Browse Forums Building A New House Re: My Floor Plan-what would you do different 19Jul 18, 2011 8:18 pm Hi there everyone, sorry i haven't posted anything for quite a while. im still struggling to even get finances going. i should be at least signing a contract before my 28th birthday next year, rain hail or shine thank you heaps for everyone's ideas and opinions its been helpful at the moment im interested in two plans 1 by commodore homes (the challenger) and * (the osprey) over the last several months Ive come to realizations of wants and need and come to some very good positives. for this plan osprey 1. everyone was talking about closing off the theater, well its basically only going to be only two people living in the house so the theater is being used as my own lounge room for basic tv, movies, foxtel and gaming consoles etc away from the other person living there as she does night shift work. i like what (bel) did to my design with walling it off where the front door is. im not overly fussed as ill be putting in a door from entrance to the family room. 2. the toilet in the laundry saga! lol again im not fussed with that either but my mother duck hates it so to appease her ill be making that the way (bel)put it in her modification picture. 3. the kitchen, i do like an island bench but after living in a home with a square wrap round im quite content to have the extra bench space and cupboard space for all the clutter i have. i would be moving the sink to where the hot plates are and moving the window there too. and putting the oven and hot plate where the window is now. 4. i would love to have moved the laundry off the kitchen but im assuming that its going to cost $$$ to move the garage down to allow the space there so im not going there with that one, but i do need a larger linen and i cant seem to find a decent spot for it. 5. master bathroom, i would extend that out under the eave to make it bigger as i want a larger shower and a bit extra bench space for my wonderfully cluttered nick knacks haha the secondary bathroom will be swapped around with laundry and ill be getting a longer deeper bath as i quite enjoy them 6. study is quite small but mainly i will be using this room as a nursery when the time comes so a door to it will be needed and later on will be used as my home office. 7. my biggest change is getting rid of bed 4 completely as we don't need it at all and making bed 2 and 3 larger for my mother duck, which then gives me the space from bed 4 and deleted activity to make a nice decent games room with sliding door to the alfresco here's my modification Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Bought in Nov 21 at the height of the market (classic). Good area, atrocious floor plan. BUT has land out to the left-hand side that we can extend out on (see second… 0 8803 Thanks mate. Yeah good points! Leaning towards Option 3 to get a bit extra space in the cabinets but not going too crazy high (and expensive). Would require a mini… 13 39877 Hi It came to my attention after the handover that - The facade cladding on the face and the side are not straight. -The face tapers down by 50mm from left to right and… 0 2503 |