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The basement wasn't adequately dug, so the house is about 2 feet above ground level. The builders didn't adjust the grade and built the floors around the overtowering basement. They slope by design. This is weird.
It sounds like the play room (s?) that the women found in the movie "The Haunting". My house has a number of secret passages.....because I go in for such things.
My son once rented an apartment in which the kitchen was a long, narrow dead end. Counters on both sides, probably two feet between them, and probably eight feet deep. If there were two people in the kitchen the person nearest the door would have to step out if the other person needed to move.
It was a prewar building in Albany and I suspect that some of the apartments were split up to make more than it originally had.
What's ridiculous about it? It seems the height of good sense to me, and one need not be a ditch digger or pig farmer to enjoy the obvious benefits. Come in from outside, shoes come off in the mudroom. Come in from weedwacking, or a workout, sweaty dirty clothes stay in the laundry room. Come in from a trip, drop the suitcase with dirty clothes and you need not sort through it in the bedroom.
To me weird is a floor plan where you have to go through a bedroom to get to another bedroom. I saw it a lot when I lived in a small town in North Carolina. Or a bathroom directly off the kitchen or dining room. I would think it awkward if you have guests over and nature calls.
To me weird is a floor plan where you have to go through a bedroom to get to another bedroom. I saw it a lot when I lived in a small town in North Carolina. Or a bathroom directly off the kitchen or dining room. I would think it awkward if you have guests over and nature calls.
Wouldn't a bedroom directly off the kitchen be the servant's quarters?
I guess just about everyone's home has something that's 'weird' to others layout wise...it's just the way it is and after awhile you just adapt to it (like the owner(s) before you).
The layout of our home is very functional and well thought out but yes, our half bath is basically in the kitchen. It was constructed beneath the staircase. Our former home was similar, only the door didn't open to the kitchen but to the hall just before the kitchen..but it was still basically in the vicinity of the kitchen and it was also beneath the stairs. I wouldn't have put a bathroom there for obvious reasons but that in itself wasn't a reason to not buy the house. Now, I'm just used to it...and of course there's a Wallflower in there
Our laundry room doubles up as a mud room. The laundry room can easily be the most 'neglected' room in the house design wise...it's purely utilitarian, meant as a place to do what you need to do or pass through...nothing more.
A full bathroom on the main floor without any bedrooms on that floor.
We actually lived in a home like that. Three bedrooms and a 3/4 bath upstairs, with the only full bathroom was off the kitchen. WORST designed home and layout I ever saw!! (There was no pool or sauna outside, so there was absolutely NO reason for that layout.)
I looked at a large 2020 house where the shortest distance between the garage and the master bedroom was through the kitchen. Thought that flow was a bit awkward.
I've always thought that would be eminently practical and what I would build in a house. I mean for me the fist stop of the morning is the bathroom and the second stop is the kitchen. Let's just eliminate the need to go down the hall and through the living room to get to the kitchen!
Another flow consideration. I built my first house and put the garage at one end and the kitchen at the other. Had to walk through every other common area to get the groceries from the car to the kitchen. So dumb!
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