Struggling to visualise room dimensions

3 years ago

We are in the floor planning process for our home. Currently the main living space comprising kitchen, dining and living room is slated to be 8.9m by 6.95m (29ft x 22.8 ft). does anyone have any photos of spaces approximately that size so we can get some help deciding if it's big enough? Whole house is currently at 184sqm (1,980sft). Thanks.

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OnePlan
3 years ago
Click on my pro page to see lots of different room size configurations ! ( click on my name or icon to get there -hope they help !)
rinked
3 years ago
A floorplan of your floor would be lovely.
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Ellie
3 years ago
Am confused, I assume its not a new house you are building as I'd have thought layout and how you plan to for things in is part of the initial plans beforehand?

Is this the only living space?

How many people will live here?

This will help with layout.
minipie
3 years ago
That sounds huge! For comparison we have a kitchen/living/dining room which is about 7.5 x 8.5m, with one small corner cut out as a utility room. It’s big enough for kitchen, dining table and two sitting areas (small tv/fireplace area and garden sitting area). So I would think yours is plenty?

The challenge will be zoning the room so it isn’t a big square box iyswim.
homeingreece
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3 years ago
OnePlan thanks very much. I'll take a look.
homeingreece
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3 years ago
last modified: 3 years ago
rinq good point. Here is what we have so far. Some notes:

- The rest of the plan has changed slightly so I don't want to waste people's time commenting on that. I will upload our final draft in a new post when we have it for feedback on the whole plan.

- The main room in question has had 1m added along the horizontal to make it 8.90m long.

- We have decided we want to swap the kitchen and dining rooms.

- The front door has also been removed from that back wall (the bottom of the plan) so that back wall is now doorless. The front door is now located where the word "screenshot" is conveniently located. :D

Ellie good questions. The house is being designed now. The architects have suggested a room this size based on feedback we gave them. Now we have it drawn up we don't love it. For example, I hate having the back of the sofa in the way of the hallway there. I think that is terrible design. It all looks cramped to me. There are 3 of us in this home. In the plan above you can see a rectangle in the top right with the lines across it. That is a closed in porch/veranda so there is some living space there too. Otherwise, this is it.

minipie thanks very much. It's good to know it works for you and yours. I've added the proposed zoning above and wondered if that resembled yours in any way?

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