Floor plan advice please ❤️

2 years ago

Hello, I’m new to this App, living in the west of Ireland and currently preparing to apply for planning permission. Our site is sloped and we had initially wanted a two story house. However the planner has said we need to have a stepped house meaning that the design will have to be an upside down house. I was in love with our original design and floor plan and we were never open to an upside down house before. I’m really struggling - im not happy with this floor plan but can envision it different. I’d prefer the utility by the kitchen and I also don’t like the fact you have to enter the walk in wardrobe to enter the master bedroom. If anyone has any suggestions or advice I would greatly greatly greatly appreciate it

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Creative Wave Interiors
2 years ago
Hello Sheona,

Congratulations on the house, it sounds fab. Im based in the west of Ireland too and know all too well the joys of planning. I had a quick look at your question and made a little change to the upstairs plan that I thought might work. By moving the bathroom door to the north wall and reconfigering the bathroom setup, you would enter it through the bedroom and not the wardrobe. You then have more space for storage in the walkin wardrobe.

Regarding your other concern, is it that you want to utility closer to the kitchen? Let me know and I will see if I can help.

Hope this helps.

Have a great day

Emily
Sheona Harrington
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2 years ago
Emily thank you so so much I really appreciate it! I feel like I’ve been staring at it for so long that I have a mental block. I much prefer the alteration you have made it gives me so much more room in the wardrobe and I also love the fact that you can enter the bathroom from the bedroom now, thank you!

With regards the utility room- yeah I’d prefer to have it off of the kitchen to be honest. That’s the way I have always envisioned it and how I feel the flow of the house would work best.

Thanks again for giving me your time and advice I really appreciate it!

Sheona
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Creative Wave Interiors
2 years ago
Hi Sheona,

No problem at all, I love doing them :)

Glad you liked the previous plan, I know the feeling sometimes when you have been looking at something for so long it is impossible to make decisions :) I had a think last night about your other question about putting the utility near the kitchen. I can up with a few changes. I'm not sure if it is possible as I only had the plan to go on, but I thought I'd send it your way and it might help. My idea was to move the entrance to where the old utility room was, then put the new utility beside the kitchen in the old entrance way. I combined the old bathroom to make a bedroom, added a toilet and increased the side of the Den. As I said, these are just ideas and I have no idea if this is possible but hope it helps :) If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me :) Good luck with the build

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