All Forum Posts by: Nas Zidane

@Nas Zidane The closets in all the bedrooms are 2'-0" deep which is a standard size. The hallway is only 3'-0" which is a little narrow and you definitely should not go less than that. You can take a few inches out of the living room and give it to the hallway. I personally prefer more space in the living room. 

I was trying to see if there was a way to move the laundry. I had a house like this with the laundry by the kitchen and I ended up having clothes all over my kitchen island all the time. It was pretty annoying. Its just easy and inexpensive to have it by the bathroom...I don't know where else you would put it. What about the windows in the kitchen? Along the wall where the stove is? Could be an issue with storage unless you're doing a small window. I don't see them in the proposed floorplan.

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Definitively DON'T remove access to the house from the garage via the old family room. This will be an issue with buyers for sure.

@Nas Zidane I thought you said the ceiling was higher in one of the posts. I must have misunderstood. Definitely do not do a vaulted ceiling. It will cost a lot. Let us know what your contractor thinks. Good Luck. 

@Nas Zidane I thought you said the ceiling was higher in one of the posts. I must have misunderstood. Definitely do not do a vaulted ceiling. It will cost a lot. Let us know what your contractor thinks. Good Luck. 

@Nas Zidane I believe the layout I provided will cost you less. You can show your Contractor both layouts and they will have a better idea. You definitely want the high ceiling space to be with the open kitchen/dining/living room. It will make it feel even bigger. Maybe even put a skylight for more light to get in. What works with these open floor plans is getting as much natural light into the space. When you provide more windows it visually makes the interior space feel bigger because your depth perception goes to the outside. For example, put a big window where I put the kitchen and dining room to the outside. Maybe make it a big sliding door. When someone opens the front door their sightlines will be drawn by the high ceiling and towards the natural light. They will see this big window or sliding door and look to the outside and the room will feel even bigger. If you put a nice tree or little patio with chairs then the extension from the interior spaces goes to the exterior landscape area. 

I definitely think you should do something on the exterior with the front door. I have no idea what it looks like but adding a porch would be nice. 

I flipped the bathroom and laundry/water heater so that if a guest uses the bathroom they don't have to pass any bedrooms and if one of the kids uses the bathroom they don't have to go into the public area. Additionally, you can't see inside the bathroom from the front door. 

I hope that helps. 

I decided to spend an hour or two on your plan and came up with a new more cost-effective version. I know you want to make it amazing to make as much money as possible while spending as little as you can. As you will see I think you basically just have to flip the existing bathroom by the kitchen to the other side of the living room and add the master bathroom. Thew new laundry room is in the corridor and if you stack them you can put the water heater in there as well. Another option is to do a tankless water heater for you to save space. You can even put those in the attic (if you have one). Each bedroom has at least 10' of closet space (brown rectangles in the space) and the smallest bedroom in the middle is 11'-0" x 10'-0".  With this layout, you keep the public and private spaces separate. It is never fun to cross a living room to go take a shower. 

The dining room is a little bit narrow but there is enough space for a house this size. Right now I have a 30" island with an area for bar stools so that can be shortened as well. Depending on your windows you will get a lot of natural light into this open space floor plan. Since it is open it will feel a lot bigger as well. Good luck!

When you enter through the main door, a lot of houses have a closet for jackets, shoes, etc.  Maybe that is just where I've lived. 

What I like about the previous lay out is you don't have long hallways eating up space. Also the closet in the main bedroom is a bit bigger making it more functional as a walk in.  Nothing like a long, narrow walk-in closet that you can't walk into. It may be wide enough, I'm just basing the size off the size of the door.  

If you are up for a challenge, you can figure out how to add a closet for the entry.

bifold doors work fine on a laundry closet or a sliding barn door (if it works with the space).