Here is the floorplan for our house in the current layout. It’s about five to six feet above the ground so there are stairs coming off the back door straight into the back yard, and then there is a staircase off the front of the house that is shaped like a backwards letter “C”.

There are three bedrooms upstairs plus the living area, dining room, bathroom, kitchen and porch. There is also an area just behind the kitchen that we will use as an office. I just hope that our son will stay out of everything that we have to put in the office.

We heard back from the architect this week about a part of the plans for under the house. In my plans I had placed a bathroom under the stairs to make the best use of space. Unfortunately though the building code for Queensland requires a minimum of 90cm (36″) width. The space under the stairs is 86cm, so 4cm (1.5″) too narrow for the bathroom.

So now because of 4cm we have had to get rid of the walk in robe and replace it with a bathroom. I must admit that my wife is probably a little more disapointed about loosing the walk in robe than I am, but it is still a bit of pain because it will mean that our bedroom will now shrink to accomodate the new location of the wardrobe.

When I finally get the plans I will post them on here for you all to see.

Here is an article about another problem that we ran into with my original plans:

Renovation Planning Hitch