Need help with floor plan enhancements

11 years ago

We have booked a villa with a builder where 50 odd houses would be part of a gated community. The elevation is not to be changed but we are free to make changes to the floor plan on the inside without changing the pillar positions. I seek ideas for the following things on my wish list to be accommodated
1. A high ceiling in the ground floor either above living or dining while not compromising the number of rooms on 1st floor.
2. Alternate ideas for staircase that can be more compact.
3. A walk in closet on 1st floor instead of two bathrooms. Can i just convert one of the bathrooms to a walk-in? Will that be decent enough space for walk-in?
4. Any other suggestions on kids room etc.

Attaching pictures of floor plan from builder.
Appreciate your inputs!

Thanks!

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Main Line Kitchen Design

11 years ago

The first rule in kitchen design is NEVER have your primary sink at the end of a run, and certainly not at the end of a run and against the wall where your right elbow will be hitting the wall constantly. I would switch the sink and the drainboard area, and move the refrigerator down a little to get more cabinets and countertop on the left of the sink. Also, no wall cabinets are shown. Is that just an omission?

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anitha_t_r
Original Author
11 years ago
Thank you @mainline.. Makes good sense reg the kitchen sink positioning. Yes the floor plan doesn't show wall cabinets. The furniture positioning as well is just indicative. Would you have any suggestions on my other points as well? Please advice. Thanks!
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qam999
11 years ago
The 8'10" x 5'5" room is definitely big enough for a walk in closet. The problem I see is that there is not clear way to make either bathroom on that floor open to the hallway. That means that e.g. inhabitants of bedroom 3 would need to walk right through bedroom 2 to use a bathroom on their sleeping floor. Many people would find that inconvenient.

Toilet room 2 could be partitioned: one half to be a half bath with just toilet and sink, the other half a small walk-in closet.
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Dytecture
11 years ago
It might be wise to keep the bedroom upstairs, thus not making a high ceiling in the 1st level.

Staircases have standard raise and run, so there isn't much one can do to make it more 'compact'.

Two bathrooms are better than one !
ruthmand
11 years ago
If willing to eliminate the upstairs sitting area (hall) you may be able to have a portion of the living room two stories high. You could then access the upstairs balcony from bedroom 3. Am not sure which room you are talking about when referring to "kids" room.
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Linda Mayo
11 years ago
Here are just some thoughts to be cleared with an engineer.
The second picture shows a catwalk to the balcony opening up the living area below. You would lose a room but it would feel more spacious. Count on 42" for the catwalk. It could be suspended from above.
I would prefer that the refrigerator didn't open towards the peninsula. It can cause congestion. I also agree with Maine Line about the sink and would make additional changes noted below. You could incorporate pullouts over the drawers to give you more counter space.
anitha_t_r
Original Author
11 years ago
@soberg: on the toilet entry we thought we could have a 2 way access to the corner most toilet - one from the closet side and another from bedroom 3.

@ eagledzines. Thank you for the sketches! On the high ceiling do you think we could juggle the entire layout of 1st floor a bit to accomodate a small family room (hall) where the staircase opens along with 2 other bedrooms. We are ok to compromise on the room sizes a bit and toilet / closet positions can be changed too as long as pillars are not affected..

The kitchen changes sound good. I was also wondering if it would be ok to have the sink right below the window. Thereby freeing up more cooking or prep space.
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Linda Mayo
11 years ago
Your welcome. Whether you could put the sink under the window depends on the exact measurements you have from the outside door trim to the wall and the size of your sink and whether you have a dishwasher underneath that drainboard and also the height of the window off the floor.

If you take out part of the floor to make it exposed above, I don't see how you could add anything else in.

Here is another sketch of how the bedrooms could connect to a bathroom, taking one bathroom out and using pocket doors.
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Linda Mayo
11 years ago
If you wanted to add beds you could always do bunk beds and/or murphy beds.
anitha_t_r
Original Author
11 years ago
Thank you! Another query...currently the plan shows a wall next to staircase on ground floor. Will it in appearance make living room more spacious if we remove this wall? In which case will the hugh ceiling still look appealing? Its getting hard to visualise how the space would look like with these changes. Please advice.
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Linda Mayo
11 years ago
That wall may be critical to the structure. You will need to consult an architect or designer who can do an elevation for you. You can find one by clicking "Find local pros" at the top of the page.

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