Yesterday, I lastly determined that I wanted some exterior skilled assist. I made a decision to rent an inside designer to assist me with house planning for our home. I’ve been taking a look at our flooring plan for thus lengthy now that I do know I’ve developed some form of tunnel imaginative and prescient, blinding me from potential potentialities that my mind is not going to enable me to see.
I’ve been fascinated about and taking part in round with flooring plan concepts for our home since at the very least 2015, which was two years after we purchased this home. The earliest flooring plan thought I might discover on the weblog was in this post from September 2015 (nearly precisely 9 years in the past) the place I proposed this design for an addition to incorporate a brand new main bedroom, laundry room, and household room.
That was earlier than I had the thought to show the storage into my studio, and earlier than we added the carport. So I’ve been fascinated about our flooring plan for at the very least 9 years, however these final couple of months, my thoughts has been in overdrive like by no means earlier than. And when my thoughts goes into overdrive and gained’t settle down, that’s after I know I could possibly be heading proper into some massive errors. It’s that tunnel imaginative and prescient that will get me in bother. I might imagine that I’m contemplating the entire potentialities, however as a result of my thoughts is in hyperdrive, I do know that I’m not considering clearly, and I’m in all probability manner overcomplicating issues.
So I made a decision that I wanted an inside designer to assist me with house planning, and I spent about 45 minutes on-line looking for somebody to assist me. The issue? I dwell in Waco, Texas. I believe I discovered a complete of three licensed inside designers in Waco, and to be fairly sincere (and I’m not making an attempt to be imply right here), none of them impressed me.
One is a reputation you’ll in all probability know for those who watched that present I discussed in yesterday’s publish. I haven’t heard something about her in in all probability a decade, and her web site hasn’t been up to date in years. One other one appeared to be extra centered on industrial design. And the third one simply didn’t impress me. The remainder of them had been decorators, house stagers, contractors, and residential shops that declare to supply design providers (in all probability not the type of design providers that I’m searching for). So although I used to be prepared to rent somebody to assist me, there actually doesn’t appear to be anybody to rent on this space. That’s a draw back of dwelling in a small-ish metropolis.
So I made a decision to place this problem to you. A lot of you realize our home higher than any designer would. You already know what it appears like. You know the way we use the completely different areas. You know the way the rooms circulation collectively. So present me what you’ve received! Present me your house planning expertise.
I do know so a lot of you’ve supplied enter within the remark sections of earlier posts, however I’m a really visible particular person, and typically these written feedback are arduous to comply with, perceive, and visualize. And when there’s a variety of written feedback with plenty of solutions, my visible thoughts tends to get overwhelmed and confused. So if you wish to share your concepts, I wish to truly see them drawn out on a flooring plan.
Right here’s what our flooring plan appears like proper now. I eliminated the tiny toilet and the sunroom since these are going to be torn down it doesn’t matter what. So what you see because the again wall of the grasp toilet, hallway toilet, music room, and kitchen within the flooring plan beneath is the precise authentic again wall of the home. It’s completely load-bearing, and any of these areas will be an exterior wall.
So if you wish to exhibit your house planning chops, you’ll be able to print off that image, draw on it, scan or take an image of your concepts, after which electronic mail it to me. Or you need to use a photograph modifying software program to make modifications on-line after which electronic mail it to me.
I’m genuinely involved in your concepts. I do know a number of of you might be VERY good at this, and I would like to have the ability to truly see your concepts on a flooring plan reasonably than attempt to envision your concepts primarily based on a written remark. Listed below are the issues to remember…
Right here’s what we want:
- A main bedroom connected to the present grasp toilet. I actually love the entrance nook room as our main bedroom as a result of it’s the brightest room in the home within the morning and the good room in the home all through the day.
- A big grasp closet. But when the entrance nook room is our main bedroom, the closet CANNOT be within the bed room. That is non-negotiable. I can’t have closets consuming up any house in that bed room if that room goes for use as our bed room.
- A laundry room, which has to have room for a scorching water heater.
- A exercise space that may maintain at the very least three items of exercise tools (48-inch rebounder, small treadmill, and Matt’s Theracycle).
- A spot for a eating desk and at the very least 4 chairs, ideally expandable to eight chairs if wanted.
- A spot for Matt’s recliner the place he can sit and watch TV in the course of the day. I’ve to have the ability to entry one aspect of the recliner (doesn’t matter which aspect) with Matt’s Hoyer raise to place him into the chair.
And right here’s what I wish to have. Whereas these aren’t necessities, I might very very similar to to work them in if attainable:
- A pantry off of the kitchen.
- A bigger household room that may seat as much as 15 folks (chairs will be introduced in) comfortably. Proper now, we use our entrance lounge, and we’ve to maneuver the couch again each week, and I’d reasonably not proceed doing that.
- A visitor bed room.
- A full toilet that’s handy to the visitor bed room and can be utilized for normal friends.
Additionally observe:
- We might want to add onto the home to slot in the whole lot we want. That’s apparent. However I’d reasonably keep away from the large addition. Including on some house as wanted is okay. Including on the equal of our total first house in Oregon isn’t tremendous.
- I’m open to the kitchen staying proper the place it’s, so a brand new kitchen addition isn’t a requirement.
- The wall between the present breakfast room and pantry isn’t load bearing, doesn’t have any electrical in it, and will be eliminated fully with no cased opening required.
- The whole lot must be accessible for Matt, which suggests no zigzagging site visitors patterns.
- The music room is probably the most used room in the home and may’t have any furnishings in the course of the room. That’s the place I switch Matt to his wheelchair with the Hoyer raise, and that room works completely for that goal simply as it’s.
- Utilizing my studio for a exercise space isn’t an possibility. My studio is my studio.
- Matt doesn’t need or want a gaming room or space.
I believe that’s all the data. Now present me what you’ve received! Let me see your house planning expertise and the way you’d match all of this into our present flooring house with a little bit of house added on. If you wish to ship me your flooring plan thought, my electronic mail is [email protected]. I’m excited to see what y’all give you!
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and beautify the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
