Friday, March 9, 2007

House Plans

Over time we're going to finish off the ground floor of our house, but we're debating about floor plans.

We've got a very typical floor plan for a bungalow, as you can see here in my little drawing

House Main Floor

Look! No door into the back bedroom! ;) oops.

What is cool is that the living space is on the second floor of the home, very typical in the Bay Area. What is *really* *really* cool is that the ground floor was never finished

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It is a blank slate. I've got the entire footprint of the house just waiting to be finished off, after we've replaced the electric and plumbing. Here's what I'm thinking about at the moment

House Ground Floor

As you go toward the front of the house, the ceiling gets rather low as the house is on a hill. So I think it will do best as storage, maybe a work out room at most. The second bathroom is probably what will get done first.

The only problem is I don't need quite that much space for my sewing room. The washer/dryer in the drawing (next to the sink) is in the same place it currently is, to minimize cost. We want to add on to the back of the house some day, a two story addition that'll add a family room and another bedroom downstairs, and a real master suite upstairs. Which means the sewing/laundry room would be a pass through.

Maybe someday ground floor addition
House Ground Floor Addition

Maybe someday main floor addition
House Main Floor Addition

The above arrangement is better on the trip to the bathroom from the proposed addition, but doesn't use the larger space well. Would it be worth it to move the washer/dryer to the other side (near the plumbing from the kitchen), to make better use of the larger space as a bedroom?

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