Today we went into Box Living’s offices in Eden Terrace to see the first concept drawings for our house. It was a little surreal going into their offices, because it wasn’t all that long ago that we (and especially Regan) used to go into that same building – 68 France Street – when it was occupied by Plaything. That’s where Regan held the auditions for the Throng TV project. Anyways, the place looks pretty different now it’s not an art gallery/space with lots of desks and Macs and…. the best bit is that their meeting room is a mini-box with windows and sliding doors and stainless steel cross-braces on the end.
Tim talked us through the house plans he’d drawn up and we really really liked the whole layout overall. Lots of things to mull over and me being me, I like to get out the measuring tape and compare the sizes of things we have now with things in the plan to try and get an idea of how it’ll be. We’re going to pore over the plans this weekend and show them to a few people to get some ideas and thoughts from them too.
I’ll write a lot more about the plans and our thoughts on them once we’ve had a bit of time to think it all over. It’s really easy to just compare floor sizes and not think through room organisation too, so I’m trying to think about that side of things.
For example, our current house’s two bathrooms don’t feel well laid out. There’s not much storage (and under the sink you’re always trying to avoid the piping) and the showers are tiny – they’re not even a square – they have one side which has a wedge cut out of it… if that makes sense? It seems to make more sense to have a shower and bath combined, so you can have a bigger shower (ours are cramped!). Thoughts on that anyone?
If the weather was nicer, I’d want to go and push some sticks into the ground with some brightly coloured tape up at our land and see rough layout in actuality to help me think through everything.
We’re trying to decide if we want a projector or a flat screen TV. I hate TVs being the centre of attention in a room and have quite liked having a big projector which can be totally out of the way and is a more deliberate act to turn on and watch. It is nice having a big screen, but projectors do require a certain amount of darkness in the room – more than TVs.
Another thought is if we really need a wetback if we are going to have solar for hot water heating. We’re leaning towards probably not. While we love having a fire, it’s not used for the vast part of the year in our climate so all the trickiness and inconvenience of needing the fire near the hot water cylinder might just not be worth it.
There’s so many things I really like about the layout though, so more from me soon!
So exciting! And it makes sense to make sure you have everything exactly the way you would want it to be – do it once, and do it right; isn’t that the motto?
And if it’s going to be the “dream” house, you might as well make sure everything is exactly how you really WANT it to be!
I would anyway