- Cottage lake house plans trial#
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- Cottage lake house plans series#
- Cottage lake house plans windows#
I swapped it out for this much cheaper carpet that we can replace later if needed (assuming my kids will eventually destroy it anyway). I originally picked out this really cool patterned carpet for that inset space that would make it look more like a rug, but it was $6 a sq foot. For us that meant using nice quartz countertops in the kitchen and master bathroom, but laminate everywhere else because that’s an easy change down the road if desired.Īnother place we saved on budget was using cheap carpeting in the basement. So, what can you cut from your budget if need be?Īll of the cosmetic things that are easy swap outs. We knew the other things we could change out down the road, but the footprint of the house was key for us. We cut lots of things out of the budget to get the house the size and shape we wanted. Those double doors on the bottom left corner open up to not only storage, but to the bathroom as well. We wanted a space down by the lake so we could store life jackets, tubes, kayaks, outdoor furniture or whatever.
Storage was also high on our priority list this time around.
Cottage lake house plans plus#
We also realized if it rained and we had a lot of people over for dinner we could only seat 6 in our last dining space, so at this house we have a more formal dining space plus our eat in kitchen area and we can comfortably fit 14 people for dining upstairs. This worked out great for our kids because that meant they both got their own bathroom, but it was practical for the floor plan too. We wanted a bathroom in the basement for everyone in the basement to use, but also one that connected to the outside, so that there is easy access from down by the lake – I don’t want wet feet running through my house. Everyone gathers in our kitchen area, so I wanted to have the living room/dining room/kitchen all open to each other again even if it meant sacrificing on bedroom size.Īnother must have was a basement area in this home (which wasn’t possible with our last lot) so that as our kids grow into teenagers they have their own hangout space that’s still close by and open for us to check on them. I wanted the bedrooms to feel cozy and the living spaces to feel spacious. We would much rather have large open living spaces that can accommodate lots of people and have smaller bedroom spaces. We also realized having a lake home means we entertain big groups a lot in the summer time.
Cottage lake house plans windows#
We added all the windows of our previous sunroom, but put the fireplace and comfy furniture in here too – now it’s the best of both worlds. We decided in this house to make our living room feel just like a sunroom. We had an office at our last house that no one ever stepped foot in (in fact I never even blogged about it!) and we wanted no wasted space this time around.įor example, once we built the sunroom on our old house, we never ever sat in the living room, because the sunroom was so much nicer. We wanted to make sure we were going to use every square inch of this house. We made a list of all the things we loved in our previous homes and all the things we didn’t love or rooms we didn’t use.
Cottage lake house plans trial#
Unless your hubby is more understanding than mine when it comes to knocking down walls in a brand new house? )īut how do you decide what you want in a floor plan? For us, this is was our 5th house, so there was some trial and error involved. You can change wall colors, flooring, windows or whatever down the road, but in most cases, it’s hard to change the floor plan.
Getting the right floor plan when you are building has to be a top priority. Last week, I shared the 2nd half of our video home tour on Instagram (you can still view it, because I saved it to my highlights) and I got SO many DM’s about floor plan questions, that I thought I would talk about it a bit on the blog today.
Cottage lake house plans series#
I’ve been meaning to get back around to this building series for a while now.
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