Browse Forums Building A New House Re: 2 Storey Extension- floor plan comments, Perth, WA 2Feb 25, 2020 8:37 am Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: 2 Storey Extension- floor plan comments, Perth, WA 4Feb 25, 2020 10:38 pm I think it's a great plan, the only thing I think could be improved is the WIR and ensuite. There's nothing really wrong with them, but both rooms are long and narrow. If you had them arranged side by side rather than behind eachother then maybe they could have nicer proportions? Re: 2 Storey Extension- floor plan comments, Perth, WA 5Feb 26, 2020 8:37 am Hi Haschen I would seriously, reconsider A new home will be worth a lot more in the long run than a light frame reno addition in your area checkout real estate prices and compare. Thanks for the info OT that is an issue when looking at floor plans ...you don't realise the engineering... Until it's too late into the process Cheers Chris Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: 2 Storey Extension- floor plan comments, Perth, WA 6Feb 26, 2020 10:03 am amilelka I think it's a great plan, the only thing I think could be improved is the WIR and ensuite. There's nothing really wrong with them, but both rooms are long and narrow. If you had them arranged side by side rather than behind eachother then maybe they could have nicer proportions? I actually like the skinny wardrobe. It is easy to arrange and not much of wasted space. We had very similar one before, and it was nice. But I see your point about the bathroom. I will talk to the designer to see if we can do anything about it. Thx Re: 2 Storey Extension- floor plan comments, Perth, WA 7Feb 26, 2020 10:09 am StructuralBIMGuy Hi Haschen I would seriously, reconsider A new home will be worth a lot more in the long run than a light frame reno addition in your area checkout real estate prices and compare. Thanks for the info OT that is an issue when looking at floor plans ...you don't realise the engineering... Until it's too late into the process Cheers Chris Thanks for your input, I see your points, but at the same time considering the budget, we wont be able to build brand new 2 storey house of similar size, mainly due to the earthworks. Plus as I've mentioned before, new house will sits much lower, and we will loose the lake views and all the light. I'm not keen on that. In terms of the real estate prices, in our area original houses are worth more than brand new ones, ppl are paying premium on the nicely renovated homes. However, the key point is that it has to be done correctly. With good storage, big rooms etc. I think that with this plan we've managed to achieve that. I was originally worried that due to the existing structure, we wont be able to get the floorplan we wanted, but tbh this looks almost identical to the brand new floorplan we were suggested by the different builder. Re: 2 Storey floor plan feedback, Perth, WA 8Feb 26, 2020 10:47 am Thanks for the insight $400K- $500K might be tight, Finalise the engineering and get 3 Quotes asap, build trade rates won't stay low for long Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: 2 Storey floor plan feedback, Perth, WA 9Feb 26, 2020 12:23 pm StructuralBIMGuy Thanks for the insight $400K- $500K might be tight, Finalise the engineering and get 3 Quotes asap, build trade rates won't stay low for long We had quiet few quotes with various builders already. Everyone mentioned the low trade rates, so we are keen to lock up the contract asap as well. Overall dimensions of this build will be rather big (almost 450sm) , and noone from the new build companies was able to offer us anything similar. We will be getting one more quote from another small builder, to make sure that we are on track. thx Re: 2 Storey floor plan feedback, Perth, WA 12Feb 26, 2020 11:15 pm haschen Sorry, forgot to mention. North is at the top. Overall block size is 15x43m Good, northern living areas, nice! But you need appropriate length eaves to shade you northern windows in summer, but not winter. Looks like one northern window had no shading, will the balcony will shade the other window too much in winter. I'd think about scraping the upstairs balcony in any case. Does anyone use them? Plus, I think planning for a solar PV installation is important. That roof looks like a dog's breakfast (typical of Australia roofs)! Little triangles everywhere! Tonight the roof over the balcony (or the balcony altogether) will simplify the north facing roof section. If try to simplify the test of the roof, but it depends on the floorplan of the second storey, which depends on the ground floor floorplan I suppose. Overall, the room sizes look a bit too generous to me. But I'm not a fan of big houses. I'd rather a well designed smaller footprint, with very efficient use of space. Re: 2 Storey floor plan feedback, Perth, WA 13Feb 26, 2020 11:36 pm Sorry, a few typos there. Won't edit the post, as it screws with the formatting of the quote for some reason on this website. Hopefully you can make sense of it. A couple of other things. Firstly, east/west windows. Difficult to shade (eaves are ineffective in these directions). I'd certainly be removing the western window in bedroom 3. West facing bedrooms are a bad idea.. They'll receive sunshine all afternoon, at the hottest time of the day. Just before kids go to bed. I single southern window will be fine. Similar story for the eastern windows. Difficult to shade. Though this occurs at a better time of the day, in the morning, the heat will still contribute to total heat load of the house. So it's be keeping the eastern bedroom windows quite small, just enough to aid cross ventilation. The northern & southern bedroom windows can be larger. Staircases. Don't know what you have planned, but I hate open staircases in open planned homes. They just act as giant chimneys, removing any thermal control you have over your home. I'm winter you want your downstairs living room to be warm, you don't want to have that heat escape upstairs. In summer you want to be able to keep your upstairs bedrooms cool, not have the days heat load flowing up to the bedrooms. So it's be having an enclosed staircase, with a door at the bottom. Keep the door closed in winter, to keep your main living area warm. In summer, keep the door closed in the day, to try to limit the temperature increase in the bedrooms in the day. Once it's cooled down in the evening, open the home's windows to purge heat, & open the stairway door, using the stack effect to aid the flow of cooling breezes. 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 12391 6 55177 i thought the flipped plan initially but bec i want narrow pathway from entry to dining (dont like bend), also cannot fit the… 7 17259 |