Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Jun 22, 2012 12:02 am Hi All, I am getting a house designed and built on 50 acres with views to about 270 degrees (Clock wise from SE to NE). I am interested if anyone has any floor plans or ideas suitable to acreage with views nearly in every direction. My ideal house would be: -modern -open plan - In/outdoor living areas connected seamlessly - Sandstone feature wall - Picture windows The rooms (Its long) - Kitchen - Meals - Informal Lounge (TV/media) - Formal Dining and Lounge - Mater bedroom and en-suite (no bath) - 2 additional bedrooms (Future Kids) - Guest Bedroom - Office - Rumpus/Kids area - Bathroom (shower and bath) - Laundry - Outdoor entertainment - Pool - Garage I think that is it. The goal of this house is to see us through our entire life. We love the area and do not see ourselves moving. This house needs to accommodate ourselves and kids through out their different stages of life. We have enlisted the help of an architect, and as the schematic develops I hope to share with you how it is going. Thanks Gerbz Re: Acreage house design/floor plan ideas 2Jun 22, 2012 11:00 am Sounds fab, cant wait to follow your journey. I have always dreamed about buying an acarage and building a big home! Re: Acreage house design/floor plan ideas 3Jun 22, 2012 11:42 am If its going to be your 'life time' home then here are a couple of things to consider: kids leave (eventually!) so dont make your open plan too large or make it so that you can close off sections using multi-fold doors. kids come back and bring the tribe (hopefully!) so allow room in your secondary bedrooms for twin beds or queen size beds. consider a wet room - being on the land means muddy gumboots, wet dogs, footy boots, dirty husbands, etc will you be having your parents when they get older? if so consider another bedroom and place a shared ensuite between that room and the guest room. keep everything on the same level (as far as possible) so you dont have to go up/down stairs to bedrooms etc. consider wheelchair access - at least one ramp access point and 870mm min wide doors. Several of the things we factored into our 'lifetime' build Regards RiH Re: Acreage house design/floor plan ideas 4Jun 22, 2012 12:43 pm I agree with RocksInHead with everything there. You are on 50 acres so no need to go up! Two important questions though are where are you building and what is the budget. Lots and lots of views means lots and lots of glass so potentially lots and lots of heat loss/transfer or lots and lots of expensive glass. Do you want a 270 degree panorama or do you want each room to show a different view point so as you go through the house, it shows new and beautiful vistas? Building tip No. 3: A raft slab will not get you down a river. A waffle pod slab does not go with maple syrup. My building thread https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=53000 Re: Acreage house design/floor plan ideas 5Jun 22, 2012 3:58 pm I don't know...I just want to see what the architect comes up with, hence signing up!!! Good luck Re: Acreage house design/floor plan ideas 6Jun 22, 2012 7:06 pm Thanks rocksinhead. What's hard is Gerting that balance for a life time house. You can not make rooms specific to 1 thing as it will become not needed. The other is planning for something that is in the future and we have no experience with. Kids are not the most reliant to create a mess where you position their mess area. Barker, each room will have its own view points, however one of our key concerns is the hot amer western sun as the icon (a 100+ year old fig tree) and the valley views are to the west of the house site. And we want our our master suite and our formal dining/formal lounge to have it in sight. Then on the flip side, windows and heat loss in winter. We know we are going to have a lot of glass, this will be countered by fire places, but you want it to be climatically plesant without having to start a fire the moment it gets a little cool at night. Ps. Our site is in south east Queensland. Starting budget is ~400k. Pool scape and guest bedroom are not included in first stage Re: Acreage house design/floor plan ideas 7Jun 22, 2012 7:11 pm A fire ? We are in NZ and don't need heating. Upped the insulation, double glazed, brick and tile and faced it mostly east and north Had 4 frosts in the last 3 weeks and no heating needed. LOVE IT! You will be much warmer than us in the evenings, and with a well built home you might be ok re heating. Re: Acreage house design/floor plan ideas 8Jun 22, 2012 9:29 pm lol any house will be warmer than the house we live in at the moment. The house we are renting is a old queenslander, no insulation, single ply tongue and grove external walls, breeze ways above all doors and floor boards which you could nearly classify as having their own breeze ways between boards. lol back to our house design though The construct will be with well insulated materials, especially to minimise heat radiating through the roof in summer. The heat loss in winter I see will pretty much be just the glassed areas, but we intend to have it open on a lot of the aspects. Re: Acreage house design/floor plan ideas 9Jun 24, 2012 10:38 am Hi I live in Brisbane and will be building on acreage soon if I ever can find a builder (but that is another story). It is extremely expensive to build on acreage if you don’t have power, sewerage and town water on site and have to get it to the building site. Good floor plans for acreage homes are extremely hard to find most designs have the “colonial look” with the verandah on the front of the house; nothing wrong with that if you want a house like that. I am also looking for a modern and open plan house. A couple of weeks ago I came across a design from McCarthy Homes the “Rural View 1”. Unfortunately it is out of my price range with $ 320,000 however it might suit you. If you want to check out the builder google “product review” and enter the builder’s name. Re: Acreage house design/floor plan ideas 10Jun 24, 2012 3:40 pm Interested to see this one. While we were looking at plans we loved a lot of the http://www.kitome.com.au/prestige-series.html designs for ideas. Ours is loosely based on one of these http://www.hotondo.com.au/homes-find.aspx with some ideas from the Kitomes too. Re: Acreage house design/floor plan ideas 11Jun 24, 2012 5:02 pm Hi gerbz. If you budget is 400k and your going with an architetct then i dont think you will get much change for house design any larger than 30square. I'm building on acreage in NSW and had a lt of trouble trying to find floor plans and size to go with price. Most architects I rang operated on a $15k/ square or above. Anyway I've ended up going with a project builder but some of the best acreage plans I've seen from a quality builder on the web was Felton constructions. they only build nsw but hopefully you can get some ideas from there designs. I would've built with them if I won lotto! . 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