I do know a few of you might be in all probability getting uninterested in my flooring plans by now, however I’m having enjoyable mulling over concepts that I provide you with and concepts that a few of you could have given me. And I simply love flooring plans anyway. Till we purchased this home, one among my favourite previous instances was to go to a kind of web sites that has hundreds of flooring plans out there and simply search and look and plan and dream. I may spend a complete day taking a look at flooring plans and by no means get bored.
Quickly after we purchased our home in 2013, I used a free on-line floorplan creator known as Floorplanner to make a flooring plan of our home. As soon as I created the unique flooring plan, I simply used my trusty picture modifying software program (this is the one I use) to make edits. After years and years of creating edits to the identical flooring plan, the plan had change into distorted and out of scale. So now that I’m eager to check out completely different concepts earlier than assembly with the architect about our upcoming addition, I made a decision I need to begin with a recent, new, and to-scale flooring plan.
So I headed again to Floorplanner solely to seek out that I couldn’t make adjustments to my flooring plan at no cost. It required that I buy credit to make adjustments, and I’m not all in favour of that. I knew there needed to be one other free various, so I went on the hunt. I attempted just a few that I wasn’t happy with in any respect, however then I discovered SmartDraw. (No, this isn’t sponsored. I actually did simply occur upon it.) It’s solely free for a seven day trial, however that’s loads of time for me to create a flooring plan! And it doesn’t require any bank card info to make use of it throughout that seven day trial.
I discovered it to be fairly simple to make use of, and whereas I want it had extra choices to “furnish” the rooms (for instance, there aren’t any choices in any respect for train gear, and the choices for widespread rooms like bedrooms and dwelling rooms appeared fairly minimal), I had enjoyable utilizing what they’ve out there. Take a look at the ground plan I made…
Isn’t that enjoyable?! In fact, my essential objective was to mock up our addition in order that it’s just about to scale in order that I may add furnishings and get a significantly better thought of what I’m working with. And as soon as I had a extra correct image of it, with extra correct measurements, I had a significantly better understanding of what was doable with the house out there.
I like seeing a flooring plan exhibiting the furnishings format! You’ll be able to see that I put a eating desk within the entrance lounge simply to check out that concept. And in addition, since my plan of placing a eating room space within the new household room didn’t pan out, I added a storage closet and a laundry room again into that house.
I appeared over each concept that y’all despatched me about laundry rooms, laundry closets, hidden washers and dryers in customized cupboards, and so on. So lots of these concepts have been superb, and I thought of so lots of them and tried incorporating them into the ground plan. However in the long run, I went again to having a devoted laundry room. That is our closing home, which is why we’re prepared to spend as a lot as wanted (effectively, inside motive) to customise it for our particular wants and desires. And the actual fact is that I’ve by no means had a laundry room earlier than in my life, and it’s one thing I’ve been dreaming of for a very long time. So in the long run, I made a decision I’m not prepared to present that up.
After which a commenter jogged my memory that I had needed a storage closet particularly for issues like Matt’s Hoyer carry, bathe wheelchair, and different gadgets like that in order that I can retailer them out of sight after they’re not in use moderately than having them sit within the nook of a room. I can’t keep in mind who that was, however thanks!!
That fully slipped my thoughts, and I’d have been so pissed off had we constructed a complete addition, and I needed to proceed storing these issues out within the open within the nook of a room (or rooms). Proper now, Matt’s Hoyer carry lives within the nook of the visitor bed room (the bed room we’re at the moment utilizing as our essential bed room), and I can’t even let you know the variety of instances that issues spins round and hits me as I’m making an attempt to squeeze by it every day. His bathe wheelchair lives within the bathe when he’s not utilizing it, and I’d like to get that out of there. And his common wheelchair stays within the house fitness center by his train bike when he’s not utilizing it. That simply makes vacuuming that room much more tough. So sure, having a storage closet for these issues is crucial, and I can’t consider I forgot about that! Having that storage closet for these gadgets is certainly a better precedence for me than having a eating space within the household room.
