Thanks for the input yesterday. I’m encouraged by the positive response we’ve had, especially from our mothers :). I know secretly they just want a grandson out of the whole deal but that’s ok. Just kidding, guys! Sorta!
Anyway, we had a couple of other great ideas and thought we’d share. Here’s the original plan again:
And I do want to be clear that the boxes in between the Master and Girls Bedroom are each of our closets.
This first additional option was from Allison and that is to take out those closets instead of cutting through the girls room to make the hallway. We do have a tad of an issue because the closets are only 34” and code says it has to be 36” wide. Also there is a question on what to do with our old entrance to our room but I think it could definitely work. It would only take out a small corner of the room instead of a large chunk and we’d build their new closet as part of the new addition.
Another option takes out a need for a hallway through a bedroom at all and that is to close in the girls bedroom completely and make that the closet for the new suite. In this case, we’d only have 3 bedrooms but the flow is much better. We’d also get a cool deck leading out to the pool in the backyard. Scott isn’t much of a fan of this one and seems to think he’d rather do a 4th room in case the girls eventually want to split rooms (which I expect but is not required). This way also knocks out the closets, giving the current master bedroom another 3 feet of space, giving the girls more room since it would be a combined bedroom/playroom. Another option with the deck is to close that in and make a second closet for the current master bedroom for our impending two teenage girls sharing that room :). Or, you know, make a HUGE master bathroom.
So there ya go. I’m pretty excited about this and feel from several sides that God is prodding us to move forward quickly with it.
Do you like any of these plans better/worse?
UPDATE:
Scott found a way to use the closets as the hallway. Our other closet was posing an issue but I think he has it worked out. Latest favorite is this:
The last drawing is the way I had pictured it from the beginning. It will take a more width to make the hallway than what the current closets have, but I think it will still work fine. I just need to come over with a tape measure some time. I’m with Scott….you need the 4 bedrooms. If I were you I would think about putting the bath/closet at the front of the house so that you could have a set of french doors to walk out to the pool/ backyard.
I like the last option better, I think!
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I also agree that you should have four bedrooms. As much as Emma and Lexi love each other right now…there will come a time when Emma wants PRIVACY and hanging in the bathroom for a few hours just to “get away” doesn’t cut it. *lol*
Just be aware that with any of these layouts you’ve come up with, the bathroom is on the far corner of the house – far away from any other plumbing you currently have going. The cheapest way to do a bathroom addition is to have the plumbing be as close to the original plumbing as possible. That way it’s easier and cheaper to tie it in to the existing system.
One other thought…for easy additional space. What about putting a finished basement under this addition? You could do all kinds of things with a basement…and it’s the cheapest way to add square footage to a house because it’s relatively easy to do.
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Scott mentioned about the plumbing at the back too. I was just concerned about how the windows would be placed in a closet and bathroom at the front of the house. I don’t like those block things at the front.
Basement? Wow that just threw me for a loop. Not sure if we have space for a staircase. It’s a good idea though. Would be really nice to have a game room/movie room for all the kids 🙂 our lot is super flat though. Wonder how expensive it would be to dig that?
No way can you guys do a basement on that lot! Amy, did you forget your mother is the window expert? I hate those block things too! I’ve already thought of the beautiful way we could cover the window for on the front if you did the bath there! 🙂 You could build up, but you would have to walk to the back and you would have to add a staircase which would take some sq ft from you bedroom and I think it would definitely put you over the square footage for your neighborhood.
Why can’t they do a basement on that lot? If they have the space to lay a foundation in order to put an addition up, they can certainly dig down even deeper and put in a basement in the same space. And I doubt having flat land or not wouldn’t be an issue either. Either way, the builders will have to dig.
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