Browse Forums Buying Land 1 Jun 17, 2020 1:55 am Follow my build: View topic - Dale Alcock - Custom 'Marlow' 2 Storey • Home Renovation & Building Forum (homeone.com.au) Re: Narrow Block - 7.5m Frontage - Hammond Park WA 5Jun 19, 2020 12:31 am Follow my build: View topic - Dale Alcock - Custom 'Marlow' 2 Storey • Home Renovation & Building Forum (homeone.com.au) Re: Narrow Block - 7.5m Frontage - Hammond Park WA 10Jun 19, 2020 10:43 am If you can't have windows on the east and west, I would say maximise use of roof sky lights where possible, but make sure they are double glazed to prevent excessive heat. I think no matter how high the garage is, it will still be overshadowing your family area most of the day. Even if your ceilings are 3.2 m and with highlight windows and garage is only 2.7 m with flat roof, this won't be helping really much as most of your family room is still "south" in relation to the garage. IMHO double story house of similar size but with smaller perimeter footprint would certainly work much better in your situation, I would be strongly considering this option if I was you. Re: Narrow Block - 7.5m Frontage - Hammond Park WA 11Jun 19, 2020 11:51 am If you remove the His walk in robe, you could reconfigure into the powder room with cavity sliding door. You wouldn't need a basin in the powder room as it is much closer to the main bathroom. Stretch the Hers walk in robe by about 30cm and you could add extra space in there. In your walk in robe, you could add narrow shelves on the back of the powder room, so there is somewhere to put your bags, shoes or whatever. And, add a cavity slider between the master bedroom and the walk in robe. You would have a much larger space in the kitchen/ dining/ family and would have room to either add a study nook or just have extra space. This would then move the kitchen towards the front of the house and allow extra light to come in from the hallway window. I have played with your plan and attached. I would also add a high window into the family room and skylights throughout. You will probably end up with highsets on either side so the skylights will definitely be a benefit. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Narrow Block - 7.5m Frontage - Hammond Park WA 12Jun 19, 2020 3:05 pm You can fiddle with the details, but it won't make this design more livable in my opinion. It's a poorly designed space with unfurnishable living areas and no light. There are better 7.5m block designs out there so shop around. The block is too nice to waste on a design like this. Re: Narrow Block - 7.5m Frontage - Hammond Park WA 14Jun 19, 2020 6:19 pm Unfortunately with a cottage block of this size, that has the garage to the north and the views to the south there are going to be compromises. It's really up to Sal_sa_by to decide what is important and then rank them from not negotiable to less important so she can work out where the comprises will be made. Some of the things I can see that need to be decided. Double or single garage. Garage attached or separate. Living rooms taking northern light or southern views. Bedrooms all together or split. Laundry with direct access to outside or walk through house. Courtyards that access front or back or are built in. Total budget. Zoning (total allowed site cover) All those things will have a massive bearing on the final design and each thing may be more or less important to her. To give advice without knowing them is a bit futile. The design she has had prepared has compromises but so will every plan that can be built on that block. Those compromises may be quite acceptable for her, and there are several things to like about the plan. Any good designer should have explained some of those compromises with her and got an idea of what is and isn't important so she can get as close as possible to her dream home on that lot. Accessible Carpentry & Cabinets accessiblecarpentry@gmail.com accessiblecarpentry.com.au https://www.facebook.com/pages/Accessible-Carpentry-Cabinets/583314911709039 4 4430 dimensions on your original plan are inconsistent and with accurate dimensions (including site plan, upstairs and down) i could make a proper scale drawing with furniture… 3 7497 Thanks again for this information. If you do hear anything different, would be great to know 4 8182 |