Floor Plans and Our Changes Thus Far

As I'm sure you can recall I shared our lovely home with you a week or so ago but left you hanging on the plans. 

We shared the plans with a few family and friends via email, but wanted to wait for feedback before publicly publishing these bad boys. 

Keep in mind that we're still in the design phase and that we're making changes daily often. We will meet again with our architect in a month or so and go through another round of revisions. We are extremely pleased with everything thus far. And the changes we've made are very minor. I'll share those with you in just a sec. But, for now, let me introduce you to the most-awesome-plans-you've-ever-laid-your-eyes-on plans.

Our living space is wide open. It's very similar to our house now in terms of the living, dining, kitchen layout being open to each other. We have the guest suite to the left of the house and the owner's suite at the front right to take advantage of the "lake view" I mentioned previously. More on the changes later in the post. Just keep reading...

 

On the second floor, we have the kids' rooms. Each kid will also have their own bathroom and walk-in closet. We haven't made significant changes to these spaces, but here's what we've done:

1. Taken out the door to the playroom so that it will feel more like a second living space and less like a room. 
2. Reversed the door into the attic from Jaxon's room. Thus removing a pocket door and adding a door to his bathroom.
3. The "future space" will be our fitness room and will be finished. 
4. Lilli's (aka the Boo) bathroom will have either a window or skylight or solar tube to add nat. light

And then there is the basement. This space will remain unfinished. We like the idea of possible expansion. Maybe moving the fitness room to the basement one day or making it into Mr. B+B's man room. But for now, it will be tool and lawn equipment storage. We are opting to remove the window in the bathroom. It just doesn't seem necessary. 

Now on to the changes...

So we decided to swap the pantry and the laundry room for a few reasons. One, we didn't want to hear the washer spinning from the dining room. Two, we already have plumbing hook-ups for water near the guest suite. Three, we didn't really need a storage spot in the garage since we have the basement and a three car garage. Four, I wanted a pantry large enough for a second fridge and that would accommodate all of our kitchen appliances such as my mixer, toaster, blender, crockpot... Five, we'd have to vent the dryer on the front porch. Umm..No thank you. 

The only dilemma thus far will be that we'll want to add a window and we'll need to push out the guest suite about a foot to make the laundry room large enough for a counter and storage. But with the walls being on paper only, it's much easier to move them now. 

We also moved down the wall for the resource room so that it's easier to get to the pantry. Much better huh?

I'm thinking a pantry like one of these: 

 

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Unfortunately, most of these images were found on houzz and I'm sure of their designers or origins. But aren't they lovely? I could stare at them all day. Or at least until the Boo wakes up from her morning nap. 

Here's the Before:

 

And the "After":

The blue area is the one space that I'm not really happy with. I really like a semi-symmetrical bathroom. In other words, the sinks, in my opinion, should be the same size and either be beside each other or flank the tub. So we're still working on this space and I'm totally up to suggestions. 

So there you have it! What suggestions do you have?