The Second Draft of Floor Plans
/After some thinking, I sent my architect a bunch of floorplan revisions, moving around portions of each of the floors.
On the basement level, the stairs moved to go under the stairs between the first and second floors which makes the rec room much larger. In the fourth bedroom, rather than having a small hanging space in the closet, I decided that more shallow shelving accessed from the closet would allow there to be some shelving in the hallway as well.
The first floor revisions were focused around moving the stairs to the basement underneath the stairs to the second floor, because otherwise the entire middle of the house is taken up with staircases. Moving the stairs meant that the powder room also had to move. The vestibule is too cute not to keep! Finally, the more doors and windows at the back of the house the better, so we added french doors.
The second floor revisions included adding a lot more storage to the master bedroom in the form of built in closets around a fireplace, moving the washer/dryer from their stacked position at the back of the house to side-by-side near the master, and moving the door into bedroom 2 so that the bed can be centered on the wall across from the bay windows (leaving more space to walk around the bed.
The third floor will have a lot of different functions, serving as a more casual space with cozy couches, a spot to work from home, a place to store out of season items, and access to the roof deck. The first draft didn’t include a desk so a built in was added in the second round. To accommodate a closet (for extra storage) next to the sink, the under-counter minifridge was moved next to the window.
