Friday, October 31, 2008

Yet another floorplan...

I have been fiddling around with floor plans (AGAIN!) and my most recent idea is to sacrifice the 3rd bedroom and create a larger kitchen/family room, please see the attached drawing. The primary virtue of this plan is that it preserves the entire bedroom section as-is - at least for now ;-)

Some problems:
- I had first thought of making room for a powder room in the entry area (to allow later combining the two south-facing bathrooms into a master bath), but it seems important to try to keep the Study/atrium open and airy
- I thought of adding the powder room in the protrusion into the garage (currently a coat closet), but it would definitely have to be enlarged and may turn out to be an expensive idea.
- I tried a lot of different positions for the wall between the Study/atrium and the entry. I ended up with one that is a bit wasteful, but it "obeys" the main beam structure.

Don't look into the details of the kitchen setup; it has not been thought through.