Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Floor Plan - Advice for Square Block 12Sep 11, 2020 7:13 pm zealousmojo bestspecials How tall do they think the retaining wall at the back of the house will be? And, do you need 2 powder rooms that are the same distance from the living areas? I have made a couple of changes. I have swapped the media room and bedroom 3. That way the bedrooms are together and you get a nicer view through the media room window into the garden. Switched the bathroom and toilet around and made the opening from the living areas smaller so you aren't looking straight into the bathroom and toilet. I also changed the powder room near the master bedroom into a walk in linen / storage and moved the master bedroom door to the right a little so it doesn't take up as much space into the bedroom. I would also think about a cavity slider on the ensuite. I would also extend the concrete in the patio area to the line of the gutter. It gives you an extra 450mm of concrete where grass won't grow anyway. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ bestspecials - Thank you so much the time and effort you've put in to this! It is so good to get an external perspective. We loved the idea of a guest powder room that was easily accessible and seperate from the kids bathroom, but hadn't considered whether that would hold value for other people if we one day go to sell. I'm definitely getting the sense that it's not worth it... We also plan to turn the media room into a 4th bedroom/guest room down the line as our family grows, but I do love the idea of the media room getting a view of something other than a fence, so this could work well. Possibly a dumb question - Is there a reason that people usually place bedrooms next to each other? I know it's the thing that people do, but i've never figured out why. Cheers! to keep all the quiet rooms and noisy kids together and usually the similar size of the rooms makes it easier to group them together..as you can see by my suggested floorplan that the two bedrooms are almost the same size bu the new media room is much bigger and BTW how do you feel about my suggestion for moving the external wall along the laundry to increase the size of the living, dining and kitchen?...with such limited outside area i would lose the external laundry door and create a drying and utility area in the corner of yard near the new media room and screen it from the street with planting along the fence Re: Floor Plan - Advice for Square Block 13Sep 14, 2020 9:40 am zealousmojo bestspecials How tall do they think the retaining wall at the back of the house will be? And, do you need 2 powder rooms that are the same distance from the living areas? I have made a couple of changes. I have swapped the media room and bedroom 3. That way the bedrooms are together and you get a nicer view through the media room window into the garden. Switched the bathroom and toilet around and made the opening from the living areas smaller so you aren't looking straight into the bathroom and toilet. I also changed the powder room near the master bedroom into a walk in linen / storage and moved the master bedroom door to the right a little so it doesn't take up as much space into the bedroom. I would also think about a cavity slider on the ensuite. I would also extend the concrete in the patio area to the line of the gutter. It gives you an extra 450mm of concrete where grass won't grow anyway. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ bestspecials - Thank you so much the time and effort you've put in to this! It is so good to get an external perspective. We loved the idea of a guest powder room that was easily accessible and seperate from the kids bathroom, but hadn't considered whether that would hold value for other people if we one day go to sell. I'm definitely getting the sense that it's not worth it... We also plan to turn the media room into a 4th bedroom/guest room down the line as our family grows, but I do love the idea of the media room getting a view of something other than a fence, so this could work well. Possibly a dumb question - Is there a reason that people usually place bedrooms next to each other? I know it's the thing that people do, but i've never figured out why. Cheers! I would think accessibility to bathrooms. Makes it a bit more private if you have to go to the toilet and there are people in the lounge. Re: Floor Plan - Advice for Square Block 14Sep 14, 2020 1:34 pm Huge improvement to the floorplan, the house actually makes sense now. Would definitely extend out the kitchen/laundry and bedroom wall to increase room sizes unless there’s a really good reason not to. Only change I would make is to reduce the width of the toilet as it has an excessively large vanity built to one side, and I doubt you would need storage cupboards in the toilet, just a wall mounted hand basin with small cupboard underneath is sufficient. The space saved could be incorporated into the adjoining bedroom. Re: Floor Plan - Advice for Square Block 15Sep 22, 2020 1:58 pm I agree with most of the changes people have made, and I can definitely see the reasoning behind switching the media and bedroom. My small bit of advice would be think carefully whether you want a bedroom backing on the laundry. If you have kids/ will have kids and that bedroom will be occupied (i.e not a guest bedroom), you will definitely have a noise issue. At prestart I would recommend investing in upgrading your insulation in that shared wall for a noise buffer. 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