Selecting House Floor Plan - Input needed
Jeet Jeet
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Comments (25)I love the pocket office idea. I could put that to good use. Also love the toy closet, and that's awesome linen storage in the basement, although I'm not sure that's a very handy location. I really like a lot of things in your floorplan. We have a large and busy family, and I think this could work for us, which I can't say about very many house plans I see. We have 9 pocket doors in our new house...in 4" walls. I don't find them flimsy. We got good quality sets, so maybe that helps. Obviously they do limit wiring, etc. in that area. I've seen pocket doors I didn't like before that seemed chintzy, but I think ours with solid core and 10-light doors, and heavy enough hardware are nice. In our house, where sq footage is at an absolute premium, it was very helpful to not have to add door-swing space. I am worried about just a couple of things. The master toilet space looks very narrow...I wouldn't have it less than 3 ft, and it appears narrower to me. The other thing is in regard to a couple of the closets. I think you may want to sketch in the width of hanging clothes, which will be close to 2 ft. Once clothes are hanging in bedroom 3's closet, I don't know how you'll get in there to find things. Bedroom 4's is almost as bad, but a little better. Best wishes. Looks like you'll have a great home....See MoreNeed House Plan Input
Comments (13)Thanks for posting the plans in the thread! (I still don't know which way is 'north' though.) Our MBR-Closets-Bath configuration might work for you by using the whole rectangle. You'd need to put your mini-office elsewhere (perhaps work room). That's a very tiny room anyway; would a wall unit serve? Our MBR is at the bottom of a rectangle (like yours). The bath is at the top. There is a short hall between MBR and bath. On either side of the hall are walk-in closets with pocket doors (virtually always left open). There is a door at the end of the hall into the bathroom. The sinks are on each side of the doorway into the bath, with the toilet room, tub and shower in a row at the top of the rectangle. I access my closets more often than the bathroom and I like the buffer between BR and bath. Closets don't need windows; bathrooms benefit from them. Porch: If you use the covered porch for table and chairs, the middle portion would suffice for just chairs. I'm concerned about making the interior rooms too dark. We have skylights in the east angle of our porch roof to keep the interior rooms light in winter. Will you never have guests? Always eat at a counter? DH and I spend a lot of time around the 'kitchen' table three times a day. But then, we read in the 'LR' and watch TV in the 'library'. LOL Jill -- I was seeing people come in the side door at the rear of the house to use the shower bath. I asked about the work room. If it does have a closet and opens into the house proper it could be a BR -- useful for resale....See MoreConsider new home - need input/thoughts on floor plan
Comments (13)Your parents are in their 70's. At 70 my Mom and Dad could go up and down stairs. My Mom went to the gym 5x a week. However at 72, my Mom developed Parkinson's disease and by 76 could no longer do stairs. She lived until age 84. My Dad could also no longer do stairs by his late 70's. In fact for the two of them in their last years, the shower curb might as well have been Mt Everest for them. One step up or down was difficult. And it would have been hazardous for them too. With both houses you are having to adapt yourselves to the house instead of the house working for you. If you're spending 6 figures of your hard earned money, why build a house that doesn't work for you and where you'll be constantly trying to adapt it to work. You have unique needs in that you have your parents staying for long stretches of time and they are getting up there in years. Like Stinky said, why would you either want to give up your large bedroom to allow them to stay downstairs, or relegate them to a room the size of a child's room? Frankly if you want to consider either of these poorly designed plans (and they're poorly designed for lots of reasons, not only because of your parents), the only solution would be to add in an elevator. (That can be done for around $20,000) Then your parents could easily move from upstairs to downstairs, and visa versa. Are you allowed to build a truly custom house on any of the lots you're considering instead of these overblown, poorly laid out houses that will allow no natural light into the spaces and will not live well for your needs? BTW: Not only the lanai will be hotter from April through end of October, but so will any rooms that face west. It's very poor design to orient a house east/west in our climate. (I'm in SW FL) My house will be oriented N/S with my backyard facing south so my lanai blocks the summer sun and my 32" eaves block the upstairs summer sun....See MoreNeed input on kitchen floor plan
Comments (16)How many people are you - and is a breakfast kitchen table AND an island in the kitchen you feel you'll be using on a regular basis? (I'll note you are talking to someone who opted to use only ONE eating space in the interior of her home - a dining table just adjacent to the kitchen. Food doesn't travel far...) A symmetrical kitchen is much less important than one that flows and functions to the best of the space allotted. A refrigerator with easy access to a sink and then a major prep station. In turn close to where you will be cooking. Foodiesuntie: I have never seen or heard of anyone actually using their kitchen desk area for anything other than a mail and junk drop zone. You never met my mother!!! (Mind you, I can't do it myself... She did put mail there, but it disappeared by the end of the day, dealt with in situ. Bills paid and all. Magazines forwarded on to the proper spots in the house - in the den next to chairs so people not wanting to watch TV could read those instead. Anyhow, I digress: That's why her desk was there!)...See MoreJeet Jeet
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