adjust a stock plan, then that may be what we have to do if the cost for a truly unique plan is beyond what we are comfortable spending. bpath- my thought for that wrap area was to store things that we dont much use, like the stand mixer, dehydrator, canning supplies, etc. The space that is more easily accesible would be food. does it seem to be too awkward of a space for that? In my head I picture it as being able to step into it and turn all directions easily, but not really walk around. Do you think it won’t even be enough space for that? It is difficult for me to visualize it without photos of the actual space. If it seems more like I’d have to reach in and to the right, then that would definitely be too awkward. We plan on having only lower cabinets in the kitchen, so I do need that pantry space to be useful for storing some of those larger items....See Morebpath
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