Draw Floor Plans With Floorplanner.com, step by step

Simply like our first house floor plan and our current house floor plan from yesteryear, a bunch of you have requested a new house floor plan. So here ya go! They certainly assist visual people like us see what walls are where, and what flows into what. So we whipped this up with floorplanner.com (which is, as the name might suggest, a free floor planning site). One big difference from the last two floor planning posts that we shared? This time there is a second level. Who is got two thumbs and a set of stairs? This girl.

The funny thing is that when we shared a video tour of the new house, some people said “wow, the new house seems so much bigger!” and some other people said “wow, your new house seems so much smaller!” so that was interesting to us. I think it is hard to judge room size without furniture, so since the new house is empty – and covered in blue trim and wallpaper – it might be throwing people off. In reality the new house and the current house are nearly exactly the same square footage (there is literally only a 20 square foot difference). The new house simply looks a lot bigger from the outside since there is a visible second story instead of a hidden 1000 square foot addition off the back of the house that you cannot see from the street.

As for a few first thoughts about what we’d like to do to alter the actual footprint…

• we’d enjoy to convert the big triple window in the eat-in part of the kitchen into a big french door that leads out onto the deck

• there are a bunch of doors closing everything off on the first floor (they block the flow between the dining room and kitchen, the kitchen and foyer, etc) so we will be taking those down to open things up

• the wall between the living room and the kitchen will come down, but we’d enjoy some built in bookcases on each side with a large centered opening (sort of like the built-ins in our current dining room but perhaps with glass doors and lighting)

• we are planning to fully renovate the chopped up bathroom and sink nook in our bathroom so they are all one space with a pleasant big double sink and a soaker tub

• someday we’d enjoy to fully finish the unfinished storage space at the end of the hallway (right now it is simply a raw space full of exposed beams and ducts, but perhaps down the line we can floor it and drywall it to create a movie room/bunk room for Clara, potential Bean #2, and their friends when they are older) Update: due to plenty of questions, I hoped to clarify the stairs you see in the unfinished storage space – those lead to the attic, but the area labeled as “unfinished storage” is on the same floor as the bedrooms (no walking up or down to get to it).

This video tour of the new house will likely make more sense out of those bullets, and of course we have a bunch of other stuff banging around in our heads (we change our minds every minute) so we will be back with a big ol’ List O’ Planz for all the items on the agenda. Get ready folks, we might break 3,000 words with that baby. Oh wait, we forgot measurements! Here is an extremely approximated rundown for ya (tape measure + three year old = immediate mayhem).

• Foyer: 9.5 x 8′
• Office: 16 x 13′
• Dining Room: 13.5 x 13′
• Kitchen: 21 x 11′
• Hall Bath: 4.5 x 5′
• Living Room: 20 x 13.5′
• Sunroom: 18 x 12′
• Our Bedroom: 13.5 x 19′
• Our Bath + Sink Nook (since we hope to combine ’em down the line): 8.5 x 7′
• Possible Future Nursery: 11.5 x 13.5′
• Clara’s Room: 13.5 x 12.5′
• Hall Bath: 8.5 x 7′
• Guest Room: 13.5 x 11′
• Laundry Nook: 3 x 7′
• Unfinished Storage (with exposed beams, ducts, etc): 17 x 19.5′

Ever made a floor plan? Ever been so excited to have stairs? Tell $herdog all about it.