Floor plan critique
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Comments (58)PT 2 Chisue Thanks for understanding what I am trying to accomplish. I want to be able to say that I love having these rooms attached to each other, I don’t want this space near this space, etc and for me, bubble diagrams do not work, I need to walk through the space in my mind and floor plans do that for me! JDS I really appreciate all your comments. I am a person that researches the c**p out of something and then is very decisive when it comes to actual decision time. This is just how I work. I want to be able to recognize the architect for me easily as I will see all the aspects of great design in their work from the knowledge I am gaining from this forum, reading all the books recommended here, and feeling the spaces are right from messing around with my own floor plans. I don’t think all architects are great or right for my needs so I want to be as prepared as possible for this expensive and important endeavor. I hope you can understand that! MrsPete You are so brave to admit to using a stock plan with modifications! Haha. Your responses are always so useful! Cpartist Good point that feelings invoked are also just as important. I mainly want to feel connected to the outdoors and warm (not huge vaulted ceilings, no unused or formal spaces). JDS/ARG Good points about the big picture items being the most important. To me, using standard spacing for cabinets and standard building methods/spacing is important as I don’t want my costs to go to difficult to build things inside the house, I would mostly want to build to get the spaces and flow done right. The finishes are not nearly as important to me or my husband. How should I communicate that to an architect? I don’t want “fancy” angles or anything really architecturally renowned. I just want a house that has the spaces we need/want without lots of waste of space. Should I be looking for an architect that works with builders for cost pricing or one that talks to cost during the design phase? Too many reports of designs that can’t be built within reasonable budgets, even on this forum! Holly Appreciate the input. I find it fun so I wont be stopping but I swear I wont bring a floor plan to a parti meeting so don’t be too disappointed in me! Chloecat Your critique on that houseplan cracks me up! Thanks for the laugh! Barginhunter I actually don’t want two separate living spaces besides for an away space (playroom when they are young, study when older) but do plan on having a plan to finish parts of the basement to provide extra living spaces for the kids when they get older and don’t want to be right under foot of their parents anymore! Haha JDS I can be cynical about licensing but good point about life-safety codes. And wow!! Loving that sketch idea! Its what I have been doing on papers during boring work meetings but for some reason I was thinking to scale and exact “drawings” would be better. I think I will go back to sketching since, as you and others have said, the fine details aren’t actually something that will make it to a parti with an architect so they aren’t very useful!...See MoreKitchen Floor plan critiques
Comments (21)At 11'11" you don't really have enough space for island seating in the orientation you're planning. If you cant fit laundry upstairs as mentioned upthread, you should look at making the family room a utilitarian space as suggested by mama goose. Please don't make the rest of the main level layout awkward just to preserve a family room. You don't need three eating areas. Leave the living room a living room, the dining can become part of a kitchen with island and you can turn the breakfast nook/kitchen into the dining room with a nice patio door to the back yard. Here's a layout that puts a closet, laundry room and hobby room/office in the present family room so you can keep a nice kitchen/dining/living layout in the main part of the house....See MoreFloor Plan Critique, Feedback, Help Needed PLEASEEE!
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 MoreFloor Plan Critique
Comments (29)Are you still thinking of this as an A-frame? If so, you need to remember that your second floor is considerably smaller than your first floor. Even if your ground floor has vertical walls, and your A-frame construction begins on the second floor, you will lose functional space quickly where the roof closes in. You can’t have a bed or a tub against an outside wall. I’ve lived in an A-frame for decades. I love it, but it’s a very different process looking at floor plans for an A-frame. Even when I’ve worked with professionals they often have difficulty factoring in the loss of vertical space on a floor plan. If you are building an A-frame, I suggest drawing a line for yourself on your floor plan where you will start to be able to stand comfortably - where will you will have at least 6 feet in height from the floor to ceiling. Build yourself a scale model if you can. (Note: the scale model that my father made for the A-frame that is now mine became my beloved doll house. It even had our furniture to match when I was growing up. If I look closely, I can see where he had to change the model when things didn’t work.)...See Morektj459
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