irvinehomeowner
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For anyone who has moved into the New Home Collection from an older style home that had a living and dining room... do you miss these other rooms? What did you do with your other furniture?
L or the izz-O?
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The presence of an island helps with the single eating area situation... and I prefer kitchens that have island that serve as eating areas too. I probably consider Montecito more of an I-formation... heh.
Actually... it seems that most homes in Irvine built from the 1999 and up (West Irvine, Oak Creek, Harvard Square) are more of the L shape or I shape which favors narrower lots. Looks like they stopped using the izz-O in the mid to late 90s (Westpark II).
We have big O (TustinRanch) just like you mentioned above and we like it a lot. But then this is our first home! What I like is our kitchen has more than one entry (or exit?), that makes the traffic to not stagnate or rub each other while going in and out of kitchen. Family Room/Kitchen are cosy, while living room and dining room has vaulted ceilings with chandeliers.
irvinehomeowner
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But no nook and dining? I guess the study in Plan 1 could be used as another dining area.
Maybe we've been spoiled in having 2 tables for the last 10 years... I guess you could always put the 2nd on in the CaliRoom... heh.
Maybe we've been spoiled in having 2 tables for the last 10 years... I guess you could always put the 2nd on in the CaliRoom... heh.
I also kind of dislike the great room - in fact I have not liked any floorplan i've seen in a new home lately. I went to one model in the ..columbus grove!? area and it was awful, just ....awful. The big asian family walking around it with us seemed to like it a LOT though.
I dont' know why but my work doesn't want me to be able to see the pictures you guys post. So i can't see the sample layouts. Buuut....
My early child hood home was a little square, with basically a dividing wall down the middle (and the second bathroom was also in the middle area, with a dining nook type against that wall) and then you would walk in a circle to go to all the rooms from the entry way -- is that the o shape? Like you could go left or right, and on the outer wall were hte bedrooms, kitchen..you passed through the living room and den that were in the middle -- we never used the living room for anything but company though.
My parents current home is a rectangle with just ..a few little half walls splitting it up. The garage lines up with the atrium and master bedroom so as far as regular flow goes you just have a long big room (divided up by walls and furniture) What's that? it doesn't really seem like an L or an O. and there's a wall sticking out part way from the outer wall that divides the ktichen from the living/dining room.
I tend to like older home layouts. I don't know that I've ever really connected it with the shape though. I just don't generaly like the newer places (apartments OR homes) as much. In fact my bf's friend from college bought a huge mcmansion out in BFE riverside (I belive I've mentioned it before) and I LOATHE it. Its a hideous monstrosity with an absolutely godawful layout, it has all these little wierd nook type rooms on either side of an open hallway and they serve absolutely no purpose. I don't know if its the layout specifically, at the time I just thought it was too big and the builder had kind of ..used up space just to do so
I dont' know why but my work doesn't want me to be able to see the pictures you guys post. So i can't see the sample layouts. Buuut....
My early child hood home was a little square, with basically a dividing wall down the middle (and the second bathroom was also in the middle area, with a dining nook type against that wall) and then you would walk in a circle to go to all the rooms from the entry way -- is that the o shape? Like you could go left or right, and on the outer wall were hte bedrooms, kitchen..you passed through the living room and den that were in the middle -- we never used the living room for anything but company though.
My parents current home is a rectangle with just ..a few little half walls splitting it up. The garage lines up with the atrium and master bedroom so as far as regular flow goes you just have a long big room (divided up by walls and furniture) What's that? it doesn't really seem like an L or an O. and there's a wall sticking out part way from the outer wall that divides the ktichen from the living/dining room.
I tend to like older home layouts. I don't know that I've ever really connected it with the shape though. I just don't generaly like the newer places (apartments OR homes) as much. In fact my bf's friend from college bought a huge mcmansion out in BFE riverside (I belive I've mentioned it before) and I LOATHE it. Its a hideous monstrosity with an absolutely godawful layout, it has all these little wierd nook type rooms on either side of an open hallway and they serve absolutely no purpose. I don't know if its the layout specifically, at the time I just thought it was too big and the builder had kind of ..used up space just to do so
irvinehomeowner
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What I meant is that you use the study/dining as a family room so you only have one table... or do you have a dining table AND a nook table in your Great Room/kitchen area?ajw522 said:
The presence of an island helps with the single eating area situation... and I prefer kitchens that have island that serve as eating areas too. I probably consider Montecito more of an I-formation... heh.
Actually... it seems that most homes in Irvine built from the 1999 and up (West Irvine, Oak Creek, Harvard Square) are more of the L shape or I shape which favors narrower lots. Looks like they stopped using the izz-O in the mid to late 90s (Westpark II).
irvinehomeowner
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I am the Necromancer!
So looking at more homes and floorplans... we just can't seem to get over losing that second dining area. We're fine with losing the living room (it is the least used space in the home although... the wife and kids like to read/sleep there when someone is watching TV in the family room).
And don't get me wrong, I like the Great Room concept, but I like that in *addition* to a formal dining area/living room... not *instead* of one.
The problem is there are no affordable new homes in Irvine that have that.
The izz-O is the shizz-O.
So looking at more homes and floorplans... we just can't seem to get over losing that second dining area. We're fine with losing the living room (it is the least used space in the home although... the wife and kids like to read/sleep there when someone is watching TV in the family room).
And don't get me wrong, I like the Great Room concept, but I like that in *addition* to a formal dining area/living room... not *instead* of one.
The problem is there are no affordable new homes in Irvine that have that.
The izz-O is the shizz-O.
irvinehomeowner said:
We have big O (TustinRanch) just like you mentioned above and we like it a lot. But then this is our first home! What I like is our kitchen has more than one entry (or exit?), that makes the traffic to not stagnate or rub each other while going in and out of kitchen. Family Room/Kitchen are cosy, while living room and dining room has vaulted ceilings with chandeliers.