Helyn
PS: Mikita, is that your husband in your avatar?????
Browse Forums General Discussion Re: I can't believe they'd have one! 41Mar 13, 2008 8:17 pm Helyn PS: Mikita, is that your husband in your avatar????? Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: I can't believe they'd have one! 42Mar 13, 2008 8:47 pm Helyn Mikita, we are having a sitting room, (formal lounge, whatever you call it) near the front door, lounge and main bedroom are either side of the entry hallway, in our case its not a status symbol, its not even a large house (166m2 plus garage) I wanted a separate quiet adult TV area away from main activity, noise and traffic area of open space kit/meals/family, it can be closed off with bifold doors or left open. Visitors coming in can either go from entry hall into lounge or bypass it to end of hallway which leads into casual living area. I guess the thing when planning every room or section of a house is to look at your lifestyle (and your price range!) ask yourselves whether you will use it regularly, so in our case yes to a separate lounge but no to ,say, a separate study or separate dining room. Just to clarify, is this your formal lounge or in addition to your formal lounge? Re: I can't believe they'd have one! 43Mar 13, 2008 8:48 pm Ditto to Helyn - one of the reasons we loved our plan was the fact that we had a sitting room. Having a child certainly makes you aware that they encroach upon every possible space with mess, food and toys. For us it is part of "our" wing - the front of the house consists of the master and sitting rooms which will endeavour to be as child-free as possible (in a nice way). The rear of the house - kitchen, dining, family, minor bedrooms, etc will be very child friendly.
For us also we have lived in too many places where you are embarrassed to invite unannounced guests in because the toys are everywhere, there are dishes stacked on the bench, etc. so a separate room that is for the purpose of making guests welcome for us was a definite plus. We have also just purchased a lounge/sofa bed setting that will enable us to turn the sitting into guest accommodation. Multi function - I like it. But then, as has been said - each to their own. I guess that's why there are millions of different layouts and options - each has their own market. Ray. Second Time 'Round Re: I can't believe they'd have one! 44Mar 13, 2008 8:48 pm Helyn Mikita, we are having a sitting room, (formal lounge, whatever you call it) near the front door, lounge and main bedroom are either side of the entry hallway, in our case its not a status symbol, its not even a large house (166m2 plus garage) I wanted a separate quiet adult TV area away from main activity, noise and traffic area of open space kit/meals/family, it can be closed off with bifold doors or left open. Visitors coming in can either go from entry hall into lounge or bypass it to end of hallway which leads into casual living area. I guess the thing when planning every room or section of a house is to look at your lifestyle (and your price range!) ask yourselves whether you will use it regularly, so in our case yes to a separate lounge but no to ,say, a separate study or separate dining room. Quite a dish isn't he? Re: I can't believe they'd have one! 45Mar 13, 2008 9:47 pm We,ve got a formal lounge in our plan...on the right as you walk in the front door and a study/guest room on the left.
Ditto to Helyn and Ray....the kids will have plenty of room for their toys etc upstairs in their bedrooms and the rumpus room,so it,s nice that we can have a room that,s just ours! LOL It,s certainly not a status thing..it,s just nice to have a room that hopefully will always be tidy and somewhere quiet where you can just chill out and relax I,ve suggested that it could be a t.v free zone there also,but the jury is still out on that one We,ve also got a formal dining room (because it was in the plan) we,re not sure how much we,ll use it though,only time will tell and if we don,t then we can always use it for something else wine storage,maybe..although friends of ours built a very nice wine storage area under their stairs.... When we were looking at display homes we noticed that quite a few of them had a study that was very open and that the main wall had a big hole in it (can,t think of the correct name for it!) and so there was absolutely no privacy and you would have to keep it very neat at all times as it was usually near the main living area As for spa,s...we,d love one,but we just know that it would hardly get used..it would be a novelty at first then it would just be a very expensive ornament It,s great to hear everyone,s opinions on what they like and dislike Cheers Mel Building on 9 acres Re: I can't believe they'd have one! 47Mar 13, 2008 10:04 pm LOL Fiona - I never did that... I thought the overwhelming amount of pink would attest to that - yet I still got asked once in the supermarket by an old man "is it a boy or a girl?" - what the...? Maybe he was colourblind.
Ray. Second Time 'Round Re: I can't believe they'd have one! 48Mar 13, 2008 10:09 pm nzfiona Those headbands with bows, put on babies' heads to let people know "this is a GIRL"! Oh - oops - I forgot we're talking about houses.... Fiona I can go one better - the bows that stick onto the bald baby's head without the band what are they using superglue????? Fiona Re: I can't believe they'd have one! 49Mar 14, 2008 5:12 am Talinsmum nzfiona Those headbands with bows, put on babies' heads to let people know "this is a GIRL"! Oh - oops - I forgot we're talking about houses.... Fiona I can go one better - the bows that stick onto the bald baby's head without the band what are they using superglue????? Fiona OMG - I've never seen that! Thank God I had a boy, although his favourite colour until recently was hot pink - I loathe pink! LOL Fiona Re: I can't believe they'd have one! 50Mar 14, 2008 5:17 am First_Timer_Ray LOL Fiona - I never did that... I thought the overwhelming amount of pink would attest to that - yet I still got asked once in the supermarket by an old man "is it a boy or a girl?" - what the...? Maybe he was colourblind. Ray. I had a similar experience once, when ds was just turned seven. We were at a motorcycle display expo thingy, as we had nothing else to do that weekend . I was on a bike with ds behind me, resplendent - quite unusually for him, being a lover of pink shades - in jeans and blue tee-shirt. Sales chappie said, "how old is your daughter?" and ds piped up, "I'm a boy!" Even though he's a tall string bean with muscles from dancing, he *does* have lovely chubby chipmunk cheeks, and his hair was longer then, in ringlets.....awww..... Fiona PS: mmmm....methinks back to houses....I'm in danger of hijacking my own thread! Re: I can't believe they'd have one! 51Mar 14, 2008 9:11 am One more hijack comment; I think people looking at babies get so caught up in 'awww, how cute' that they get carried away and ask silly questions. I remember this happening to me "how cute, what's the baby's name?". Me: "Luke", then "is it a boy or a girl?" Well what do you think?
