Floor Plan

The floor plan will be changed a little, but only to have it reflect the style of home plan that was common in 1910.  There have been changes to the house that were made to use the house as a modern large family home, or maybe large group home.  I will be opening it up a little more to make the rooms more functional.  I will als be changing some of the rooms, so they they can be restored to how they would have been when the house was built.  

I kept most of the rooms the same on the main floor, but just tried to open the layout open a little more.  I started with the kitchen and broke down the hallway from the kitchen to the dining room to create a breakfast or informal dining room.  A smaller eating area was common with wealthy families.  The smaller room off the kitchen will be a pantry, and the room next to it will be a mudroom, which will lead to the back of the house.  I then opened the room between the mudroom and sunroom up with an arch way.  Then another archway from the sunroom to the library I chose to put in.  Many houses had a library, or drawing room where the family could entertain themselves.  Having an opening in the wall into the family room closes off the library a little.  The family room is like the less formal sitting room, which has a fireplace.  Another opening in the wall leads to the living room, where guests would be taken in the house.  Then it opens into the foyer, which is the main entrance of the house opens up to.  To the left of the foyer is the office, where there is another fireplace.  The office has a door that leads to a closet and half bathroom, which comes full circle to the kitchen again.  Right in the middle of the house is the dining room, with french doors from almost every room opening into it.  The dining room was often the center of old houses because it as where diners were held.  Between the foyer and dining room is the grand staircase which leads to the second level.

The upstairs of the house had been converted into many small rooms, which all have connecting doors.  This was done by the veteran housing residents who left in the early 1990s.  Because I want the house to be turned back into the original single family home I took down want of the doors and surrounded the rooms around the three bathrooms.  The master room I kept the same and I decided to make the bedroom it opened into a master sitting area and closet space with french doors opening into it.  I forgot to draw in the door, but the sitting area could open into the hallway.  There are two bedrooms near the stairs that both open to the hallway.  Before you had to go through one of the bedrooms to get to the hallway, but I would break down that hall so the stairs lead to the hall.  There is a doors from bedroom 1 to the bathroom connected to 2.  The hallway as an area that I’m calling the “book nook” where there is a bench and book shelves.  Next to had is another bathroom close to bedroom 3.