Design in progress: Ultimate Bachelor Pad

[PurdueSD]

8' wide is way way too narrow for a garage door... (IMO)
Standard house single doors are 7'tall 9' wide. If it were mine, 10' would be the minimum width for a OHD.

Although i think all of us here like the concept of the ultimate bachelor pad... Just remember life happens and one day you might have to sell the place... For you to sell, someone has to buy it. Just something to consider in your design.

Love the Deck!

 

[pajeepguy]

Nice but all the people I talk to with a garage under the living space agree that it's no good as all the noise and fumes end up in the living space....build a parking space under the house and the major workshop under the indoor pistol range or pool. ha ha ha

There are ways to isolate and insulate. I have a friend with a single room apartment over a smaller garage and he has had no issues with fumes. As for noise, if I am down stairs working there won't be anyone upstairs annoyed by the noise

8' wide is way to narrow for a garage door... (IMO) Standard house single doors are 7'tall 9' wide. If it were mine 10' would be the minum width.

So noted. That seems to be what I am hearing from most people. What do you think about tall the doors should be? all 12'... leave some 10'?

Although i think all of us here like the concept of the ultimate bachelor pad... Just remember life happens and one day you might have to sell the place... For you to sell some one has got to buy it. Just something to consider in your design.

I know

Love the Deck!

I love deck space. One of the purposes of this place is to entertain (I have my own off-road club and am part of another) so the deck will serve as a great place for social functions

 

[V-10 Killer]

Man that's some awesome work. I really like walk out deck. The whole exterior look is great.You've definately got some talent with SketchUp. I tried training myself on it, but just couldn't get the feel for it. Kept putting bathroom fixtures below the floorline lol.

 

[PurdueSD]

Ive got 8' tall doors in my shop and one 10' tall. My f250 that had a 7" lift and 37" tires fit in either. SO i would think any lifted jeep would too.

That being said I would go with 10' doors and maybe one taller door to appeal to someone with an RV that might buy the place down the road.

 

[felixgogo]

When you broke up the roof into different elements the whole design suddenly 'pinged' and looked superb. This is the secret of great design (imo), using traditional ideas to 'hide' the bulk of what is a large building.

The roof slopes over the master bedroom are great, breaking up that huge roof, but you could win a lot of that lost space back by the introduction of dormer windows.

Whilst on the subject of windows - your upstairs windows don't look right - they need to flow into the door design downstairs I think, not be modern block windows. Apologies if these were just ''a work in progress'. The ones I have suggested are just the first ones I found - choosing windows is the MOST important thing on a building - they make or break it.

Extending the roof slope over the middle garage doors would break up that huge front wall.

Finally, the 'sun lounge' over the deck is a bit odd as it looks heavy and unsupported as it sits over the carport deck. Perhaps alter this to all glass?

Just a few ideas from me - fell free to ignore! I really, really like your design and how you have developed this.

Keep at it mate!

Before

After

 

[pajeepguy]

Man that's some awesome work. I really like walk out deck. The whole exterior look is great.You've definately got some talent with SketchUp. I tried training myself on it, but just couldn't get the feel for it. Kept putting bathroom fixtures below the floorline lol.

Before changing majors and going down the education route, I was an engineering major so I know my way around CAD. SketchUp is just so easy to use it just takes time. This is version "4.5" and is so radically different (in terms of the digital structure) than the first one. What used to take me HOURS to do now takes me minutes. Just play around with it. Try making easy things you see every day and work your way to more complex items. You'd be surprised how much you can learn from trying to make a pin-point 3D model of a coke can.

Ive got 8' tall doors in my shop and one 10' tall. My f250 that had a 7" lift and 37" tires fit in either. SO i would think any lifted jeep would too.

My current Jeep with a rack and spare tire on the roof barely clears 8' So that is what I was working around for the 10' doors with the 12' door on the end for the bay with the lift.

That being said I would go with 10' doors and maybe one taller door to appeal to someone with an RV that might buy the place down the road.

I will have to play around with it some more and see. Thanks for the suggestions.

When you broke up the roof into different elements the whole design suddenly 'pinged' and looked superb. This is the secret of great design (imo), using traditional ideas to 'hide' the bulk of what is a large building.

