Yesterday, I lastly determined that I wanted some outdoors skilled assist. I made a decision to rent an inside designer to assist me with area planning for our home. I’ve been taking a look at our ground plan for therefore lengthy now that I do know I’ve developed some form of tunnel imaginative and prescient, blinding me from potential potentialities that my mind is not going to permit me to see.
I’ve been excited about and enjoying round with ground plan concepts for our home since at the least 2015, which was two years after we purchased this home. The earliest ground plan thought I may discover on the weblog was in this post from September 2015 (virtually 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 concept to show the storage into my studio, and earlier than we added the carport. So I’ve been excited about our ground plan for at the least 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 massive errors. It’s that tunnel imaginative and prescient that will get me in bother. I might imagine that I’m contemplating the entire potentialities, however as a result of my thoughts is in hyperdrive, I do know that I’m not pondering 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 reside in Waco, Texas. I feel I discovered a complete of three licensed inside designers in Waco, and to be fairly trustworthy (and I’m not attempting to be imply right here), none of them impressed me.
One is a reputation you’ll in all probability know in the event you watched that present I discussed in yesterday’s put up. 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 extra centered on industrial design. And the third one simply didn’t impress me. The remainder of them have been decorators, house stagers, contractors, and residential shops that declare to supply design companies (in all probability not the form of design companies that I’m on the lookout for). So despite the fact that 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 already know our home higher than any designer would. what it seems like. You know the way we use the totally different areas. You know the way the rooms stream collectively. So present me what you’ve bought! Present me your area planning expertise.
I do know so a lot of you could have supplied enter within the remark sections of earlier posts, however I’m a really visible individual, and typically these written feedback are onerous to comply with, perceive, and visualize. And when there’s a number of written feedback with numerous strategies, my visible thoughts tends to get overwhelmed and confused. So if you wish to share your concepts, I wish to truly see them drawn out on a ground plan.
Right here’s what our ground plan seems like proper now. I eliminated the tiny lavatory 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 lavatory, hallway lavatory, music room, and kitchen within the ground plan beneath is the precise unique again wall of the home. It’s completely load-bearing, and any of these areas will 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 need to use a photograph modifying software program to make modifications on-line after which e-mail it to me.
I’m genuinely all in favour of your concepts. I do know a number of of you might be VERY good at this, and I would like to have the ability to truly see your concepts on a ground plan quite than attempt to envision your concepts primarily based on a written remark. Listed here are the issues to remember…
Right here’s what we want:
- A main bedroom hooked up to the present grasp lavatory. 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 good 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 at the least three items of exercise tools (48-inch rebounder, small treadmill, and Matt’s Theracycle).
- A spot for a eating desk and at the least 4 chairs, ideally expandable to eight chairs if wanted.
- A spot for Matt’s recliner the place he can sit and watch TV in the course of the day. I’ve to have the ability to entry one facet of the recliner (doesn’t matter which facet) 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 might 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 will be introduced in) comfortably. Proper now, we use our entrance front room, and we have now to maneuver the couch again each week, and I’d quite not proceed doing that.
- A visitor bed room.
- A full lavatory that’s handy to the visitor bed room and can be utilized for normal friends.
Additionally notice:
- We might want to add onto the home to slot in all the things we want. That’s apparent. However I’d quite keep away from the large addition. Including on some area as wanted is ok. Including on the equal of our whole first house in Oregon isn’t wonderful.
- 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 will be eliminated fully with no cased opening required.
- The whole lot must be accessible for Matt, which suggests no zigzagging visitors patterns.
- The music room is probably the most used room in the home and might’t have any furnishings in the course of the room. That’s the place I switch Matt to his wheelchair with the Hoyer elevate, and that room works completely for that objective 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!
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and enhance the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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