Please Critique Our Plans
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Please help critique house plan design!!
Comments (10)Thank you all for your comments and thoughts. I am finding having someone else’s viewpoints very helpful, and can take the criticism well. Keep it coming! I am not sure how well the details of plan come up on these forums, if there is a way for me to post a larger, cleared picture I will be glad to try. A few things about our family that may help make some sense of our decisions: We currently have a 2 and 4 yr old, a stay at home mom, and a working dad. We are planning on having #3 soon, and likely #4 shortly after. This house is designed around raising a young, growing family. We are considering this our house that we will raise our children in a neighborhood environment before moving on to a new house on some acreage in the future. The KIDS LOUNGE will most likely resemble a kindergarten classroom more than a hangout for teenagers. We thought long and hard about the addition/subtraction of door in this area. It opens up to side where our family is our next-door neighbors. They have similarly aged children and play together a lot. We feel that the ability to play on their own separate “kids porch” will outweigh the liability of a door in this spot. It also lets us keep back porch less cluttered with kid’s items. The area listed as LIBRARY off master will be an area where we will place a treadmill, sitting area and a small office space for mom. It made sense for us to place this off the master because we wanted to incorporate some sort of sitting space in or near master, and still be able to use treadmill at odd hours without worrying about waking children. The area listed as GUEST/STUDY is set up to be guest bedroom until baby #4 comes along. FORMAL DINING area will actually be an OFFICE/MUSIC ROOM. Dad needs a place to be able to play/record music and also run a couple of small businesses out of the home. The area opening up do mudroom will be a pocket door, that will be a pocket door. ONE CAR GARAGE will be more of a workshop area than garage. The double doors out to the back is to allow enough space to drive lawn mower/ fourwheeler /etc in for service or storage if needed. The SECOND STORY will be mostly storage for the foreseeable future. We also want to have the options to add in another space for Guest room if all the other rooms get filled up. We have family that lives 3+ hours away that we need to have a space for when they visit. I want to include the option to grow into this space if needed. MASTER CLOSET is a little larger than we initially wanted. Our next draft of plan should have library expanded one foot down into pantry and one foot right into master closet. I will look into giving some of this space to LAUNDRY room as well. We are working out the layout of this room currently. Thank you for the thought about pantry door. I have considered pocket door here as well, as I think it could be open most of the time, but like the idea of single door swinging out as well. We are also going to address the size of children’s rooms. Our original thoughts were that the majority of kids toys will be in kids lounge, and one dresser in closet. This should limit the need for excessive space in kids rooms. We also included some space for additional furniture in cutouts into closet. I am waiting on architect comment about options for gaining space in this area. What is the consensus on size of children’s rooms? I agree about the possibility of garage sticking out being awkward and large roof design. We are working on elevations and rooflines as well, and hope to be able to address these spots. The house will sit at the end of a cul-de-sac and is pushed very far back, so hopefully this will help mask some of this possible awkwardness. Thanks again for all of your thoughts. Keep them coming!!!...See MorePlease critique our kitchen design
Comments (14)HI -- As a former kitchen designer , I would put the fridge in the far left corner where you show the pantry and wall oven now . Then have the pantry wall oven to the right of the sink area where the fridge is now . The fridge is going to be too big on that right end. Then that end of the kitchen will balance with the rest of the cabinets . And have a gable panel on the right side of the fridge with a pull out upper cabinet that is full depth over the fridge. Then your cereal will be out of sight . I think the cereal should go in the pantry anyway. You could have a pop up electrical socket tower on the island top. You can search for it on Houzz . If you went with a slide in stove , then you wouldn't need the wall oven and that would free up some space for more storage or have the oven mounted under the cook top. You could have a chimney style range hood vent over the cook top instead of the small wall cabinets . Have a cutting board top on the island and a high end laminate on the rest of the counters , maybe in a light grey that has a texture grain look to it....See MorePlease critique our new video chat service and website
Comments (0)We’re launching a new video chat service that has a free chat option (for everyone) as well as a paid chat option for professionals who use video conferencing as part of their business model and we would love to get some feedback and critique on both the website and the service. CamG.com is very easy to use since there is no software download required so kindly try it out and give us any and all feedback regarding your experience. Thanks in advance....See More3D Floor Plan critique! Please help!
Comments (1)I think you resolved your bathroom pretty well (I would do single sink for more counter space but that's a personal decision)...I have to say I am not a fan of the glass wall. I understand what you are trying to do but I find it awkward where it meets the window wall. And I don't like the dead space where it meets the entry closet. I would expand the entry closet and loose that dead space. Consider clear story glass running on top of the closets in order to bring light into the entry. You really need to show all furniture in plan in your living room and guest room in order to see how those spaces work. Good luck!...See Morerockb9
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