What's WRONG With Online House Plans? Designer Reviews Layout to Work For YOU!

[@TheCrowsNest1950]

Hi Liz, Another great video, I too have looked a plans online and in countless magazines. I must agree that not a plan I've seen would work for me, they all needed "tweaking" one way or another. Mark & Scott

[@verntom4628]

"You are not a cow." 😂 I love your practical, common sense videos. So many helpful tips here. Thank you!

[@lizbiancoismydesignsherpa]

Moo 🐮

[@Ty-vk8pb]

Great video, I love the explanations! I've worked in architecture for about 2 years now but haven't had much chance to do layout planning. Your videos are great for learning some of the ins and outs of it!

[@lizbiancoismydesignsherpa]

Glad you found it useful! Layouts are my fav!

[@yolita1498]

Loved this video, when we were shopping for online floor plans we kept having to change so much about them. If the floor plan cost $1,500 and we made a minimum of two additional changes, we were told it would cost an extra $2,000+ . Thats why we opted to just find someone to design our own floor plans.

[@trinaroe5132]

Regarding the stairs to the second floor you could put the wall on that side and change stair access to the game room.

[@lizbiancoismydesignsherpa]

The extra room from the clerestory could go to the bedroom above. Good thinking

[@kristinnelson-patel442]

I would also connect the laundry abutting the stairwell directly to the stairwell so people can easily cart the laundry up and down the stairs to the other bedrooms upstairs.

[@lizbiancoismydesignsherpa]

Good thinking. Now if I could just get them to bring the 🧺 up!🤪

[@julianpaul680]

The garage would actually be pushed back about 15-20 feet at least. No cars have a turning radius to get into either garage. The back garage is just pulled in to fit on drawing

[@lizbiancoismydesignsherpa]

Good point. We really don’t know based on the site and what that will dictate🤔

[@gingermonette7455]

I agree about 2nd garage. No way you could get cars in there. The garage doors need to be on the adjacent side, opposite the game room.

[@cinders302]

I like the logic applied to the designer's thinking. Walk-in closets have their place, but for the most part I think they're a waste of space. I can see a walk-through closet that has a bedroom on one end and a bathroom on the other; it allows for a person to close a pocket door so as not to wake the other person, if one needs to get shined up and dressed without light or noise bothering the sleeper; especially when there are plenty of closet organizing features that can be used to keep multiple rods, shelves, and/or drawers. I've built-in closets along a wall and they're plenty big enough; including shoes and handbags. Oh, and upper shelving for luggage, and out of season clothing.

[@gingermonette7455]

Great room- the path to the MBR is DIAGONALLY thru the great room. That is a horrible layout. And with so many doors and windows in the great room, it would be VERY hard to arrange furniture, because of the traffic path and zero wall space.

[@JL-hn6hi]

Every added corner in a foundation, and every change in a roofline add to the cost of the house. Stock plans are full of these. People don’t understand how such things impact the cost of the build.

[@lizbiancoismydesignsherpa]

Exactly! Keep it simple.

[@Geronimo2Fly]

These plans are terrible. So if the parents are in the MB and one of the kids starts crying, they have to run across the entire house and up the stairs to get to the kid's room? The stairs need to be easily accessible from the MB, and IMO the bedrooms need to all be on the same side of the house. Also, I had a house where you walk in and are facing a wall; I hated it. I love the homes where you open the front door and there's a beautiful view, sometimes even of the back yard. If you want privacy from people standing at the front door, then get opaque windows. As for the Master Bedroom/Master Bath, I guarantee they're going to hate having to walk past the toilet, past the wet room, past the sauna, and past the sinks to get to the closet. You want to grab something quickly out of the closet? Forget it. That downstairs bathroom needs to be moved to near the laundry room (which as you said needs to be where the game room is), since nobody wants to use a bathroom that shares a wall with the great room anyway, and that entire master bedroom/bedroom 2 area needs to be revamped, with the kids' room above it instead of on the other side of the house. The kitchen needs to be moved to where the stairs/game room are to open up the view from the front door, and the stairs need to be moved over to the other side of the house. Or, you could move all the bedrooms to the left side of the house (MB where the game room currently is), and move the kitchen/laundry/guest bath to the right. The great room would be in the middle like it is now, which would be perfect.

[@lizbiancoismydesignsherpa]

Amen 🙏

[@sfreason4112]

Everything she said. Who loads groceries a mile and a half to the fridge or pantry?

[@lizbiancoismydesignsherpa]

“She” agrees 🤣🧑‍🎨

[@Bg-xk1uw]

So few designers create plans that are practical or even livable. Online plans serve for simple layouts but the vast majority mostly seem to be put together by AI or something with no thought for livability. When we were shopping for plans I looked at one set that was "almost" right and then quickly noticed that every single plan of similar size credited to that designer were the exact same layout with minimal differences. I'm seriously wondering if humans ever do any of the work and the majority are indeed AI generated.

[@lizbiancoismydesignsherpa]

I’ve drawn plenty of house from the ground up, had them duplicated, and sold as their own designs. Flattery, my 🤬Intellectual property, like original plans isn’t as valued with these quickie “solutions” till you have to live there!

[@remnant7028]

@@lizbiancoismydesignsherpa That's terrible! Do you sell your design plans anywhere?

[@lizbiancoismydesignsherpa]

@@remnant7028 No, I don’t have “plans” I sell. I’ve worked with hundreds of homeowners to draw a house for each of them though🧑‍🎨 Very different mindset

[@Bg-xk1uw]

@@lizbiancoismydesignsherpa lol well I guess it's flattering. I call it theft. I do know that AI can be fed a design then will make minor alterations to create "new" designs they credit as a whole new piece. As an artist I've had my art stolen before and had that done with it. I thank goodness I can do simple changes myself on our house plans.

[@hemlock4519]

In this size of house, taking dirty laundry through the kitchen could be avoided.

[@lizbiancoismydesignsherpa]

Good thought!

[@mestiza1776]

That entryway section is crazy….yikes!

[@pierrejamison1239]

spend hours re desiging the impractical, often ungainly plans that are available online

[@lizbiancoismydesignsherpa]

Me too!

[@pierrejamison1239]

@@lizbiancoismydesignsherpa liz, I'm amazed at how little understanding these so called designers have of how people live and function in rooms

[@pierrejamison1239]

@@lizbiancoismydesignsherpa really appreciate your vids. You so remind me of the Northeast, where i used to live- just your ways,, accent- down to earthed-ness-loveit!

[@lizbiancoismydesignsherpa]

@pierrejamison1239 oh, you noticed my accent 🤣🤣 thanks for watching 🙏

[@pierrejamison1239]

yeah, im from nys so it sounds like home

[@chuckb470]

This plan is so bad! So many awkward corners and wasted space!

[@lizbiancoismydesignsherpa]

Most of them need work!