Virtual Model

Things are starting to come together!

The 'Final' Plan...

This is it... this is going to be our house!  The garage works the way we want it to, the tree is safe, the floorplan is perfect for us. 

Next up, virtual model. :)

High Resolution PDF : Site Map, 1st Floor, 2nd Floor

You want to park a car too?!?

As we think we're nearing completion on the inside of the house, we started to look on the outside.  Garage, in specific.

The issue is that we want to be able to pull in to the driveway / garage.  To exit, we want to back out of the garage, and be able to drive out forward on to the street.  That poses a bit of a problem with both the Japanese Maple tree and the width of the lot itself.

So, make those kind of concerns known to an architect... this is what you get:

attached are various driveway / garage schemes. schemes b thru d have alterations to the floor plan.

scheme a –

current scheme, van reverses into garage and goes out forward.

scheme b-

garage gets shallow but longer with storage nooks, van goes in forward and reverses all the way out to the street.

scheme c-

angled parking, forward in and reverse out to street. potentially weird roof.

scheme d-

forward in reverse all the way out to street or reverse in and forward out to street.

none of the schemes are ideal. it depends if you are comfortable with backing out to the street. I supposed if I had to choose it would be scheme b. it has the least impact on the tree and still achieves the entry court that I was after. I haven’t studied them in form yet but scheme b looks like it would have the most interest from the street.

if you want I could have a scheme with the garage doors facing the street tomorrow.

we probably should have a conference call to discuss.

tony

Garage Scheme A

Garage Scheme B

Garage Scheme C

Garage Scheme D

Evolving plan...

The really interesting thing about this whole process is the fact that Tony will apply some creative tweak to a design, based on our comments and it takes us down a totally new path.

For example, based on the previous plan, we wanted to make sure there was a closet in the office area in case we ever needed to use it as a guest room.  And, what we got back was a wonderful tweak... shown below.

Our 1st Plan!

How many ways can you say WOW!

High Resolution PDF Files:  Site Map, 1st Floor, 2nd Floor

Next set of plans...

E

F

Plan : A, B, C & D

Tony whipped up 4 plans for us to start visualizing.  Honestly any one of them would be awesome.  As time goes by, and we imagine how we would live in these spaces I think we're getting ideas for Plan E.

A

B

C

D