Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Would love some feedback on plan No 2 please 3Mar 16, 2012 1:04 pm I thought about that nglbuilder - my only worry is that it might make that area look too long and skinny? what do you think? Re: Would love some feedback on plan No 2 please 4Mar 16, 2012 1:27 pm I also feel like that wall should go, but it does serve a purpose in hiding the garage door and master bedroom door from the main living area. So removing it doesn't seem ideal either. What will you put in that area (with the garage and master BR doors). Metricon Riva 33 - http://herlihy-riva.blogspot.com Site start 15/03/2010 - Handover 23/12/2010 9 months and 8 days (284 calendar days) from site start to handover Re: Would love some feedback on plan No 2 please 5Mar 16, 2012 1:30 pm I dont really know - it seems like a waste of space - I could stick a storeroom or something in there but dont want it to look odd Re: Would love some feedback on plan No 2 please 6Mar 16, 2012 1:50 pm How about moving your master bedroom door down closer to the garage and having that empty bit as storage? I don't think it would look odd and it could honestly be a massive storage area or even a small study nook? Oct 10 - Council Approval Oct 23 - Site scrape Oct 29 - Footings and Prelay OCT 30 - Slabbed Nov 6 - Bricks Delivered Nov 13 - Brickwork started Re: Would love some feedback on plan No 2 please 7Mar 16, 2012 4:00 pm I may be misreading it but is bedroom three 4x2.39??? If that is correct it may be a little small? Can bedroom 3 and 4 share the available space evenly? It looks like 2.39 and 4.39 - 6.78 which would make 3.4 each? But as i said, I may have misread it. Dearheart Re: Would love some feedback on plan No 2 please 8Mar 16, 2012 4:35 pm Hi Dear heart - no thats 4.39 LOL - i dont think my kids would be too impressed with 2.39. Wouldnt fit all their crap in there! Daedelus - I was thinking about the same for storage - just thought it might look a bit weird right where you enter the house - hmmm Re: Would love some feedback on plan No 2 please 9Mar 16, 2012 6:23 pm Alternatively, you could have the garage open to the passage by the main entry, and then move the master bedroom down to include some of that bare space? I don't really think you need the master larger, just another option. I like the study nook option too. You could always incorporate plantation shutters into that dividing wall with the dining if you wanted to have it as a more inclusive space at times. Just looking again - this is going to be one big house!!! Re: Would love some feedback on plan No 2 please 10Mar 18, 2012 11:48 am Hall table, hat and coat rack, phone table, chaise lounge and read nook, display a beautiful painting , ? Re: Would love some feedback on plan No 2 please 11Mar 18, 2012 11:52 am I love the plan just as it is. With the wall between the entry/dining, I would move the master door down the other end and put a hall table and huge mirror/painting against the wall. Re: Would love some feedback on plan No 2 please 13Mar 18, 2012 2:13 pm The rear of the clock faces north. The block is in busselton. Cheers Re: Would love some feedback on plan No 2 please 14Mar 18, 2012 2:40 pm Thanks auds. . . This would make your master suite and Bed2 on the western wall, they'd be very hot rooms in summer. . . You'd only ever get the morning sun in the central main living area. . . Beds 3 and 4 will be lovely and cool in summer and warm in winter. Your garage location is good, as you should avoid having windows on the western wall. . . I'd be inclined to try using the entire northern wall for your large living areas. . . Bedrooms are ok on the western wall, as you don't have much choice with a long house like this. . . But you can get away with putting small windows in the theatre room, as you probably want it to be quite dark, so you could maybe put this on the western wall. Edit: can you tell me your block dimensions and how much space you want to leave between the boundaries of the land and house? Also, will you be using double brick, brick veneer, weatherboard? Re: Would love some feedback on plan No 2 please 15Mar 18, 2012 6:07 pm Having bedrooms on a western wall is fine as long as they are shaded. Who wants to sleep in a hot box. People comment about having living areas on a western wall but if you have a shady patio outside of a living area this can stop that side of the house heating up and at least make evening entertaining outside pleasant. Busselton can get quite cool even in summer in the evenings so avoid exposed entertaining areas on any southern side of the house. Our last house had a large L shaped patio that went around the west and north side of our house. This made a fantastic area for evening entertaining. Although there was the risk of glare on windows in the late evening as the sun set. Our eldest