We really had our heart set on the type of vaulted main floor feel that the Thompson Hill "model" house had. If you looked at the links, that house had the first floor vaulted ceiling encompassing most, if not all, of the living/dining/kitchen space. The plans of our house included a vault only over the living area.
In addition to that thought, we had a bunch of other comments, and here is an excerpt of an email we sent him, and some sketches that we sent. Remember, I'm still blogging about stuff that happened "in the past" so those of you who are more up-to-date than this, don't get confused!
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• GARAGE -- We’ll plan on the storage space above, but that isn’t a “10” and could get cut if we start pushing the budget. Would like 3 single garage doors instead of a double and a single.
MUD ROOM/LAUNDRY/BATH
• We would give the broom closet back to the laundry area.
• Sacrifice bench space to add a true coat closet to the mud room for extra coats/boots/toys/etc. something like 5’ wide not sure where that would fit.
• We would rather keep the rear-facing window, but we would sacrifice it to make the above changes
KIDS BEDROOMS
• In general, we’re thinking this whole “wing” is slightly short on space
-- Specifically, the bathroom is small. It’s a bit smaller than the bathroom the boys share today and it can be a warzone in there! We’d prefer something like 6x11 or 8x9 might be better.
• another need: linen storage in this part of the house.
• Bedroom sizes seem OK. Maybe think about adding a window in the corner of the room with a back yard view
LIVING/DINING/KITCHEN
• As mentioned before, getting the “entire area” vault is a key for us at this point. We’d almost rate it an “11”
• Having part of the kitchen under a 9’ ceiling would be OK (in our sketch, that is essentially the “working space” behind the island. The island itself and anything to the right or toward the deck would be under the vault)
• Changing the vault to what I described helps accommodate a front closet that is turned 90 degrees from what you have designed. Closet entry is directly to the right of the front door.
MASTER SUITE
• In general we like this design better than the previous one.
• The more we think about it, the more we like the idea of moving one of the offices upstairs and putting the bathroom next to the walk-in closet.
• Also it is more appealing to walk into the bedroom, and from there enter the bath/closet area instead of having direct access to closet/bath from hallway.
• We accommodated this by adding square footage for the bathroom off the end of the house, which opened up space for an office.
DOWNSTAIRS
• moving one of the offices upstairs really opens things up to a lot of different possibilities..I tried to sketch out what I was thinking (attached)
• I would extend TV wall even further, “pulling” the center of the TV room further away from the rear of the house. I’d move the bar to the rear of the TV area and put it on the other side of the stairs. Adjacent to the bar, and directly behind the TV room would be a place for a card table. Then next to the card table (where the guest room currently is) for a potential pool table, or something else who knows…just some “play space” to be used however we decide down the road.
• I would like the large storage closet (with A/V access) to be bigger…Enough to just use it for storage. Then I would have just a hallway door giving access, instead of bi-folding it from the adjoining room.
• What is now allocated to office/office/storage/workshop would change slightly to be office/guest/bath/workshop/storage and possibly exercise space. I started to try to draw this part out but wasn’t sure where I was headed so I stopped.
• Speaking of the bathroom, probably would like a little bigger than the current 5 foot wide design.
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