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- Thomas Potts
- Graduate of Princeton, degree in Architecture- 1974. Years of experience as custom builder, senior manager for public company developers (Toll Brothers, Union Valley Corp.), and new home designer since 1992. Play around with old cars and motorcycles for a hobby (www.rockingchairmotors.com) high handicap golfer (20) but love to play.
Thomas,
ReplyDeleteI’ve been following your progress and I’m intrigued to see how your perspective/experience influences your process. I have a few questions on the current iteration of the plan.
- Can the centerline of the front door, portal between the entry and flex area and center window in the flex area be aligned with some minor plan tweaks? I think there is a visual harmony that you want to see between these 3 elements that will be perceivably off in the current layout. It is so close I think you can get it aligned.
- Is the flex area intended to be a family room/TV room kind of space and the living area more of a formal type space?
- What are your thoughts leading to the placement of the kitchen at the front corner of the house? Personally, I’m more inclined to place the kitchen at the back of the house so that there is a sightline relationship to the back yard. I would be inclined to swap the kitchen and flex room locations placing the kitchen/dining at the back of the house spanning the rectangle between the living area and flex room that would be in the front right corner of the plan.
- At the second floor stair landing what are your plans to bring natural light in here. Can the ceiling be cathedral with a dormer for light?
Dave Rizzolo
David, I agree, it would have been nice to align the portal to the flex area in the center of the bay. If I put the great room fireplace on a different wall, and made a 3'x6' powder, I could do that. Maybe with one of the colonial elevations.- but I wanted to avoid the typical gas dv doghouse, and didn't want to spend the money on a full masonry veneered chase. As it happens, symmetry took the hit.
ReplyDeleteOriginally, I wanted the flex room to provide the option for that 2nd living area, whatever the buyer wants. Family, Dining, Office, etc. The reality is that I had to make it bigger to work as a formal dining room, and that will help if someone wants to close it off. there's now room for cross circulation as well as a separate space.
The kitchen to the side I addressed in my next post, but also, I was thinking about the Graves Life magazine plan. He inverted the expected relationship of the formal rooms to the yard, and I wanted to follow up on that in a different way. My large living space opens up to a patio in a back yard which is to be more formal in nature. The junky kid's stuff can be on the side yard out of sight from the formal rooms (dining and living) This will set up the back yard to look better, be developed as garden rather than play space.
Second floor landing is flooded with light from the attic.- bank of skylites in this version.