Hi, sjb007.
Thank you for the feedback. The place isn't all together to my taste either as I've been designing it for a friend who seems to have a more American-Mid-Century-Modern kind of taste whereas I prefer an American-Tudor-Revival, Old-Japanese-Farmhouse kind of thing.
To be completely honest, I had this long reply all ready to go last night, thought I had posted it before shutting my computer down not realizing that I hadn't. While working on that reply post, I was also working on the house and trying to come up with a bit of a workaround based on your feedback while also adding the roof and chimneys. I'm still not finished with the house as I haven't added outside lighting, walkways, patio space, and the driveway.
I'm not sure how well I did, but my friend thinks it looks good from the outside. I wanted to put in skylight shafts (?) to let light in from the roof but couldn't figure out how to in the program, so I went with what you'll see below.
Aerial 1 shows most of the front of the house. As you can see I've got the roof on, and there's a... I'm not sure of the right terminology for it... a "bump out" in the roof over the Office with a row of fixed windows to let some natural light in. Here's what the Office looks like from inside next to the door. I moved the builtin desks to the other side, making it more of a corner piece with more shelving above. I unfortunately had to take out one of the armchair sets as well as the lamp tables, to make room for the exterior door into the Garage. I've also added a door out of the Garage onto the Front Porch. Here's a picture inside the Garage, minus the vehicles, showing the new doors as well as the fact that I took out two of the windows. Long story: the house that my friend found for sale actually didn't have a garage, and it was something that I had added in the my original design. I personally am for natural light as well, and I added so many windows to the garage like I've done normally with my other designs. I've included the listing of the house that was for sale, as a point of reference for all that I came up with.
Aerial 2 shows one side of the house and the back. As you can see I put in some picture windows around the fireplace in the Family Room, as I took out that huge entertainment center and replaced it with a smaller fireplace. Here's what the Family Room looks like from the Hallway. Also, that area at the end of the corridor is a cat door near the floor out into the "Catio" - a screened in area for any cats to go out and enjoy the outdoors but within a limited space - and the little picture window so that someone could look out into the "Catio" to enjoy watching the cats enjoying themselves.
There's also another "bump out" that's over Bedroom 1 as well as an exterior door added to it. I was able to add that door by shortening the room's closet. Since the room is for a single person, he/she doesn't need as much closet space. Here's what Bedroom 1 looks like from the door. Not much light was coming in through those windows so high up but it was the closest I could come up with.
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