Browse Forums General Discussion 1 Nov 08, 2010 10:01 pm We are in the early stages of planning our build, we have had our block for a few months, it's pretty narrow but deep (15.3 X 40.9metres)
I hope this works. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: our plans. your input very welcome 2Nov 08, 2010 10:36 pm it nice - depends what your needs are. it has 4 beds, 2 bathrooms, a seperate lounge/theatre for good resale. good work Follow Feggle viewtopic.php?f=31&t=34992 Follow lilfeggle viewtopic.php?f=31&t=37149 Asbestosis Sux! Don't breath in Asbestos Re: our plans. your input very welcome 3Nov 08, 2010 10:38 pm luvlee79, I have had a quick look at your plan and offer the following comments. 1. Master bedroom, the window to the rear wall I would have as a high level window with the bed head below it. Add a large window in the wall opening the alfresco area for two reasons, additional light and cross ventilation, plus the view across the alfresco may be better than the narrow strip to the rear of the house. With this layout you enter the room at the foot of the bed rather than the side. 2. Flip the bed 2 and lounge room. This will help to open the lounge living area as the spaces are combined and merge together and better associated with the alfresco area. The dining space is better defined with the kitchen. The bed 2 door does open closer to the kitchen but I feel the Bed 1 and living space is better. 3. Move the laundry door into the side corridor, move the existing linen into the hall, move the broom cupboard to next to the relocated door. This removes the view from bed 3 directly into the laundry. 4. Kitchen. Is it worthwhile connecting the island bench to the joinery on the side wall. The island bench is quite small and you have little combined bench space. If you consider this try to combine the bench spaces together to make the space more efficient. 5. Should the garage window open down the side of the house otherwise it may be looking directly into a fence. Something’s to consider. I look forward to other comments. Re: our plans. your input very welcome 4Nov 08, 2010 11:11 pm Thank you guys for your replys. david242gt, you are good at this. I think the bed 1 windows sound like a good idea, switching bed 2 and lounge is sort of how the original plan was but it is important for us to have one bedroom close to the main. If i am picturing it right I think your ideas for the laundry sound great, much more practical. The island bench is not how we had imagined, hubby really likes the look of an island but as it is there does not look to be too much useable space. Garage window, hmmm, That side will actually be very close to the boundry( do most plans have a door at the back of the garage?) So there is quite alot for us to have a think about. please keep the sugestions comming. Re: our plans. your input very welcome 5Nov 09, 2010 6:29 am david how do you know all this stuff!!?? I just wouldnt even think of things like laundry doors etc anyway, I would have a door not a window on the back garage wall, handy for getting the lawn mower out etc and just ease of convenience...have a glass door for light. that way on the wall where the window is now, it can house bikes etc and no need to worry about a window smashing when a bike handle goes through it (trust me on this!) I think a high up window or a small slim window from master bed out to alfresco is good for cross ventilation. (maybe cedar louvres if budget extends to them) But you also have to remember privacy, so a high up one would work well, or very low down...so people see the bottom of the bed, but not the whole bed etc just my thoughts though. Just something to open so the room gets a breeze Re: our plans. your input very welcome 6Nov 09, 2010 7:18 am I personally don't think it's good value to have a bedroom right next to the main bedroom. Kids can hear the parents and vice versa. Would imagine not great resale value. Kids should always be separate in my opinion. BUT as you say having a bedroom attached to the main bedroom is important so then it doesn't matter. I'd also make the internal garage door open inwards to the house not garage. Island bench looks too small, the sink takes up virtually the whole thing. Definitely add an external garage door. You will wish you had of if you don't. Would also add a window from main bedroom to alfresco. Thin high one. Life is; then you tell yourself a story. Re: our plans. your input very welcome 7Nov 09, 2010 8:27 am Where are you building? 15m is the average frontage for most Sydney blocks and finding a single home with 4 beds, 2 baths, etc to fit on your block will be very easy. If you look at the display homes you will see you can choose between 100s of designs. If not in Sydney hit the websites - I can post some links later - let me know if you want them. I understand you may not want to use a package builder but at least look at thier designs. It will allow you to research room sizes and look at 100s of different layouts. They employ professionals to design there houses so they are functional, stylish and easy (cheaper) to construct. In a house that size I would make the the bedrooms smaller and the living rooms bigger (especially the kitchen). Maybe also consider having a hallway for the rear bedrooms, it helps to sperate the sleeping areas from living areas. Also have you considered making the front room the master with WIR and Ensuite, then reworking the back area to make three bedrooms and a bathroom. This would mean access to the bathroom is easier from the bedrooms and more private from living areas (assuming a hallway is incorporated). This type of design with the main bedroom removed from the other 3 bedrooms is very common and popular as it affords the parents some space from the kids. Finally give consideration to aspect - North facing is best. Goodluck - I look forward to watching your build progress!! Building an Eden Brae Saville 27 http://karry327.blogspot.com/ Building thread https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=44247 Re: our plans. your input very welcome 8Nov 09, 2010 9:29 am I would suggest the following:
