The question is: How to make a top load washer and dryer look good while getting the most functionality from a laundry room?
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When it comes to designing floor plans, even though dedicating space for hallways and circulation is essential, it can often times feel a bit problematic, especially when available square footage is limited. However, with thoughtful planning and honed-in spatial design skills, circulation spaces can be designed so hallways add value beyond just providing space to get from one point to the next.
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In my early career of designing custom floor plans, I was highly tuned into making sure that I provided livable functionality to every inch, every square foot and every nook and cranny of the homes I designed. And though this is still true of my approach to floor plan design today, I’ve since refined my notion and definition of purpose and the utility of space
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Welcome friends to a Week in Review. For this week, I’m showcasing a sampling of projects that were front and center last week in the design studio, along with floor plan and spatial design take-aways.
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While thinking about my annual forecast for custom home design trends, the word consistency kept coming to my mind. In the last couple of years, and I suspect the same will be true for 2023, the way space is being utilized in custom home design seems to be holding true. No matter the location and region of the projects I’m working on, full service or virtual consultations, today the spaces, amenities and symmetrical layouts clients want in their custom homes are relatively consistent from project to project.
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With the long axis of the primary suite wing, at the Citrus Point Project in Mesa, Arizona, it was necessary to layout the components of the space to reduce circulation while while moving from one end of the wing to the next.
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After exploring different ways the floor plan could be remodeled and added on to, it was decided that in order to meet the clients objectives it would be more cost effective to take the house down and start anew. That said, we are starting fresh and beginning the project all over again. Because of that and we’ve even given it a new project name - the Feather River Farmstead (to avoid any confusion).
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To really understand the potential of space and to get the most out to it, especially when it comes to remodels, it’s like being on a quest of discovering hidden treasures. While working at the drawing board, the process requires the designer to move along a continuum of design development; typically starting with the most obvious, and conservative solutions, and then from there, letting each new floor plan design guide them to the next.
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There’s no doubt about it, a well designed home cannot be achieved without well designed floor plans. Sadly, this concept isn’t widely understood. So often it’s believed that once a plan is close enough, the rest of it can be figured out on the job site.
Not so, my friends. This kind of approach will certainly short change and devalue the project and add undue stress, added cost and whole lot of regrets.
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