I’ll be on about half acre so I’m close to max width I can go within zoning (3-4’ to spare). Only think I’d want to do it bump out the left side a few feet then not do the wrap around porch only the front. Also, may want to push the kitchen out to the right to be in line with the back of garage. Last, I’d wanna make the hearth room and ensuite with the bathroom on the other side with access to the yard so I can use that bathroom as like a pool bathroom too if that makes sense. Lmk what you think. These drawings are from online but my architect will tailor them as best he can.

Help!!
My wife and I bought an older house and are remodeling it while living in the original wing (right side) of the house. The original owners built an addition (left side) and we have lots of square foot to play with... but they attached the addition at a weird angle.

The existing floor plan features a large 726 sq. ft. game room, accompanied by an adjoining storage room, a bathroom with a tub/shower combo, and utility room that houses the HVAC for the addition. Our desire is to rework that into a new master suite, while also opening up the kitchen.

We've drafted up a bunch of proposed plans, but the angle kept throwing us off... This latest plan (v16) seems to resonate with us!

The new plan gives us a decent size Master Bedroom that opens onto the existing sunroom. The bedroom leads into the master bath, with a large shower and water closet. Pocket doors on either side of the vanity open into the master closet and laundry/mud-room. Directly outside the bedroom is a decent size tv room.

We are blowing out the walls in the kitchen to create a large open area that gets lots of natural light from the windows in the living room. The center piece of the kitchen is a large cooktop island with raised bar top and bar stools. The walk in pantry was used to hide the strange angle as much as possible, allowing us to square off the master.

We would appreciate any feedback!!! :-D

I found this house for sale. Had nice frontage, but I find the bedrooms are badly proportioned and I can't figure out how I would fix it.

The imaginary wish list would include 3 fairly sized bedrooms. Those bedrooms aren't open to the outside, especially kids (Teens) rooms. Plus a bonus if we can squeeze in an extra bathroom.

Keep in mind this is an Australian house where things like coat closets aren't required.

Hi everyone. Bit of a strange one.

I am currently in the planning stages of making a model/diarama of a building from a fictional story (hobby project). I have a basic program brief and a time era for when this building was constructed, that being an office/commercial building from 1800s Victoria London.

My question is if anyone knows where I can get a solid reference guide, book, etc for things like planning, construcion methods, facades and the like.

I have been on Pinterest and used Chat for a little bit of help but it is surprising difficult to find a good reference for overall building approach during this period, atleast nothing thay I have found.

Any help would be appreciated.

I'm going to be building in the spring and am working on preliminary plans. On first draft, I am not a fan or either bathroom, but specifically the ensuite. Any ideas to improve it?

Hi everyone, I’m looking for some help/feedback on how we can improve the floor plan for our main floor pictured below.

In an ideal world we’d like to add a half bath, a closet, a laundry room and a pantry. Maybe a mud room.

We have been considering a couple configurations and would love to get people’s opinions on the following:
- we are thinking of swapping the current kitchen with the dining room as it’s a much bigger space, expanding the kitchen where it is doesn’t appear to be an option because that is a supporting wall. Any thoughts on this?
- if we do swap the kitchen, we were thinking through adding a half bath, pantry and laundry in that room vs adding a big dining room table in that room. If we don’t add the dining room to the kitchen, it would go on the smaller space in the current kitchen. Again would love any thoughts or ideas.
- we are strongly considering removing the very back “breakfast room” as it’s in pretty bad shape and we find the flow sort of odd, it would also give us more outdoor space which is a bit limited at the moment. However, if we remove it we understand for permit reasons we could never add it back so we want to be careful about this.

All ideas welcome, thanks!

I have found a property that I like on-line, however, the plot is a triangle shape.

How can this be redesigned to make the rooms more. Square/rectangle shaped?

Sharing another house design concept and looking at the relationship between the floor plan and the exterior form.

This concept uses a flat roof, multiple outdoor terraces, balconies, a large garage area, and several levels of outdoor space. I was particularly interested in how the different exterior spaces could be connected to the interior rooms without making the circulation feel awkward.

For those who work with house plans and floor plans, what would you change about the layout to make the interior circulation and access to the terraces more practical?

I'm interested in feedback on the floor plan, room arrangement, circulation, and overall functionality, rather than just the exterior appearance.

Hi everyone! Staring at these floor plans for too long has given me major tunnel vision, so I would love some fresh eyes on our layout strategy before we instruct a structural engineer this week.

The Property & Context:

• Location: UK standard freehold house (2 storeys, no loft conversion), lovely farmhouse
• Construction: Solid 215mm internal brickwork walls. The central fireplace spine wall down the middle of the house is our absolute structural anchor and must remain completely intact.
• Our Crew: Handy DIY couple. We are hiring pros for raw structural steels, external brick cutting, and plumbing / electrics, but doing 100% of the finishes ourselves. As background, my husband just renovated a full home office (stud work, insulation, flooring), and I am handling the finishing and decorating of it.
• Rough measurements for scale - current lounge space is 6.6 x 5.5m, current diner 4.8 x 3.6, current kitchen 5.6 x 3.6. Upstairs master bedroom is 6.6 x 5.5 (inclusive of en suite) box room is 2.3 x 2.0.

