Floor plan layout ideas
We have been planning a renovation/extension of our house for some time. We live out in rural NSW so have been waiting for our builder for over 12 months. Because of the long wait, there have been huge price rises and now we are faced with the possibility of not being able to afford to do the entire extension. Because of this, we are exploring the option of working with our current floor plan to better utilise the space, add a master with ensuite and robe and open up our kitchen/living/dining. We are a young family with two children, and have extended family that travels long distances to stay with us, so having a guest room with its own bathroom would be great. We currently have a large billiards room (labeled as garage on exisiting floor plan image), which was converted from the original garage in the early 80’s. It is under the same roofline as the house, and does not look like a garage other than having two glass sliding doors in the place of the old roller doors. This room is currently not used, so we thought could be converted to the master suite. I will attach the existing floor plan, a rough plan of our current ideas for the renovation (go easy - I did a dodgy job on sketch up
to try and play with some ideas!!) and I will also attach the proposed floorplan if we are to under go the extension as originally planned. Any suggestions would be appreciated (on both extension floor plan and suggestions for the renovation if the extension is out of our budget)!!
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12 months agolast modified: 12 months agoThanks oklouise. Your input is much appreciated. The current verandah is under the existing roof line, hence why we thought it might not be too difficult to extend out to the edge of the current verandah. I can attach some more images for you to give you a better idea.
Absolutely love your ideas to move the laundry and create the bigger guest/office area!! And the rumpus room and master look great! Thank you!
Kate
12 months agooklouise
12 months agolast modified: 12 months agoenlarging rooms is only worthwhile if you need the space for some specific purpose or you just end up with a bigger room without any extra purpose at great costs that can be better used elsewhere ...adding scaled sized furniture helps show possible arrangements including suitable walking paths around the rooms....rather than removing any external walls i would invest those savings in more useful conversions including reducing the size of the original master bedroom to create a more spacious family bathroom with separate powder room and also reduce the new laundry to increase the size of bed 3 to include biw...dotted lines show where original walls have been removed or converted to an overhead beam ...growing children and regular overnight guests will appreciate extra living areas to allow for separate activities including several study and/or craft areas and using sofa beds in rumpus and guest room will provide flexible sleeping for a crowd while also allowing for everyday activies...my revised plan includes approximate dimension, location for some skylights, thickness of original brick veneer walls and suggestions for an alfresco area and entry foyer (and what about screening the outdoor areas to exclude western sun and insects?)
siriuskey
12 months agoYour planned extension was large and would be expensive, so trying to work within your original building to give you the spaces you want I suggest the following and start with moving the kitchen family and entrance to the Western end of the house and adding a matching verandah and carport /alfresco on that end will protect that space from summer western heat and perhaps winds. The Master suite and all bedrooms are grouped at the other end.
oklouise