Browse Forums Building A New House Re: New home in the hills! (TAS) 62Jan 14, 2012 10:30 pm As promised I finally had a go at playing with your plans. I have to admit I have taken a little bit of licence! I hope I have not been too presumptuous in making so many changes! Feel free to shoot it all down in flames and provide me some squiggles to work with!! I've really struggled to get all the bedrooms at a size that realistically fit a double bed and keep it at 180sq/m. I assumed from what you had that you wanted a decent sized guest bedroom and have tried to accommodate the bathroom asks. Unfortunately I didn't quite get the "go to the loo from outside without going through the house" but if you used easily cleaned flooring though the entry bit you get that don’t you? Just not through the laundry sorry! Personally, I think having the downstairs bath as it is gives the guest bedroom a sense of some private access to it all while still being integrated well. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Here is my attempt at lower floor. It comes in at 112.3 sq/m Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Here is the upper floor. It comes in at 75.7 sq/m So thats 188 .. does that pass as "around 180 sq/m??" ... IMHO I think it gives you a better master suite and three small, but workable bedrooms, a better place to live and better resale value potential. The hall, and therefore the two end bedrooms cupboards should probably be 200mm wider to realistically allow furniture movement and a useable cupboard depth. The middle area / bath / powder / ensuite could probably do with some tweaking but its a start! What do you think???!?! Feel free to pick it to bits!! As I say I've struggled a bit with the space! I have used 273 mm external walls though, so that has added a bit to the overall sq/m. Re: New home in the hills! (TAS) 63Jan 14, 2012 11:51 pm PS. Sorry, I forgot to align the bottom floor laundry wall when I squeezed the bedrooms a little ... subtract 0.7 (which as I mentioned we probably need back upstairs anyway to get the robes wide enough ... so maybe it is add 0.7!?!? You choose!) Re: New home in the hills! (TAS) 64Jan 15, 2012 12:57 am Re: New home in the hills! (TAS) 66Jan 15, 2012 9:47 am Wow mate there's some really interesting ideas there How long did it take you to whip all those pro drawings up??? Think I owe you some beverages. I'm out most of the day but when I get back I want to go over these in detail. Do you have a higher res version as I can't quite read the dimension numbers on some rooms? The only things I can think of initially are that one bed upstairs has no north wall, though maybe that East one would be enough. Also the downstairs living area northern exposure is less so I need to work out whether there'll be enough glazing area to match the slab surface area (6 sqm of floor to 1sqm of glazing) Really love seeing ideas from different tangent tho! Thanks again. Re: New home in the hills! (TAS) 67Jan 15, 2012 11:40 am I have sent a file to your gmail addy which should be more readable (I included all external dims on it). We could slide the front bedrooms along on the top level to give some north to that back bedroom, only down side is you will probably have to add a bit of width to get the robes back in. Might be better anyway as it might allow that bathroom to be better too. Re: New home in the hills! (TAS) 68Jan 15, 2012 11:44 am PS. Sorry, to answer your question. It was only a couple of hours. Most of it was spent struggling with a few earlier versions more similar to the original draft but couldnt' get them to work. Once I took the plunge to modify the external slightly it came together quickly! I haven't given a lot of thought to windows as yet, as you say, some calcs and thought needed! Build Thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=53492 Blog: http://destinationtranmere.blogspot.com/ Re: New home in the hills! (TAS) 69Jan 15, 2012 3:57 pm Fantastic! So exciting to see versions that aren't rectangles.. I was sort of thinking I'd have to keep to that for building cost, but if they're fairly basic right-angles it should be fine right? Especially if I keep within typical units What I also like about this breaking up of the shape is that I can stretch longer without adding too much to the overall floor space. The only issue I can see right away is the downstairs living area isn't big enough. We allowed that huge long stretch because it would encompass dining, open space, areas for couches arranged in a square, and then at the other end a sort of merged conservatory (without the walls). It might be possible to re-arrange things a bit though. Even if it's not being sub-divided and you want to keep it as Torrens title, you will still need to talk to a town planner or Council themselves, to see if they will allow… 1 11039 Thanks again Simeon for being so elaborate. Appreciate it. Its gives us a very idea. Kind Regards 4 3690 Is it just a report written to give to the bank initially and it is based on what and how your payments are made up for, or is it a full service where they go out and… 2 5606 |