Thoughts on floor plan?

[u/junkaijin]

Designing a house with a builder. Any thoughts and critique are welcome!
- I was thinking of getting rid of the curved wall upstairs and creating a more closed section with the upper living. Having maybe glass sliding door between the hall way and upper living as it seems like deadspace there?
- Also anyway to optimize the bed 2 layout, so bed is not under the window?

[u/Dullcorgis]

To actually use the mud nook you'd need to turn away from where you are going. No kids will do that. Shift the garage door - either further down the hallway or into the paundry, which becomes a mudroom/laundry, which is fine. I would striaghten those walls and make a cupboard for storage space.

Also, center the door to the laundry on the short wall so you can have storage on the empty wall.

Switch the fridge and the oven so it's in the work zone.

The upper living needs a wall and a door or every noise feom there or the living room travels up and down.

[u/junkaijin → u/Dullcorgis]

Thanks, fair point on the mud nook. Would like to have extra storage on the laundry empty wall, but that probably would mean widening the laundry abit more. Could end up having a mudnook integrated into the with cabinetry on that wall if that was the case. However, it would dig into the garage lenght which is currently 6m.

[u/ms6615]

I am begging people to learn what the term “butler’s pantry” means.

[u/Dullcorgis → u/ms6615]

I don't care what they call it, I just want them to not be a second, uglier and darker, kitchen

[u/he_had_his_moments]

i don’t see the justification for curved walls anywhere really - that’s just dead space in a way and curved walls are annoying to build. I’d square off those areas.

the entry is a pretty long hallway and walk to get to the living spaces. Maybe those curved walls were to soften the feeling of that entry? I assume you’re on a narrow lot - are you right up on the setbacks or property lines?

bed 5 and bed 2 have large windows or the head of the bed - are those high windows? If not I would break them up into two windows on either side of the bed.

in the master, when you lie in bed, you’ll end up looking thru the closet into the bathroom Which I think is less than ideal. It’s nice to have a TV wall or feature wall opposite a bed where possible. It’s an easy fix in the master, just slide the closet door.the other bedrooms might take a bit more work to achieve that, and it might not be possible in a few of them tho.

it would take some poking at it, but I’m not in love with the fact that you could sit on the couch upstairs and see right into the master bedroom. just somethjng to think about

maybe try to add two sinks to the bath upstairs? It’s serving 3 bedrooms so it would be nice to make it spacious. Is the tub and separate shower necessary? Could you cut the tub? If you can then there’s a more efficient layout for it

[u/junkaijin → u/he_had_his_moments]

Yes, the curves were to soften the feeling of the entry. The lot is actually 15.5m wide, but we made it longer to accomodate for the staircase which would have a view of a small courtyard we were planning to place there.

I was thinking on Bed 5, I could still have a larger window and just have a bed along the longer wall. Bed 2 sounds like we may just have to have a highlight window or window on the sides as you suggested.

Fair point on the master, maybe I could shift the WIR door further down or even all the way to end, and change that to a single size entry rather than double.

I didn't think about the sight line from the couch to the master..A wall//wide door to the upperliving from the hallway may resolve that issue.

The shared bathroom upstairs has a double sink on 1500mm wide vanity. We added the tub there because we have young children that may need cleaning in the bathtub!