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Re: 1928 Home Builders Catalog Co. house plans
There’s one thing I think that I might change with the Pinterest house; the bedroom closets. I’m thinking that I might cut the one closest to the hall in half, adding one part to the other closet and making the rest into a linen closet, the door being in the hall. Since it’s 2:25 a.m. here now, and long since I probably should have been asleep, I think that I might make the change tomorrow.
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I was wondering... it looks like MediaFire changed some of its options... so, how do you actually post pictures from there, to here, now?
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Hi, all.
It's been a while since I last posted, especially in this thread, but I recently revisited one of the houses specifically in this thread and made a few changes. The Chesapeake.
I actually had to start from scratch but it is the same basic design. Here's the new file, and here's the folder with all the pictures of it.
Unfortunately, I still haven't figured out how to display pictures from MediaFire in a post, so this is just going to be a short but sweet reply.
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Okay, I'm going to try something different with adding pictures to my posts, something I should have done previously... I read the post regarding doing a web search for "free image hosting sites" and actually followed the recommendation...
Hooray! It worked! (Of course it worked, it was a helpful hint from someone who knows better than me, and I should have followed it in the first place. )
Okay, so this image is an aerial view of the front of the house. As you can see, I did not add in the walkways, driveway or border walls, and I changed the color of most of the stucco. So far, it looks pretty much the same design to what it had been before, but with a hint of some changes to the back.
The front but from a visitor's perspective, looking up.
Here the visitor is standing on the front porch looking at the front door. As you can see, the front door has changed, and instead of a set of double doors leading into the front room there is now a set of three windows.
Here's where the major changes on the main floor have occurred. This is the view from the front door. I've taken out just about every wall and reconfigured the space, and what had previously been a back porch/patio is now enclosed and is used as the laundry room behind the door visible on the left side (there's a separate picture of that).
Looking back at the front door. Even though I've taken out the wall that separated the front room from the rest of the floor, I've added a colonnade with a small amount of storage.
Now, turning ever so slightly, is the view of the front room. You can see the matching colonnades, and that I've taken out the fireplace with the chimney. I've replaced them with an electric fireplace, and moved them to the front wall. The mantle has a live edge on it.
The front room from a different angle, looking back towards the stairway. Here's a better view of how the spaces all work together, as well as a better view of the live edge on the mantle.
The dining room, with the stairway behind the viewer.
Turning your view to the right is the kitchen.
A different view of the kitchen.
Another view of the kitchen. As you can see, there's a new back door, but I kept the side door under the stairway. I also kept the small closet but moved its location slightly.
A closer look at the side door. You can see that I still have the electrical panel placed here, but there seems to be another doorway down there... it's something that I added to the design.
It's a powder room, with some extra storage! There really is a sink in there; it's just hidden in this view behind the wall.
Here's the picture of the laundry room as previously mentioned. I've got the water heater in there too.
And the final picture I'm going to include in this post (although there are more; I'm just sleepy since it's been a long day for me, and this posting seems to be taking a really long time to create):
I've added an enclosed back porch/patio, or as I've heard it sometimes called (mostly in Florida) a Florida room . I didn't furnish this room, as I wasn't sure what would be appropriate. With adding this room, I was also able to add to the top floor. I'll leave posting pictures of the top floor for my next reply here.
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I've had a good long sleep, so here goes with posting the rest of the pictures.
The stairwell and upstairs hallway haven't changed all that much, except that I added some to part of the hallway from the stairwell in order to have enough room for the two bathrooms; the floor plan picture below show's it better than I could describe it. I put in a small, lighted ceiling fan in the stairwell instead of a large hanging light.
Here's a new room which I've added above the enclosed patio/Florida room. It's a secondary en-suite bedroom; the door to the attached bathroom is visible in the second picture, next to the closets. The doorway into this bedroom I created like this to cover up the uneven ceiling of the roofline.
The attached bathroom. This is basically where the smallest bedroom had been in the original plan. This is the only full bathroom with a window.
The two small bedrooms, right next to each other. They're roughly about the same size. Not much to say here.
The primary (or master) en-suite bedroom. It's roughly the same size as the secondary; the only difference being the little archway and tiny built-in cabinet in the secondary.
The primary attached bathroom. It's just a little bigger than the secondary and configured a little differently, but basically the same.
I just realized that I'd previously forgot to take a picture of the main bathroom; as I was getting the links ready for this post I saw that there wasn't a picture for it in the folder I'd previously shared. I've now added it, and copied the link so that I can share it here.
It's much smaller than the ones attached to either the primary or secondary en-suite bedrooms, and for some reason the bathtub/shower door rendered strangely.
I didn't take a picture of the attic space.
Aerial view of the back of the house, along with the roof of the detached garage. I didn't make any changes to the garage, other than the stucco color (as you can see), so I didn't take any pictures of it.
Back area from a visitor's perspective. I didn't add a paved patio area but there really should be one.
And finally, the floor plan pictures.
I did not take a picture of the attic floor plan either.
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I was just looking at my previous postings, out of curiosity, and I just noticed that I did not include a dishwasher in the most recent version of The Chesapeake. Oops. I might need to figure out how I could add one.
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I was able to make some quick changes in order to fit a dishwasher into the kitchen. Here's the link to the changed file.
Here are the pictures of the updated kitchen.
And, finally, a screenshot of the kitchen portion of the floor plan.
I took out the double sink and replaced it with a single sink. In doing so I was able to add in the dishwasher. Because of that, and moving the door into the enclosed patio over a little, I was also able to keep the lower cabinet at the end, and it almost lines up with the end of the peninsula. Also, I was able to not only add in more upper cabinets, but I was also able to widen them. I adjusted the size of both the window looking into the enclosed patio, and the dish drying rack over the sink to better fit the new space.
Then I looked at where I'd placed that window looking into the enclosed patio, and I realized that I might have it a little too low. The space above the window also looked weird without having the backsplash tile continuing up, so I included it there as well.
And finally, I realized that the lighting needed to be moved, as well as there needed to be a light over the sink.
See? Just a few small, quick changes. I think it looks pretty good, but maybe I could have just kept the double sink, and gotten rid of the lower cabinet at the end. Also, does it look like I might have the lighting just a little too bright?
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I just made a little update to the powder room now too.
I thought it looked a little... plain, so I added a framed picture and tiled about a third of the walls. Also, I changed the size of the built-in cabinet; first I reduced each half by 3 inches then added a third piece. I also found a contoured rug on 3D Warehouse to put in front of the toilet.
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. I didn't furnish this room, as I wasn't sure what would be appropriate. With adding this room, I was also able to add to the top floor. I'll leave posting pictures of the top floor for my next reply here.
I think it looks pretty good, but maybe I could have just kept the double sink, and gotten rid of the lower cabinet at the end. Also, does it look like I might have the lighting just a little too bright?
