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Can't stand changing my mind daily, please help w/ upstairs plan!
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Posted by mchaney1 (My Page) on Thu, Nov 19, 09 at 7:15
| Marthaelena has drawn me a much better plan of our upstairs layout (thanks again!) and I have gone back and forth between the plans daily and now I need your help to make a final decision. I just can't stand making any more plan decisions. We should be applying for the permit to begin breaking ground in a few weeks and I just need to finalize things!
I like the first plan because it has a long bathroom and I thought I could put a door separating the sinks from the toilet/bath for my boys. But that plan limits closet space in the kids room and takes away one linen closet. I also don't know if boys would really care about that separation (we are not having any more kids).
Then I like plan 2 because of the walk in closets for the kids and the additional linen closet. It also give the boys bigger rooms. 11x17 vs. 11x15 in the rear and 13x13 vs 11x16 in the front. This plan also does not give me the separation in the bathroom and makes my laundry room smaller.
Please tell me what to do. I just need to decide and move on.
On the plan the front room next to the stairs is a laundry room and there will be windows on 2 adjacent walls the front bedroom and a 2 windows on the back in the rear bedroom.
Plan 1 is below
Plan 2 is below
The original upstairs plan is below:
Thanks again for everyone's help. We are almost there :-) |
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RE: Can't stand changing my mind daily, please help w/ upstairs p
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| Personally, I'd go with Plan 2. Bigger rooms are always a plus, and I seriously doubt your boys will care if there's a separation between the sinks and the shower (girls might be a different story). I think you'd said earlier this is your "forever" house, but you can't totally discount resale value! |
RE: Can't stand changing my mind daily, please help w/ upstairs p
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| I simply prefer plan 2; seems to me that it has more visual spaciousness. (I just don't care for staring a wall a few feet away when sitting...) Do consider which -if either- plan has enough space to make cleaning around the toilet easy instead of an acrobatic exercise. As one who lives with similar-to-plan A, I've learned that having more than 6" between commode and wall would have made life a lot easier, or else my arms need to be several inches longer :) |
RE: Can't stand changing my mind daily, please help w/ upstairs p
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| Might want to reconsider putting the bath on an outside wall for light and ventilation. I don't know why architects seldom think about this. I drew a floor plan that also gives you more closet space but I'm new to the Forum and don't know how to download it. |
RE: Can't stand changing my mind daily, please help w/ upstairs p
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| Could you email it to me.....mchaney1@gmail.com Thanks. |
RE: Can't stand changing my mind daily, please help w/ upstairs p
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| Did you get the email? If not, I'll try to learn how to download. |
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