The shitty floorplan!What are we discussing today on This New House?
Floor Plan
- Thread starter wct097
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Builder checked my dimensions. Says the headroom under the steps is too low. Sent me some suggestions on what to change. May work on that tonight. Planning to meet with a designer/architect after Christmas.
Did Joe's roof ever fall in?
I have no problem with this one. I like the study and the storage room off the garage. Bathroom is more open than the Extreme version.
If you insist on the bedroom on ground floor
Much better, but I didn't think that master bath layout was acceptable? No tub, which would be fine with me, and the sink is well outside the 40x28 basement area. For some reason I also thought your stairs were pretty much set in place, that placement is much better. No issues with stairs to the basement?
Kitchen too narrow in the previous one.... dropped the mud room in favor of just a laundry room without an entrance. Shifted it about 4' over to make the kitchen bigger. Toilet and tub against main wall. Drains for sink should easily work. It's a 2" drain that needs to drop about 4" over the distance to main wall.
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Road Head
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Remove half bath.
Move tub/toilet to half bath space.
Move sinks left
Put master bed into closet/closet/sitting/dressing area
Get rid of front bump out
Put half bath and master closet into what remains of the original master bedroom.
Doing it this way will give your master bedroom three exterior walls that you can windows/dormers and be nice and bright. It will move your master closet and half bath to interior space that doesn't need windows at all. It will move your toilet/tub into the 40x28 envelope. It will get rid of the funny bumpout. The bump out will cost you a little extra. With a second floor and a basement, I just do not see why you need so much closet space in the master.
Move tub/toilet to half bath space.
Move sinks left
Put master bed into closet/closet/sitting/dressing area
Get rid of front bump out
Put half bath and master closet into what remains of the original master bedroom.
Doing it this way will give your master bedroom three exterior walls that you can windows/dormers and be nice and bright. It will move your master closet and half bath to interior space that doesn't need windows at all. It will move your toilet/tub into the 40x28 envelope. It will get rid of the funny bumpout. The bump out will cost you a little extra. With a second floor and a basement, I just do not see why you need so much closet space in the master.
Walls over garage are slanted from 6' to 9'6" along the roof line. Would look funny if dormer were larger which makes for a crappy small window. I've been I'm a similar room over a garage in a similar sized house. Don't want as master. This is typically "bonus room" space. As drawn, it will have a larger front window and a side window that looks over the garage roof towards the mountains to the west. Likewise a larger front window will take advantage of the great view to the north.
Build budget is $250k for the structure. Estimate with these parameters is $270k. Raising the roof has a cost. Also not sure I want master over garage anyway. Garage door opener noise and vibration alone would be the concern.Why not raise the roof? Would give you some nice "attic" storage above what I think should be the master.
Something like this...so that the entire room above the garage is a legit room, with attic space above.
So half of JU says closet is too small, but you say it's too big and that 8x10 is larger than 16x13.5?
Garage is under the right side.
Road Head
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LOL, garage door opener noise and vibration...that lasts for what, 10 seconds, twice a day.
I guess I need an elevation of what you are planning, because I just don't understand how your roof lines will look. it is completely unclear to me how you will have a two story main structure, and then off the the side, have a basement entry garage, with room over it...and how the roof of that structure will tie in to the main. I am not picturing it at all...or I guess I should say, the picture in my head looks ridiculous.
