This is Day 218 of the Slow Home Project and we need you to join us in our quest to evaluate the design quality of houses in nine North American cities in nine months.
Welcome to the Slow Home site this Wednesday, August 25, 2010 and today we are doing a Design Project!
We need you to re-design the main floor plan of the “Atwood 1″ which is a 1,721 sq ft townhome in Morton Grove, about 20 minutes NW of downtown Chicago.
There are several problems with this floor plan that need to be addressed:
1. The kitchen is poorly designed and has too much floor space.
2. There are not enough windows at the back of the unit.
3. The guest bathroom and laundry are poorly designed and not in the best locations in plan.
4. The entry could be made a lot better.
You can remove all of the interior walls, but the stairs need to stay as they are. Put back a new kitchen, living and dining space as well as a guest
bath and laundry area. You should also include a coat closet at the entry. You will get “bonus” points if you are able to include a modest study space
and come up with an outdoor room concept for the rear deck.
Day 218 – PDF
Day 218 – Existing
Day 218 – Demo
Day 218 – Full Symbol Library
To see how John has designed this space, click on the player below.
We look forward to seeing your designs! Post them to the site with your design rationale and we will reviewing all the best designs on the site on Friday!
Also, make sure to join us tomorrow, we are doing an “In Detail” segment on kitchen design in townhouses from the Chicago area.
If you are in the Denver area this weekend, don’t forget to check out the “Arapahoe Acres” mid century modern house tour. John and Matthew visited Arapahoe Acres earlier this summer and highly recommend going on the tour of this historical design community. To watch the video on Arapahoe Acres, click on the player at the bottom of the post.