Our House V5

So here it was - a radical rethink - rather than trying to run the living area through the middle of the house between our area and the kids area, we put it all over onto the west side of the house.  This had two key advantages - the bedroom and study fitted much better and the key light areas were now the living areas.

Version Five

In addition to these advantages:

• We ended up with an effective sound barrier between the kids area and the main living area.
• All the kids bedrooms could now come off their activity room.
• The powder room could be screened.
• We actually ended up with bigger rooms for our area and the study/guest and also in the main living area.

In addition to this we had also gone through several iterations downstairs, trying to maintain a good size garage and to fit in the best combination of utility room and laundry in the area that we ended up with downstairs.

Eventually we ended that rather than trying to have a separate utility and laundry room we would incorporate it into one big room.  In that way we could make the "wet" area double up as a kitchenette for the kids if they wanted to have friends down there or if we were using that area for an outside BBQ.

So nearly there - but of course nothing is ever simple and whilst most of the house worked for me I could not get the main bedroom robe and ensuite areas to work for me and was not sure I was happy about the way the pantry linked into the kitchen.