Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Apr 22, 2015 12:13 pm Hi All, We are planning to build our home in a corner block. After visiting few builders/display we have decided to create a design of our own. We wanted a bigger house with bigger bedrooms. We liked the rear master bed concept with an exit/view to backyard/courtyard. We can utilize 60% site coverage of 400 SQM = 240SQM. The drawing and room sizes are desirable and not drawn up to scale. I have no previous experience in home design/build. I have used Sweet Home 3D for learning and design. I am a long time reader of Homeone but this is my first post. Your valuable opinion and suggestions would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance. http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w3/m ... ta2slf.png Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: How about this home design? 2Apr 22, 2015 12:31 pm It's a good start! Have you considered talking to builders about modifying an existing plan? You're still going to need a draftsperson and a custom builder, it may work out more expensive doing it this way than just modifying a volume builder's plan. If you do want to go ahead with your own plan, there's a couple of things I'd consider about this one: Your Master orientation means that you're not making full use of its position next to the alfresco. My preference was always for a plan which had access on both sides to the alfresco. If you rotate your Master 180 degrees you can have a slider to the alfresco. Your laundry is not closed off which will make it damp and noisy in the rest of the house. I haven't looked at any of the technical aspects of it, this is just feedback on the general design Jen (& Dave) Plantation Bronte, Ormeau Ridge, Gold Coast QLD 12/03/2015 - Commencement... 26/08/2015 - Handover! viewtopic.php?f=31&t=76446 Re: How about this home design? 3Apr 22, 2015 1:18 pm Thanks for your feedback! Re Master orientation: Your have a good point! My plan was to make master a bit private than the main Alfresco area. Also to keep the room cooler than north facing sun/heat. Thats why the slider is on the west. We needed another window to the south for cooler breeze. Re: L,Dry: We are planning a to put a door. I have showed the design to couple of builder, they need to accommodate in with their existing. Re: How about this home design? 4Apr 22, 2015 1:21 pm Fair enough Yeah with the Master, that was really just my personal preference. I've seen plenty of designs both ways, I just thought it was a bit of a waste. Now of course I'm wondering where I'm going to put my barbeque as I have no wall in my alfresco... Good luck! Jen (& Dave) Plantation Bronte, Ormeau Ridge, Gold Coast QLD 12/03/2015 - Commencement... 26/08/2015 - Handover! viewtopic.php?f=31&t=76446 Re: How about this home design? 5Apr 22, 2015 1:24 pm have you checked with council about setbacks? Im fairly sure like brisbane council you have to have like 6-9m on each street boundary for a setback really limiting size of house and where can place it? Re: How about this home design? 6Apr 22, 2015 1:31 pm MrBee have you checked with council about setbacks? Im fairly sure like brisbane council you have to have like 6-9m on each street boundary for a setback really limiting size of house and where can place it? Updated: According to Guideline: Primary St. Min Setback: 2 M and Secondary St. Min Setback 1.0 M Ta Re: How about this home design? 7Apr 22, 2015 1:32 pm That seems really low. Where are you building? Jen (& Dave) Plantation Bronte, Ormeau Ridge, Gold Coast QLD 12/03/2015 - Commencement... 26/08/2015 - Handover! viewtopic.php?f=31&t=76446 Re: How about this home design? 8Apr 22, 2015 1:32 pm me786 MrBee have you checked with council about setbacks? Im fairly sure like brisbane council you have to have like 6-9m on each street boundary for a setback really limiting size of house and where can place it? According to Guideline: Primary St. Setback: 1.5 M and Secondary St. Setback 1.0 M Ta cool Re: How about this home design? 9Apr 22, 2015 1:44 pm MrBee me786 MrBee have you checked with council about setbacks? Im fairly sure like brisbane council you have to have like 6-9m on each street boundary for a setback really limiting size of house and where can place it? According to Guideline: Primary St. Setback: 1.5 M and Secondary St. Setback 1.0 M Ta cool Sorry: According to Guideline: Primary St. Min Setback: 2.0 M and Secondary St. Min Setback 1.0 M Re: How about this home design? 10Apr 22, 2015 1:46 pm Ilaeria That seems really low. Where are you building? Under City of Cockburn, WA Re: How about this home design? 11Apr 22, 2015 1:49 pm sorry this is what i was thinking about no building or structure over 2m high is built within a 9m by 9m truncation at the corner of the 2 road frontages. http://www.hpw.qld.gov.au/SiteCollectio ... /mp1-1.pdf - page 9 ... Its a brisabne council thing where you can't build within 9m of the corner where 2 streets intersect. Re: How about this home design? 12Apr 22, 2015 2:03 pm You might find there are some stipulations like the garage must be positioned forward or behind (as in your plan) , my local government has a general setback of 3m, except all garages must be 4.5m (I'm assuming to allow a car to be parked in front of it) . If you visit the area you can usually get an idea of what is/isn't required. In your design you have no porch area, that's an easy fix by placing your entry doors further in. Depending on what your family dynamics are, your 4th bedroom I think is more practical having access to the main bathroom so would rework that. I also don't see much storage area! Its a great starting point though. Re: How about this home design? 