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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 11:35:10 GMT -5
Well, I have a few suggestions.
Add a little bit of square feet to the house and take the door from the outside into the laundry room out of the laundry room! When you are getting ready for a party if people may walk through your laundry room to get in and out of the house, you need to have all your laundry done and you have nowhere to stash stuff.
Keep the bi-fold doors in the one kid's bedroom. Don't change to sliding doors. Had bi-folds in my last house and sliding in current house. I like being able to see everything at once. I suggest using the closet maid shelf track systems in the closets. It is so much easier to decide you want to change the closets around and reconfigure the space. Check their website or look at the displays at Home Depot. If not, make sure there is wood 2x4's running horizontally where ever you may anchor shelving.
Both of your bathrooms are too small. You need to have at least a small linen closet somewhere to store towels and shampoo bottles and TP etc.
Living room - are you going to float your furniture in the room like that? If you do, the sofa probably needs a sofa table behind it. If you are not going to the window placement might be off. What is on the other side of the staircase is that a closet or an entertainment center? I would make sure you could use 1/2 the Living room as a dining room - so lighting would be centered over a theoretical table and a sofa and a TV would still fit in Living room space.
Oh, and I meant to ask if the area behind the kid's bedroom and the laundry room was meant to be a covered porch? My neighbors have one and it is so nice if you are having a party and it is hot and sunny or if it starts to rain. If you design it in from the beginning your roof lines can just flow over it.
That door is actually not a heavily used door. In fact it could probably go all together, but I'm weird about doors. I embedded it in the bedroom area so that it isn't where most people will see it. The door on the bottom right will be the 'front' and the doors off the back will exit onto the deck raised in back of house. Out that door will be ? Not sure yet... The other side of the stairs is fireplace. Furniture probably will float. I'm envisioning book cases with window seats along the wall to the right behind the great room couch. Thanks for for all the feedback! Lots to think about.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 11:38:52 GMT -5
Yes, the 'kid' bathroom will be ginormous. I actually wrote on plan where I would put walls and a note that, yes, this is a big bathroom. If I decide I don't like it I can change it later! I did try to get it nearer the bedrooms but to do it effectively I'd need to get rid of the extra door to the outside... There is a small loft area and possible smallish finished basement area where guests could eventually stay, so they too could access the 'big bathroom'... I don't know this is where my ideas and resale ideas might differ too much...
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Mar 31, 2016 11:40:14 GMT -5
I'd figure out a way of putting a double sink in the master bathroom. It doesn't look like you have any storage in there either. You have a closet at the other end of the master BR which I'm assuming it is a linen closet? I don't see any linen closets anywhere else, and I'd probably move it to where it is accessible to the kids bathroom as it does not look like there is much storage space there either.
Is there any way of putting the kid's bath between the 2 kids bedrooms? That would make it more easily accessible to them.
Is the island in the center of the kitchen going to act as a prep area or a place to eat informally?
Love the pantry, I'd kill for one that size. We have a small closet in our kitchen but keep the overflow in the garage. I'd kill for Ina Garten's pantry!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 11:41:53 GMT -5
We should start a thread on the "must haves" in the oped,s new house lol. Thanks opeds for sharing this with us and I hope you keep it up until you are in it.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 11:44:05 GMT -5
What about one of those glass doors that folds into itself and is basically an entire wall? I don't know what they're called, but they use them on HGTV all the time.
I agree that the French doors in the living room block usable space. In our living room, we have one wall of windows and one wall half taken up by a sliding glass door - it really limits the way we can set the furniture/tv/etc. The house husband worked on that started his whole build a house thing has those, but the guy has found they are a problem, issues with counterweight and skipping tracks I think? Here is a pic of his house.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Mar 31, 2016 11:47:14 GMT -5
Yes, the 'kid' bathroom will be ginormous. I actually wrote on plan where I would put walls and a note that, yes, this is a big bathroom. If I decide I don't like it I can change it later! I did try to get it nearer the bedrooms but to do it effectively I'd need to get rid of the extra door to the outside... There is a small loft area and possible smallish finished basement area where guests could eventually stay, so they too could access the 'big bathroom'... I don't know this is where my ideas and resale ideas might differ too much... Can you flip flop the mud room and kid's bath? It would require moving the outside door but both will require plumbing and they look to be almost the same size. The other thing it will do is move the mudroom/washer away from the bedroom (and insulate the noise a little more from the bedroom).
