Hi Simon, Welcome to the wonderful and exciting world of designing your PPOR. Be careful, it can take over your life
Soon you will be dreaming about sinks, stone tops, tiles and the most other ridiculous mundane things.
You have asked for comments since you are still at the conceptual stage. We stopped showing our plans to any one once it was submitted to council. It tends to confuse us too much.
Suggestions(please ignore all if they dont suit your life style, homes are such personal issues)
1. Make sure all bedrooms are a decent size, bedroom 4 looks very boxy...I cant see the dimensions so it could be larger than what they look.
Guest bedroom - we cut it back consciously. Don't want people getting too comfy. But an eventual buyer may be put off. Will revisit.
2. Toilet next to the kitchen...we have that in our present house now...from personal experience, not an ideal placement.
We wanted a toilet downstairs with easy access from the pool. Laundry looks ideal with it's own backdoor.
3. Media room I would prehaps have it downstairs where you have the study but make that whole area much bigger.
Media room is actually a teenage lounge and study space. Deliberately upstairs away from the main living areas.
Get rid of the wall where the fire place? is and make the whole family room/dinning area into a large functional area. At the moment, you have two half spaces rather than one large spacious area.
Good point. We will discuss this with the architect. We really wanted an open gas fire and especially like it to be heating both rooms at once.... Can see the advantage of one big room. I am funny re TV. I hate it being on as background noise and that happens whenever we have one in the main room. Thats why I wanted a dedicated room for it so it only came on when someone wanted to sit down and watch something decent. Thats why the TV area away from the family room and kitchen.
4. Upper area, now you have got room to make a nice kids lounge area and a study space. If any body wants to stay up at night in the media room, they will not disturb family members who want to sleep.
Thats what we did!
Just a few ideas to toss around, but you know what is better for your family. Have fun and enjoy the adventure.
I really really appreciate the time you took to view them and write me a response. I have a few good ideas to discuss with the boss and architect.
Mrs Bird
ps.. Just had another look at your plans and I cant really tell the dimensions of the room, width of building block etc so my suggestions could be irrelevant