finaledition
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Post by finaledition on Oct 9, 2019 0:44:31 GMT
We will be remodeling a master bath shortly so went to some model homes to get some ideas. Every single house at every single price point had one of those drive through showers. You know the kind that are open on either end and the length of a wall. I have zero desire for a shower like that. 1) I live in CA which is always on a verge of a drought. You’d need a half dozen shower heads. 2) who wants to clean a shower that large. I like my shower normal size where it gets nice and steamy and I don’t feel like I’m in a cave.
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Post by KikiPea on Oct 9, 2019 0:59:48 GMT
I understand that. We don't have kids, so it would be so convenient for us, I'd think. KikiPea - do you remember my friend Pam? She has this - laundry room connected to her master closet (downstairs, with a door) and loves it. They are empty-nesters now, so like you - no kids or others to worry about. They actually picked their house because of this layout. Our master is upstairs and i love having the laundry up there too. I do make it a point to not do laundry much when i'm not home so if anything were to go nuts and leak I would hopefully catch it. And our water heater is in the garage. The one trend I can't get my tiny little head around is having 2 different cabinet finishes in your kitchen. Dark cabinets on the island, light cabinets on the wall. Not sure that i could get used to that, but I appear to be in the minority. I do! Empty nesters?!!?!? Wow! That seems crazy. Guess it has been a while. If we ever move again, I’d love that arrangement, but it’s not a must. I also have to admit that I like the 2 different color cabinets. 🤪 LOL
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Post by crazy4scraps on Oct 9, 2019 4:31:22 GMT
I haven’t ever seen a house with the laundry right inside the front door like that and I don’t think I would want a layout like that for myself. Ours is at the back of the house with a door going straight out to the deck which is convenient if someone is working on something messy or wet and doesn’t want to track anything through the whole house to get to the bathroom, etc. The laundry is at the far end of a hallway with a 3/4 bath next, the mud room closet and the service door to the garage at the other end which is at the front of the house. I love having it on the main floor. I love that it’s a big room with lots of extra storage for bulky or weird stuff that doesn’t fit elsewhere.
The one weird thing about it is that there’s a cutout space where a lower cabinet should probably be (or maybe a second dishwasher) but the counter goes straight across the empty space like a desk, right next to the sink. I can’t think of a single reason why I would want to sit on a bar height chair there. We use the space to store our Rug Doctor and used to put a huge bin of dog food in there, but it’s just odd.
I kind of like the idea of a built in dog kennel, but the problem is that most of the places people put them are out of the way spots like under the stairs and we prefer to have our pets’ kennels closer to where we also spend time. I like the ones that look like furniture grade end tables or night stands, but that only works for smaller dogs.
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Post by tenacious on Oct 9, 2019 10:34:09 GMT
Definitely weird. I think it is so interesting that different regions have different ‘quirks’ in their floor plan design. It’s like one person did it, then another saw it, and it propagates from there. Here in Utah, I have rarely seen the laundry in front of house like you showed. We are doing a massive remodel to a house we bought earlier this year. Our main laundry will be upstairs, but, we also put a washer/dryer on the main floor in our mudroom next to a new master/guest bed we built. I think about laundry convenience a lot. 😅 Erin
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Oct 9, 2019 11:36:17 GMT
Not a weird trend, but a new one I have seen, and love, is the laundry room right off the master closet. It couldn't be in a more perfect place. While I might enjoy that now, it would have been a nightmare when I had four boys at home. My washer and dryer ran constantly to keep up with the volume. And I can't tell you how often we came in late at night from an "away" sports game and had to start washing uniforms for another game the next day. Or how many mornings, I was frantically doing wash at the crack of dawn because someone forgot to tell me they needed a certain shirt. The master would not have been a restful space with all the laundry racket all the time!
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peabay
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Post by peabay on Oct 9, 2019 12:01:27 GMT
I haven't seen the laundry area where you describe, I too would find that odd. What I have been seeing is huge laundry rooms with desks - like an office area. I don't mind having an office area - but not in my laundry room. I don't like spending a ton of time in the laundry room - could not imagine going in there to use it as an office either. Another version was a craft/sewing/hobby area in the laundry area. I guess if that's where folks want to do their hobbies - go for it, I'd rather have a separate space. That's funny - I'm sitting at my computer desk in the laundry room. It was here when we moved in 19 years ago and I haven't changed it because it's central between the play room and the family room and was a great place to have a computer when my kids were little and moving between those two rooms on a constant basis.
