I do know a few of you might be in all probability getting bored with 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’ve got given me. And I simply love flooring plans anyway. Till we purchased this home, considered one of my favourite previous instances was to go to a type of web sites that has 1000’s of flooring plans obtainable and simply search and look and plan and dream. I may spend a complete day 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 photograph enhancing software program (that is the one I take advantage of) 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 totally different concepts earlier than assembly with the architect about our upcoming addition, I made a decision I need to begin with a contemporary, 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 without spending a dime. It required that I buy credit to make adjustments, and I’m not eager about that. I knew there needed to be one other free different, 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 straightforward 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 tools, and the choices for widespread rooms like bedrooms and residing rooms appeared fairly minimal), I had enjoyable utilizing what they’ve obtainable. Take a look at the ground plan I made…
Isn’t that enjoyable?! After all, my major aim 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 a lot 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 a lot better understanding of what was attainable with the house obtainable.
I really like seeing a flooring plan exhibiting the furnishings structure! You possibly can see that I put a eating desk within the entrance front room 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 a lot of these concepts have been superb, and I thought-about so a lot of them and tried incorporating them into the ground plan. However ultimately, I went again to having a devoted laundry room. That is our closing home, which is why we’re keen to spend as a lot as wanted (properly, inside cause) to customise it for our particular wants and desires. And the very 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 ultimately, I made a decision I’m not keen to provide that up.
After which a commenter jogged my memory that I had needed a storage closet particularly for issues like Matt’s Hoyer elevate, bathe wheelchair, and different objects like that in order that I can retailer them out of sight once they’re not in use relatively than having them sit within the nook of a room. I can’t bear in mind who that was, however thanks!!
That utterly slipped my thoughts, and I might have been so annoyed 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 elevate lives within the nook of the visitor bed room (the bed room we’re at the moment utilizing as our major bed room), and I can’t even inform you the variety of instances that issues spins round and hits me as I’m attempting 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 gymnasium 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 objects 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 fire 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 really like all of the pure gentle 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 brief. (I measured, and whereas I might have the ability to attain the controls on the stacked dryer, I wouldn’t have the ability to really see the controls. 😀 So I’d have to make use of a step stool each single time, and I’d relatively keep away from that problem.) I additionally put a utility sink in there. I envision higher cupboards throughout the room for further storage.
Within the household room, I did a wall of bookshelves on the left as you enter from the music room, and on the other wall, a fire. And on the again wall, I added three home windows (the identical configuration we’ve within the entrance front room 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 approach, the swing of the doorways doesn’t intrude 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 really like that it makes the bed room really feel extra separated from the “public” areas of the home. Additionally, I really like that it opens up that exterior wall and permits for yet another window to usher in extra pure gentle. And at last, the location of the laundry room near the again exterior wall of the home is smart to me in order that on these days once I’m working outdoors 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 really like flooring plans a lot, listed here are just a few shut ups of the ground plan for the opposite areas of the home. I simply love these! 😀
Right here’s a more in-depth take a look at the entire main bedroom, plus the laundry room and the hallway rest room. The massive, clean space within the grasp rest room is the bathe. I couldn’t discover a good method to designate that space because the bathe utilizing their instruments.
That is what I might 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 all the areas off of the hallway — the hallway rest room, visitor bed room, and residential gymnasium. Proper now, the one method to entry the grasp rest room is thru the house gymnasium. It’s an ungainly 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 lavatory and the house gymnasium. It simply is smart to me to have these rooms accessible to one another.
On this flooring plan, I didn’t embrace 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 rest room, 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 yet 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 transform 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 possibly can be taught extra about me right here.