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 11:47:16 GMT -5
I like this for the master bathroom, I know it's not what most people think of as a master. Mostly I just want my own shower. hmmm you are right though no linen access there.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 11:48:22 GMT -5
Yes, the 'kid' bathroom will be ginormous. I actually wrote on plan where I would put walls and a note that, yes, this is a big bathroom. If I decide I don't like it I can change it later! I did try to get it nearer the bedrooms but to do it effectively I'd need to get rid of the extra door to the outside... There is a small loft area and possible smallish finished basement area where guests could eventually stay, so they too could access the 'big bathroom'... I don't know this is where my ideas and resale ideas might differ too much... Can you flip flop the mud room and kid's bath? It would require moving the outside door but both will require plumbing and they look to be almost the same size. The other thing it will do is move the mudroom/washer away from the bedroom (and insulate the noise a little more from the bedroom). I can do it if I get rid of the door. Or if I make it a smaller bathroom and then maybe add a shower to the powder room?
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Mar 31, 2016 11:49:13 GMT -5
Can you do glass garage door-style doors? They would lift up and out of the way entirely.
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Mar 31, 2016 11:51:03 GMT -5
We should start a thread on the "must haves" in the oped,s new house lol. Thanks opeds for sharing this with us and I hope you keep it up until you are in it.
I totally agree. It is really fun spending other people's money. :-)
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Post by mroped on Mar 31, 2016 11:53:16 GMT -5
Can you do glass garage door-style doors? They would lift up and out of the way entirely. Why did you have to do that? Now I gotta go and look for the darned things!
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Mar 31, 2016 11:54:31 GMT -5
Can you do glass garage door-style doors? They would lift up and out of the way entirely. Why did you have to do that? Now I gotta go and look for the darned things! Just doing my job. :-)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 11:54:44 GMT -5
I'm not sure they'd be insulated enough for this climate.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Mar 31, 2016 11:55:26 GMT -5
Can you flip flop the mud room and kid's bath? It would require moving the outside door but both will require plumbing and they look to be almost the same size. The other thing it will do is move the mudroom/washer away from the bedroom (and insulate the noise a little more from the bedroom). I can do it if I get rid of the door. Or if I make it a smaller bathroom and then maybe add a shower to the powder room? 2 kids, one shower? I'd probably do this. The other thing you can do with the kids bedroom closets is make them back to back on the same wall. That will give them equal sized closets, then you can incorporate the closet in the upper bedroom into the bath/mudroom.
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Mar 31, 2016 11:56:20 GMT -5
I'm not sure they'd be insulated enough for this climate. Well, no glass door is truly insulated. Just get some heavy thermal drapes for the winter.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 11:58:43 GMT -5
Ok. So my dream for the bathroom is to have the tub and (since reading the other thread) maybe a roll in shower, both exiting from the 'big bathroom' but both with their own doors so you can use the sinks and one or other when other people are in there... Does that sound incredibly weird?
eta: basically I can't see having like 5 bathrooms sitting empty most of the time. I would like to try to solve that by having access if needed, but not wasting all that space on duplication that generally stays empty...?
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Mar 31, 2016 11:59:12 GMT -5
Another thing.....and this is from our master bath. We have exactly one small rack to hang towels and there really is no other place than over the top of the shower stall. The only towel rack in the bathroom is on the other side of the soaker tub - making it a treacherous trip across the bathroom to grab a towel.
I hate that there is no place to hang towels and don't like the look of the towels drying over the shower. But we just don't have any space available for something so stupid.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Mar 31, 2016 12:01:05 GMT -5
Ok. So my dream for the bathroom is to have the tub and (since reading the other thread) maybe a roll in shower, both exiting from the 'big bathroom' but both with their own doors so you can use the sinks and one or other when other people are in there... Does that sound incredibly weird? Are you planning on this being your retirement home? Do you want to leave in a body bag? If so, you might want to look at how to make a lot of it h/c accessible. That means wider doorways, a roll in shower, etc. It also means things like higher profile toilets, grab bars.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 12:02:24 GMT -5
That's what I was thinking, the big bath and roll in shower could be built accessible.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Mar 31, 2016 12:07:08 GMT -5
Think about how you walk through the house when you're doing different things. When you walk in the door, where will you put shoes, coats and keys? Are you going to use the front door every time you come and go? When you come home from grocery shopping, what door will you use and where are you going to drop the groceries? When you have visitors over, where will you put their coats? When you open doors, what are you blocking from access?
