April 8, 2005
floor plans changes
An architect looked at our plans and had some good suggestions. We might actually have closets one day.
R. was talking to one of the architects at a local architecture firm about our house. They got to talking floor plans and about how our house is big, but not really set up to function with more than 2 bedrooms. The architect looked at what we’d figured out were the original floor plans and had some really great suggestions.
The house had been duplexed upstairs/downstairs a while back when it was a rental property. The main bedroom upstairs (in the front) had been split by filling in the arch. A hallway had been carved out of the big front rooms downstairs, and the entrance hall had been cut front and back. We’ve been taking out the walls that were added and trying to return the house to the original floor plan. It turns out, though, that the original plans, though, are really open upstairs and include very few closets.
After seeing all of these awful added walls, we didn’t ever think about adding any new walls ourself — it seemed obvious that this would take away from the feel of the space of the house. This keen-eyed architect, though, saw where we could add a wall and remove a few doorways and then have our floor plans make sense as a 3 bedroom house with some great closets in it.
what is the room behind the bathroom upstairs? Will you have to walk through bedroom to get to both the bathroom and the room behind it?
That room, for us (or more for R.), is going to be crafts/sewing room.
You don’t have to go through the bathroom to get there — it is a short hallway. There is a door to the bathroom on the left, and there will be a closet on the right. That closet space also holds the upstairs furnace and one day the washer dryer.
I see the hallway by the bathroom and the sewing room but is the room in front of the bathroom a bedroom and do you have to walk through that room to get to the bathroom and sewing room? Sorry I wasn’t clearer the first time. I’m interested because we are working on future plans for out home.
The front two rooms and back room will be possible bedrooms, while the room that must be cut through will be an office/study type space.