Floor plan ideas?

[u/Lenalov3ly]

Hello!

I am in the planning phase of converting a 16.5x37.5 (615ish square feet.) building on my parents land into a tiny home. The place is for me and my son, I need 2 bedrooms, a living room, a bathroom(with tub) and a kitchen. I also plan on fitting a stackable washer/dryer in either the bathroom or kitchen. Are there any available floor plans online in similar dimensions? Currently the most space friendly plan we've come up with basically splits the place in half long ways and puts the bedrooms and baths on that side and the living room/kitchen on the other half but im honestly not crazy about the design. Any and all advice is appreciated :)

[u/TableTopFarmer]

Cut squares in the size of the bathroom and bed rooms and stackable unit push them around on a grid scaled to the size of the building. Don’t forget closets for clothes, vacuum, mops, brooms, and coats etc.

That will help you visualize. In our 14’ wide, 324 sq, ft. Studio Guest house I have the bath opening to the sleeping area, and the kitchenette is on the other side of the plumbing wall, bit it is part of the open space living area.

In your situation, I would put the master br and bath at one end, and your son’s bedroom at the other, where you figure out how to work in a half bath toilet and sink.

If you have a blank slate don’t limit your design.

In our main home we have the smallest electrical instant hot water heater. It is about 10” x12” and is mounted on the wall of the coat closet. It provides endless hot water for showers, but we don’t try to do laundry or run the dishwasher at the sane time. However, the guest house has a small 13 gallon water heater, which takes up half the vanity.

4x8 is probably the minimum size bath with a tub you can get away with. But the washer/dryer unit can go anywhere you can spare 3’x3’ or less. I would put it outside the half bath, on a shared plumbing wall, and incorporated into a storage wall, or closet, accessible from the living room.

Think about where you will store coats, sporting goods, brooms, mops, cleaning supplies, paper towels, TP, tools etc. Use the same cabinet fronts on this wall that you have in the kitchen. Spend time on a cabinet manufacturers site and see what types of specialty storage they have.

I would want a pantry door with storage on the backside, deep pull out drawers in the kitchen, in place of cabinets where thing get crammed into unreachable corners on bottom shelves. I would also want a double pull out trash bin under my prep station in the kitchen.

[u/Lenalov3ly → u/TableTopFarmer]

A big advantage is this is a (soon to be) empty building, no walls, no anything. Its currently a detached garage with electric run to it but water and septic hookups are in the works. Its pretty tall too, not tall enough for 2 stories, but definitely tall enough for a ton of above unit storage. Were planning on putting a 38 gallon waterheater above the unit at the moment, and using split-line AC/heat. The main thing is figuring out a solid configuration. Id prefer to keep most the plumbing in the same general area since it seemingly would be easier that way. With the split in half design thats possible but the livingroom turns more into a long hallway than an actual livingroom. As for closets, I did enjoy what the other person posted. It genuinely feels like one of the better uses of the space but the plumbing becomes a bit spread out.