BEFORE THE ARCHITECT – THE BIG PICTURES
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RESIDENTIAL DRAWINGS – HOUSE FLOOR PLANS EXAMPLE – HOUSE DESIGNS, including adaptable bathroom floor plans or accessible bathroom floor plans
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To follow is a house floor plans example for several spaces in a given house. Folks seek us out for house floor plans and house designs requesting adaptable bathroom floor plans or accessible bathroom floor plans. The extent to which adaptable and accessible are different is in that the adaptable floor plan can subsequently be made accessible, wherein some features of an accessible bathroom floor plan are evident – sufficiently wide passageways, sufficiently low threshold, appropriate spacing of fixtures, etc – and some features are built in for later access or application as needs arise – hardened walls for grab bars later, tiling in such a way as to readily permit cabinet alterations some day for more undercounter space, etc. By far, a larger challenges to us in Before The Architect come in properly laying out bathroom floor plans for potential accessibility down the road. In these plans, we were commissioned to draft a first floor - L1 - for adaptable living, i.e., with the capacity to be accessible to mobility-challenged residents. Much of this specific work is transparent in these drawings; however, pay closer attention to the 2 full baths on L1 – particularly the bath off the Guest Bedroom and also the wheelchair ramp plan in the Garage.
This'll make it clear as we can as to just how much design flexible we can muster at Before The Architect in working with our clients. This house floor plans example of a to-be-built was developed from that of the client's after several years of their working on it on their own. In this particular application, they had locally acceptable elevations (after a few adaptation to our interior redesign) and a reasonably good idea about the interior. The floor plan just needed polishing — polishing to make the interior tailored to the way this family of 6 lives and will live when extended to the high likelihood of mobility-challenged grandparents and visiting children grown up. And the owners needed a heap and a half of no-nonsense consulting as they picked and chose their way through alternative layouts and materials' options. Yep, we did that, too.
Before The Architect only did this floor plan, a foundation plan, and a wiring plan for this project. The owners managed the rest. (Truss roof, truss floor, and panelized walls were specified by others directly from the floor plan. So was the plumbing plan.)
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Floor Plans Example - House, in PDF
There are special features to this floor plan worth noting herewith -
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L1 is adaptable. Note door widths, hallway widths, turning areas, same level, bathroom layouts, garage ramp, etc. |
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Study carefully the excellent layout of the Bathroom of the Guest Bedroom on L1. Getting this just right took some in this space. We got turned this way and that to work 2 passage doors and adequate wall space beside the toilet. |
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See the treatment on L1 of the passage from Cloak to Garage - how it is designed for accessibility. |
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Recognize the wider interior walls, unbacked insulation packed, to dampen sound transfer selectively. |
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On L2, the bedroom configuration is for the children: one boy in the S.E. and 3 girls in the W. wing. |
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Marvel if you will at the way the girls' wing on L2 can be maintained in privacy, right on down to the vestibule entrance to their communal bathroom. |
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Considerable effort has been made to keep heavy traffic patterns of kids generally at the perimeters of adult territory rather than at crossing purposes. |
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These are especially rural environs, so the need for a formal foyer was cast aside early-on by the owners. |
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