So the brand new bed room may have a storage closet in addition to an entire wall of wardrobes. I additionally added a hearth within the bed room, which Matt has all the time needed. I put home windows flanking the mattress, and French doorways out to the again yard. I had needed so as to add home windows flanking the French doorways as a result of I like all of the pure mild I can get, however Matt mentioned it was an excessive amount of for him. And since he spends far more time within the bed room than I do, he will get the ultimate say on that.
Within the laundry room, I did an L-shaped design with the washer and dryer simply contained in the door. Sadly, stacking the washer and dryer isn’t person pleasant for me as a result of I’m so quick. (I measured, and whereas I’d have the ability to attain the controls on the stacked dryer, I wouldn’t have the ability to truly see the controls. 😀 So I’d have to make use of a step stool each single time, and I’d moderately keep away from that problem.) I additionally put a utility sink in there. I envision higher cupboards throughout the room for additional storage.
Within the household room, I did a wall of bookshelves on the left as you enter from the music room, and on the alternative wall, a hearth. And on the again wall, I added three home windows (the identical configuration we’ve got within the entrance lounge and the breakfast room) and French doorways main out to the again yard. And I do need these French doorways, in addition to the French doorways within the bed room, opening out as a substitute of in. My mother had new French doorways added to her breakfast room and den that each open out onto her superb coated patio, and I simply adore it. That manner, the swing of the doorways doesn’t intervene with furnishings placement contained in the rooms.
Most likely the principle change I made is that as a substitute of getting the doorway to the bed room nearer to the wall of wardrobes, I’ve moved it to the far exterior wall. I did that for a number of causes. First, I like that it makes the bed room really feel extra separated from the “public” areas of the home. Additionally, I like that it opens up that exterior wall and permits for another window to usher in extra pure mild. And at last, the position of the laundry room near the again exterior wall of the home is sensible to me in order that on these days once I’m working exterior and making a whole mess of myself, I can come within the again door, go on to the laundry room and drop off work garments, earlier than heading into the bed room.
So I believe I’ve the ground plan found out, and I stay up for assembly with the architect to see what he thinks, or if he has any higher concepts.
However as a result of I like flooring plans a lot, listed below are just a few shut ups of the ground plan for the opposite areas of the home. I simply love taking a look at these! 😀
Right here’s a more in-depth take a look at the entire main bedroom, plus the laundry room and the hallway lavatory. The massive, clean space within the grasp lavatory is the bathe. I couldn’t discover a good solution to designate that space because the bathe utilizing their instruments.
That is what I’d name the principle public hall via the home, from the entrance door, via the (future) eating room, music room, kitchen, household room, and out the again doorways to the again yard.
These are the entire areas off of the hallway — the hallway lavatory, visitor bed room, and residential fitness center. Proper now, the one solution to entry the grasp lavatory is thru the house fitness center. It’s a clumsy flooring plan proper now, however as soon as the addition is constructed, it’ll all come collectively and make extra sense. However even after the addition is constructed, I plan to maintain the doorway between the toilet and the house fitness center. It simply is sensible to me to have these rooms accessible to one another.
On this flooring plan, I didn’t embody a passthrough from the kitchen to the household room. I’m nonetheless mulling over that concept, so I made a decision to go away it off for now.
And at last, right here’s my studio, studio lavatory, storage closet, and again studio entry, which is all accessible via the breakfast room. The carport with the very good wheelchair ramp sits behind the studio via these French doorways, however I didn’t put it on the ground plan.
And right here’s another take a look at the entire flooring plan with the addition…
I can’t wait to get began on this addition! It’s going to be a dream to have such a big bed room, a devoted laundry/utility room, and a pleasant, open household room. However for now, I can simply stare at my new flooring plan and dream.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and embellish 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.