Re: our plans. your input very welcome 9Nov 10, 2010 8:51 pm Thanks for all the input, some of the things we just can't change but so far I would say it is quite likely we will change the main bed windows, the kitchen island bench, the garage window/door and the laundry door/linen. Does any one know an approximate cost for raising the ceilings from 2400mm to 2700mm? Re: our plans. your input very welcome 10Nov 10, 2010 9:01 pm raising ceilings is about $2-3K for a smaller home, but of course diff builders charge diff prices! A thankful person is a happy person. [/color]My hobby design blog: http://aviewondesign.blogspot.com/ Re: our plans. your input very welcome 11Nov 10, 2010 9:07 pm luvlee79, This is my opinion only but with a plan this size i would only increase the ceiling height to 2590, which is the new 2440, meaning its becoming standard. If you raise the ceiling to 2700 you will want to raise the windows to 2400 so the room doesnt look top heavy with the solid wall spaces over the windows, but the additional window height will increase the brightness of the house. But this adds more money. Have you worked out a budget yet. Re: our plans. your input very welcome 12Nov 10, 2010 10:07 pm Thanks Annietom, I thought it would be alot more than that. david242gt, our budget is getting kind of tight but I think it is important to spend on the things that can't be upgraded later. I had a look at our quote and it says 2400mm so would i be right in assumeing that raising them to 2590 probably wouldn't cost too much and it would look good with standard windows?? Re: our plans. your input very welcome 13Nov 11, 2010 9:07 pm You can have standard doors/windows with 2700 ceilings; many older and new houses are like this. I know this forum has many posters who prefer upgrading doors and windows with the higher ceilings but many houses get built with high ceilings without doing this (including mine) and look fine. Re: our plans. your input very welcome 14Nov 16, 2010 11:52 pm Hi again I have been thinking about the kitchen alot and I am wondering if the kitchen style from the Coral Bedarra 158 would fit ok. http://www.coralhomes.com.au/house-desi ... orplan.pdf Re: our plans. your input very welcome 15Nov 17, 2010 3:17 pm absolutely! brilliant. should fit a treat Re: our plans. your input very welcome 16Nov 18, 2010 6:22 am luvlee79, this kitchen will work better in the space, just confirm the width of the kitchen isnt to wide for your space. How is the rest of the modifications going. Any sketches to look at? Re: our plans. your input very welcome 17Jan 30, 2011 10:05 pm Hello again, It has been a while, sorry. We have just been back to the builders and we had to make a few changes, some from the suggestions from here and some that we needed to do to cut down the cost. If this works it will be a copy of the new plan. Please, please, please more feedback, the last lot was so helpfull. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: our plans. your input very welcome 18Jan 30, 2011 10:36 pm Hi luvlee, I really think you'll regret having bed 2 so far away from the bathroom and having bed 1 and 2 opening directly onto the living area but if this is what you want, then so be it. the one little thing you can do now that I think you really should think about is taking a little space out of the linen cupboard for a small handbasin next to the toilet. If someone is in thebathroom, kids simply won't wash their hands. Even adults may even "bypass" the bthroom. if you have a little basin just outside the door, it will get used more often than not. And the door from the back of the garage into the back yard - an absolute must for access through. SK Build thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=34120 Handover 23 Dec 11 Squatting 21 Dec 11 Fixed 12 Oct 11 Plastered 31 Aug 2011 Framed 7 June 2011 Site Start 7 Feb 2011 Land Titled 18 Jan 2010 Land Deposit 25 Jun 2009 Re: our plans. your input very welcome 19Jan 30, 2011 10:56 pm Oh my, thanks for pointing that out, there is supposed to be a door at the back of the garage. They did tell me that there is no difference in price to put in the door though, they rec'ed that I leave the window as well for light, what do others think? Also the shelves in the WIR will be deeper. The house is pretty narrow so I dont think there is room to put a hallway in front of the bedroom doors and I can't afford to add more floor space. Re: our plans. your input very welcome 20Jan 31, 2011 7:16 am I like the idea of a basin by the loo, but I would just make the loo a bit bigger and have it as a powder room. You have a large linen you only need to grab 30 cms and put the loo at the other end with a sliding door, or a door opening out, and the basin down in that left corner one thought I had to help with privacy for bed 1 and 2 is just to have the doors open the other way, we did that on our plan and it means if someone is ****** on the bed reading they can have their door open and no one is going to look in as they walk past/ sit in the family room etc, saves a corridor and means the rooms are more private. take a look at my plan on page 33 of my thread. link below you will see all the doors, bar the master have the doors opening 'into ' the room rather than against the wall. didnt think I would like it, but now it is built, I can see the benefits I would also square up your kitchen bench, I think that curve might get on your nerves later as it makes the entrance in and out narrower and what about making the shower bigger so you dont need a door..NO DOOR CLEANING!! you just need to move the bathroom door over. it would just be a tiled wall and a gap. here is my appalling squiggles, not good without a ruler!! but you can see what I am trying to say!! Tradie may sit at home but will need to get house plastered as well or will you sit it out? 6 9961 Hi - thanks for your reply. Yes I think 'Ill go for whitish with very speckly bits rather than pure white something like this. PS was actually 2008 I built the… 2 11682 6 55343 |