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Post by candleangie on Oct 9, 2019 15:35:43 GMT
The one weird thing about it is that there’s a cutout space where a lower cabinet should probably be (or maybe a second dishwasher) but the counter goes straight across the empty space like a desk, right next to the sink. It’s for a wine fridge.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 9, 2019 17:11:28 GMT
I do not want to drag my laundry down to other living spaces. I especially hate it in basements or garages where most have been forever. Mine is currently at the base of the stairs where you come in from the garage. I want laundry closest to where dirty laundry is and where clean laundry goes. That said, my son is looking at apartments, and one of them has a full size washer and dryer on the reverse side of the breakfast bar, so basically smack in the middle of the kitchen floor. Another has a stackable one next to the fridge. This makes no sense to me. It's done that way in apartments because there is a lack of space and it's easier / cheaper for the builder to run water up one wall than make several runs.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Oct 9, 2019 21:17:37 GMT
The one weird thing about it is that there’s a cutout space where a lower cabinet should probably be (or maybe a second dishwasher) but the counter goes straight across the empty space like a desk, right next to the sink. It’s for a wine fridge. There’s no outlet back in there though...
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Post by refugeepea on Oct 10, 2019 2:32:24 GMT
What I found missing in the newest models I've looked at is a second living/family room. I don't like this trend either. I also noticed the absence of coat closets and I live in a cold climate!
And spas spas spas. I think they have taken the place of the media rooms as the novelty room in new homes. What do you mean by this? I'd take a media room over a spa. My husband could watch his load shows in an sound proof insulated room.
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Post by refugeepea on Oct 10, 2019 2:39:10 GMT
We're casually thinking about moving or building and have been browsing new construction in our area. In a few different houses lately, we have seen utility/laundry rooms that are right off the entry way (the front door, not a garage entry). It seems weird, but it is closer to the master bedroom. It might be less depressing doing laundry when you have a window. People watching would be a good distraction.
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Post by peasapie on Oct 10, 2019 11:28:22 GMT
What I found missing in the newest models I've looked at is a second living/family room. I don't like this trend either. I also noticed the absence of coat closets and I live in a cold climate!
And spas spas spas. I think they have taken the place of the media rooms as the novelty room in new homes. What do you mean by this? I'd take a media room over a spa. My husband could watch his load shows in an sound proof insulated room. Home gyms instead of going to the gym, hot tubs, whirlpools, steam rooms. The “media rooms” of the past decade, with theater seating and giant screens, seem to be going out.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Oct 10, 2019 14:28:45 GMT
The “media rooms” of the past decade, with theater seating and giant screens, seem to be going out. We looked at a house recently and tried to figure out how we could make that room work for something else instead. We threw out several suggestions, but the wackiest and funniest was to make that our "50 shades of gray" room due to the sound-proofing. Haha.
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Post by *KAS* on Oct 10, 2019 14:39:17 GMT
Why don’t they put the laundry room by the bedrooms, WHERE THE CLOTHES ARE! My house has that, and it actually annoys me. Before, i was in a condo, and it was close to the 2nd bedroom (which nobody used), and it was fine. I moved and the laundry room shares a wall with my bedroom - which seems logical, and is a 'short commute.' The problem is that I normally wash clothes and run the dishwasher at night, but now I can hear it from my bedroom wall since the washer, dryer and water heater are all making noise through the wall and keeps me awake!
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Post by peasapie on Oct 10, 2019 16:09:51 GMT
The “media rooms” of the past decade, with theater seating and giant screens, seem to be going out. We looked at a house recently and tried to figure out how we could make that room work for something else instead. We threw out several suggestions, but the wackiest and funniest was to make that our "50 shades of gray" room due to the sound-proofing. Haha. hahaha. Damn. I need to read those books...
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Post by questioning on Oct 10, 2019 20:55:39 GMT
We saw a few similar to this while looking last year. They were upscale houses being promoted for those downsizing, or as starter homes for those focusing on careers, entertaining. The lots in these developments were smaller, great patios and outdoor living rooms with tiny yards. Most that we saw positioned the stair within the entry hall, swapping it with the utility and powder room on your example.
Another version had the utility room between the kitchen and second master / nanny suite/ inlaw suite. Also at the front of the house. It's an intriguing idea, there's really no reason but habit to make a laundry room off of a garage for many people.
Was it in the 90s when builders tried to move laundry rooms upstairs or to the bedroom area?
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Post by ktdoesntscrap on Oct 11, 2019 0:59:25 GMT
I think the placement of both the laundry room and the master bedroom is odd.