sons bedroom was on the north/north east corner of the house with little eaves as was a hot box nearly all year round. This time round , in theory he could have had the hottest room again as he is on the west corner of the house. BUt there are large native shade res sheltering his room from the sun. In contrast our alfresco is on the south- se corner of the house is exposed and cops a lot of cold wind. We hope that some trees we have planted will act as a bit of a wind break with time. brrrr Re: Would love some feedback on plan No 2 please 16Mar 18, 2012 7:47 pm Hi Auds, I would do what you said and bring the store/pantry wall out in line with the theatre and continue the garage wall down from the entry to the bed 1 door and have a wider than normal hall way to the bedroom with the garage door off that hallway, maybe a nice timber glass door to make it look pretty. You could then have cupboards in the hallway into the garage for storage and shorten the wall next to the dining to be inline with the garage wall, I would also move the opening into the hall way of the other bedrooms & games room to be centred so opening is onto the bedroom wall. Another idea is to do the same thing with garage wall but have a small hall way for where garage door is now and bring your bedroom door to be in line with the hallway so you have a bigger bedroom and a nice entrance into your room, double doors? You could always box out the end of the hallway to enclose and give more privacy to the dining, sorry to many ideas I could play with plans all day. Re: Would love some feedback on plan No 2 please 17Mar 18, 2012 8:24 pm kexkez Having bedrooms on a western wall is fine as long as they are shaded. Who wants to sleep in a hot box. People comment about having living areas on a western wall but if you have a shady patio outside of a living area this can stop that side of the house heating up and at least make evening entertaining outside pleasant. Busselton can get quite cool even in summer in the evenings so avoid exposed entertaining areas on any southern side of the house. Our last house had a large L shaped patio that went around the west and north side of our house. This made a fantastic area for evening entertaining. Although there was the risk of glare on windows in the late evening as the sun set. Our eldest sons bedroom was on the north/north east corner of the house with little eaves as was a hot box nearly all year round. This time round , in theory he could have had the hottest room again as he is on the west corner of the house. BUt there are large native shade res sheltering his room from the sun. In contrast our alfresco is on the south- se corner of the house is exposed and cops a lot of cold wind. We hope that some trees we have planted will act as a bit of a wind break with time. brrrr Hello! I agree with what Kexkez says, in that nobody wants to sleep in hot box. . . but you have to put some rooms on the western wall! The theory is that you should keep the least-used rooms on the western side if you can (laundry is a good one, bathroom too), you wouldn't want to put the living room on the western wall as you'd have to cool it all day and night, whereas bedrooms are only usually used overnight (unless the kids spend a lot of time in their bedroom, which is probably not going to happen in your house as you have a living room, theatre and games room), thus the amount of energy to cool them is smaller. The best way to keep a room cool in summer and warm in winter is by putting it on the northern wall. As it is protected from the summer sun (usually by the eaves) and the northern sun warms it in winter, and by trying to incorporate cross-ventilation. . . you get a comfortable living area and lower energy bills. But if you are really set on your current design, then I suppose it's not worth me going on. I was also thinking that it would be a nice idea for your front door to walk in on a hallway to your bedrooms and bathroom, then open up into an open plan living area at the back of the house. Re: Would love some feedback on plan No 2 please 18Mar 20, 2012 3:09 pm Thanks for all feedback - I have a couple more plans to go through now as well :O might wait until its narrowed down and then post the other 2 as well. Cheers all Re: Would love some feedback on plan No 2 please 19Mar 20, 2012 4:18 pm ive played around with it on paint to make the storeroom at the front look nice (diagonal wall and a recess) cant upload it from my work computer dont have access to photobucket or imageshack maybe you can PM me an email address i can send it to you or something? Oct 10 - Council Approval Oct 23 - Site scrape Oct 29 - Footings and Prelay OCT 30 - Slabbed Nov 6 - Bricks Delivered Nov 13 - Brickwork started Hi there! Absolutely agree on the wasted space. 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