A (crude) Floorplan

Finally, the pièce de résistance. It should give those of you who have been asking a better idea of our floor plan. The house faces South to the road. I don't know what our frontage is but it's pretty substantial. The property is in an L shape with the larger portion of the "L" to the north. We also have an easement to the road to the west across the neighbor's northern boundary. We have the option of an easement if in the event we ever wanted to put it through for a second driveway/access.

We near daily talk about how to remodel the place. I think we've decided to go off the back, put a covered porch on the front and bump out the entry way just a bit to give us a more formal foyer/entryway. The back remodel will allow for a more open floor plan with a kitchen/family room. The living room will remain a formal sitting area, and along with the kitchen/family room off the back, a new master bedroom and bathroom are in the plans as well along with a large deck with handicapped accessible ramp to both the family room and the (eventual) guest bedroom (that is right now the master bedroom).

We had talked about going off the front and while we do sit back from the road, I am wanting a much larger kitchen and liking the open floor plan concept, going off the back will give us a much nicer view of the property with the grazing goats, hills, trees, pond, etc. and keep the living portions of the house farther back from the road.

Obviously a lot may and probably will change from our current plans but we'd like to go out 20' from the house to the North by 50 foot wide a. From approximately the location of the wall between the bathroom and laundry, we'll come straight out. We cannot go off any further west where the master bath and bedroom are as our well is right there. But there is enough space to put in a nice deck with a wheelchair ramp along the side of the house which will also connect to the front porch/"wrap around" deck we'll put on. We'll install another window on the west side of the house in the master bedroom and french doors where the current window is now which will access the deck.


Above is the addition. It's a crude mock up. Somewhere in the plan will be a large pantry, a 1/2 bath accessible for the "living" parts of the house, and the laundry will be moved around a bit or made bigger with a door to access it from the deck. The laundry will have a wash area for after chores clean up to include a ground level wash basin for shoes, legs, feet, etc. Little kids with dirty feet should have a place to wash themselves without tracking through the house.

I don't exactly want the master bedroom accessible from right off the living room/kitchen so may work in a hall or something. The east side of the house has a real lovely view though and our (new) bedroom window will look right out onto the pond and pastures.

Anyway, these are future plans, nothings going to happen for a while but it's still nice to play with plans anyway.