Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Need feedback on our floor plan 30Mar 22, 2019 11:08 pm TimBone Thanks guys for your inputs. Can I just ask if you think our void area is worth having? My wife and I are just so confused now whether we should still have it. It's one thing we always considered. Please give your insights. Refer to our floor plan. Thanks. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Need feedback on our floor plan 32Mar 22, 2019 11:19 pm It it only a couple of meters wide? In that case it won't be able to bring it too much of a light into an entrance and IMHO you can find better use for this space. Wide voids work out great in living spaces though. Re: Need feedback on our floor plan 34Mar 23, 2019 8:07 am Can I ask who drew these plans? An architect or draftsman? You seemed concerned by the actual sqm, did you want it bigger or smaller? To be honest the living/dining are is very small and your wasting further space by having the hallway to the bathroom. The main hallway from front entry seems very narrow, I’d be looking at trying to make that wider, getting rid of the wasted space at the entry and probably get rid of the void. Voids works well when there is space, but not when room sizes are seriously compromised. Personally I think a small void like you’ve got adds very little If not any value. Make the staircase grand with a nice big window a beautiful light and give up the void and use the sqm to make the house more livable. Re: Need feedback on our floor plan 35Mar 23, 2019 8:15 am gogo65 Can I ask who drew these plans? An architect or draftsman? You seemed concerned by the actual sqm, did you want it bigger or smaller? To be honest the living/dining are is very small and your wasting further space by having the hallway to the bathroom. The main hallway from front entry seems very narrow, I’d be looking at trying to make that wider, getting rid of the wasted space at the entry and probably get rid of the void. Voids works well when there is space, but not when room sizes are seriously compromised. Personally I think a small void like you’ve got adds very little If not any value. Make the staircase grand with a nice big window a beautiful light and give up the void and use the sqm to make the house more livable. It was an architect of our builder who drew this up. My wife feels the actual area is not 337 sqm like what they said. So the void doesn't make the house look good at all? I thought we will have quite a grand entrance. Now we may go back to square one. Re: Need feedback on our floor plan 36Mar 23, 2019 9:26 am As many people have already mentioned the size looks about right. Architects use programs that measure the size accurately, it’s not like they get there and measure with a ruler! You are fitting a lot in a small size, there will always be compromises. You are fitting 7 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms into less than 350sqm! Our current plan has a granny flat too, total size for 6 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms and same number of living areas is over 500sqm and nothing is huge! If your happy to make the living area smaller to allow the hallway into the bathroom then that’s a decision you make based on the way you live. How wide is the main entry hallway? Re: Need feedback on our floor plan 37Mar 23, 2019 9:29 am Don’t feel disheartened people are giving an opinion, nothing is right or wrong, everyone has different requirements. If you’re building to live for a long time then do what you like. I think the most important info you can take from this is making use of the northerly aspect and reducing windows on the westerly side. Re: Need feedback on our floor plan 38Mar 23, 2019 11:16 am TimBone gogo65 Can I ask who drew these plans? An architect or draftsman? You seemed concerned by the actual sqm, did you want it bigger or smaller? To be honest the living/dining are is very small and your wasting further space by having the hallway to the bathroom. The main hallway from front entry seems very narrow, I’d be looking at trying to make that wider, getting rid of the wasted space at the entry and probably get rid of the void. Voids works well when there is space, but not when room sizes are seriously compromised. Personally I think a small void like you’ve got adds very little If not any value. Make the staircase grand with a nice big window a beautiful light and give up the void and use the sqm to make the house more livable. It was an architect of our builder who drew this up. My wife feels the actual area is not 337 sqm like what they said. So the void doesn't make the house look good at all? I thought we will have quite a grand entrance. Now we may go back to square one. IMO decide what you are not prepared to compromise on, then go from there. If the void is really important to you, then keep it in the design. You have a lot of bedrooms, but will they be large enough? A 3.0 x 3.0 bedroom is not very big especially when you have to put a wardrobe in the there too. Have you compared the size of the bedrooms you live in now? (Our last house had bedrooms 2,3 and 4 each measuring 3.0 x 4.6 but with queen size beds in two of the rooms we felt they needed to be larger in our new build, so have increased them to 3.5 x 4.7). How wide is your downstairs hallway? If possible I would suggest this be 1.2 wide, it makes moving furniture a lot easier! The modified design from King Taco I think works better, by having the media room in the centre of the house and then making the most of the natural light from the Alfresco area for your family / dining room and kitchen, which is possibly where you will spend most of your time. Good luck with your plans! Re: Need feedback on our floor plan 39Mar 24, 2019 1:48 pm KingTaco amilelka You could still have a void over the entry by simply taking it away from the rumpus? Yeah that's what I'd do - mind it'd be a fairly small void - the width of the hallway and the length from the front up to Bed 4 doorway... So maybe 1m x 1.5m -ish? Kind of like this? But yes it's always hard getting what you want in a design... often some kind of compromise to make I guess! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ KingTaco - Guys sorry to be annoying but my wife and I really aren't convinced that we have the correct house area. I have added the breakdown of the measurement of our builder below, just looking at the garage, it is 5.75x5.5 which equals to 31.265 but the builder quoted 35.92 on the plan. So just by this one we are losing 4 sqm. Also, the granny flat which is 10*6 which is 60 sqm but if you will look at it the full rectangle includes the patio and the main dwelling's powder room's shower. The rear living area as well seems to include the alfresco but then again they separated it in the breakdown. We are not architects but I think there are a lot of inconsistencies in our layout measurement. Can anyone please give their 2 cents before we regret signing up. Thanks a lot for your help guise. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ 6 43177 Hi there! Absolutely agree on the wasted space. We have no desire for the master to be that oversized, but it occurred when we increased the depth of the garage. We have… 4 9174 i thought the flipped plan initially but bec i want narrow pathway from entry to dining (dont like bend), also cannot fit the… 7 12872 |