4 Bedroom House Floor Plan Design 3d
Rayna Benincase
For this home, the kitchen shares the space with a family room (no real formal living room in this house) but there is the rompus room/media room at the other end. Basically, they have options when it comes to wanting to hang or needing some TV/kitchen cleaning separation.
This seems obvious but back in the day people put washer/dryer in the basement mostly for water/plumbing purposes, which makes sense. But these days there is more trust in the technology and the pipes to go ahead and throw them near the bedrooms even if on the second floor.
We are in the midst of a renovation and our mudroom is between the garage and kitchen. The mudroom had an outside door that we removed to create a banquette in the kitchen. Our builder pointed out that the garage is basically all doors to the outside so we can easily go from mudroom to outdoors through the garage without needing a separate door. I thought this was a great point and it really frees up the floor plan.
We had a million floor plan iterations and I was convinced we needed a back door in to the mudroom (plus one to the garage and one to the kitchen/house). Doors take up so much space though! Once I accepted that the garage was basically a exterior door like you said, it got a lot better.
I remember reading (20+) years ago in Real Simple (I think) about a house that had a walk-in shower with a sliding door out to the backyard, so muddy kids/dogs/whoever could come straight into the shower and rinse off, and I thought that was so clever!
A possible solution is a stair lift. It might be too extreme just for guest but if you grow old in this house, it is an option. We recently installed one, when my partner developed Parkinson, which affects his balance. He is just heading upstairs on the lift, while I am typing this ?
As a 60 year old MIL, with a 62 year old husband, who has had two knee replacements, I see the issue with stairs. We chose to move into a single level home several years ago. Universal design, with wide entries, and a walk in shower were important to us.
if you host gatherings that include anyone with mobility difficulties, not having a main floor bathroom does become an issue.
Love Matt Risinger! We were building our home along the same timeline as his personal home remodel and we loved checking in on his Build Show on Youtube to see how he did everything and to get the latest and best advise for energy efficiency and best practices. Essential Craftsman on Youtube is also very in depth and knowledgeable.
I totally feel you, the telltale mechanics finger prints in certain places on certain doors! We are remodeling and putting in a laundry sink next to the washer, which has direct access to the garage! I am giving up storage space in a small house to have this, but I know it will be totally worth it!
Maybe you need a dumb waiter? Put the laundry room on the ground floor with a dumbwaiter up to the second for when you go up later? My grandparents had a laundry shoot from the second floor by the bedrooms, and in the groundfloor bathroom (yes one bathroom for 2 adults and 4 kids) and the laundry went right into a rolling laundry cart in the basement. But there was no dumbwaiter so lugging the laundry up was still a thing.
I am on my second home with the laundry room upstairs and I actually hate it. I know I am the dissenting voice here because most people love it. Three reasons: 1. I never hear/forget about the laundry when I am downstairs which is most of the time so it sits in the washer forever. Especially annoying if I am trying to get a lot of it done in a day, which is my preference. 2. I hang dry a lot of my clothes so when the weather is nice I want to do this in my backyard. To me this schlep is much worse than carrying dry, dirty clothes downstairs. A third reason is when the laundry room is upstairs, somehow laundry ALWAYS end up in my bedroom for days on end. It makes my bedroom feel like the laundry room.
My mom feels the same way! I live in small, old house with a basement laundry (and no space to move it upstairs, should we wish to), but my parents built their house in the 80s and my mom put it in the mudroom between the garage and kitchen. All these years later, she says she would make the same decision in a heartbeat. Most of the dirty laundry comes from upstairs, yes, but downstairs is where she spends more of her time.
Stackables in closets are super common in my part of the world- Canadian PNW. Space is expensive here, even in rural areas, and nothing is taken for granted. The idea of a dedicated laundry room is a dream- not unheard of at all, but not common. There is ventilation to consider, but if done properly it is totally safe.
This is all of the information you give to an architect to and then they can make a floor plan that fits your needs! I have found it to be very empowering to work with an architect, because she listens to my needs and wants, and then puts all of the puzzle pieces together, and then adds some practicalities. We started talking to an architect during our bigger house hunt in California, and were looking and talking at the same time, but now that we have a floor plan that is exactly what we want it makes other houses so much less appealing!
The mudroom is already connected to a full bath. But I agree it would be a prettier entry with no door to the powder visible. I wonder what that area is outside the shared wall of the powder and what would be given up to do that? A little butlers pantry or coffee station? A big plus for the current powder entry is the accessibility to the office and living room. If you are WFH and on back-to-back calls all day, you might have only a few minutes to pop into the bathroom.
I want to know why you seen to have three bathrooms in close proximity (to the mudroom) in the river house. Outdoor shower, full bath, and powder bath. I do love the hallway situation.
Personally, I adore my early morning sun streaming into the living room and the late afternoon sunlight streaming into my kitchen in winter, and found my north/south living rooms in the last home to be dingy.
This is what I was going to point out. My absolute favorite thing and almost a must have in any house is a comfy place to sit where morning light is coming through the window and illuminating the space. Looove. In terms of afternoon light I think it depends on the setting. our living room faces west but has a covered front porch so there is a brief time in the late afternoon evening when we pull a sheer shade but the whole room is so bright and warm (in a good way). the covered porch is key, but a window awning or trees could do the same thing. I find north facing rooms cold. always cold. The best is really south facing windows to get light in the winter. in MHO.
We did the same as our primary BR is large enough to include a reading area/work/lounge space. If the room is dark during the day, particularly if it requires lights to be on, I know that space would be less desirable or used.
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Last year we bought this awesome ski cabin in the woods. Through my dreamy eyes, it was full of charm, contemporary rustic-ness and potential. But in reality it was a poorly designed 35 year old musty house. *whomp whomp.*
We bought the 1,350 square foot house knowing that it would be a fixer upper and began making improvements as soon as we moved in. Since I'm an architect, I started with how we can fix the layout of the house to make it function better. There were awkward and unusable spaces all over the house. This post is going to walk you through the existing floor plan, and how I altered it to give it better flow and functionality. I will also explain how I focused on a layout that will promote a healthy lifestyle.
I call this the proposed plan because we decided not to go through with this option. This option is a complete transformation of the entire house. Since discovering that we would have to put a lot of money into improving things we weren't expecting to improve (which will ALWAYS happen during a renovation), and we knew that we weren't going to live at this house for very long, we decided to scale back the renovation. There was no way we would recoup all of the money invested if we went with this option.
To significantly reduce costs we decided to eliminate the first floor laundry room and powder room. We kept the second floor with its existing layout, and rearranged the fixtures in the first floor bathroom for a better layout. We are also finishing the basement to add a flex space and upgrading the basement laundry room.