OH NOOOOOOOOOOOO I am so sad.
It was such a gorgeous house. didnt you have like a zillion dollars to spend? cant you still
spend a zillion..please, we were all so excited.
it was OUR house, and we all wanted to watch it come to life. What do you mean, contours...
forget them!! just build the $3mill house, it was awesome.
we can all chip in. send a bob or two over!! ha ha
im so sad,
Yes Kiwi, we are sad too.
And very disappointed that we were told it wasn't a good idea to build our design. But since we don't want to spend half of our budget on excavation and retaining, we don't really have much choice.
We are getting quite annoyed though that we have to keep going back and redesign everything all over and over again and again. Getting quite sick of it to be honest. The design the draftsman of the builder came back to us with wasn't great so I spend a few nights at the computer (again) to try and fit some of our previous ideas onto the contours. It's getting really, really difficult now to fit our wants and needs (that were already hard to put into a floorplan) into the additional restrictions of the contours of the block. The plan above is now back with the builder to do some adjustments and fine tuning. They can do some work as well!
There are still some problems I have with this plan, but I hope our builder can help us sort this out and get it all together. And we thought we put it up here again too to see if there are any ideas from this great community. Although I'm afraid people might be getting sick of us by now?
Anyway, the problems as I see them:
The Al Fresco is now on top of the dining area and thereby blocking access for the Northerly sun in winter. But I can't really see where else we can put it so we might have to live with it?
The Entry area doesn’t work well yet. The way the doors go off the entry hall looks a bit strange and the main entrance doesn’t look nice.
The rumpus room shape and lounge room / rumpus room wall don’t look quite right. I wonder if we could do something different with that. Also there seems to be not much room for windows to the rumpus room so a bit of a worry about natural light in there.
Having said all of the above, we still like the other design you all helped us with. But barring a lottery win very soon it won't happen, but any donations are gratefully received.
Thanks to you all for your help and comments. Much appreciated!