Slight variation to laundry

unable to reproduce the floor plan as the real estate plans have conflicting dimensions and you need to understand what you already have in order to plan a renovation....please confirm all the room dimensions ignoring built ins, kitchen cabinets and include internal dimensions of laundry, halls, ensuite, wiw and the storage cabinets next to the bathroom and bed 3

Will do! Thank you!

when you come home with groceries do you use the carport entry or will you prefer to access through the courtyard with the new guest entry and what is the width and length of the courtyard and some photo would help

We will be opening up the courtyard to a pool and granny flat on the front of the block.

We want the carport entry removed.

And all front access through that atrium area

I am at work so can’t do measurements

Kate thanks so much 🙏🏼🙏🏼
I do like aspects of your design and it has given me a few ideas on the bedroom placement I have played every which way with the kitchen in that space and it just won’t work or flow very well due to the 2 sliding doors.

We both work shift work so keeping a bedroom at the other side of the house helps us not interrupt sleep and we have guests staying a lot too. So seperate is fine but you have definitely given me a fresh approach to measure up 😊

I'd think about squaring off Master and making better use of the shave around the entry there.  I'd also block off entry to family past that bedroom and probably widening that bedroom by losing the now redundant hallway. I'd keep laundry where it is and create a butlers then laundry behind kitchen. Keep kitchen roughly where it is and open up to the left more. 

Sorry it's all a bit vague sounding.

available dimensions show the spaces as too small for your original idea with the separate bed sized study and pending more accurate dimensions my suggestions loses the potential future ens for bed 3 but includes several possible locations for a laundry with the new entry and a bigger kitchen

Hi Natasha, I think you are heading in the right direction with your arrangement of spaces. I think bedroom 3 where the laundry is makes better use of the outside window wall and just down the hallway from the bathroom. Also as you suggest, having bedroom 4 on the other side of the house is good for shift work sleep arrangements even if there is no extra powder room.

Have you thought about making a small entry lobby from the courtyard where the master bedroom door is and moving the master bedroom door nearer to the ensuite, similar to Oklouise's plan. You could put a good coat cupboard from the entry backing onto the master bedroom wall. Open up the wall from the new entry to the kitchen/living space, where you have shown a cupboard.

I also think having the TV area, dining and a small study room in that one area will make it feel too small. I'd make an office/study a deep cupboard that can be shut off when not in use. Perhaps create a full joinery wall between the living area and the media and bedroom 4 that works both ways and includes the study, B4 robe, TV units and entry to the media room and B4.

In terms of the kitchen and laundry, I would make a nice deep laundry cupbd facing bedroom 2 in the hallway. Make sure it is big enough for all the stuff you need - ironing bd storage etc. The kitchen would be similar to what you have shown but move the island down to the outside wall to make it a peninsular. This would stop the kitchen being a walkthrough and as the laundry would ocupy the wall end near the entry, it would make the kitchen focus down the other end of the space. You can use the corner cupboard at the outer wall where the peninsular joins the bench for dining stuff storage facing the dining side, not the kitchen. Dining and living could be interchangeable and it depends on the relationship you want for both with the kitchen, back yard, front entry and media room.

Cheers, Christine.

Hi Natasha, what do you think of this layout? The dimension may not be correct, just a suggestion...