Maybe becasue the garage is in the back of the house... it feels almost flipped. Maybe because the owner's entrance is at the back they think that will be the main entrance to the house.
Never seen it before.
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Post by AussieMeg on Oct 11, 2019 10:21:06 GMT
Late to this thread, but yes! My in-laws recently bought a townhouse that's in a group of three townhouses. The laundry in the front town house (not my in-law's) is right off the front entrance. It is so weird. I have never seen that before.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Oct 11, 2019 15:23:55 GMT
Why don’t they put the laundry room by the bedrooms, WHERE THE CLOTHES ARE! My house has that, and it actually annoys me. Before, i was in a condo, and it was close to the 2nd bedroom (which nobody used), and it was fine. I moved and the laundry room shares a wall with my bedroom - which seems logical, and is a 'short commute.' The problem is that I normally wash clothes and run the dishwasher at night, but now I can hear it from my bedroom wall since the washer, dryer and water heater are all making noise through the wall and keeps me awake! I wouldn’t like that either, I frequently end up needing to run the dryer at night to finish up the last load that was washed that day. The noise from it would definitely keep me awake even if I had the buzzer turned off to signal when the load is done.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Oct 11, 2019 15:34:12 GMT
We saw a few similar to this while looking last year. They were upscale houses being promoted for those downsizing, or as starter homes for those focusing on careers, entertaining. The lots in these developments were smaller, great patios and outdoor living rooms with tiny yards. Most that we saw positioned the stair within the entry hall, swapping it with the utility and powder room on your example. Another version had the utility room between the kitchen and second master / nanny suite/ inlaw suite. Also at the front of the house. It's an intriguing idea, there's really no reason but habit to make a laundry room off of a garage for many people. Was it in the 90s when builders tried to move laundry rooms upstairs or to the bedroom area? It’s convenient for anyone who does a lot of yard work or gardening, or messy projects in the garage, or has a dirty job to be able to take off dirty clothes and drop them right in the laundry so as to not drag leaves, grass clippings, sawdust, pine needles, etc. through any more of the house than necessary. My DH is that guy whose shirt pockets are always full of that kind of stuff, so I’m glad our laundry has an outside door to/from the back yard and is at the opposite end of the tiled hallway from the attached garage, so from either direction he’s not making a mess walking through the whole house to dump his nasty clothes. He also has a job where he gets pretty dirty at times, so it’s nice he can come right in from his work truck and throw his clothes from that day straight into the washer when he gets home.
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Post by questioning on Oct 12, 2019 16:59:38 GMT
We saw a few similar to this while looking last year. They were upscale houses being promoted for those downsizing, or as starter homes for those focusing on careers, entertaining. The lots in these developments were smaller, great patios and outdoor living rooms with tiny yards. Most that we saw positioned the stair within the entry hall, swapping it with the utility and powder room on your example. Another version had the utility room between the kitchen and second master / nanny suite/ inlaw suite. Also at the front of the house. It's an intriguing idea, there's really no reason but habit to make a laundry room off of a garage for many people. Was it in the 90s when builders tried to move laundry rooms upstairs or to the bedroom area? It’s convenient for anyone who does a lot of yard work or gardening, or messy projects in the garage, or has a dirty job to be able to take off dirty clothes and drop them right in the laundry so as to not drag leaves, grass clippings, sawdust, pine needles, etc. through any more of the house than necessary. My DH is that guy whose shirt pockets are always full of that kind of stuff, so I’m glad our laundry has an outside door to/from the back yard and is at the opposite end of the tiled hallway from the attached garage, so from either direction he’s not making a mess walking through the whole house to dump his nasty clothes. He also has a job where he gets pretty dirty at times, so it’s nice he can come right in from his work truck and throw his clothes from that day straight into the washer when he gets home. Oh definitely! I started to acknowledge that in my answer but it was getting too long. We all know some people have cleaner or messier jobs than others, and not everyone has the same needs. That's why I said Many People, not Most. Automatically assuming it's best off the garage (as most plans do) is not appropriate for all communities or climates. In our area the majority of people don't get dirty during the work week, unless there's a wicked coffee stain. We also don't have a climate that leads to wet or muddy clothing, at least most of the year.
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Oct 12, 2019 18:47:52 GMT
Can I just ask something? For those of you with laundry rooms off the garage, who put dirty clothes in the washing machine as you enter the building, does that mean that you then walk through the house to the shower with no clothes on? Or do you keep a dressing gown in the laundry room? Enquiring minds want to know.
