#SKETCHUP FLOOR PLAN UPDATE#
#SKETCHUP FLOOR PLAN PLUS#

My husband’s rollers and stretch bands and things are always all over the floor of our bedroom and it drives me nuts! So now I’ve built a whole room just for Peloton riding as well as for stretching and meditation, which my me and my husband both do upstairs in our bedroom on the floor at the moment anyway. Here’s the new plan for the main level of the house:īut I’ve also created a second version as I realised that now I can’t get my gym in the basement where I wanted it I have no space to house my Peloton - crisis!!!

#SKETCHUP FLOOR PLAN PLUS#

✅ changes to outdoor area including a built in curved seating area which I think will look really good plus be very functional when the family comes over (which can be more than 12 people if everyone comes at once!) ✅ outdoor shower added - this is the curved white wall near the pool equipment and washing line ✅ much better sized laundry as I no longer have to squeeze a guest toilet in this room as I’ve got that new bathroom across the hall now, which gives us a larger laundry (which is definitely needed in a house of this size!) study, nanny area, kids bedrooms, library/sitting room - all sorts of purposes

This is better for resale eventually as these could be marketed as single bedrooms if need be - or just flexible spaces - e.g. ✅ better study arrangements for my me and my husband - these are now closer together and separated by a bathroom in the middle (which can also be used as a guest toilet). The lounge is also now oriented better to door and will feel much more open and spacious this way - plus easier to bring Hugo in to the room in his wheelchair to sit with the family.

#SKETCHUP FLOOR PLAN UPDATE#

I’ve also decided to remove some of the existing fireplace joinery and update the existing wood fire with a gas insert as we are much more likely to use it this way (we love a wood fire but not the cleaning, soot and smoke smell all over the furniture!). coming off it, which made it an unfriendly place to hang out. ✅ changes to the formal living room - This will now become a dedicated space - in other versions it’s had so many rooms and stairs etc. Also gives me a place to have a small walk in style pantry under the stairs with the new kitchen location. This will be a bit costly to fix up but it makes the formal living room a much better space - at the moment it feels like a bit of a walk through room and it’s hard to place furniture as well. ✅ stairs to upstairs master bedroom now open to hallway instead of into the formal living room. I will push window/bench seat out a little for the dining area which gives an extra 500mm or so (definitely needed!) The size is slightly compromised but it’s not too bad. ✅ new living, dining, lounge areas - these now all open up to the garden and I think this flow works better. An additional toilet for the boys won’t be a bad thing anyway as we often have fights over the shared bathroom situation! ✅ instead of internal stairs we will renovate existing separate toilet (over on LH side of plan near boys’ bedrooms). If you want to see the original/existing floor plan and previous version you can check that out here. This has ended up changing quite a bit since the last time I shared it. So that’s what we had arranged the meeting about and I honestly thought it was going to be relatively straight forward as there’s plenty of room down there and to me it looked pretty doable - so was more just a case of what it might cost.Īfter meeting with the underpinner I’ve now come to realise that it’s much more complicated than I first thought and as he said to me “if you go ahead with this it will be the most expensive mudroom in history”….good way to talk yourself out of a job LOL!Īnyway - the ballpark he gave me on the spot was about $100,000-$150,000 just for the basement works but even if we do go ahead with that there isn’t enough room for the gym, due to piers being in the way - so that would just be for a (smaller than I wanted) mudroom and stairs.Īnd it means I’m now back to adjusting the floor plan again, which I’ve been doing over the past few days while I’ve been sick with COVID (boo!). In earlier posts about our renovation ( you can read here) you may recall that one of the things we were hoping to do was to dig out some of the area next to our existing garage to create a mudroom, gym and internal stairs in to the house. We had arranged the meeting to discuss the logistics and potential costs involved in creating our internal access/stairs from our garage into the house.

Earlier this week I met with an underpinner - this is someone who helps with renovating basements and making structural changes under your floor line.

Sketchup floor plan