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Friday Fun Thread for September 6, 2024

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Post the floor plan of your dream house!

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Resources: International Residential Code, International Property Maintenance Code, International Zoning Code, accessibility code ICC A117.1

My dream house or a house I can afford?

There are two house plans I like a lot:

  • a basic four-square: two floors, about 10m x 10m inside. I can fit everything I want and need inside, but at 1000+ dollars per square meter I can't really afford it as a second home
  • a basic "one hall, two wings" that minimizes the hallway area and can fit three bedrooms and a study into just 120 square meters of floor area (17.4 x 9.2m external dimensions), but I keep fiddling with the design, because it's hard to end up with a living-dining-kitchen room that is neither cramped nor an obvious waste of space. It's easier when the house is 18.0 x 9.8m (or about 140 sqm inside), but that's 20 square meters I would have to pay for.

I'm at my summer cabin, so I'll post the plans when I get home.

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Whats up with the separation of kitchen, dining and living rooms? Is this how modern apartments/houses in the US are designed right now?

I strongly dislike it, especially the cases where the dining room is "across" the hallway from the kitchen. I would always choose an eat-in kitchen, probably open floor with the living room.

What's up with the separation of kitchen, dining, and living rooms? I strongly dislike it.

I personally like explicitly separating the different rooms. Even if zoning is bad, having individual blocks (not entire neighborhoods) dedicated to residential, commercial, industrial, and office uses still looks more elegant on the map of the city.

Is this how modern apartments/houses in the US are designed right now?

At a glance, no.

Reject hallway, return to tradition.

I lived in a railroad apartment in college and for a few years after. It was fine for just my wife and I in a 1bd, an entire large house seems less workable.

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