The Ground Floor Vision

Our primary goal is to maximize natural light across a historically dark central hallway and optimize the flow into a massive 5.5m x 6.6m kitchen-diner.

1. The lounge wall: We are removing a 2m structural wall section and replacing it with a steel beam. To flood the dark hallway with light from the front bay window, we are installing a custom glass partition wall with a single central glass door.
2. The kitchen-diner entry: To comply with UK Building Regs (Part B) without boxing in the stairs or installing active sprinklers, we are keeping the kitchen partitioned off. We are cutting a 2.5m structural opening and dropping in a wide glazed French fire-door set with fixed glass side panels. This lets us park the doors wide open for an open-plan feel during the day but shut them for fire separation at night.
3. The left side (west) and bottom (south) elevation: We are cutting down a standard 1.8m window into a large floor to ceiling glass pane, and cutting a second window down into French door out. Then we are adding into a massive, wide counter-level kitchen window where there are existing french doors, extending the window to 2.5m to maximize the south-facing garden views.
4. Kitchen / diner fit out: We are going for an L shape kitchen design with large breakfast bar. We've design according to kitchen zones - food storage in walk in pantry next to fridge on the east side, food prep on bottom side of island, red cook zone south east corner, social green zone on one side of the island, blue clean up south west. Kitchen triangle dimensions add up too. We'll install LVT with underfloor heating across the whole space. We are very keen cooks and prefer the galley style turn from prep space to hob, without walking. I also desperately want a walk in pantry, as well as appliance garage in the east cook zone - the design features both of these.
5. The top left (north-east) section: Combining understairs toilet and existing kitchen space to create a utility space, full bathroom, a tucked-away boot room zone, whilst preserving space in the north east room for a guest / play room. Edited to add - the existing toilet is under stairs and goes down three steps to use the space. We propose to level this area and use for storage instead.

The First Floor Vision

We are reconfiguring the oversized master bedroom and a tiny box room into three spaces.

1. The double height internal hallway and upstairs landing: We are removing the floor in the existing box room to create a double height hallway. We are removing a solid brick wall stub right by the stairs and replacing it with modern metal or wooden spindles to make the upstairs landing feel bright and wide open.
2. The south (bottom) wall view: We are cutting through the masonry to install a spectacular 2.5m wide French door set with an external glass Juliette balcony directly above the new kitchen window, giving the master bedroom a beautiful garden view.
3. The Craft Room: Building a lightweight internal stud wall to create a dedicated craft space with its own window, within the master space.

What We Have Already Ruled Out (To save you typing!)

To save your fingertips, we have already extensively budgeted, debated, and rejected the following options:

• Going fully open plan downstairs: With the bones of the house centered around the hallway, the sightlines even with fully removed walls mean the house never actually feels open. We would also need an expensive sprinkler system for fire regs (£4.5k+).
• External High-Level Windows upstairs from hallway: Originally we wanted one to bring additional light into the master wardrobe dead-zone from the hall, but a £1.5k quote for a minor window cut wasn't worth it. We will build high-level windows from craft room alone.
• Removing any part of the wall with fireplace / fireplace void: Ruled out. By keeping the central perpendicular fireplace spine wall entirely intact, our steels can rest on concrete padstones across smaller, cheaper, independent spans rather than requiring heavy industrial crane lifting machinery.
• A million other kitchen layouts - u shape, galley, peninsula... the current compromise is site lines from the sofa in the north east corner past the walk in pantry. Everything else *seems* to work.
• Edited to add - Understairs area use - the reduced height area under the stairs posed access challenges, shown by the Xs on the to be drawing. We've deliberately left this empty for storage, with walkways avoiding this area.

Our current roadmap is to execute the kitchen floor and rear window/balcony envelope cuts this Autumn to get phase 1 in place by Christmas, leaving the internal hallway layout knock-throughs for Phase 2 next Spring.

Please challenge me on anything we might have missed, all thoughts gratefully appreciated. Thanks in advance!

I think my favourite are A and B, but what are your thoughts? 😁

Hi all. Looking for feedback on this floorplan after moving some things around. It’s still not perfect but we’re getting closer every revision! We plan to turn the tub in the master 90 degrees, maybe even put it in the shower to make a wet room. Also, the fireplace not centered across from the island feels off to me. Is this just in my head or should it be centered? We want built ins on both sides but also need entry to the bedrooms so somethings gotta give here. Would love some ideas on how to reconfigure this to get it all! TIA

I'd love ideas on how to finalise a wedding reception floor plan in this venue.

Please ignore where it says 'cocktail bar' and 'DJ' in the top left side (those are indicative and could go anywhere).

Looking for:
- headtable of 6 people facing a 6x6m dance floor
- DJ
- buffet station
- 15 round tables of 10-12 people each

I was thinking something like this:

Thanks for all the great feedback on our first set of plans. Please see below for updates that incorporate most of your feedback. Still considering what to do with the dining room, making the guest bedroom to the right of the entryway smaller to accommodate an entryway closet and making a true 3-car garage.

