Floor plan design help!
We have settled on this house design. We have been having issues with bathroom layouts and trying to fit everything into those spaces and not have it look cramped. In hindsight we would have made bathrooms larger but are now stuck for ideas.
I am also worried about the decision to have the room in the middle of the house with the skylight - this will be a rumpus type of room but I am now worried it will look strange with a skylight as it will be one of the first rooms that you see entering the house. We are planning on starting building soon and it is too late to be moving external walls.
Please help!
Ps. We have decided to move the fireplace to separate the kitchen/dining to the living area already as picture 2 shows.
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Lauren
3 years agoHi Kate,
Thanks for your reply!
No we haven't chosen furniture layouts yet. I have been playing around with the design of the bathrooms and have deleted the bath in en-suite and made more practical use of the space I think.
I am thinking of perhaps changing up the layout of all kitchen dining etc - I have attached a rough picture. I think this would be a more practical layout. The whole back of the house faces north. The skylight is not openable but has a electric shutter.
Thanks for the laundry tip!
What do you think of the new drawing?I think we would use the area next to dining as rumpus area or a second seating area.
Thanks
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3 years agooklouise
3 years agolast modified: 3 years agothe central enclosed rumpus room feels uncomfortable but the kitchen is better against an outside wall and closer to the alfresco and keep the central location for a lounge..with or without doors to close it off from the dining area (with another idea for the fireplace) and a more generous bathroom with separate toilet but, unable to read the dimensions, my suggestions are based on approximate sizes
Kate
3 years agooklouise
3 years agowe need accurate dimensions to be confident about what will work best but another variation of Kate's idea could look like this
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