Any thoughts on this floor plan I can’t decide!!

Threw this together the other night, never made my own floorplan before so any feedback on how to possibly make it better would be greatly appreciated! I know some of the measurements are off like the window for the bathroom, I just couldn't get the window size to adjust.

I’m trying to make my bed feel more separate from the seating area. Right now, the bed is only a couple feet behind the futon, so I feel awkward having friends over because I don’t want people sitting on my bed. I also would like to keep the area somewhat private.

Some things to consider:
* I’m a college engineering student and spend a lot of time at my desk.
* I really like my current desk location because I can see outside while I work, so I’d prefer not to lose that.
* I can’t screw or nail anything into the walls.
* The foot of the bed is close to the kitchen entrance, so a room divider in front of it would block the walkway.
* Rotating the bed 90° would mean moving the desk and losing my view outside.
* The apartment is mostly carpeted.

I’m considering a folding room divider, but I’m not sure where it could go without blocking a walkway.

The empty-room photos are of a similar unit, just flipped. My support beam is also much closer to the walls than shown.

Any ideas for rearranging the space or creating more separation? Or should I just accept that I shouldn’t have guests over lol.

What do you think about the entry? Planning to make this a two story to save back yard on this 55' wide lot. It's only 1090sqft to start. So many in the neighborhood just end up having a useless front living room and major living space in back as the add on. I only need one living room, so it's been turned into a functional laundry/mudroom, but does this make sense? One car garage. A bit odd but maybe still the best option?

I’m planning a renovation to my house in Portland and would love some outside opinions on how you’d approach the layout.

The yellow-highlighted area is the area I’m looking to renovate. My primary goal is to make the backyard much more accessible from the living room and, especially, to be able to see the backyard from the living room. I’m considering moving the laundry to the basement, opening up/reconfiguring the area between the living room and hallway, and adding a large sliding glass door to the backyard. I’ve also thought about French or pocket doors to create a better sightline.

A secondary goal would be making the primary bedroom (Bedroom 2) a little larger. I realize this could make the renovation substantially more complicated since it would involve moving/removing walls, but I’m open to ideas. I also wouldn’t necessarily mind having the space between the bedroom and backyard become part of the primary bedroom if someone sees a layout that makes sense.

The backyard connection is definitely the priority; enlarging the bedroom would just be a nice bonus.
One clarification about the floor plan: the small typed notes are from renovations that were completed after a fire. Those changes have already been done and represent the house as it exists today. The yellow highlighting shows the area I’m considering changing now.

If this were your house, how would you redesign this space? I’m particularly interested in ideas I haven’t thought of!

First plan is 1550 sq ft. Second plan is 1507 sq ft.

I would like pros and cons for both, as well as any suggestions on edits. I’m struggling with not being able to see this in person.

We will have a full finished walk-out basement with additional 2 bedrooms and bathroom, plus large living area.

We know everyone hates houses like this but we have a big family and love to host. Please give us all your feedback, good or bad!

We have draft plans for an addition off our existing 2 bdrm/1 bath home. Any feedback on what is proposed?

Title (metric system measurements)

Hello! I created this floorplan nearly 2 years ago and received a lot of great feedback on Reddit, some asinine comments (ex: this is unlivable, hire an architect, etc), but it resulted in a few revisions before ultimately getting buildable plans drawn up.

That said, I have these back with the architect for final changes for some very minor stuff, like noticing an outlet in a weird place on one unit, side driveway not meeting 20ft minimum width required by zone, or adding an architectural element called a shadow line (also required by zone). Is there anything I'm missing? Any obvious concerns from your experience living in a similar home layout? Dining table is separated from breakfast table / kitchen by a glass wall to let light through but keep the kitchen smells in the kitchen and keep noise isolated a bit between the two sides. Bottom is south-facing, and all 4 units are identical/reversed.

Included a pic of all 4 units to show how they share an ICF wall.

Hey folks - I have a great ranch home in NC and need more space for my family. Looking for thoughts and constructive feedback on a design I have to do the following work below. Note that the existing house ends right at the load bearing wall removal on family room to provide context, everything plan south of that line is existing.

- add new master suite
- add en suite bathroom to existing bedroom
- expand main family room
- expand kitchen and full gut and remodel
- add wet bar (currently outdoor utility room for hot water heater and hvac)
- add laundry room
- new patio and outdoor fireplace

Thanks!

Thinking of building a house from scratch. Max 70sqm for foundation. What do you think of this plan?

I know it's weird but first time ever trying anything like that.

Yellow is for lights and tried to implement some other stuff in there too.

I am possibly missing a laundry and a pantry.

Orange thing is supposed to be a masonry heater.

I'd really appreciate all feedback.

