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BEACH HOUSE LAYOUT PLANS FULL
BEACH HOUSE LAYOUT PLANS PLUS

We were unwavering about needing two full bathrooms upstairs, so he advised us to try to carve one out much closer to the existing upstairs bathroom (ideally behind it or next to it). A plumber estimated that it would be around $4-5K more to put that bathroom in the front of the house since there’s no plumbing on that half of the house so there would be a lot more materials/labor involved.

BEACH HOUSE LAYOUT PLANS PLUS

For one, we were struggling with the kitchen layout because we had very little wall space in the rear of the house, mostly thanks to the back door (the neighbors just have a window there), the back staircase (some neighbors have removed theirs, we’d like to keep ours), plus a low window and bathroom door in the way too. That floor plan actually felt pretty spot on initially, but little by little we realized some shortcomings:

We also liked the idea of a larger closet.

Main Bedroom With Attached Bath. The neighbors also converted the front storage room to an en suite bath for the front bedroom.

New Wall Upstairs. By shifting this long load-bearing wall a few feet to the right, the neighbors were able to finish the upstairs bonus room into an additional bedroom.

Open Floor Plan. Since the wall between our kitchen and dining room is already half gone, we figured we’d take down the rest of it, which is also what all of the other neighboring houses we toured chose to do (good news: it’s not load bearing).

It would also give us a spot for a small utility closet to house a stacked laundry unit and a water heater (most likely behind bifold doors). Whereas the neighbors had reverted their enclosed side porch back into an open side porch, we thought it would serve as a great mudroom to catch sand and beach gear with lots of towel hooks and shoe baskets. Based on what they had done, this was one of our first ideas for updating our floor plan: Luckily, before we put in our offer, we were able to tour a nearly identical house next door that had already been renovated. Ideally, we’d love to carve out enough space for two families to stay (like ours plus a guest family), assuming kids can bunk together and use sleeping bags/air mattresses like we do when we’re at my parents beach house. The floor plan is pretty good to start with, but mostly could use a better kitchen and more sleeping space. Maybe none of the house is, come to think of it, since it’s not currently heated/cooled and is also without plumbing and workable wiring… We were also generous in labeling the extremely rough enclosed porch spaces as “bonus rooms” (these are spaces with hand and even head-sized openings in the siding to the outside world). So yeah… they’re not exactly “countable square footage” in their current condition. It’s around 1,800 square feet and currently has two official bedrooms, although we were feeling generous and labeled a third below because it’s essentially just missing a closet. Below is an approximated floor plan of the house that we made in photoshop (so it’s not perfectly to scale or anything, but you get the idea). So now that we’ve walked around, let’s do some aerial exploring.

NOTE: If you can’t see this beach house video tour (due to being in a reader), click through to our blog post & it’ll be right here. There’s more on that in a few podcast episodes if it leaves you wanting to know more about her mouth (Episodes 20 + 21). It’s pretty rough looking, but strangely enough, that just added to our excitement (and we made a few fun “discoveries” during our archeological dumpster-filling digs).Īlso, Sherry is making me acknowledge the Invisalign elephant in the room, er, video, which is that you can hear her slighltly altered voice since she has two hunks of plastic encapsulating her teeth. This house is like a giant iceberg that floated into our lives, and we are just at the tippy top of the thing, waddling around like excited penguins.īut before we throw a bunch of floor plans your way, how about we walk around the house together in the form of a little video tour? We recorded this on our first visit after we officially closed on it, so you’ll see all of the lovely leftovers that “conveyed” with the house. Warning: we’ve been known to change our minds – so this is just the plan thus far. As promised, we’re back with the rundown on the floor plan, and what we’re currently thinking we’re going to do with it. Thanks so much for all the sweet and excited comments over on IG & FB about our needs-lots-of-love beach house project (for anyone who’s like whaaaa?, here’s that post to get you up to speed).