Hi everyone,
We are building in Perth with Homebuyers Centre. Currently waiting for land titles (should have them within next 2-3 weeks yay!) and prestart. I thought I'd get a blog started and post our floor plan so that we could get some feedback/ideas on any suggested changes - however, we cannot make any structural changes now, only 'cosmetic'. We we're quite rushed into the building process, one minute we were looking at established houses, the next minute we had a hold on a block of land which was going to go to someone else if we didn't buy it and on we went!
Things we love about the plan:
Open plan
Shoppers entry door - straight from garage into kitchen
His and hers robes in main bedroom (however I am calling them Hers and Hers )
Games area and extra lounge area - we are used to living in a 3 bedroom villa, so this house will seem so big to us.
Changes we have already made:
Close front lounge in to make more private (we will prob use this as our music room for instruments/memorabilia etc)
Made robes in all bedrooms double (we haven't added doors because my partner is a carpenter and he will do all that)
Kitchen will have overhead cupboards
Raised roof to open plan living areas by 3 courses
Added drawers to ensuite
Bricked garage in at back and side
garage door will be added after hand over - cheaper!
Things I am not sure about and would like advice on:
Ensuite bathroom - the current plan has the shower on the side where the window will be, and the window is a small window at the top. This wouldn't let in much natural light. I could either make the window a full length thin window going down the side of the end of the double shower, where I hope/assume water wouldn't get to it, or another thought is to swap places of the toilet and the shower. If we put the toilet in the showers spot, we wouldn't have the wall/door closing in the toilet, would just have it open and would have a bigger window. Therefore, I'd add a sliding door to the bathroom entrance. But on the other hand, I do like the idea of that toilet being closed off. Ideas/suggestions?
Kitchen - the corner pantry doesn't look very modern to me and it annoys me a little bit. I like the amount of room for storage etc, but any ideas on how I can make it look better? House will be quite modern interior. I tried playing around with some ideas but it's hard because of the positioning of it. If I had of thought of it earlier, I would have moved the garage forward so that the kitchen was 'deeper' and would allow more room for a big cupboard along the side wall - too late now though!
Should we close the games part in at all... with half wall, or something like that? I like it being all open, but happy to hear suggestions.
Our front elevation is going to be quite boring - we didn't even think about that and then it was too late to change it. I would like the main bedroom to have 2 of the long thin windows, not sure about the other window in the lounge yet.
Also, I love niches! Can anyone see where I could put one where it wouldn't look stupid?
Any thoughts/ideas/feedback/suggestions etc etc etc are more than welcome! remembering we can't make any structural changes.
Thanks everyone!
Kara