Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

Sorry, only looked briefly. Dinner ready!

wish ours was. we tried local but had gone to early. One drunkard at the bar desperate to make a fool of himself. I didn't put ours on because didn''t want to race home to the oven if the opportunity came to be neighbourly. Instead we drank and ran.:o:o

silvercar

Here's are the floor plan of the detached one. What would you do with this? In a little while I'll tell you what I had planned but wasn't allowed to do:

Build on top of the garage, to give you an en-suite to the main bedroom. Fill in the square between kitchen and garage and extend kitchen into it.
Somewhere you have to find room for a downstairs loo.

Extend bedroom 3 over your new kitchen bit, possibly with an ensuite to that. Convert the garage to a study.

TBH I don't think its the one that got away, its too small to start with.

How do you draw such neat plans?

misskool

Can I just ask people why they need more than 1 family room?

Or will it all become apparent to me when I have my own children?

LydiaJ

silvercar wrote: »

Build on top of the garage, to give you an en-suite to the main bedroom. Fill in the square between kitchen and garage and extend kitchen into it.
Somewhere you have to find room for a downstairs loo.

Extend bedroom 3 over your new kitchen bit, possibly with an ensuite to that.
TBH I don't think its the one that got away, its too small to start with.

How do you draw such neat plans?

Thanks!

I draw them in powerpoint. I make a coloured box for each room and use the format menu to resize it to be to scale. I do the walls, windows etc as thin boxes too - lines can be at any angle, but boxes will line themselves up parallel to the edges of the screen unless you deliberately rotate them. Once I've made one door, wall etc, I copy and resize it so I'm not reinventing the wheel all the time. I copy downstairs and edit it to create upstairs, too, so the exterior walls match up.

misskool wrote: »

Can I just ask people why they need more than 1 family room?

Or will it all become apparent to me when I have my own children?

Yes

I like to be able to let them make a den or a lego masterpiece or something, and still have adult space I can use. If you have lots of children of different ages, you want somewhere for one to practise the trumpet while another is doing homework and the parents are watching the news.

lostinrates

The favourtie house of mine I'v live in was three bed, one bath and t shaped, so there was a bedroom in each point of the t around the bathroom and the main reception room (a sitting room/diner) rand the upright bit of the t at the bottom, with a smaller room under one bed, and other space...kitchen/loo etc on the other. Not very heating efficient though I suppose.

lostinrates

misskool wrote: »

Can I just ask people why they need more than 1 family room?

Or will it all become apparent to me when I have my own children?

For us multiple receptions are all about adults and entertaining.

If my inlaws come for a [STRIKE]week[/STRIKE] weekend, I certainly need a room between us.:) So I can mutter into my mojito ithout causing dischord.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

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I'm learning!

Posh gaff init

Those two rooms are all the space I'd need.... and probably more than I'll get

PasturesNew

JonnyBravo wrote: »

Back of the house at purchase




Back of the house after extension
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Awww, missed them.

PM required please

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

edit: size isn't everything BTW. Your houses are ALL warmer and probably structurally sound!:rotfl::rotfl:

There was a while when I wasn't convinced my old house wasn't very structurally sound when I got woken up at 6am by the Buncefield explosion. At the time I was living very close to the site.

This is the view from my old house looking downhill. Yes that really is the pollution cloud swirling around the house about 20ft lower elevation than mine:

You lot might have bigger houses than me but I got more bang for my buck!

Will take this down shortly...

PasturesNew

I want a house that nobody would build and nobody else would buy

It'd all be "for me", just the way I want it. Thing is, until you're living in a house you don't know how you'd want it. So not only could I not buy the perfect house, but I also couldn't design it.

But, it does involve french doors into a conservatory and a south facing garden and a verandah .... and a summerhouse and good sized garage and utility..... and no grass to cut ever.... and good/easy off-road parking for 2+ cars (excluding the garage).

And I want to sit inside, in the conservatory, at the breakfast bar, and be able to easily see out of the windows to 'the view'... and 'the view' should preferably be the sea... but I'd like to be able to "watch moving things" out there.... boats/people would be good, otherwise people/cars. I do like to watch moving things from a comfortable distance.... and I need to be above them, not at the same level, but also not at the top of a hill.... so, say, at least 6' above a road if cars were the moving things.

I'm odd... but lovely.