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craftymom101
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Post by craftymom101 on Oct 12, 2019 20:12:24 GMT
A weird trend that I HATE about Florida homes is where the master bedroom is placed. My master bedroom is off the kitchen. Yep, In the middle of my kitchen is a door that opens to my bedroom/master bath/master closet. Every time my kids get something from the kitchen pantry, I can hear it from my bed. Hate, hate, hate it.
My good friend bought a model home (and it’s a super high end home) and the master bedroom is directly off the foyer.
The master bedroom in our first home was off the living room.
What happened to hallways off the main living spaces that lead to bedrooms? Why are bedroom doors off main living spaces? I feel like we can hear everything from the master bedroom! Drives me crazy.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Oct 12, 2019 22:06:05 GMT
Can I just ask something? For those of you with laundry rooms off the garage, who put dirty clothes in the washing machine as you enter the building, does that mean that you then walk through the house to the shower with no clothes on? Or do you keep a dressing gown in the laundry room? Enquiring minds want to know. DH will throw his clothes in the washer and walk through the house in his skivvies up to our closet. If he walks through the kitchen to the stairs to go up to our bedroom/closet, no one would ever see him. Even if he walked right past the picture window in the living room, it would still be unlikely that anyone would see him because our house is set back pretty far from the street and there are trees in the yard between. If he needed a shower, the main floor 3/4 bath is right next to the laundry room down a windowless hallway so he could be buck naked and no one would see him. There are always some big towels in both the laundry room and in the main floor bath if he needed one. Usually the dog is the only one who uses that shower though, LOL.
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MsKnit
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Post by MsKnit on Oct 12, 2019 22:19:42 GMT
The demise of the formal living room and dining room. Thus, allowing the most space possible for the open great room combo.
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MsKnit
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Post by MsKnit on Oct 12, 2019 22:25:44 GMT
The one trend I can't get my tiny little head around is having 2 different cabinet finishes in your kitchen. Dark cabinets on the island, light cabinets on the wall. Not sure that i could get used to that, but I appear to be in the minority. This trend makes my heart sing.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Oct 12, 2019 22:55:13 GMT
The demise of the formal living room and dining room. Thus, allowing the most space possible for the open great room combo. Our house has a formal living room that has never been used for that purpose. It has become a dumping ground for the toys and things DD never uses, because that room is kind of cut off from the rest of the main floor. At the moment it’s housing a crap ton of scrapbooking and stamping stuff from my BFF’s mom’s house waiting until the next time we can hold a garage sale or take it to another friend’s next semiannual crafting rummage sale. It’s a complete waste of space. If we ever need a main floor bedroom in this house (we bought it assuming it’s the last house we’ll ever live in), we’ll knock out the wall between that room and the main floor office, move the wall forward so the office is big enough to add a closet and create a legal bedroom, and make the rest of the living room space into a library or small office. It would make much more sense to have the office at the front of the house nearer to the front door, vs. off of the kitchen in the back. Anyone who ever needs to meet with DH for business purposes has to walk all the way through from the front to the back of our house to get to the office.
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Post by ihaveonly1l on Oct 13, 2019 2:02:38 GMT
We bought a new house last year and I don’t remember ever seeing that, but I think it may be because people usually like bedrooms on the back side of the house. Everything can’t be on the back side, so a laundry room up front is probably a room outdoor noise and traffic wouldn’t be an issue for.
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Post by caangel on Oct 13, 2019 3:07:47 GMT
The demise of the formal living room and dining room. Thus, allowing the most space possible for the open great room combo. Our house was built in the late 70s. The formal living/dining rooms took up 2/3 of the public space leaving 1/3 to a combined family room kitchen where we did 95% of our living. When we remodeled we redid the entire space making a great room 3/4 of the space and a decidcate foyer and dining room out of the rest of the space. We love having so must usable space in the area we spend so much time. The dining room is at the front of the house and stays clean usually so I can open the front door without exposing the chaos. Would do it again in a heart beat. The great room is also awesome for entertaining! Everyone wants to be where the food is in the kitchen anyway.
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Post by alexa11 on Oct 13, 2019 3:57:27 GMT
My DD's house is like that. The garage and front door are adjacent. If you walk in from the garage, stairs are right in front of you and the laundry room is directly to your left. Take a few steps or come in the front door and there's the great room with the kitchen behind. It doesn't look bad and there's a small foyer space that breaks it up.
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