Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Feb 22, 2010 9:07 pm Hi We are finally moving to the next step which is designing our house with our custom builder. Some background: We are bldg a double storey house on a sloping block of land and our main criteria is to have an open plan living as we have beautiful city views from our block. we have aimed to keep the house simple and not too modern or contemporary. The architect sketched the plans with us and once we finalise they will draw a 3D image. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Please feel free to share inputs, thoughts, suggestions Many Thanks Re: RE: Rough Sketches of our house 2Feb 22, 2010 10:56 pm there are some really great "floorplan" critiques on this forum, I'm not one of them! but I can see your master bedroom door off the living area, I wouldn't like that personally, perhaps move it towards the front door more, or create some kinda hallway for it to open from??? just a thought A thankful person is a happy person. [/color]My hobby design blog: http://aviewondesign.blogspot.com/ Re: RE: Rough Sketches of our house 3Feb 23, 2010 7:20 am We were looking to custom build but found a project home we liked; however are main criteria was good separation between the kids areas and our master bedroom AND our room had to be away from the living areas. Your MB is right next to the entry, kitchen and the wall of the stairs. I would assume your living areas flooring would be timber or other hard surface. I think your MB would be too noisy in it's present location. Could you swap position of the bedrooms and have your MB open onto the veranda as well? Re: RE: Rough Sketches of our house 4Feb 23, 2010 8:17 pm We are building the same way with our sloping block but I think you are a upward slope we are a downward slope. Check out our blog. We used corner stackers opening out the the deck which has opened up the space and really draws your eyes to the outside view, also just keep in mind the light in the lower level. Good luck cheers Lou http://take2-customdesigndownslope.blogspot.com 07-10-09 omg they have cut the block 14-05-10 we finally have the keys of course there are legal avenues. You've already mentioned it. Sue them. I find it odd that lawyers wouldnt be willing to take on the case, given CCT evidence and… 1 23765 "Losers" "humanity" "off time" "your" "top notch" "love symbol" Sounds like ponzo is done using other people's toilets 36 23894 |