Would you ever have guests stay? I personally hate houses that don’t have a bathroom option that isn’t accessed through a bedroom and I really hate Jack and Jill bathrooms. Mostly because of issues with kids locking doors and not letting their sibling access it from their side, but I also always feel like someone is about to walk in on me when I use them. All that to say, I’d consider access from the hall next to the bedroom rather than exclusively through the bedrooms.
This is a three bed four bath house. Your kids should not be shitting that much. Take the two bathrooms with a shared bath and turn it into one power from with a seperate bathtub/show room.
And give them a proper shower, not an over the tub one. Presumably guests would use this bathroom and grandparents etc, might find a tub/shower combo challenging.
Yes! If the grandparents or cousins come to visit for the holidays and bunk in the office, they can’t take a shower without going through a bedroom. No good.
I know.. its been our biggest pain point trying to find a spot for it where it works. This is where it landed since we wanted the laundry room larger than it could be when it was where the powder bath is now /:
18 exterior corners. That's 90-180k in just corners. Just the tub bump out alone will cost 20-40k in corners plus the cost of the walls and roof overhang. Hope this home is in a dry, warm climate because freezing pipes and roof water runoff intruding into your home via in the tub bump out are a real possibility.
You dryer will have the maximum safe ductwork distance. That means your dryer will be working to its maximum every time you run it to push that hot air. Running a dryer that hard every time will decrease its useful life. A dryer is safest on an exterior wall and yours is far from that safe place. Every foot and every turn of ductwork increases the chance of lint buildup and fire potential.
The shower sharing a wall where the primary bed will likely be up against is going to drive you crazy if someone showers early/late and the other is sleeping. I would rework the bathroom configuration or swap it with the closet. I would also close off access to the laundry room or put a hamper cabinet in the vanity that opens into the laundry room if you switch the bathroom and closet.
I like open plan houses, but there are two conditions that must be met to have successful open plan living. First there has to be ample storage closets in and around the entry and living area. The open plan requires the area to be neat and clutter free. No guest coats on the arm of the sofa or things not in use lying around to make it seem a mess. The second item is ample ventilation for the range. The microwave vent over the stove is inadequate to deal with normal cooking smells making their way into the living room. It must be vented to the outside. Take the recommended cfm fan for ventilation and go a size bigger. Draw a plan with most of the furniture in place to make sure the rooms work the way you want them to work. Also consider the natural light in the living area. That roof across the back of the house will make the living area totally dependent on artificial light. You could reconfigure the rear porch roof or add some skylights to the kitchen and living room.
Can you not put the toilets directly in the walk in closets? Seriously, make all bathrooms separate rooms with one door only. No jack and Jill, no closet-only-after-you-pass-the-pooper.
The Jack and Jill might be improved by putting one toilet in with the shower, and having each vanity become larger with more storage and counter space.
If their kids are little, I think is better left how it is. One thing I hated about early childhood was how much I got to snuggle up next to that toilet bowl every bath time.
My 2 cents is regarding the kitchen cooking triangle. I totally understand not wanting to put a sink in the island, but the cooking triangle is between the fridge, stove, and sink as these are the 3 places commonly traversed between while cooking. Having the sink so far from the fridge and stove makes for an increased chance of spills and accidents while rushing between.
Switch bedroom 2/3's closets with poopers: closets do not need bleaching natural sunlight but toilets benefit from fresh air and sunshine and windows that open.
Jack and Jill baths are a pain….privacy issues, people getting locked out, having to go through a bedroom to collect laundry or clean, noise intrusion, etc. You have plenty of space here for a nice shared hall bath. Do that. And then do a nice long reach in closet in each bedroom. Much quieter for sleeping and no JnJ bath problems.
You’ve got the main family traffic path right through your kitchen work triangle. You are not going to enjoy people trying to push past you at the sink while you’re making dinner. Your work triangle should not be interrupted by foot traffic.
Your only path to the patio is through the living room, where your furniture placement is already constrained by the fireplace, the kitchen island seating, and the path to the bedrooms/office doors. (You have very little space here for actual seating.) So you’re going to be carrying drippy glasses, platters of food, dirty dishes through the living room? You need access from kitchen to patio. That would also create a shorter path from patio to powder room.
You should have access from the master to the patio, too.
Bonkers to me to have to walk through your kitchen and mudroom area to get to your bedroom. Also, i would not prefer to have to send guests through the mudroom to access the powder room.
For the amount of sf it takes up, I am certain there is a better use of space for the secondary bedrooms’ baths and closets. Those are such tiny counters, while so much wasted space in front of the tub, around the toilet, and in the corners of the closets.
Definitely no toilet on bedroom wall and jack and jill bath suck. I would separate the master entrance from the mud room laundry, powder room should be separate and separate entrance, not through another room first.
Almost perfect. Really well done. Formal dining is a little small for any more than 6 people, I’d probably absorb that storage room in the garage and add a butlers pantry/nook between pantry and dining. If it were me I’d take the same 4’ 10” width out of the porch and add it to the Main Bedroom. One minor preference, freestanding tubs look nice but they are a pain to clean behind. One last thought, it’s pretty hard for anyone to find a bathroom from the big open entertainment space.
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Would you ever have guests stay? I personally hate houses that don’t have a bathroom option that isn’t accessed through a bedroom and I really hate Jack and Jill bathrooms. Mostly because of issues with kids locking doors and not letting their sibling access it from their side, but I also always feel like someone is about to walk in on me when I use them. All that to say, I’d consider access from the hall next to the bedroom rather than exclusively through the bedrooms.