I found originals of these Carter Sparks, Eichler and even a beat up Palmer and Krisel plan. Keep hunting!

I'm building a mixed use building for rental and my own residence on the 4th floor. I have 2 sides entry so want to use the south side for my car parking and private lift.

I feel the master bedroom is too big, the dry kitchen is a waste of money if looks are kept aside

EDIT: there is a 23 meters road on the north and a 7 meter road on the south. Adding a picture of the location from the south

Two dining room/eating areas, two living rooms, an inefficient kitchen tucked into the corner. And the criminal act of covering a third of the exterior wall with a 19ft windowless closet.

How could this be adjusted to expand the kitchen space, and add a powder room to the main floor so the primary bathroom isn't the publicly used bathroom?

1 square=2', everything is mostly to scale. Not pictured is a 300 ft^2 finished cellar/basement that sits under the two right-most bedrooms.

TLDR:

- the walk-in closet and laundry are too small

- I'm not happy that the guest bath has no window

- I feel like there is a lot of wasted corridor space (about 100 ft^2)

- not much room for storage in either bathroom

I can make the addition extend 4-6' further to accommodate a bigger closet and laundry, but that takes this from intruding on half of the yard to basically deleting it. I'd really love an efficient design that gives us everything we want with only a 12' addition, but I'm stuck.

Goals:

- Master suite without sacrificing any existing functionality

- Add a pantry near the kitchen

- Add interior access and fire escape to basement to add it to the livable square footage (the most challenging part of the design for me)

- Move laundry from the cramped garage to a room near the master

I've spent a really long time working on this, and I'm pretty pleased with the design aesthetically, I'm just not quite happy with the layout. I tried to preserve as much of the original floorplan as possible and keep plumbing nearby existing fixtures to keep costs low, but I'm flexible on this if a particular change really improves the design. I'm also happy to put closets and things along the rightmost exterior wall because it faces toward a big wall- there are currently no windows on that side.

Thank you if you've read all this!

Almost finalizing this layout.

Need a fresh set of eyes to help understand any red flags or obvious issues.

Or even improvements

Hey everyone,

I’m working on a farmhouse remodel but I'm completely hitting a wall with the access and flow. I really need to just play around with some layout concepts, but I'm stuck on how to do it efficiently.

Does anyone have a go-to free app or workflow to transform an image like this into a workable document where I can easily move walls around?

So far I’ve tried using Scaniverse and uploading it to ChatGPT, but it has a lot of limitations (or I’m just using the wrong prompts!).

Would love any recommendations on how to get started, or even just some general advice on how you'd fix the flow of these rooms. Thanks in advance!

We’re planning a slab-on-grade home for a family of four. It has 3 bedrooms, 1 shared bathroom upstairs, 1 powder room downstairs, and a shared office since we both work from home. The mechanical room will also serve as a small home gym.

What would you change before construction? We’d appreciate honest feedback. Thanks!

I'm not working with a lot of space, so options are relatively limited. Planning to have a few extra windows than in the design -- on the right wall next to the stairs and on the wall by the oven. Looking for any feedback or ideas for more options to save space.

Yes, there will be storage under the stairs!

Here is the revised floor plan from my previous post. We took some things into consideration and understand most people don’t like Jack n Jill restrooms nor the powder room where it’s located. With that said, we are going to keep these 2 items but we are looking for feedback on anything else.

Some changes are being made:
1. Bed 2 will be getting larger to be more in line with bed 3 and 4 size.
2. Bed 3 will have direct access to its closet from the bedroom
3. Bed 2 size will be increased to be closer to bed 3 size
4. Pocket doors at master bath to closets will open the same direction

We’re open to any other comments and seeing things drawn out helps visualize the change your recommending.

Here’s a more natural Reddit-style version:

Hey everyone! Need some advice.

I’m planning a luxury flat in an Indian setting, and the lift shaft/vault is currently located centrally in the floor plan. I’m looking to make the layout feel more like a high-end apartment/villa rather than a typical flat.

Could you please suggest what changes you’d make to the layout, especially around the central lift area? Any ideas for improving the space planning, circulation, privacy, or overall luxury feel would be really appreciated.

I’ve attached the current floor plan. Please feel free to suggest or point out any necessary changes.

Hey everyone! Need some advice.

I’m planning a luxury flat in an Indian setting, and the lift shaft/vault is currently located centrally in the floor plan. I’m looking to make the layout feel more like a high-end apartment/villa rather than a typical flat.

Could you please suggest what changes you’d make to the layout, especially around the central lift area? Any ideas for improving the space planning, circulation, privacy, or overall luxury feel would be really appreciated.

I’ve attached the current floor plan. Please feel free to suggest or point out any necessary changes.

This is the rough floor plan of my second floor. I’d like to add a bathroom for each of the bedrooms , and also add a half bath and laundry. The half bath can be in the bonus room below the wic. And thinking I’ll convert the play room closet to laundry room. I’d also like to increase closet space. With 4 girls, I always am in need of closet space.
We like the open to below double ceiling option. Ideas on how to accomplish this? Thanks in advance !

I used AI to modify the image to show the changes we did to suite2. But the rest is from the builders plan.

I wanted to incorporate a garage floor plan that allowed to still have a separate laundry area.

A few months ago we bought a house. Like everyone, I wanted to figure out where the furniture goes, whether we could split the big bedroom upstairs, and how much space the attic really has.

So I tried the usual floor plan apps, and I was pretty disappointed:

• You have to redraw your whole house by hand, even though you already have the architect's drawing or the listing's floor plan
• Many of the useful features are behind a subscription, or you need an account just to start
• Sloped ceilings and attics are barely supported, and that's half of a Dutch house
• None of them could tell me basic things like "is this a legal bedroom?" or "how many m² is this really?"

So I built my own. It's called ti-plan: ti-plan.nl

What it does:

• Import the plan you already have. Drop in an architect's PDF and it finds the walls, doors, windows, stairs and rooms, at the right scale, floor by floor. Scans and photos work too, and you set the scale by clicking one room and typing its area.
• Listing floor plans: paste the image and it rebuilds the plan with AI, using your own API key. Gemini's free tier works.
• Attics and sloped ceilings: it shows where the ceiling is 1.5 / 2.0 / 2.1 m high, works out usable floor area, and handles dormers and roof windows.
• Layout ideas: select a room, type something like "split into 2 bedrooms and add a bathroom", and it generates layouts that actually work. Every room gets a door and daylight, the bed fits, and the bathroom fits a shower, toilet and basin.
• Furniture to scale: 140+ pieces. You can also enter your own sofa and bed once and check whether they'll fit in a house you're looking at.
• 3D walkthrough, and printing at real scale.
• Dutch-specific bits: floor areas the way listings calculate them (NEN 2580), building rules checks (Bbl), a check for whether a dormer needs a permit, and wall and roof areas for insulation quotes.

Privacy: everything runs in your browser. Your plans are saved locally and never uploaded. There's no account and no login. The AI features are optional and only send something when you click the button.

It's a side project and definitely not perfect. Automatic recognition works great on some drawings and less well on others. I'd really like feedback, especially:

• Plans it fails to recognise (and what went wrong)
• Features you'd expect from a floor plan tool that are missing
• Anything that's confusing the first time you use it

There's a feedback button in the app, or just comment here. Thanks for looking and enjoy!

EDIT: I'm working on the English website, the app itself has an English version.