Addition Ideas For Stone House
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Comments (2)Thanks a lot! jon1270 Your pointed out the right problems; I don't know the answers for most of your questions. For size, I want about 500 square feet (unless additional will not cost proportionally). Exterior would be wood siding, to match the original. Shape? I would see a rectangle is most possible. Windows need to be good in order to save heating in winters. Interior material and wall surfaces would be just so-so; no need to be great. Floor is wood. Fireplace is not needed in the addition. I have no idea of foundation, basements things unless I ask a constructor to review it on-site to find out what is the best, Yes, it is on and on... I am thinking of paying a GC to be onsite to provide some estimates. Is this a good idea? Again thanks for the reply. Donald....See MoreCreative Ideas for our little stone house
Comments (83)Hey guys, just following up. Thanks everyone for your input. TheFoxesPad, i very much imagine a similar use .. for me or my kids! A few general obeservations: 1. I am thinking more about tying it to our house, and to my surprise that means white trim 2. There is a part of our house, a small room off the living room, with very similar dimensions. It is stone about 6.5 ft up then clerestory. It has a gable roof. 3. Before our reno, the house has a very lovely little solarium at the side entrance. We had to demo it to make a mudroom and craftroom (believe me I hated doing it). My DH save the Marvin french doors and oversized windows. We'd love to use them, although whatever facade gets them will really change in character, so still mulling it 4. I want to emphasize its garden setting and path as much as the pond 5. The contractor says if we use too much glass it will be very hot in a stone house ... 6. Decided against post and beam, too much visual weight for the space. Probably shiplap ceiling, painted. Floor should be tile --- maybe antiqued saltillo 7. Our house has a cedar shake roof. Thinking we should copy it although I like tin or even copper too. 8. I think we will put in a sofa bed for those adult guests who want to stay there, and a small loft with a window for the kids as a reading nook. When we have narrowed done more decisions I will post again for input. In the meantime, thanks!...See MoreLooking for layout ideas - new addition on 1920s house - blank slate
Comments (19)If you give up the wall oven and use a range, you can easily move the fridge into the new section. Then make the area where the fridge was drawn into a snack/coffee center with the MW, and a small sink. It would be perfect for making a quick breakfast or a sandwich. If you don't want to look at the MW from the DR, you could hide it with doors, which is what I did in my vintage style kitchen. Deep drawers below could store small appliances. You could also put a wall oven beside the fridge in the following drawing (as in sena's illustration), with dish drawers below. You would have landing space for both the oven and fridge. I realized that the sink in your inspiration pic is off-center, so I increased the sink to 33", and decreased the trash pull-out to 12". The faucet can be centered with the window, to help disguise the fact that the sink is a few inches off. I have a 33" apron sink and 12" trash. Love both! The sink hides a lot of dirty dishes, and the trash pull-out is sufficient for our family of 5. I keep a large metal trash can in the mudroom, where I empty the kitchen trash as needed, and we compost, so YMMV. The corner by the DW could be voided, or you could have one of the pull-out storage units. You can check deedles' and arlosmom's kitchens for their corner cabinet solutions. Both are vintage style kitchens in older homes, and are two of my favorites. arlosmom's kitchen reveal and link--still makes my heart skip a beat :) deedles' kitchen reveal images--hidden MWs images--corner cabinet pull-outs...See MoreHome Addition Architecture Ideas?
Comments (31)Have you done anything yet? Just some thoughts: You might consider turning your master bedroom into your living room space. (One option if you do: you could enlarge that space by enclosing part of the front porch and moving the existing front exterior wall outward, creating a front entry and giving you the option to add a door to the front right corner of the garage to access that entry.) You'll want to wall off what is now the master bathroom from what is now the master bedroom so you're not looking into a bathroom from your new living room. Alter what is now the master bath and shower/laundry room. You want to separate the shower room and any/all parts of the bath from the laundry. You need to move the bathroom vanity from its current location so it is set across from the toilet, creating a "powder room". You'll want to leave the shower approximately where it now is but flip it -- you'll want to access it from the other side through what is now the back wall of the house. You'll want to create a hallway from what is now likely the dining area (behind the kitchen) that will pass by and give you access to the washer/dryer ... a hallway that leads to the door to access the garage. The back wall of that hallway, which could be shallow floor to ceiling cabinets, could be placed approximately just above where the words "master bathroom" are on your sketch and have it extend in a straight line to wall off the (flipped) shower from the new hallway. With the back wall to that hallway walling off the shower and the toilet and the vanity from the washer/dryer side of the hallway -- you'd then need to remove parts of the back wall of the house to enable access to your new master bathroom with its shower and toilet and vanity from the new master bedroom to be built behind the new master bath. The first several feet of your new build behind your house would be the foot traffic part of your new master bath with a window at the end of that ... window facing the left side of the house. Build your new master bedroom behind your reversed access master bath and have it accessible from what is now a back door across from the door of that front room (formerly master bedroom, now living room). What now appears to be both your living and dining room will become your dining room -- with your dining table by the patio doors and a china cabinet on the right end of that room. You could add a closet or pantry or desk on the left end of what now appears to be your living/dining in that space just left of what is now the back door ... with that back door becoming the access point for the new master bedroom suite. You'd have the option to leave the washer/dryer open and visible from that new hallway or enclosing it in a closet. You'd have the option to make that back wall of the hallway floor to ceiling shallow cabinets -- with or without a hall door to access the master bath so that it could also be used as a guest powder room without guests needing to access the master bedroom to use the powder room. (perhaps by enclosing the washer and dryer in a closet or at least flanking them on each side with a narrow floor to ceiling cabinets while creating a hallway that will provide access to the washer/dryer and to the garage just beyond that....See Morebpath
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