New build floor plan advice

To answer some of your questions first:
1. Shade will start coming into your pool from midday and gradually moving in. I reckon it's about 1 or 2 hours until the pool is fully under shade. If the pool is on the western side, you might get longer hours of sunlight for your pool. In the late afternoon/evening, you would actually be under the shade of your fence/neighbour. So maybe that's something to consider.
2. Pool equipment, no idea.
3. Your living area is facing north, I think you will get plenty of light into your living area throughout the day. I don't see the need for skylights. You could consider reduce the size of roof above your alfresco, only have half alfresco undercover. It feels nicer too, more open at alfresco. It's trendy these days to have half covered outdoor area.
4. It looks like a decent house. You already spend big bucks. Always double glaze.

Now a few issues I see with the plan:
1.6 bedrooms? Is that too many? Who needs 6 bedrooms unless you have a huge family.
2. 6 bedrooms and only 2 bathrooms?? Ratio is way out. Not enough bathrooms.
3. Your master bedroom is downstairs but there is only one shared bathroom with another two bedrooms and living area. So your master bedroom doesn't even have an ensuite. This is not right.
4. What's your plan with that huge living area upstairs? It seems wasteful unless you do have like 10 kids.
5. Bed 2 upstairs is too small.
6. Kitchen and pantry arrangement need to be looked at. I personally don't like fridge to be inside pantry. It's inconvenient during cooking. Bring fridge out to where the sink is at now. Put either stovetop or sink to the bench at W7. Have only bench and shelf spaces in the pantry.

My advice is to have master bedroom upstairs on the eastern side overlooking your pool if you still want to keep pool on the east side. Please give your master bedroom an ensuite bathroom.

For rest of upstairs, you can keep that study and 1 bedroom and 1 bathroom.

For downstairs, you can have three bedrooms. Try to have 1 bathroom for these 3 bedrooms, and 1 powder room for living area. So overall. it's a house with 5 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.

Oh, that was powder room inside the laundry? I thought they were some kind of laundry basket and linen space. So that is a toilet! Nah, don't like it at all. Toilet and laundry together?? It's like a city apartment!!

At first look I liked the overall layout and structure of the house. Nice narrow block house. After careful look, there are just so many wrong things about this plan. This can't be drawn up by a professional.

I see.

I think you will need a proper laundry room for your family. I see no linen spaces around the house. Storage of this house is not enough for a big family like yours.

You don't want people to get out of pool and walk through alfresco all drippy wet. Looking at this floor plan, you could build a pool change room at this end of alfresco where the brick column is.

Understandable for the 6 bedrooms now, but don't you want to put your older folks on the ground level so they don't climb up and down? I would still have 3 bedrooms downstairs with a shared proper bathroom. Then add a powder room for living area.

For upstairs, have a master bedroom with an ensuite. Two other bedrooms with a shared bathroom. Upstairs is where you put study and second living area, so younger generations living upstairs would make more sense, don't you think? For a house with 6 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms is minimum in my opinion. My house is 4 bed 4 bath + powder room.

If not enough space upstairs for bedrooms, you can always reduce the size of that living area. How much can kids play, they need to study!! (lol jk)

for a big family my suggestions include a bigger kitchen with dining room with wider opening to the alfresco, separate pantry separate laundry and separate bathroom/pool change room with external access...there's an option for master bedroom (or grannies room) plus two kids room and two living areas either upstairs or down and rotating the stairs (with a deep landing) allows much better use of available space and adding furniture helps explain room sizes and walkways through rooms, you should always use double glazed windows throughout, with smaller windows and/or splashbacks or highlight windows on the western side and the pool pump will probably be too big for outside the bedroom and would be much better enclosed at the end of the alfresco Like  ⋅  Add a comment  ⋅  Pin to Ideaboard  ⋅  Share

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