Also, no garage?
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Post by bean29 on Mar 31, 2016 12:13:13 GMT -5
No sink in the laundry room? I use mine all the time. Muddy shoes. Bathing the dogs etc. etc. Also, there is no closet?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 12:18:44 GMT -5
Garage detached at this point. Good questions to ask! Probably no sink in laundry? Closet as in for coats and stuff? I can't get this pic, but if you go to the link bottom page, that's the feel I am thinking, although not exactly that arrangement obviously. www.ourhomes.ca/uploads/pdfs/Peterborough_FW2011_HB.pdfWe are weird people. We hardly use closets? But I know we need some for resale purposes.
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Post by Lizard Queen on Mar 31, 2016 12:39:50 GMT -5
I chose my house partly because the closets were in all the right places.
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Post by saveinla on Mar 31, 2016 12:53:53 GMT -5
oped, My only question is - will you have a cleaning lady after you build this house
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2016 13:08:25 GMT -5
I won't be able to afford one once I build the house !
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Post by bean29 on Mar 31, 2016 13:40:03 GMT -5
We are short, so I don't like higher profile toilets, but luckily, it is an easy change if you need it later on.
My parents had already changed their bathtub out to a shower when my Dad started using a walker. They had to take out the shower door when he started to use a wheelchair, but they had a regular shower base with a smallish lip on it a couple inches high. I would just plan modifiable spaces but not plan for a what if.
I think a house without a bathtub might be a hard sell to a family with small kids, but I am thinking hard about taking out my bathtub in the family bath.
We have issues now with no place to drop keys etc. I don't know how much space you are using now but if you bumped your square feet up maybe 100 sq ft you could get a separate mud room and a little larger bathroom.
I am assuming you are planning a detached garage. I don't want to ever have a detached garage again, but as long as it is not unusual where you are building it is ok.
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Post by bean29 on Mar 31, 2016 13:57:10 GMT -5
I like your closet in the mud room but that room in the picture is about 3x the size of your laundry room. Are you going to have a basement? you could put it in the basement - that is basically what I have at the bottom of my basement stairs - it is a multi function room. Seasonal coats/Pantry items that we don't keep upstairs like the turkey roasting pan, the double boiler for candy trays and chaffing dishes. Christmas wrap, bags and boxes. Extra coats and games. 7.5 x 22 is the dimensions of my room. We also walled off the area underneath the stairs and made it storage for the X-Mas stuff.
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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Mar 31, 2016 14:20:37 GMT -5
Does the kitchen sink have to be on a wall? Ours is in the island--makes the triangle and the view better.
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Post by DagnyT on Mar 31, 2016 17:24:46 GMT -5
For resale, I would definitely put a second sink in the master bathroom.
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Post by Gardening Grandma on Apr 1, 2016 10:57:59 GMT -5
Ok. So my dream for the bathroom is to have the tub and (since reading the other thread) maybe a roll in shower, both exiting from the 'big bathroom' but both with their own doors so you can use the sinks and one or other when other people are in there... Does that sound incredibly weird? Are you planning on this being your retirement home? Do you want to leave in a body bag? If so, you might want to look at how to make a lot of it h/c accessible. That means wider doorways, a roll in shower, etc. It also means things like higher profile toilets, grab bars. We did a lot of this. Doors are 3' wide, levers instead of knobs, we put extra bracing in the framing of the master bath so we can easily asd safety bars later, if needed. The downstais guest bath has a pocket door into the bedroom and a regular door to the hall, so that bedroom has the capacity of a private bathroom at night. Guests like it. The master bath, while not having a roll in shower, just has a 6" high shower pan. If necessary, We could rmove the glass doors (2 sides of theshower) and hang a curtain from the ceiling.
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