Open floor plan kitchen/living room/dining area- need help defining sp
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Comments (16)Thanks for the feedback everyone! A little more information, we live in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the local building department allows us to only have an engineers stamp, it isn't required to have an architect. Additionally, our builder (while not an architect) has a lot of experience drawing up plans, and if we could find a floor plan that only needed some modification then he could draw up the plans. Maybe we will end up going to an architect after all, however at the moment I'm just trying to collect some floor plan options to see if we can avoid it. Ideally, we are looking for a single story home that has a large great room, windows in the kitchen, 3-4 bedrooms and about 3000 square feet. We don't need a seperate dining room, or formal living room, though if a plan has a dining room we will turn it into an office, or some sort of other "flex" space. Thanks!!...See MoreNeed help for my open kitchen, dining and living room layout design
Comments (5)It would be possible to put a play corner in the first two drawings but not in alternative 2. I would recommend a corner of storage furniture to corral the toys. I am usually a fan of built-ins but not in this case because eventually the kids will outgrow their toys and you won't need that storage there anymore. The built-in exception would be a window seat under one of those windows on the plans. Some of the storage could be cabinets or bookshelves for bins or toys underneath a window seat. I'm not a fan for toy box style storage because they either become a black hole or the kids throw everything out of them looking for what they want and then do't put the rest of it back. As for the kitchen placement, near to the deck would be best in you like to eat outdoors on the deck or entertain on the deck. We entertain a lot and the kitchen is on the other side of the house from the patio. It's a real pain and a big part of my design brief for the architect was for the kitchen to be next to the patio. I even wanted a pass-through window from the kitchen sink to the patio for ease of clean up but unfortunately I wasn't able to work that out....See MoreNeed help for my open living/dining area
Comments (20)Often good re-decorating requires taking some elements away, but you are asking for a feel of luxury, so you need to carefully add elements. If you have enough space and budget, then consider continuing the built-in to the other side of the fire place, and painting all of it to match. That will anchor the fireplace as the focal point of the room. Fabric can really add a sense of luxury so you could raise the curtain rods and add longer drapes on either side of the windows, with a filler spanning in between, not a swag, but something like you'll see as an example on the the first picture that Beverly posted. Original art says "luxe" and it looks like you have space for a great and sizable piece of art on the wall adjacent to the sideboard across from the dining room. Larger accessories absolutely, and some that are taller. They don't have to be expensive, but they should be things you really enjoy looking at and that you find delightful, or even amusing. Garage sales and flea market are gold mines. Then look carefully at the 2nd pic from Beverly and you'll get and idea on how to do a collection of smaller items to make a bolder statement (collections are 3 or more items.) The key to unifying is color. You've done a good job with your neutrals, add a couple of more luxurious throws in that palette and a few pillows. It looks like you enjoy blues so add that to the mix as well and a pop of black here and there and you should be well on your way....See MoreHelp! Dining room help open concept no idea what to do with floor plan
Comments (7)I feel like this is a family room type look. But you can use as dining room if that works better for you Many will ask for more pictures and a floor plan. So if you can post those. But I guess to answer your question, if you do end up using this as a dining room: There’s not much room for much so a rug, table, chairs, maybe a bench on one side, what’s your style? Maybe wallpaper on the walls....See MoreRelated Professionals
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4 years agoI know drawing a to scale floorplan can be difficult if you have not done this before.
Can you take a tape measure and just let us know where I have things wrong.
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Wow, this is great. Thank you :)
The upper right wall is 52.5 inches from wall to entry doorway (this leads to the garage).
Here are corrections, let me know if it doesn't make sense...I am new to this, lol!
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Okay - did the corrections and think I have a close approximation of your space.
Each block represents 1 foot.
The gray area is the space needed around the island for walking with people seated - should be clear of furniture.
Can you take a picture of the full wall where the fireplace and tv nook are - not sure I got their placements right.
Do you plan on using the tv nook for the TV? How did you envision the living/seating areas when you designed the kitchen?
How many people need to be seated - do you need a dining space and how many people need to sit at the dining table or are you just using the island for meals?
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No, there is a counter right next to the refrigerator and the island diagonal from it.
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If the DR is on the fireplace side, I have a hutch that would fit in the nook, but might look weird? Really nowhere else to put it and I have a lot if china, etc. Or, a TV console that would fit back there too...
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I think I would do a 3x2 sectional sofa, a chair, a 48" round table with leaves for extending when you need additional seating.
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