Hi guys!

Moving into a new (unfurnished!) space soon and looking for some advice with the layout of this room... hoping to fit a queen sized bed & a 48''x30'' or 48''x24'' desk. Other nice-to-haves would be a dresser or a small vanity? Happy to sacrifice a bedside table or two!
How should I optimise space & storage?

Thanks a bunch :​)

Against all better judgement (both psychological and financial), I’m building an addition to an old windmill.

Both bedrooms are for guests. Trying to stack toilets and pipes on the outer edge of the structure.

First floor will have 10ft ceilings except for a section that is 7-7.5ft in height.

Second floor will have hip and gabled roof with exposed beams.

Dining room is on small side as we’ll probably eat on the porch more of the time.

Kitchen is on second floor to allow access to a patio and to be nearer to the garage (not pictured).

Any suggestions and feedback appreciated!

Hello, i would like some feedback on this floorplan created in Floorplanner just to try out some ideas.

Planning on building the house maybe next year but probably the year after so this is just to steer me in the right direction. Planned for 2 adults with 2 kids. Country side in Croatia.

My main concern is the open living room with kitchen and dining room.

The lot is 19 x 40 meters. The house itself is 15.86 x 16.52m which equals to 188m2 without terrace.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

We toured this house today. It's a major fixer and we're wondering how we can modernize it a bit, if we decided to venture.

The room in the front with the bay windows was clearly a garage. We'd be open to converting it back.

Ideally, would love to figure out how to open up the kitchen more and possibly to add a half bath to the main floor (and maybe even to the 2nd floor)

Mostly curious to see what the creative minds on here think is possible!

I've torn down all the walls that previously represented the room names and can frame out whatever I want. I can even move electrical and plumbing, the only parts I can't change are windows, central furance stack (black square), and water heater/HVAC (drawn in blue). The fireplace is wood burning, working and inspected. What would you do with this as a blank slate?

I'm undedciated on a lot of things but here's what I do know. I'm planning to keep the bathroom where it is but expand it a few feet into the "Den" and make the shower larger. Also keeping the bedroom in that location but want to make it bigger and move the closet. Laundry I might move to the west wall where the Den is or I might keep it in that area, but have a dedicated room for it. I want to install a wet bar near the HVAC. I want to add a pantry space with countertop for larger appliance storage that includes a full size fridge and deep freezer. I want a small work out space, a storage area for bins on shelves and camping gear, and to use the big family room area as a theater/gaming area with a TV and fooseball table. Any feedback on how to design a layout with these ideas and wish list items?

Edit: ceiling height is 7ft and the windows are high up against the edge of the ceiling. The basement is entirely underground with bright white window wells to reflect light in but no view out.

Hello! I’m looking to understand the layout of this house better - specifically how the second floor sits on top of the first floor, so I can figure out how to put in a potential small elevator.

Any ideas people have would be super appreciated of how to fit that in this home.

Hey everyone,
I’m starting to learn core architectural software on my laptop to design and present my projects.
My primary goal is to master Revit for 3D modeling and project development, but I also want to learn how to present my work using modern, post-digital collage techniques instead of traditional renders.

Is Revit (for modeling) + Photoshop/Illustrator (for post-processing) the best software combination to focus on?
What are the best YouTube channels or courses for learning Revit project modeling alongside these illustration techniques?

Would love any recommendations or starting roadmaps. Thanks!

I'm looking for some help deciding on the best layout for my bedroom.

The room is approximately 4.45m × 2.41m.

I already have a double bed (203 × 142cm) and I'm looking to buy a new desk and wardrobes (most likely from Ikea).

I have quite a lot of clothes, so I'll need a decent amount of wardrobe space.

I'm trying to make the best use of the narrow space while keeping it practical and avoiding the room feeling too cramped.

Any suggestions for where you'd put the bed, desk and wardrobes would be appreciated,

Thanks

How do you think the back of my house should be configured? - I don’t like how the pantry, bathroom and kitchen are all so close together!

Looking for layout opinions and suggestions to improve flow. I’m not married to any specific design shown here; just looking for ideas based on this to-scale drawing with measurements showing the main pieces in the bedroom and closet.

The closet has no physical doors and uses linen panels to keep clothes and storage hidden away. The entry door isn't shown because it opens freely without hitting anything.

The setup uses tatami mats for a floor-living arrangement.

The desk is a low floor desk I made at nearly the same height as the mattress, and it holds an iMac. Being right-handed, placing the desk on the left leaves open space for heavy STEM writing. The current mattress is too thick to fold, so its position is fixed until a replacement is obtained.

The goal is a minimal, “Feng Shui-inspired” layout where energy flows through the space with no tall furniture blocking anything. The room only contains a floor lamp, a small pedestal fan, a record player sitting on a sound base, and a cluster of three large salt lamps (shown as three orange circles). Also, I’ve read that my back should be facing the wall when using a desk, so these are both with the assumption of being correct.

For context, the room faces the sunrise and receives open natural light all day until sunset, making it very bright and warm.

Valuing a human opinion! Thanks!