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All Just about Your KitchenPart II: What are the most popular floorplan features?
by:
Mark Mathis
#3: Split-Floorplan Layout – There are two basic types of floorplan layouts, which are primarily differentiated through their inherent treatment of the master bedrooms suite vs. another bedrooms vs. public space (i.e. great room, den, kitchen, etc.).
The 1st type of floorplan layout is a traditional layout whereby the master bedroom/suite is normally placed on the same side of the home as the another bedrooms. The logical grouping of the home’s sleeping room spaces, inside
a relatively-contiguous location in the floorplan, lends itself to some some design styles of homes, and may be an alternative for particular groups of home-owners, including families with infants / small children and/or retired couples with little need for multiple bedrooms, who utilize the extra space as a small home office which is handily
located.
Both the primary advantage and disadvantage of this type of layout relate to the location of the master sleeping room vs. another bedrooms. For example, if you prefer much privacy in the master suite OR you have teenage/college children in the home OR “name your specific condition here…”, the traditional floorplan layout would-be probably not be the better select for you.
Alternatively, the split-floorplan layout addresses the shortcomings of the traditional layout by physically separating the master suite from the another bedrooms, and galore times, from the much highly-trafficked public areas such as the kitchen, great room, and feeding area. It is this feature that has ready-made the split-floorplan layout progressively popular with today’s home buyers.
The primary advantages of this type of layout is that of its relative privacy and sound-deadening benefits that such a physical room arrangement can provide. The side
to this floorplan layout can be that it is sometimes a little much difficult to implement in the home design, especially on narrow lots, since certain floorplan spaces and features only lend themselves to positioning in a comparatively
small number of locations in the home.
For example, a anteroom is normally placed off the front of the house…the great room is normally (though not always) positioned in the rear center of the home to provide views of the property….the additional bedrooms are normally placed in close-proximity to one another since they normally share bathrooms, etc, etc..
The combination of all these type items increase the complexness of developing a solid split-floorplan home plan design that meet all of the livability features of today’s home buyer. Regardless of these type items, the split-floorplan layout continues to enjoy exceptional quality
with today’s group of stock homeplan purchasers.
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Just about the author:
Mark Mathis is a building designer and publisher of some stock home plan websites and informational resources including http://www.HousePlanCentral.com,
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