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Would you want a separate bedroom in a small home for two?

I've been exploring this small cabin design and trying two layouts, both on one level. Nothing built yet.

A has an open sleeping area with a low wall and shelf behind the bed. B puts the bedroom on the right, with a door and a built-in closet.

I like the openness of A, but B seems easier to live in if one person gets up earlier or has someone over. For two people living here full-time, which would you prefer? Anything in the furniture layout or storage that would annoy you day to day?

u/OscarMiliani_Design — 4 days ago
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Round 2: removed the loft. Would you keep the bedroom open or enclosed?

I've been working on this cabin as a personal project and posted an earlier layout here. A few of you pointed out that having the bed upstairs and the only bathroom downstairs would get old pretty quickly. Fair point.

So I'm trying two single-story layouts:

A: An open sleeping area with a low wall behind the bed and a small shelf. No bedroom door, more of a studio.

B: An enclosed bedroom on the right, with a built-in closet and a rounded corner facing the kitchen. More privacy, but it divides up the space.

The last two images show the exterior from the water and from above. Those are earlier renders for context; the interiors visible through the glass haven't been updated yet.

I'm attached to the curved shape, but I want the layout to work too. Which would you rather stay in, A or B? Anything still feeling awkward?

u/OscarMiliani_Design — 4 days ago
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Feedback on a compact A-frame with a ground-floor bedroom and office loft

I’m an architect developing this one-bedroom A-frame as an architectural design package. The bedroom and bathroom stay on the ground floor, with a 106 sq ft office loft above the kitchen and a 260 sq ft front deck.

Before I promote it, I’d value blunt feedback on three things: circulation through the entry, whether the office loft is genuinely useful, and whether the glazing feels excessive for a compact cabin.

These are design visualizations, not photographs of a completed building. The drawings are intended as a starting point that can be adapted to a real site.

u/OscarMiliani_Design — 23 days ago
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Priced out every material for this 788 sq ft cabin. Does this number look right to you?

Two floors, one bedroom up on the mezzanine. Curtain wall, galvanized roof over CMU with a wood ceiling inside.

I went through it line by line against current supplier pricing instead of using a per square foot rule of thumb. Came out at $182,696 in materials, which is $232 a square foot. That is materials only, so no labor, permits or land in it.Curious whether that reads high or low to people who have actually built at this size.

https://preview.redd.it/fr76gsidzxkh1.png?width=2480&format=png&auto=webp&s=f894f8f93ae3e7081b74e56bc83ab27f067e5bb9

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u/OscarMiliani_Design — 2 months ago
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First floor of a cabin drawn on an arc. What the curve actually costs.

https://preview.redd.it/lyc184fozwjh1.png?width=1940&format=png&auto=webp&s=94a7abad16c5a8e44495329dc2d8b1bd07aba9f2

Ground floor of a cabin I drew on an arc: 52 feet of wall along the outside curve, 32 along the inside, and the band narrows from about 17'-6" at the living end down to 10 at the service end.

What the curve costs: almost none of it is the walls. You don't build a curve, you build short straight segments and let the sheathing take the rest, so the framing is ordinary work done slowly. The cost is in everything that lands on that wall. Every window sits in its own plane so no two are interchangeable on site, and the roof edge follows the arc, which makes the fascia and the gutter a fabricated item instead of something off the rack.

What it does to furniture: straight furniture against a curved wall leaves a wedge, and you can size it before you draw anything. The gap is roughly length squared over eight times the radius. An 8 foot sofa on a 30 foot radius is 64 over 240, about 3 inches, which you scribe out or lose in the baseboard. The same sofa on a 12 foot radius is 8 inches and there is nowhere to hide it. That is why the seating here floats instead of sitting against the wall, and why the kitchen run sits on the one stretch flat enough to take it.

What you get for it: every space faces a different direction without a single corner, and the concave side makes a sheltered outdoor room without building anything to enclose it, which is also the sensible place to put the condenser. On a sloping site the arc lets you sit along a contour instead of cutting across one, and that is usually the real reason to do it rather than the look.

It isn't the cheap way to draw a small building. It's just the one that earns its footprint twice.

Happy to answer anything about it.

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u/OscarMiliani_Design — 2 months ago