Floorplan considerations
I went to my new place today to take a few measurements and just check it out. They've painted it and it's gorgeous with the new colors. Really pretty. My friend Jen came with me and she agrees, it's perfect.
The conversions I had figured on my little floorplans were not quite right. My furniture takes up more room than I had anticipated so I'm back to the drawing board with laying stuff out. Also, I just purchased a nightstand and a chest of drawers and, well, I'm just not sure. The furniture is good stuff - so, expensive - and I'm thinking... do I want to spend that kind of money and cram it into a little space? I have 73" closet in the bedroom area, most of which is divided into a top and bottom and I have some elfa drawers that could go under the clothes rail on the bottom. It's actually what I'm using for a chest of drawers currently, so I know my stuff fits.
I've done a few updated floorplans, which I will include here, in case you want to take a look at them and comment or give me feedback, any of which would be much appreciated.
Option 1 with the currently ordered 'Calvin' furniture: one drawer nightstand, five drawer chest
Option 2 with a Parsons table
Option 3 with a 'Slim' table
Option 4 is just a different configuration of the rest of the furniture
Option 5 is just a different configuration of the rest of the furniture
Option 6 is just a different configuration of the rest of the furniture
Option 7 is just a different configuration of the rest of the
furniture
Option 8 is just a different configuration of the rest of the furniture
Option 9 is just a different configuration of the rest of the furniture
Option 10 is just a different configuration of the rest of the furniture - I think this is the one I'm going to go with. What do you think?
So there we go. My options. What do you guys think? (If you want to give it a go yourself, let me know. I have an unflattened PNG that you can play around with.)
Note: The 'high table' that's in there is not actually 24" x 12". It's 48" x 24". :)
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Yeah but there isn't a great place to put it. I was thinking there it's out of the way and not too conspicuous to most of the living space...
I was kind of partial to Option 6 with the one change of moving the desk under the window by the dinner table. I liked how it made the focus of the room the corner of windows and the hopefully nice view. If the view sucks, no big loss. By moving the desk there it maintains a clear walkway to the couch, bathroom and bedroom (assuming you don't have a chair at the head of the table).
Option 10 kind of leaves a lot of dead space in the corner windows because the couch can't be too close to the bookcase? It also kind of makes the focus of the room the wall and the TV?
In regards to cable box: Does your TV have slots for a cable card? I don't think you would be able to get onDemand, but it would save you some room. I not as well that buffets also make excellent dressers, so if your stash of kitchen stuff has become somewhat depleted, you might get some clothes storage out of it as well.
Lastly, I will take this opportunity to vent my spleen about that wall between the kitchen and the rest of the room. I hate that wall, and I always want to take a hammer to it and open it up. (Queue up the Pink Floyd) But then I love cooking for people and being able to talk to them while doing it. Also, I'm a big fan of the open.
The problem with options 6 and 9 is that the couch makes a sort of pen. The playpen. :) To get back there, you'll have to walk all the way to the end of the room, then enter the little playpen area through a smallish space. Aside from that I agree, it's really good. I'm not sure how I feel about the little space, though. I think it might not be very inviting.
Moving the desk in front of the window isn't ideal because the desk is an armoire desk and 52" high. :( While that isn't the end of the world, it will block a little light and... I just don't know.
The big rectangles on the far wall are HVAC.
You're right about option 10, but I could also use a little of that space for discrete storage. Also, angling slightly toward the TV means you just have to turn your head a little for the (urban and kind of cool) view. The bookcase can be moved. It was more a consideration of moving the couch toward the windows also moves it toward the bed. Angled window and all. Good call re: focus being TV.
The cable/DVD problem is an interesting one, and one I have considered. I have a little end table I could put them on, but I'm not sure how that would work until I saw it in action. The buffet is being used as a buffet, currently, but as I'm sending some of my china and crystal home with my dad, I'll have some space in there for, I think, media.
My mom talked me out of a room divider on Sunday. I think that one is out. Also, it will make the place look small.
My current place has a passthrough (seen here from the kitchen and here from the other side). It's fabulous and social and I loooove it. I hear you about tearing down walls.
Does #10 work with the chairs out around the table? Seems like there might be a traffic problem...
I don't think it generally matters. Most often it will be one person at the table and the table can be moved to accomodate more and then moved back. I mean, it IS only a studio. It doesn't have to be able to handle four people at all times.
Feh, the only reason to stick the desk in front of the window was to get the view while working.
The pen is a good point. I was kind of thinking of the fun to be had jumping over, but I imagine that would get old awful quick. I guess you could rotate the couch in #6 by 90 degrees counterclockwise? Or is having the backless portion of the couch facing that way be weird?
I like the passthrough! Not quite the optimum but it does give more cabinet space. 3/4 closed of kitchens and windfoils on not-race cars I think are my two irrational pet peeves. :)
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I like 8, though fo some reason the Jewlery benches location strikes me as a little weird. Out of place or something.