A House Design

This is an itty bitty thumbnail of the ground floor for what I think may be my ideal house plan. I knocked it together on paper while I was out at my parents' house on Tuesday and Wednesday. It works out to be 1,368 square feet (127 square meters, but I designed it in feet since I'm in America and if I actually build this thing I'd use local standard) in 36 by 38 feet front to back and side to side. I have planed out to have a half upper floor. Two or three rooms including the media room stuffed under the roof. And here in Colorado is only costs a very little more to have an unfinished basement than a crawl space. Plus that gives a place to stick the mechanicals.

If you link through to look at it there are a few things that are not obvious just from the rough plans I've made. First I plan on nine-foot ceilings, as that seems to work out well with the stairs and not being excessively big. On the plans light green is countertop of some sort probably with cabinets under. The big green square between the kitchen and living room is a non-standard island, more like a big kitchen table with the storage far underneath. If I can afford it that will be the one countertop made of marble and Colorado Yule marble with the pretty green veins if I can get it. Dark green are cabinets without countertops and go from floor to ceiling.

That red square over at the side of the living room is the fireplace/woodburning stove. If actually building the house I'd check on the legality of running the wood pellet stoves on red air quality days in Denver because I envision using it a lot.

The dark gray all along the walls in many rooms are open shelves. There will be lots of places for my books in my bedroom and plenty of places to put dry goods in the pantry. The light grey fans are the doors if that isn't obvious.

The conservatory will have lots of windows and skylights where it doesn't interfere with the room that will be toward the center of the house. I'm also planning that it would have a big heavy concrete floor, the better to deal with water in a room with lots of plants, and to hold heat from the daytime.

Naturally this plan probably won't ever get built, but there it is. Part of my ideal house.