Please critique my floor plan!
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Please critique my floor plan! Summerfield can you help? :)
Comments (23)Thanks! I appreciate the feedback, I emailed Summerfield as well, I'm so anxious to hear what he/she? has to say!! I'm going to work on it some more today. I posted on the kitchen forum to get feedback on how to set up the kitchen (I've never had one so large and don't know where to begin - in a good way) One thing that was pointed out is how far the garage is from kitchen, so I think I'm going to flip the entire main room so the kitchen and dining area are on the same side of the house as the garage. That means I'll have to fit the pantry over near the media room and so major rearranging as the media room needs to stay rectangular, and then I'll have the pantry space as the close for BD 3 and remove the closet that goes into the play room. I'm hoping to turn this into a final plan within a month, do you think that is too fast?...See MorePlease Critique My Floor Plan!!
Comments (12)I really like a lot of aspects of this plan (the open spaces, wide hallways). There are several door swings and positions that I would fix. Also, I would add a small high window in your powder room by your main entry. I would also combine the bathrooms for your nap room and play room. Is there really a reason why you need 2 separate back to back bathrooms? I would reconfigure your kitchen island as well. If most of the cooking is going to take place at the island, you'll always have to walk around the island to reach the perimeter cabinets. Not sure what you'll have there, but I'd imagine that you'll have to access those things since you don't have a whole ton of food storage on your island. Also, I'm not a huge fan of windowless rooms, and the center of your house has a collection of them--butler's pantry, office, 2 bathrooms. You will always have to have artifical lights on in those spaces to make them functional, and I just so prefer natural light. Is there a 2d floor plan, elevations? Good luck!...See MorePlease critique my floor plan, trying agan
Comments (4)You have plenty of cabinets in there, so that's not an issue. It's possible to put the cooktop in your island, but you're right that it might make the work triangle too congested if you and hubby are both cooking. For a one cook kitchen, the cooktop would work very well. If you're going to keep the current configuration, I think you should add either a pot filler or a prep sink near the range. Otherwise, you'll be carrying full pots of water quite a distance, which may be dangerous. Is your drawing to scale? If so, you may have a little room to move the island toward the entrance to the LR, at least a few inches. If that's so, you might be able to move the cooktop to the island without making it impossible for two people to work in the kitchen. If you do that, then I'd put the wall oven where the range is in the current plan. I'm not sure what a "country cupboard" is, but it looks lonely over there by itself. If you have a picture of the area, it might help, but the drawing almost looks like you've used part of the space available and left the rest empty. What I want to do is make your fireplace a focus of the room and put something down there, even if it's just a coffee bar under that huge window behind the seating area....See MorePlease critique my floor plan before we finalize it!!
Comments (5)funkycamper, thank you so much for the feedback! I did actually consider putting the refrigerator where the beverage center will be, and there were a couple of reasons I decided against it... The first is that the space is only 69" long, so there isn't enough space for the 48" built in refrigerator plus the pantries, so I'd still have to have some of the pantry space be over where we have it shown. One of the reasons we are getting rid of the pantry that is there now is that it's pretty annoying having the pantry space split across the kitchen like that, I frequently find myself running back and forth from one to the other. Plus, if there is something I need from the other pantry I would have to go over to that side anyway, so it would seem to be more convenient to have the pantries and fridge together so I only have to go to one area to get the food. The second reason is that currently we have a regular depth refrigerator in that space and the opening to the dining room is 2 ft 5 in. We are widening the doorway to 4 ft and putting in a built-in (therefore counter depth) refrigerator, so I figured that would keep the refrigerator doors from blocking the doorway when they are open. Although I do love the idea of getting as big windows into the space as we can, the reason we have the upper making that turn is that we are going to have an appliance garage under it to put my food processor, blender, and stand mixer. I didn't want them to be too far from the range since I will likely be using them either right before or right after things come off the stove/out of the oven....See MoreHU-180900074
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