Hey all - I am new here, and have this super funky apartment layout… it feels very light and airy in here while staying cozy which is nice, and I’d like to maintain that, so would prefer not to close spaces off where avoidable.

I have spent so much time thinking this through and am a bit stumped… furniture desired is as follows:

- WFH desk (140x70cm) and chair
- Couch (196cm long)
- carpet (280x180cm)
- TV (55in) and stand (possibly mobile?)
- small (circular?) dining table or bar table and chairs (4?)
- ideally an armchair/fauteil for reading
- plants!

The kitchen area kinda cuts off between the fridge and the stove as seen on the image, and there is a 50cm dividing wall handing from the ceiling so the space does feel segregated. The fridge can also be moved to sit beside the stove if needed without problems.

I hope this is not too low-effort, but I am a bit at my wit’s end! Help me out? :)

Hey all, thank you for your input on my last post. I was able to squeeze another 3ft of width into the floor plan and spent some time trying to figure out ways to break up my bowling alley. Here's my latest version, I think it has some major improvements.

1. Increased the width of the living, kitchen and dining areas by 3ft
   
2. Created a hallway/corridor for the entrance to the garage that breaks up the living room/dining room areas. I'm not opposed to reducing the corridor to only a single wall to gain some space back. Mainly want to support easy access to the kitchen when bringing in groceries etc.
3. Expanded the utility room to fit the W/D, water heater and electrical panel.

I'd love any input on the floorplan and what could be improved. I'm still aiming for a single slope roof with the low side to the south (see elevations).

My biggest debate now is the roof pitch and low wall (south side) starting height. At a 3:12 pitch starting at 8ft, the far wall (north side) would be 15ft. Is that going to create awkward spaces?

Living room being 14ft x 12.5ft and 15ft tall? I'd like to put clerestory windows along the high wall so there should be plenty of natural light.

Hey everyone, we are trying to work out a final plan for renovating our 3 bedroom Victorian terraced house in London, UK. The upstairs is (mostly!) planned, but we cannot work out how best to convert the downstairs and wanted to see what everyone here thinks! Myself and my partner have 2 kids, a 2 year old and a 4 year old so it has to be child friendly.

We currently have a connected sitting room/dining room at the front (that used to be 2 separate rooms) and then, down 3 steps in the hallway, into a kitchen at the back (with a very small garden behind the kitchen). We are looking to infill the side return to extend the size of the kitchen. We need to squeeze in a downstairs toilet. We would also ideally fit in a laundry/utility room downstairs, but if needed we can squeeze in the washer/dryer etc upstairs (but that would mean they would have to go in the main bathroom and we wouldn't have a dedicated laundry room which would be really useful with 2 kids).

We really want to fit a sitting area into the kitchen if at all possible so we can take more advantage of the garden, but we're not 100% sure how best to fit it all in (or if it can all fit), despite it being quite a large space. One issue we have is that on one side of our house is a not very nice commercial building that heavily overlooks us at the back so we have to limit high windows into the dining room and other high windows/skylights to avoid it feeling too overlooked.  

We would most likely either include 2 entrances into the kitchen, the existing one from the hallway and another one from the current dining room. Alternatively we would use part of the current dining room for a dedicated laundry room and downstairs toilet and just have one entrance into the kitchen from the hallway (this does then provide more usable space in the kitchen).

Attached are some layout mockups which are as follows:

- Pic 1: Current Ground Floor Layout

- Pic 2: Potential Kitchen Layout (retaining existing dining/sitting room with an additional entrance from dining room into kitchen)

- Pic 3: Potential Kitchen Layout Option 1 (replacing most of existing dining room with laundry/toilet and only having the existing entrance into the kitchen)

- Pic 4: Potential Kitchen Layout Option 2 (replacing most of existing dining room with laundry/toilet and only having the existing entrance into the kitchen) - we have included a sofa but this could be replaced with a dining table

- Pic 5: Proposed Ground Floor layout (if going with pic 3 or 4)

- Pic 6: If we go for pic 3 or 4 this shows the design/style for roughly how we would split the existing sitting room / dining room.

FYI in the kitchen plans, the units that have an 'x' on them would be low units, the others would be tall units.

Our current preference is Pic 3, does this kitchen seem big enough to everyone / does the layout makes sense to you all? Or do you think there is a better way to lay this all out?

Any suggestions/advice/thoughts would be greatly appreciated as we're going round in circles (we have a LOAD of other layouts but these seem to be the best ones!)

If you have any questions or anything is unclear then just let me know, thanks so much for your help in advance!

We are planning to make the rear of our house open plan.

We have 2 young children currently (age 4 and 2) but are aware in the future we might appreciate more privacy and defined areas of the house.

DOWNSTAIRS
The front room we plan to keep as a living room. However looking for good ideas on how to split up the rear large space of the house. We want to keep the downstairs bathroom and utility room. We are not against adding a larder or boot room etc.