13Apr 22, 2015 2:23 pm It doesn't look like that plan is to scale, which makes it harder to get a good feel for the design. Bear in mind that brick and brick veneer walls are around 240mm thick. Measuring across the front, I'd be expecting measurements around 600+240+3500+90+1200+90+6000+240, for a total width of nearly 12 metres, which seems wider than you are budgeting on. I'd look at moving the front door back to create a front porch where you can stand out of the rain. I'd be cautious about all the robes out under the eaves. While this seems to save space, it does limit your windows quite a bit, in size/location, and also in the viewing angle out the window past the produding brick. Depending on how your setback is measured, it may not be getting you any extra space anyhow, as the road setback is quite possibly to the wall. Placing robes between bedrooms also helps provide some noise isolation between rooms. Though robes out there may help reduce road noise. The master robe will need to be at least 1.8m wide, including the shelving. The ensuite layout looks a bit awkward. Overall though, the layout seems workable, and space-efficient. Just be prepared that as you finalise a design more, things tend to take up more room than you hoped. Re: How about this home design? 14Apr 22, 2015 3:04 pm Re: How about this home design? 15Apr 22, 2015 4:51 pm I personally would look at enclosing the laundry if you leave it there everyone who comes in your house walks past and see in it I don't know about you but my laundry has clothes and towels all over it being dirty or clean to iron maybe you could enclose with a door or move or else where? Re: How about this home design? 17Apr 22, 2015 9:02 pm Wow, great idea to design your own house to get what you really want - that suits you and your block. What would be of interest to me is maximising orientation ... I LOVE corners, we're building on a corner too. To maximise light coming in through the house, I'd move the garage to the back of the house (make the driveway off the second frontage). This is also your west which gets hot afternoon sun in summer ... In effect providing a heat buffer. But this wouldn't work for you as you're keen on a rear bedroom. Good luck, Re: How about this home design? 18Apr 22, 2015 10:18 pm Your walk in robe in the master says 1x4. If it's only 1 metre wide that won't accommodate hangers on both sides. You will struggle with hangers on one side as they take up roughly 60 cm. Re: How about this home design? 19Apr 23, 2015 12:32 am me786 Re Master orientation: Also to keep the room cooler than north facing sun/heat. Thats why the slider is on the west. We needed another window to the south for cooler breeze. Generally, you have to be far more concerned with summer sunshine from the west than you do from the north. This is because in summer the sun is high in the sky, to the north. Appropriately sized eaves will shade the sun in the north, as it is higher in the sky. However, eaves are ineffective at shading the western sun, as it is lower in the sky. Also, when the sun is lower in the sky a higher proportion of radiation is transmitted through windows (as it is perpendicular to the window face), than when the sun is higher in the sky (when much of the radiation is reflected away from the window). So it's best to minimise (or totally eliminate) western glazing, while also keeping eastern glazing quite low, along withsouthern glazing (particularly in cooler climates). TomCat What would be of interest to me is maximising orientation ... I LOVE corners, we're building on a corner too. To maximise light coming in through the house, I'd move the garage to the back of the house (make the driveway off the second frontage). This is also your west which gets hot afternoon sun in summer ... In effect providing a heat buffer. But this wouldn't work for you as you're keen on a rear bedroom. Good luck, Totally agree with TomCat. Western sun is usually the main concern in summer time. Placing garages, & little used rooms (like bathrooms & laudries) here, will help buffer your house from summer heat. This is a possibility with your second street frontage. Of course these are generalizations. You'll have to take your local climate into account. What direction do cooling breezes & hot winds come from, & will your local topography help shade your house? Below is what I'd consider to be the bible of Australian house design. A must read if you want to get it right. I'll link to the section on orientation, but I'd recommend you read the lot. http://www.yourhome.gov.au/passive-design/orientation Re: How about this home design? 20Apr 23, 2015 1:33 am Great advice ddarroch. I recall reading your recommendations when we were in the planning stages. Also great to mention local climate. I live in a cold area in south west vic and we put a small living room on our western side with a full length window and it's a favourite spot of mine for the beautiful afternoon sun overlooking the back garden. I would recommend double glazing which is mentioned in the guide. Don't know how I lived without it all these years. ideal house depends on the site and location as much as internal floor plan....what is the distance from the house to all four boundaries, where is north, describe your… 3 15169 Once you know the basics, the rest is easy. 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