Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Blog Updated - Site Start 2May 15, 2008 9:56 am Gav & Vanessa Building In Melbourne (Sth East Suburbs) http://www.arkraider.blogspot.com/ Rawdon Hill Construction - Canterbury Heritage Re: Blog Updated - Site Start 6May 15, 2008 9:04 pm Hi Duminda,
I have the same comments as brittany, Quote: great looking house. My only comments would be seems a lot of wasted space in the powder/laundry/broom closet area. We also changed the orientation of our powder, kitchen WIP, laundry and broom closet area in order to make a bigger laundry and WIP. We removed a hallway going to the laundry from the kitchen and achieved our goal of having bigger areas. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Built the Nevada 42 Next project - landscaping! Re: Blog Updated - Site Start 7May 15, 2008 9:16 pm Your floor plans looks great. I agree with Brittany and VJ, you can have more efficient use of space in the laundry area.
What about moving the kitchen up a bit and so have a WIP? along the back wall.? Raz If you think you can, you can. Re: Blog Updated - Site Start 8May 16, 2008 9:50 am Hi Everyone,
Thanks for the feedback, complements and tips. Quote: Looks like a great location, so close to the beach a Patterson Lakes, Chelsea area... Yes, it is ... we've been living here for 5 years and absolutely love it, so we decided to build our new home in the same area. Quote: Is your WIR wide enough to have hanging on both sides? If not on the internal wall it would be a great space for a built in shoe, belt, scarf rack etc, as they dont need the depth that clothes do. That's a great idea! ... the WIR is 1500mm wide and at the moment we only have a single 500mm shelf. We'll put a 200mm shelf on the opposite side after the handover. Quote: seems a lot of wasted space in the powder/laundry/broom closet area. Could it be possible to have the powder straight off the hallway leaving a lot more workable space for laundry and storage.A possibility in your house if you are having your home theatre equipment adjacent to the garage wall is an access door so you can access your equipment cables from behind. Agree on the wasted space in laundry. Unfortunately it's not easy to change this area because of the staircase. If we have direct access to the powder off hallway, we'll have to have access to the laundry from the lounge ... not very nice. We also thought about moving the powder to where the washing machine is, but that would block the storage space under the stairs. Theatre is going to be prewired, so nearly all the cabling will be in the wall cavities. Quote: What about moving the kitchen up a bit and so have a WIP? along the back wall.? I wanted to do this, but was overruled by DW ... she was dead against taking any space out of the living areas. The existing pantry is 1200mm wide, so hopefully that will do. Re: Blog Updated - Site Start 9May 16, 2008 1:56 pm Duminda,
Quote: Agree on the wasted space in laundry. Unfortunately it's not easy to change this area because of the staircase. If we have direct access to the powder off hallway, we'll have to have access to the laundry from the lounge ... not very nice. We also thought about moving the powder to where the washing machine is, but that would block the storage space under the stairs. When we changed the plans to remove wasted space, we didn't have to move any wet areas. We were advised that it would be hard to move wet areas. So, what we did was just to move walls / doors so as to maximise space. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Built the Nevada 42 Next project - landscaping! Re: Blog Updated - Site Start 11May 22, 2008 12:26 pm Excellent !!
They look great and really help to visualise the 'space' What program have you used to create this? Re: Blog Updated - Site Start 12May 22, 2008 2:00 pm mattwalker What program have you used to create this? Hi Matt I used Google Sketchup Re: Blog Updated - Site Start 13May 22, 2008 3:27 pm OMG!
I looked at it and thought that....but it would have taken ages?? Even bigger congrats now then!! Re: Blog Updated - Site Start 15Aug 07, 2008 9:10 am Pictures of the first few days at the site ...
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