Not sure what to do for layout in this studio… I’ll have a full size mattress, tv, want a couch, and will need a table to do work on… may get a coffee table of some sorts? Just want to separate my sleeping space from living space but don’t want it to be crowded since I am limited on space… help please!
We are adding ~500 sq ft to our 1200 sq ft house. We had originally planned to add open living space with a playroom space to the left (1 toddler, 1 baby on the way) and just plan to have the kids share room after they move out of our bedroom. We are generally concerned about the new space feeling too small and cut off from kitchen if we add a bedroom given how are house is set up as very narrow today.
- We are trying to figure out if we should add a bedroom instead and if the bedroom should be a new primary or a small nursery. Nursery pros: wouldn't take as much space. Nursery cons: would be right next to living space. General con: we would really love some playroom space. I wish our front bedroom wasn't as large and instead we had two smaller kids rooms and one larger primary. Living space is so much more important to us than bedroom space.
- Secondly, our laundry is in the kitchen today, we are thinking of putting it in the new entry hidden behind cabinets and having our formal "entry" be a mudroom with lots of built-ins. We know it's unconventional, but we are trying to make our small house work for us.
Looking for opinions on the bedroom decision and also any other creative ideas? We lose so much space to our dining room today, but we can't figure out how to re-arrange things to make anything work better. Load bearing walls are front to back for us.
Did the washer get put in later & the fridge got moved? I have no idea why the fridge is where it is because it's NOT functioning. Please provide helpful suggestions of a new, better layout for me if you enjoy solving problems & would like to help me solve mine!
1955 house that we are restoring & preserving & making more functional for our family.
Building a small space coach home in my backyard for my MIL. The kitchen layout is driving me nuts is there anyway to make this better? For one thing the stove placement on an outside counter is not ideal. FYI, the home has a basement, hence where the living room etc is. Thanks so much in advance.
I want to enclose the entire yellow space and add a full bathroom to my son's room below the yellow area. Ideally the toilet room in that bathroom would be accessible to a common area of the home to double as a half bath with its own small sink. I am open to using the existing laundry and pantry spaces and redesigning the space as a whole to make it more cohesive. I am having trouble figuring out the best way to fit a utility/mud room, pantry, and hallway AND have an exterior door that is accessible to the driveway.
I'm partially open to having to walk in through the big garage door but would prefer to have a walk door from the driveway.
I'm also open to walking into a large mudroom but I just want it to make sense! Any help or ideas would be appreciated!!
We’ve bought a small house that hasn’t been updated since the 70’s when it was built. We have 2 months to change the kitchen and bathrooms and would also be open to taking walls out. We plan on removing the door in the kitchen to make more wall space as well as the small wall between the fridge and laundry area.
Some other changes we are mulling over:
-extend the entry closet which would create a longer living room wall where a couch could live and more closet space
-remove the wall between the kitchen and living room - but other than opening up the space I’m not sure what it would be
-move the laundry into the hallway and lose some closet space
Thank you for any and all suggestions!! Our renos (which we are doing Ourselves start in 2 weeks!!
Please, without just bashing what we have (because I know it’s bad which is why I’m coming here for help), can someone please give me ideas. We are using an existing plan from our builder and want to keep the dimensions the same, which means the garage cannot move. We will have a walk out basement so we also cannot add “jut outs” to the back. We are building on 50 acres and the land is totally secluded/private. We are going for a farmhouse feel. This is just the main floor. My MUSTS are dining room, island, walk in/hidden cabinet pantry, laundry room, master with walk in closet and separate tub/shower, and we plan to add a tub shower to the powder room. Ignore the stairs in the garage. Those will move. Can someone PLEASE help me with ideas to get the pantry closer to the garage entrance. We would also love to have some type of sliding glass door along back of house to lead to the back deck. I am open to moving the dining room out of the “jut out” if needed. We also cannot put anything underneath the stairs and we will have stairs leading to basement. I am open to moving the placement of the stairs as well. Pleaseeeee help!
They are looking to renovate.
I made some changes based on feedback.
All their bedrooms will be upstairs.
They have expressed a desire to have a pass through window between formal dining and kitchen to increase natural light in the kitchen.
They also like a large prep kitchen.
I have their permission to share.
We have a 2nd child on the way and originally planned to add a second story to our house but are balking due to displacement time and cost given we aren't sure this is our "forever" spot. We are scaling back and trying to only do a first floor addition that will give us ~3 years to then decide our long term plans before our oldest starts kindergarten.
Goals of the renovation:
- Have a living room without a door entering through it
- Master bath renovation (it is so small that it's actually no longer up to modern code, plus we have humidity and shower cracking problems). We also have this strange empty space between our bathroom and closet today that is wasted and would like to put towards the bathroom.
