Re: "What If" New Home, Old Lot

by AeowynFraser » Wed Mar 06, 2019 10:16 pm

I think Mike53 is correct, that I'm likely to never actually be finished with any of my designs, and here's another example of that. [:))] I went back and made a few adjustments to both of these houses. And I've got a large number of pictures included.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/k3l2kdwhq ... .sh3d/file
One-story

http://www.mediafire.com/file/69x9lg8iv ... .sh3d/file
Two-story (second version)

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For the one-story version, I made three basic changes. First, I took out the angled shelving in the hallway, added a couple of walls to cover that and then used that space for extra storage in my bedroom. Secondly, I moved the toilet in the Main Bathroom from the wall between the sink and bath to the opposite wall (also with swapping the towel rack), more like in the Master Bathroom. Finally, on the outside I took out the mailbox post and put it on the wall between the garage and porch area.

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Level 0 floor plan

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My Bedroom. Not only did I rearrange the furniture, I also added a sewing machine and the "rug" is actually the plastic cutting board that I use for my sewing. [:D]

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Main Bathroom.

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Outside front views. I also added some extra lighting on the porch.

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Now for the two-story version (the second version of it), with more than just a few changes.

(1) I took out the back porch. Kind of silly, yes, but remember that one of the conditions was that we had more backyard space for gardening; in my opinion the porch was taking up garden-usable space, so out it went.

(2) I thought that the linen closet that I threw into the end of that hallway near my bedroom just seemed more like an afterthought instead of practical, so instead I took that out and expanded my bedroom; now my bedroom is almost as large as my roommates' room, and I gave myself a full size bed instead of the twin. I also added a window in my room where the linen closet had been.

(3) I took out the door between the Kitchen and the Laundry room, and put in a pantry there. (If you're wondering what those two black rectangles are next to the sink are, they're trash cans.)

(4) I removed one of the storage cabinets in the Laundry room and added a laundry sink as well as a floor drain.

(5) I removed one of the storage shelves in the garage and added a door to the remaining back porch area (the part that's under the roofing), which I'm using as an extra storage area (trash bin, recycling bins, green bin, and bicycles... and now that I think of it I could've put a grill on wheels there too).

(6) I've also made a few additional minor changes like: rearranged the living room furniture as well as moving the dining table closer to the living room area so that there's more room between the table and the storage, put a desk and bookshelf in the large stair area in the upstairs hallway, changed the storage in the main bathroom so that it has the glass doors instead of exposed shelving, changed the paint in my roommates' bedroom, mirrored the walk-in closet so that I could move that door, and switched out the round windows in the attic with triangular gable vents.

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Level 0 (Main floor) floor plan

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Level 1 (Top floor) floor plan

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Level 2 (Attic) floor plan

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Living Room/Dining Room

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Kitchen

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Laundry room

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Garage

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Upstairs hallway/stairwell

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Roommates' youngest son's bedroom. I didn't make any changes in this room but the lack of the back porch cover was visible from this room so that's why I included it.

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Main bathroom

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My bedroom

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Roommates' room

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Attic

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Front

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Back, and now that I'm looking at this, I should've added some sort of lighting in the backyard...

But there you go.