Any decent room planners on here need some advice?

[clipperjay]

Hey mate yeah something like that that bathroom is too big I plan on sticking two bunk beds in that room! I'll try and find some measurements for the bathroom, but I'm sure we can get smaller?
Thinking about it the waste management pipes and water can be berried under flooring and feed out towards the window to external soil pipes? I've also got to thin about water sprinkler system and work out where to place then in the corridor and bedrooms?
 

[hobbiniho]

yeh as i said hat was a rough/educated guess from the picture you put up but he biggest problem with reducing space is you want a bath and a shower, might be able to loose 1ft of the size up and down the way but no much more really

[clipperjay]

No bath will be placed in just a shower and toilet and basin mirror a few power sockets and that's it!
My country is just too hot for baths no one has a bath and if you do the air-con is running LOL!
5FT by 5FT would be right 25SqfT per bathroom would hold all of that easily.
My issues will be planning I would love to loose the balcony that's easily an extra 15ft x5ft!
What would that corridor give in feet after the bedrooms are up?

[dubber36]

It's not possible for anyone to come up with a 'rough' layout without knowing the exact dimensions when space is so critical.

If you can provide me with an accurate floor plan with dimensions on, including existing door and window positions, I may be able to help.

[clipperjay]

True ive got assumptions total area of 700sq foot of space so assuption of a perfect rectanlge space would be 20ft x 30ft guessing as the building would be more long than wide only thing missing is how much of the stair case takes up sq footage total floor space is defo 1, 200 square foot of space on three floors. True scale plans im not interested assumptions at this stage is fine with the parameters given.
Thanks for input mate

[dubber36]

The thing is, square footage means nothing. You can't do anything without dimensions as you need to take into account wall thicknesses, door swings, and now you've thrown a staircase into the mix too. We need to know the storey height in order to know the geometry of the stairs. This will effect where the stairwell trimmers need to go to give sufficient headroom, how much usable space will be under the stairs, what effect the stairs have on the floors above/below them, etc...

What's the big deal with running the tape measure around the building? It will take minutes, then someone like me would be able to produce an accurate plan of what will fit quite easily. I don't know about anyone else, but you won't be getting a bill from me, so why not do the job properly safe in the knowledge that what you want to achieve can be done?

[clipperjay]

Dont get me wrong if I could get a tape measure and get proper dimentions I would.
 I think doing it right is the right way but its just planning level 1 at the moment I have regulations to deal with back home 6000miles away from uk. this just ideas on rough paper a proper architect would be hired. Think of this as a excircise to see what options I have available.  By the way its a new build foundations have not been laid yet

[dubber36]

Are you buying a new build off plan then? Presumably if planning permission has been granted, overall dimensions of the building will have been established. Where the partitions go inside is (within reason) can be decided at any point. As per my earlier comments tho' it is impossible to guess at what will fit into a space that no one knows the size of.

[clipperjay]

No company is involved its my land and my design within reason of building regs over there! But there regs are quite harsh compared to us due to the lack of land and over population.
They can build houses over there is 6-7 months I found this which is interesting:

[dubber36]

That all looks pretty straightforward. It sets the parameters in which to work.

I had one house to design that was limited to 100sqm (over 2 floors) that needed to have 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms on the first floor. Is was a squeeze, but I got it into the 50sqm space, so if you want to get 3 beds and 3 bathrooms into 65sqm, that is entirely possible.

The layout will depend on the proportions of the building and orientation to take into account light, solar gain, views, neighbours etc... If building design isn't your thing, then you really ought to seek professional help from the outset. If you are going to do it, money spent at the initial design stage will save thousands in wasted time during the build if things don't quite fir how you assumed they would.