We've seriously narrowed our housing options down, and are now just creating different designs. We even have fly-through videos of our latest designs, all made with MyVirtualHouse.
We're focusing our efforts on a pie-shaped lot that has a lot of south-eastern exposure. We like it because the house won't be crammed in amongst other enormous houses.
We've also talked with friends and family, and used their feedback to guide us with even more designs. We're also speaking with a builder, and we took some of his ideas to produce the following:
If you can't see videos above, watch them here and here on YouTube. And if you have any opinions, feel free to leave them on Facebook or here. :)
3 comments:
Very cool, which sections are whose? I like how you divided two sections with the laundry room. That's a very practical way of doing it. The third section upstairs has no kitchen. Will it be sharing with a downstairs section?
The first downstairs bedroom (near the front of the house) is for Emily's grandmother, and the second bedroom (behind the kitchen...) is for Emily's mother. The downstairs rear suite is all for Timothy.
The upstairs is reserved for me, Emily, and kids. We'd actually have a fridge and microwave, but I got too lazy to add them. I imagine we'd be able to do cereal, toast, popcorn, etc upstairs. Most proper dining will be communal downstairs, hence the 8-person dining table.
If you start walking from the upstairs master bedroom, you walk through the "study", then through the "sunroom/kitchenette", then through to the "lounge/rumpus", and finally to the kids bedrooms. Emily wanted the separation between kids/parents so that the kids can have their own area. It also creates a play area that is relatively safe for kids (no kitchen appliances, no stairs, no balconies, etc).
I've just uploaded the floor plan in a few different forms so that there's a good idea of "scale". There's a 3D view, metric sizes, imperial sizes, and furnished.
http://picasaweb.google.com/emphinity/House6#
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