Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Feedback on floor plan 6Aug 22, 2019 2:17 am Here's a couple of my thoughts. Do you really need that understairs storage? As you could instead push your downstairs powder room into that space - sure, they'll be a slight slope on the ceiling at the end, but it'll save you squeezing into the room. Alternatively, push both powder and laundry wall and increase the size of your laundry, because that looks like a tight fit too - even your sink is placed end on to fit. Perhaps consider sliding doors for the powder room and laundry, it'll feel a bit bigger then. So your main bedroom has a HIS robe and a HERS robe, but also one extra robe? Who's that for? Personally I think your TV room is too big. At over 7m long, and doubling as a corridor, I can't quite figure out how you are going to put your furniture in it. Have you drawn some furniture plans too? And also (this is probably just my obsessiveness) the wall on that long side of your TV room dips in by 30cm about half way along, not sure it'll look great. And lastly, your kitchen island. Are you planning to use it from both sides (ie sink on one side, and bar stools on the other)? If so, try to increase the depth to 1000-1200mm, otherwise people sitting on the other side will just get splashed. Just food for thought... My build with Inspired/ Como Homes: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=93656 Re: Feedback on floor plan 7Aug 22, 2019 8:58 am At the very least, change that door into the downstairs powder/shower room so it swings the opposite way. You don’t want the first thing you see to be the toilet, especially as that hallway outside is the only entrance into the kitchen/living/dining. Re: Feedback on floor plan 8Aug 22, 2019 12:41 pm Seems like your rainwater tank is taking up prime location - North facing windows are best. I'd be relocating that water tank to the other side of the house outside the stairs or powder room/laundry and adding full height windows to that wall - even if just for the dining area, but dining and lounge would be better. Re: Feedback on floor plan 9Aug 26, 2019 10:27 am Looks like the place is orientated pretty well to me. Once the block deviates from north around 45° things get a bit difficult. As true north is a great orientation, warming the house in winter, while being shaded by eaves in summer. But NW is not a great orientation, as it's difficult to shade in summer when temperatures are hot. So, although Possums is right in saying that northern windows are best, NW windows are not. So I'd disagree with Possums, & say that you want to leave the rain water tank there, & minimise NW windows (unless you're in a climate that is particularly cool in summer, unlikely). NE is not the perfect orientation, but it's pretty good. So what I will say is that it's likely that your covered alfresco may offer too much shade in winter. At this time of year you sunshine streaming into your home, warming it. If your living areas faced true north, I'd say don't have a covered alfresco, have appropriate length eaves that shade in summer, but not in winter. Attaching horizontal awnings (or a pergola) that will offer shade when required in summer. But as the living areas face NE I'd say do more research, & look at shadow diagrams, to see if a covered alfresco will shade the home in winter, when you don't want it to. My general feeling would be that a pergola (with deciduous plants) or horizontal awning would be better. As it could offer shade in summer, but not in winter. Can't tell in your plan (on my small phone), but it's have a door separating your downstairs living area from the rest of the home. Without a covered alfresco, this will be the warmest living room in the home in winter. You want to keep that heat in there, not escaping upstairs. As the upstairs TV room faces SE, it won't be warmed in winter. It would actually be better if it faced NE, with the minor bedrooms facing SE. 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 9142 6 42972 i thought the flipped plan initially but bec i want narrow pathway from entry to dining (dont like bend), also cannot fit the… 7 12813 |