UPSTAIRS
We are adding a master suite with plans for walk through wardrobe and into an en suite.
The previous small box room is being turned into the family bathroom.

Thanks all!

When we bought the house 6mths ago we liked the idea of simple renovation and having separate spaces.

However there is a lack of worktop space in the kitchen.

Knocking through and blocking up the kitchen door would allow an L shape kitchen and maybe small island. I think that would be the logical way to do it anyway?

Another issue is the electrics are all in the pantry marked C in the kitchen so that would have to remain.

Any opinions welcome as we spiral 😅

Hi folks,

I’m brainstorming what could be a new house on a specific lot. The house can be 25x40’ with an additional front porch. We want it to also have an ADU to rent out.

I used Planner5D to make this so because I’m using presets not everything is perfect, just to visualize the idea. Floor plan based heavily on Japanese LDK layouts that also separates the toilet, bathing room, and sink.

The living room with the couch on the ground floor is meant to be able to be a bedroom if needed for mobility reasons later in age. As is there is a floor sitting space and a tv living room on the ground floor.

Layout is meant for a couple, no kids, who like to entertain. Hence the 6 person sauna. Also an office each. There will be a basement too.

I know that I’ll need an architect for a real design to build but I’d like to get a sense if this type of layout in this sizing works. Most ~1200 SF plans don’t have a 3 bed 2 living room and sauna design so I’m wondering if everything is way too squished? I’m used to living in small city apartments so it seems reasonable? Thanks!

We’re considering doing an owners suite addition to our ranch. Currently our house is 3/1 1450 sq ft. The addition would bring our house to 4/2 a little over 1900 sq ft. We also have a 1150 sq ft basement but we prefer having the bedrooms and laundry on the main floor and need 4 bedrooms as our family grows.

I included a potential floor plan with the laundry and owners suite added. Does this seem like a good floor plan or does anyone have any ideas to make it better? Thanks!!

Hello all! I hope this is the right place to come for this, and I appreciate any help. I have a 1000 sq ft (25x40) home sitting on a basement with the same footprint. The basement is completely unfinished, bare walls, cement floor, no insulation other than in the ceiling between the joists. I would love to double the living space of my house by finishing it, but I'm definitely not an architect. Our house currently has 3 bedrooms (2 are quite small), 2 bathrooms (also small), a little laundry room/utility area, a kitchen, and a living room. I would love to add an additional bedroom that is larger, a decent size bathroom, a storage/possibly laundry area, and a large family room. I've attached what I have been able to come up with one my own for reference to where the stairs, windows, and ground level doors are. I have clustered the bathroom and laundry stuff where it is because that's where the plumbing currently is. Let me know how you would recommend I layout the space, and what changes you would make. Also note that their are 4 support beams evenly spaced going down the center, and the fireplace represents a wood stove that I have currently installed. Sorry for the long text, but I tried to include as much information as I could. Thanks for your help.

I want to have a pooja room. Where can I accommodate one

Any tips on how to eliminate this “wasted” space from the foyer into the living area. It feels like a walkway that has to remain open. I hate it. Help!!

Apologies for the crappy quality - made it on a free website and grabbed a screenshot.

Debating if some rooms are too big (en suite bathrooms, mechanical) or too small (tv, gym). Whole space is roughly 36’ across, 49’ depth (notch on the bottom right is 9x6)

Our priority list is an in law suite with en suite bathroom, an extra guest room with ensuite, tv area, open rec area (play area for kids, eventually a foosball or poool table and small game table), seasonal storage (lots xmas decor), gym, a half bath (debated nixing this but we may have a nanny in the future or a long term guest that we wouldn’t want to have to share about bathroom).

In law suite needs to be at the top near the external door. But everything else is flexible, I think. Not sure if mechanical has any limitations. Assume no issues with internal load bearing wills.

740 sqft house, fairly open concept, lots of windows and light virtually everywhere. 425sqft basement basically just a laundry room and storage, though I do have a 3d printing area down there.

Space efficiencies:

2nd bedroom is tiny, about 2x the size of a twin bed, so I got a bunk bed with a desk space below it.

I love my breakfast nook, its in a very bright area looking into the atrium/staircase and can seat 6 in a pinch.

I love the bar behind the kitchen sink, one of my good friends told me "no one is ever going to sit here" but I love to cook and its a great place for a guest to hangout while I'm cooking. I can also setup a laptop on the bar to watch while cooking.

Not sure why I wanted to post, just thought it was a cool/efficient usage of whats pretty much a tiny house.

It was originally built in 1925 for workers at a local smelter and was expanded over time, the original footprint was only around 325sqft if you can believe it: the kitchen area, the primary bedroom and the bathroom were the only interior areas (the staircase to the basement was originally exterior)