Can you guys please help rejig my floorplan

Love the collaboration! Geez, imagine how much more productive our workplaces could be (for those of us still in the rat race) if our colleagues worked together like PC forumites!

 

Thanks Stoffo for the effort!
yep I interpreted the floorplan correctly by and large. I shared the idea with the Mrs...unfortunately she didn't like it bc the master opens up into the dining, the back gets narrower, the master is at the back and the kids bedroom is at the front. So I'm forced to revert to the plan to get rid of the bathroom and laundry at the rear and place an ensuite in the master (or encroaching into the garage). Where the laundry goes I have NFI. Possibly a Euro laundry as part of the kitchen is the only viable place I can think of. Would love it to be elsewhere though.

 

Yes you guys are too generous with your time.

 

Agreed Wylie. I won't be doing anything drastic for at least 6 months after we move in to see how we live in the house. Conversely though, the modifications are deductible if done before we move in whilst the current tenants are there so I need to have a rough idea to get the basics done.

 

For those of you with 10-18 yr old kids, what kind of config do you like best for a 3/4 bedder - do you prefer the master downstairs and kids bedrooms upstairs? Or do you prefer them all on one level, preferably downstairs so you can barge in any time and make sure they're not doing anything you wouldn't do.

 

Hi Wylie, some of it will def be repairs, the rest may be lazily invoiced as repairs as well

 

Sorry @Lacrim you better tell the Mrs she has been outvoted by the forum, the fact that it's her house is totally irrelevant... Goodluck!! Hahahaha

 

Do you mean "not doing anything you tried to get away with at that age?"

 

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haha so true. But I'm the parent now and I want total control.

 

I don't like the idea of being exposed to, or exposing any one to "things" that could be deemed to be embarrassing
From, ooohhh & ahhh's
Don't you tell me
To "you f*@#en what !
Have always liked to keep "my" bedroom somewhat seperated from the step kids, due to all the ooohh's & aaahhh's & mmm's & no way you're sticking that thing........

 

Ive got at least 4-5 yrs before it potentially gets that bad

 

Well I've come in late to the game but I would take the walls back out of Bed 4 and put a bedroom in the attic if and when you need it. You'd then have a light filled massive area and the kitchen, bathroom and laundry can be tweaked as needed. You could U or L shape some of the kitchen into this new room if you wanted

If you wanted to you could split off some of the back living area into a study/bedroom but I wouldn't make it a master bedroom - only a smaller kids bedroom. I like the interaction between living areas and outdoors.

10-18yo turn into permanent fixtures of their bedrooms. The will love the attic - send them all up there to live now

 

Part of the problem that we've manufactured ourselves really is trying to keep all the bedrooms downstairs so we can all be on one level. It's becoming more apparent that this is a 2-3 stage thing where we need to evolve the house as kids grow up and its pointless to set the config in stone and plough money in unnecessarily for a one size fits all reno. For example, we might get to a stage where we WANT them upstairs rather than next to our bedroom - probably if/when they're older though.

 

Westminster the aspect is such that due north is at the front of the property. Removing the wall of bed 4 to the rear opens it up but won't contribute that much from a light and bright perspective. Plus as mentioned b4, its def load bearing. It was the rear wall of the original house.

 

That's one neat floor plan.
What's with the secrecy?

 

Are you sure you want to live here
You can probably make do with it as it is by just making the kitchen/laundry area more functional with clever storage and turning that one load bearing wall into an island so it interacts with the living/dining

 

I should have looked at the photos - I thought the load bearing wall for the kitchen closed it off from the living area but it isn't.
Honestly I think you just need to tweak what's there and make the island bench in the kitchen bigger, maybe change the pantry to put a laminate floor to ceiling with pull out blum units, put in better overhead cupboards

 

Is there more flexibility if you don't have to stick to this?
I actually like the idea of rumpus and extra bedrooms on a different level.