The waiting...

I never knew that waiting for a closing could be so mind numbingly slow. It just gives my brain more time to think and plan on "Oooh I like that's" and "What if's".  So I managed to work on the floor plan. I have two or three idea's for it but as Einy said, until we gut the place we don't know what walls we can and can't move because of the roof supports. Never the less, we are going to be making some improvements to what is already there.

I would also like to inform that these plans are not measured, they're just visual based layouts as I will have the true specs once the closing is complete. The true specs will have Before and After photos once the place has been gutted as well as new measurements from the space gain. The walls are like 6 inches thick all around because they just kept building on top of them.


Here's the original house floor plan/layout.

Original Layout

And this is the first set of alterations to it that I came up with.



Notice that the bathroom was extended as well as the kitchen.
The kitchen roof will be risen, but the ceiling in it won't be as tall
as the other three rooms. The Bathroom will be extended as well
and have a high ceiling as it will extend/follow the original roof line.

 This is how I want the kitchen to look from the outside.



It may become a smidge wider but as far as the look on this end
goes that is the layout I want. It's meant to mimic this photo.



Dream kitchen Minus the sofa chair.
It'll be a galley like kitchen but still have
Plenty of room to move around in.

Floor Plan 2 - Possible paths




 This plan shows the widening of the middle room to make it the living room, pay no mind to the little black tick marks at the bottom on the right that was just for my reference. Notice how smooth the floor plan runs in a nice flow along with privacy back towards the bathroom. Which got me thinking of moving the living room to the Bedroom and have it open up into the kitchen dinning area. The problem with that is we'd be losing space in the bedroom because there would have to be a hallway to the bathroom instead of having to navigate across the kitchen to get to it like the original plan. So that idea would be scratched.


This was my first fully planned idea Go me and MS paint




As you can see I went nuts with it. The ONE BIG snag
in it though is HE wants interior steps to the basement.
Below shadowed red is pretty much the basement layout.



Notice how you can only get down to it through the Bedroom or 2nd Bedroom area. We're either going to have to excavate underneath and inside the house to do it or change the floor plan to suit it. Either way I HATE the idea of having to lose space over a stairwell in such a small home.

The bathroom and kitchen however will be fun to deal with. I'm hoping to do this in the Kitchen area, as well as add 2 skylights to let in as much natural light as possible to cut back on costs.

Top Left Corner I haven't decided 100% if I want the door on the side or on the back, hence why its in two spots. You can see the skylights marked in blue as well as the windows. The pink is the laundry area that will be hidden under a cupboard and eventually be Front loading.

This will be the set up of the kitchen sink,

that will be on the back wall with the gas range top (further left of the garbage) that way I'm not moving large pots of boiling water in a spin and turn around to the other side of the kitchen. I'll just have to side step. The fridge and wall oven will be on the back wall along with more counter space.