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Leggs9876
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 Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 11:01 am Post subject: What type of house has??? |
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My husband and I are looking to build our new house and I have been trying to explain the look and feel I want. I have been to a house that had a fairly formal 1st floor with a kitchen, dining, and large formal sitting room. The stairway to the second floor is at the front entrance and goes straight up the the 2nd floor. On the second floor there is a beautiful large family room with the bedrooms doors all the way around the perimeter. It had built-in shelves and it was such a relaxing way for the family to retire for the evening. For some reason it reminds of victorian, but can find any plans with this layout. I am looking forward to your replies.
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hungryarchitect
Joined: 07 Feb 2009
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Location: Edmonds, WA
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Alegra, the reason you can't find a plan like that is that it isn't a common configuration. The element of the design concept that makes it particularly uncommon is only having the kitchen and formal spaces on the ground floor while having the informal living space on the upper floor. Generally speaking the trend in residential architecture for the last nearly 40 years has been to open up the kitchen to informal living spaces more and more.
The closest analogy that I can think of would be the 2 story bungalow designs from prior to 1960. These often had clearly divided living and dining rooms separated from the kitchens. Unfortunately they didn't very often have informal living spaces up stairs.
Here in Seattle I regularly design remodels of these types of homes to open up the kitchen to the living spaces. Most people these days want to hang out by their kitchen.
BTW, I recently wrote an article on my blog about the relationship of formal spaces, informal spaces and kitchens. You may find it helpful.
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