Yesterday, I lastly determined that I wanted some exterior skilled assist. I made a decision to rent an inside designer to assist me with area planning for our home. I’ve been our ground plan for therefore lengthy now that I do know I’ve developed some kind of tunnel imaginative and prescient, blinding me from potential prospects that my mind is not going to permit me to see.
I’ve been fascinated with and taking part in round with ground plan concepts for our home since a minimum of 2015, which was two years after we purchased this home. The earliest ground plan thought I might discover on the weblog was on this submit from September 2015 (nearly precisely 9 years in the past) the place I proposed this design for an addition to incorporate a brand new main bedroom, laundry room, and household room.
That was earlier than I had the thought to show the storage into my studio, and earlier than we added the carport. So I’ve been fascinated with our ground plan for a minimum of 9 years, however these final couple of months, my thoughts has been in overdrive like by no means earlier than. And when my thoughts goes into overdrive and received’t settle down, that’s once I know I may very well be heading proper into some huge errors. It’s that tunnel imaginative and prescient that will get me in bother. I might imagine that I’m contemplating the entire prospects, however as a result of my thoughts is in hyperdrive, I do know that I’m not considering clearly, and I’m in all probability method overcomplicating issues.
So I made a decision that I wanted an inside designer to assist me with area planning, and I spent about 45 minutes on-line looking for somebody to assist me. The issue? I stay in Waco, Texas. I feel I discovered a complete of three licensed inside designers in Waco, and to be fairly sincere (and I’m not attempting to be imply right here), none of them impressed me.
One is a reputation you’d in all probability know should you watched that present I discussed in yesterday’s submit. I haven’t heard something about her in in all probability a decade, and her web site hasn’t been up to date in years. One other one appeared to be extra targeted on business design. And the third one simply didn’t impress me. The remainder of them have been decorators, dwelling stagers, contractors, and residential shops that declare to supply design companies (in all probability not the form of design companies that I’m searching for). So though I used to be prepared to rent somebody to assist me, there actually doesn’t appear to be anybody to rent on this space. That’s a draw back of residing in a small-ish metropolis.
So I made a decision to place this problem to you. A lot of you understand our home higher than any designer would. You realize what it appears to be like like. You know the way we use the totally different areas. You know the way the rooms movement collectively. So present me what you’ve bought! Present me your area planning expertise.
I do know so lots of you’ve got provided enter within the remark sections of earlier posts, however I’m a really visible individual, and generally these written feedback are exhausting to observe, perceive, and visualize. And when there’s a variety of written feedback with numerous ideas, my visible thoughts tends to get overwhelmed and confused. So if you wish to share your concepts, I need to truly see them drawn out on a ground plan.
Right here’s what our ground plan appears to be like like proper now. I eliminated the tiny toilet and the sunroom since these are going to be torn down it doesn’t matter what. So what you see because the again wall of the grasp toilet, hallway toilet, music room, and kitchen within the ground plan under is the precise unique again wall of the home. It’s completely load-bearing, and any of these areas might be an exterior wall.
So if you wish to showcase your area planning chops, you may print off that image, draw on it, scan or take an image of your concepts, after which e mail it to me. Or you should use a photograph modifying software program to make adjustments on-line after which e mail it to me.
I’m genuinely enthusiastic about your concepts. I do know a number of of you’re VERY good at this, and I would like to have the ability to truly see your concepts on a ground plan slightly than attempt to envision your concepts based mostly on a written remark. Listed below are the issues to bear in mind…
Right here’s what we’d like:
A main bedroom connected to the present grasp toilet. I actually love the entrance nook room as our main bedroom as a result of it’s the brightest room in the home within the morning and the best room in the home all through the day.
A big grasp closet. But when the entrance nook room is our main bedroom, the closet CANNOT be within the bed room. That is non-negotiable. I can’t have closets consuming up any area in that bed room if that room goes for use as our bed room.
A laundry room, which has to have room for a scorching water heater.
A exercise space that may maintain a minimum of three items of exercise tools (48-inch rebounder, small treadmill, and Matt’s Theracycle).
A spot for a eating desk and a minimum of 4 chairs, ideally expandable to eight chairs if wanted.
A spot for Matt’s recliner the place he can sit and watch TV throughout the day. I’ve to have the ability to entry one aspect of the recliner (doesn’t matter which aspect) with Matt’s Hoyer elevate to place him into the chair.
And right here’s what I wish to have. Whereas these aren’t necessities, I’d very very like to work them in if attainable:
A pantry off of the kitchen.
A bigger household room that may seat as much as 15 folks (chairs might be introduced in) comfortably. Proper now, we use our entrance front room, and we’ve to maneuver the couch again each week, and I’d slightly not proceed doing that.
A visitor bed room.
A full toilet that’s handy to the visitor bed room and can be utilized for normal company.
Additionally word:
We might want to add onto the home to slot in all the pieces we’d like. That’s apparent. However I’d slightly keep away from the large addition. Including on some area as wanted is okay. Including on the equal of our complete first dwelling in Oregon isn’t effective.
I’m open to the kitchen staying proper the place it’s, so a brand new kitchen addition isn’t a requirement.
The wall between the present breakfast room and pantry isn’t load bearing, doesn’t have any electrical in it, and might be eliminated fully with no cased opening required.
Every part needs to be accessible for Matt, which suggests no zigzagging visitors patterns.
The music room is probably the most used room in the home and may’t have any furnishings in the midst of the room. That’s the place I switch Matt to his wheelchair with the Hoyer elevate, and that room works completely for that goal simply as it’s.
Utilizing my studio for a exercise space isn’t an possibility. My studio is my studio.
Matt doesn’t need or want a gaming room or space.
I feel that’s all the data. Now present me what you’ve bought! Let me see your area planning expertise and the way you’d match all of this into our present ground area with a little bit of area added on. If you wish to ship me your ground plan thought, my e mail is [email protected]. I’m excited to see what y’all give you!
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