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Schematic Plans

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By Natalie
Interior Plans from the amazing Sara at 4/1!

We've been talking, dreaming, and kvetching with/to Sara since the day we closed, trying to figure out what's important to each of us and how to make our family home in this huge beautiful house. We're so super close now it's amazing. Very small, if any changes from here on out we think...

The first floor which will have sunroom, living, dining, and kitchen. There's also a room that could one day be a first floor master or suite if we need it.  We're changing the small closet we found into both a coat closet and linen closet. Such luxury!  I've secretly wanted a coat closet since my first winter at Little House in the Ghetto and now I'm going to get it! (Eventually...)

On the second floor there are four bedrooms and three baths. Each side room gets a bathroom that is accessible from the hall and the bedroom; this gives you privacy within a shared space. Having grown up as the youngest sibling, I fully appreciate two things :

  • 1. Design of space sets up power relationships between siblings (it's MY bathroom...)
  • 2. How you parent your kids to be cooperative or competitive matters.

Of course we are a family of three so this is all speculative and postulation.  Blah Blah Blah.
 
That being said, Harris and I will have a smaller private bathroom and decklet in the back. We plan to sit out there in the evening and look at the Suntrust building, wave at Madeline in the yard, or enjoy a sunset in winter.

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