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is this floor-plan good?

Ricky Bagolie
3 years ago

This is a proposed floor-plan that remakes the first floor of an existing house. Before and after lunch plans are attached. Does anyone have any comments?

Comments (14)

  • Indecisiveness
    3 years ago

    I can’t read the dimensions even when zooming in......

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    Patricia Colwell Consulting
    3 years ago
    last modified: 3 years ago

    We need plans we can read and more info as to your needs .BTW actual measurements of spaces clearly marked too.

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    Virgil Carter Fine Art
    3 years ago

    After lunch is always a good time...that's when the nap takes place!

  • Sammy
    3 years ago

    Looks okay, but, do you really need two powder rooms?

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    Mark Bischak, Architect
    3 years ago

    I can't make it to lunch, so don't include me in your plans.

  • Ricky Bagolie
    Original Author
    3 years ago

    2nd powder room for people coming in from pool

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    Mark Bischak, Architect
    3 years ago

    It is impossible for anyone to tell you if this is a good floor plan or not. There are many existing conditions that effect design decisions that it is in your best interest to engage a local architect that can investigate existing conditions and help you determine what the best plan is.

  • Ricky Bagolie
    Original Author
    3 years ago

    That’s the plan after I get ideas

  • suezbell
    3 years ago
    last modified: 3 years ago

    Do you really need both a dining room and a breakfast room that literally adjoins it?

    If the pool is on the garage side of the house, putting a mud room back entry with a powder room in that in the back left corner between garage and basement stairs and kitchen likely would be more convenient.

    Making the mud room off which you have a poser room beside the garage wall, large enough to include floor to ceiling closets and/or cabinets for pool related storage and even kitchen pantry space would make that room serve multiple purposes -- far more practical than having a pair of adjoining dining spaces.

    Not at all a fan of the right front corner -- between living room and front exterior wall and between entry and master bedroom .. not on on either plan.

    On that second (Klenk) plan, is the "closet" with the "X" is a heat pump closet? Your powder room is open to/visible from the living room. Nope. Consider these changes:

    Remove the closet from beside the heat pump closet so that the ?raised?. hallway between entry and master is wider.

    Add a wall between the living room and that ?raised? hallway (that could be only a half/pony wall across from the heat/ac closet) -- creating a floor to ceiling wall across from what is now the powder room door, making that entire wall be built in storage facing the hallway to the master and about as deep as the closet that had been planned for against the heat pump closet.

    Where you have the powder room door, do add a door but have it lead to a larger and more upscale powder room between the heat pump closet and the front exterior door -- adding a small high interestingly shaped stained glass or frosted window that actually opens facing the front of the house.

    Do keep the wall now shown between that new upscale powder room and what is now master suite bath; however, add a doorway in the master suite that is at a right angle to the hallway door.

    Absent stops in the top hinges of the two doors, the two doors that open to this new upscale powder room would bump into each other so do add those stops ... and consider adding full length mirrors to the backs of both doors -- creating a great dressing room feature.

    Now your master suite already has access to a second toilet and vanity so you don't need two in the master suite.

    Because you built in that storage wall, you will have moved your doorway to the master bedroom toward the front exterior wall of the house. Your doorway will now be at the end of the hallway just AFTER the new doorway to the new upscale powder room.

    You can have the option to make a part of that new hall storage space on the end of the wall open into the Master instead of the hallway -- perhaps as a place to hang long coats so you can use your most of your Master closet hanging space as dual rod hanging space.

    As you enter your Master, leave a 4'x4' space with the bedroom on the left open; however, beyond that open entry space, continue that same hall wall (in line with the back of the hall storage wall) over to the right exterior wall of the home. Your Master closet will be to the right against the front exterior wall of the home, hopefully with a window matching the new one in the new upscale powder room.

    You could then build a full bath -- with toilet and vanity and a tub/shower combination with all three fixtures against and along that right exterior wall of your home.

    You could have the interior wall of that new full bath from door to front exterior wall be floor to ceiling storage, some of the storage be facing the new bath and some of the storage be facing the Master closet area on the other side of the interior wall to the new bath -- whatever storage arrangement meets your needs.

    Recommend a mid height toilet for both Master bath and any/all powder room(s). As you age, your arthritic knees will appreciate it.

  • Ricky Bagolie
    Original Author
    3 years ago

    Thanks

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    Mark Bischak, Architect
    3 years ago

    Other than what your needs for putting on an addition, what kind of ideas do you need before meeting with the architect?

  • Ricky Bagolie
    Original Author
    3 years ago

    We updated the floor plan with measurements. I hope it can be read.

  • cpartist
    3 years ago

    Your before is better

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    Mark Bischak, Architect
    3 years ago

    It is time to set up the meeting with the local architect.