Floor plan/layout of our house

Danny and I worked on the house again today, installing more rafters and header beams on top of the porch posts. I’ll include a few photos of today’s work in a post after tomorrow’s work.

A couple of people have asked about the floorplan of our house. It has changed since I last posted a layout on February 8, 2009. I’ve been negligent in not posting a current floor plan. So, I’m rectifying that situation now.

The layout for the first floor that we’re working with now (after some adjustment over the last few months) looks like this (click image for a larger view):

If you compare the current plan with the previous floor plan, you will notice a few changes. The main thing is the kitchen which has been moved forward outside of the timber frame area. To the left of the kitchen is the summer kitchen on the southwest corner of the porch area. We also changed the bathrooms to put them next to one another, and we moved the pantry to the northwest corner of the timber frame area. This allowed us to put windows in both bathrooms. On the northwest corner of the house is located the mudroom, utility room, and the sewing room/study.

The porch, which we are working on now, extends around the house with the dotted line in the layout denoting the edge. The porch is 9 feet wide.

The upstairs in the house is in the timber frame area. It’s layout is like this (click image for a larger view):

The center section is open to the first floor. The stairs come up in a U shape at the back of the house where there is a landing. The two bedrooms upstairs are on the east and west end of the house. There is some storage space accessed from these rooms under the eaves at the front of the house. We’ve really not changed anything upstairs – there’s only so much that can be done.