Thanks... it will be a work-in-progress for a while so as I get inspired by other things I see I try to incorporate them when/where I can.

The roof slopes over the master bedroom are great, breaking up that huge roof, but you could win a lot of that lost space back by the introduction of dormer windows.

I tried dormers but they didn't turn out right. I just couldn't get the proportions right (in my eyes) and they seemed to jut-out more than fit-in with the rest of the house. Your's on the other hand

Whilst on the subject of windows - your upstairs windows don't look right - they need to flow into the door design downstairs I think, not be modern block windows. Apologies if these were just ''a work in progress'. The ones I have suggested are just the first ones I found - choosing windows is the MOST important thing on a building - they make or break it.

Extending the roof slope over the middle garage doors would break up that huge front wall.

Finally, the 'sun lounge' over the deck is a bit odd as it looks heavy and unsupported as it sits over the carport deck. Perhaps alter this to all glass?

Oh, trust me, I know. The windows are more of a "I want a window here, but I have no idea what kind" yet. So I just bounce between 3' square ones and 3'x6' wide ones. No offense taken, I know they ****. Also why there are no bathrooms laid out on the upper level and why the kitchen layout *****... another pair of weaknesses. Good thing I have a friend who's an architect... so when the time comes he'll get my design to work from and I'll let him add his flair to it.

Just a few ideas from me - fell free to ignore! I really, really like your design and how you have developed this.

Keep at it mate!

Thanks. That is why I am not afraid to post this as a "work in progress" and show the evolution of the design. Insights like yours really help steer me along.

LOVE IT!!!

 

[onewaydave]

I like how your drawings have evolved. I'm not a cantilever fan. I would suggest considering making the decks bigger to give more protected outdoor work space. Even in PA you might find a nice day to work outside.

If you proceed with the house over garage theme, put effort into sound proofing and ventilation. It'll work.

Deck at least 3 sides with lots of stairs for access.

Dave's $0.02.

 

[felixgogo]

Cheers!

Of course - being in the states with your enviable space, I would be looking at picking up some style ideas from Greene and Greene or Frank Lloyd Wright, who designed some of the best architect houses in the US.

Check out 'The Robie House' (3 garages!), The Blacker House, and the Gamble House. These are all houses designed in the golden age of the automobile, so access and parking and garaging were all thought about in the design.

The Gamble House (used in Back to the Future..) could in my opinion provide a great starting point for a downstairs garaging and upstairs apartment design, with huge ranch style roofs to hide the bulk of the building.

 

[V-10 Killer]

Before changing majors and going down the education route, I was an engineering major so I know my way around CAD. SketchUp is just so easy to use it just takes time. This is version "4.5" and is so radically different (in terms of the digital structure) than the first one. What used to take me HOURS to do now takes me minutes. Just play around with it. Try making easy things you see every day and work your way to more complex items. You'd be surprised how much you can learn from trying to make a pin-point 3D model of a coke can.

Sweet, I was going to school for BSME too, but between shiftwork and family and school, I was getting about 3 hours of sleep a day, and that was in the car in the school parking lot lol. Kind of a bummer making it to senior year status and dropping, but it was gonna kill me.
I really liked AutoCad, and Solid Edge Pro. I guess if I'd dedicated a hundred hours to SketchUp, it'd be good, but you know how it goes

 

[pajeepguy]

I like how your drawings have evolved. I'm not a cantilever fan. I would suggest considering making the decks bigger to give more protected outdoor work space. Even in PA you might find a nice day to work outside.

I had thought about pushing the deck out across the middle two doors and possibility extending it out another foot or two away from the house. There would also be some kind of deck/patio out back too. Just not sure if it would be a free-standing place or possibly built into the side of a hill.

If you proceed with the house over garage theme, put effort into sound proofing and ventilation. It'll work.

Yeah, I took a good luck at a buddy's apartment-over-garage place and some of the things he did and he had a few suggestions on how to do it better.

Deck at least 3 sides with lots of stairs for access.

Dave's $0.02.

Yeah, I haven't yet figured out a good place for stairs to the deck. I am sure at one point I will work that in. Too much time focused on school work. I use this thing as a way to distract/de-stress myself when I need a break.

 

[Scottishross]

how is the progress mate