- Have some dedicated space for playroom stuff
The big question:
- Should we be trying to add some small nursery suite off the master? This addition will give us more living space, but ends with our kids sharing a room at young ages (25 month age difference). My sister thinks we should try to create some sort of passthrough from the master into a really small nursery "nook". I don't know how to achieve this without taking away from living room/playspace goals and I worry it would be too close to the living room and be loud at night when we're watching tv and such.
Would love any creative ideas! Since this is a real "in between" addition, we're trying to keep things really non-extensive so we don't want to like entirely shift rooms around. If you're wondering where our laundry is today it is in the kitchen. Also we have two big dogs (labs) which add to the feeling of our house being small. We could probably go a few feet (like 3ft) wider on the back addition. I don't know the cost of widening the master bedroom/bathroom area given those are already exterior walls.
Here is our current floor plan:
Here are the preliminary plans of our addition (but stairs crossed off):
We're considering putting an offer on this house, but just wondering if any sober second, third+ eyes can spot any issues we'd be dealing with.
One possibly annoying thing missing is a defined "getting ready to go out" space. The front door has a closet at least but it's a little far from the door, and the back door which is closer to the garage just abruptly leaves the kitchen/living room.
Laundry room is a little small, and I figure if we're going to hang any delicates to dry it would have to be in the foyer.
Basement is intended to have a rental suite but it seems a little convoluted. Two separate crawl spaces seems odd and accessing storage in the left crawl space seems very difficult.
Any other thoughts?
Any feedback on this floor plan?
It’s for a loft dormer extension, particularly interested in any views on the en-suite but all feedback welcome! It’s a terraced house in UK and this will be master bedroom.
Thanks!
I would really love some feedback on the proposed layout. Today there is a small vestibule at the bottom of the stairs and the basement is unfinished. I'd like to add a bedroom, bathroom, and then a large "family space". The area at the bottom of the stairs between the bedroom and bathroom will serve as my office for a while. Happy to answer any questions, this is my first floor plan and Im not sure if there are obvious improvements or if I'm missing something. I feel like "I don't know what I don't know" :-D
Thank you to anyone making the time to take a peek!
The bedroom is ~11.5' x 14'
or should I find a way to have more counter space?
full plan
For a boutique wellness clinic, i’m torn between two layouts for the washroom and staff workstation area (sink/cabinet) which will be covered by floor to ceiling curtains
Hi everyone!
I just bought a 52 sqm (approx. 560 sqft) apartment in a 1940s-50s brick building in Budapest. It has a typical "old-school" layout with many small doors and rooms, and I’m looking for ideas to make it more modern and functional for two people.
Key constraints:
Current layout (from left to right):
I've attached the original floorplan and some photos of the current state. I am currently playing around in Sweet Home 3D, but I'd love to see your creative takes on how to open up the space!
Thanks in advance!
Does anyone have any ideas in a way to switch the pantry to wear the dining area is? And move the kitchen back further to where the pantry is? The island is going to be flipped horizontally and moved toward the new kitchen. My only problem with doing that, is the pantry door has to be way far down, almost to the dining table. Thoughts? The coffee/wine bar can get deleted and we can take a door from that blank space to get one foot of the hallway…
We're considering putting an offer on this house, but the living, dining, kitchen area feels like it needs some work.
The kitchen feels small with all these angles in it, and the stairs to the basement Are pretty far out of the way.
The living room is long and narrow, which I expect would be difficult to o change but could be more comfortable with better furniture arrangements.
There is a fireplace in the living that is not able to be moved.
The black and white is the basement.
The layout as is is workable, but not ideal, and I lack the creativity to imagine what we could do with it.
EDIT: Thank you everyone, we ended up not offering on the home. Back to the hunt!
I’d like to add a door to this section of my home since we’ll be using the space as a primary bedroom. We can’t figure out the best way to incorporate it and could use creative suggestions from the brain trust here!
Details on problems / considerations / preferences:
- there are already two doors near where we want to put this third one that may have to be moved. We are willing to do this but have limited space to do this given one is a bathroom door we want to keep outside the primary bedroom and the other is a closet which naturally has a small space to work with.
- we’re not sure if we can include a pocket door because the left wall on the second photo might be loadbearing, but otherwise that would be the first choice (and we’d have to move the closet door which would be annoying but perfectly fine and doable)
- an angled door would take up semi import space in the bedroom and any door resembling the drawn picture or the tab on the ground representing the door, frame, and wall in this space renders this wall almost unusable (especially when the door is open)
- ideally we would have a 36 inch door since furniture for moving would come through this hallway for the rest of the home. Our contractor says he would need 44 inches of space in order to put a 36 inch door to reinforce the door frame with 2 two by fours on each side.
- we’re working with a 37” hallway
Thanks in advance for your ideas!