Back to houses. In answer to Mikita, this is our formal lounge, it is 5m x 3.7m, the whole house is 3 bedrooms, lounge, open space kit/meals/family so although it is not a big house, there are 2 living areas. Like Ray, I also had in mind that it could double up as overnight guest room, someone could crash on the sofa, that's one reason why we added the bifold doors, another was to shut myself away from noise further up the house, original plan just had an archway into room. However, unlike Melanie, I intend the TV to go in the lounge (and not in the casual living) as I like to watch programs without noise/talking/traffic flow etc around me, I'm not into this 'seeing the TV from the kitchen while you're cooking' idea. We have 2 older children who have left home, occupants of new house will be ourselves and youngest child, 16 years old. Re: I can't believe they'd have one! 53Mar 14, 2008 8:06 pm First_Timer_Ray Ditto to Helyn - one of the reasons we loved our plan was the fact that we had a sitting room. Having a child certainly makes you aware that they encroach upon every possible space with mess, food and toys. For us it is part of "our" wing - the front of the house consists of the master and sitting rooms which will endeavour to be as child-free as possible (in a nice way). The rear of the house - kitchen, dining, family, minor bedrooms, etc will be very child friendly. For us also we have lived in too many places where you are embarrassed to invite unannounced guests in because the toys are everywhere, there are dishes stacked on the bench, etc. so a separate room that is for the purpose of making guests welcome for us was a definite plus. We have also just purchased a lounge/sofa bed setting that will enable us to turn the sitting into guest accommodation. Multi function - I like it. But then, as has been said - each to their own. I guess that's why there are millions of different layouts and options - each has their own market. Ray. Makes sense. And as you say, each to their own. We (who have no kids) thought a sitting room, a formal lounge, a living area, a rumpus room, an alfresco area AND a parents retreat was just waaay too many options - and an awful lot of lounge suites! Re: I can't believe they'd have one! 54Mar 14, 2008 8:11 pm Talinsmum nzfiona Those headbands with bows, put on babies' heads to let people know "this is a GIRL"! Oh - oops - I forgot we're talking about houses.... Fiona I can go one better - the bows that stick onto the bald baby's head without the band what are they using superglue????? Fiona What like this???? Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Hate to think what’s holding this in place!!! Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: I can't believe they'd have one! 56Mar 14, 2008 9:32 pm Quote: But then, as has been said - each to their own. I guess that's why there are millions of different layouts and options - each has their own market. I completely agree with Ray - each to their own. On our part, we thought that we won't be needing a formal lounge. So what we did with our front formal lounge was to close that off with two timber sliding doors and made it into a home theatre. Our house has a provision to add a HT room to the rear of the house. But because the rear is north facing, we didn't want to lose the winter sun there by putting in a HT. It would waste the north-facing family area. So we decided to settle for a smaller HT room to the front of the house, replacing the formal lounge. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Built the Nevada 42 Next project - landscaping! Re: I can't believe they'd have one! 57Mar 14, 2008 10:12 pm Eager How about a row of plantation shutters in the wall between the family room and the passage to the bedrooms? I mean, who wants to see through that wall anyway? And if you keep them closed, what's the point of having them in the first place? We LOVE the plantation shutters in the void between the family room and the hall way - something different and lets a bit more light in. We having them on all our voids. Re: I can't believe they'd have one! 58Mar 14, 2008 11:32 pm We have our wc opening onto the main hallway, an open ensuite with a toilet, study with no door and a kitchen sink in the island bench . I won't look any futher but I'm guessing we have picked most of the icks for our house.
Works for us. Re: I can't believe they'd have one! 59Mar 14, 2008 11:44 pm DeeElle We have our wc opening onto the main hallway, an open ensuite with a toilet, study with no door and a kitchen sink in the island bench . I won't look any futher but I'm guessing we have picked most of the icks for our house. Works for us. Dy, you rebel you!!!! Re: I can't believe they'd have one! 60Mar 14, 2008 11:45 pm **Phoenix** DeeElle We have our wc opening onto the main hallway, an open ensuite with a toilet, study with no door and a kitchen sink in the island bench . I won't look any futher but I'm guessing we have picked most of the icks for our house. Works for us. Dy, you rebel you!!!! sigh its hard going against the grain Ask the council if there is a chance of getting build over easement exemption. Sometimes easements are unused and 24cm is not all that much. Good luck. And yes any builder… 2 13718 Very common on rendered homes Smaller suppliers get the lower quality raw materials 6 11803 |