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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi, we are currently in the process of having our rowhouse completely renovated and adding an addition.  It is interesting to look at your floor plans and inspiration pictures, too.  We had a lot of the same considerations.

We toyed with the idea of putting the kitchen in the middle of the house, but ultimately decided not to. We do plan to having our living in the front and dining in the middle, but we can easily swap it out if we need the space. One of the reasons we did not put the kitchen in the middle is because it just isn't seen much and we felt that it might be a layout that people were not fans of, in general. Also, as you point out, light is a huge consideration and we were concerned the kitchen would just be too dark.

I love the idea of having your powder room opposite from the stairs, but I see you quickly abandoned that and I imagine it is, again, due to ensuring as much light as possible flows through the house. We struggled greatly with where to put our powder room for the same reasons and ended up putting it roughly in the same place since the stairs already block out light and we did not want to block out any more.

We are also essentially putting windows on the entire back side of our house to try to get in as much light as possible.

Sorry I don't have much in addition to offer - as I said, your plans look very similar to ours so it would seem we came to many of the same conclusions as we worked through the process. We did decide not to include a tub in our master bath. We decided that as far as personal use goes, my husband and I don't really take baths. This allowed the bathroom to be a bit smaller and we put more space into closets. But I think this is more of a personal preference than anything else. We do have a tub in the hall/guest bath.

I do agree with a previous poster about getting rid of the peninsula and going for the wider opening into the kitchen. This is another personal preference thing, but I'm not sure how much you will use that peninsula. I think it would end up just collecting stuff?

Another note, is it at all possible to get at least a half bath in that den on the top floor. I just imaging it could be a pain if you are up there and need to go to the bathroom and have to troop downstairs. We actually have our master bath on a separate floor from the other bedrooms.  The floor our master bath is on has a den/tv room and we put another half bath there because we do not want people using the master bath when in the tv room, but we also did not want people to have to go downstairs. Just a thought.

Good luck with your project![/quote]

Thank you so much for your thoughts! It sounds like y'all thought a lot about the same things I have, and its nice to hear!

I totally agree on the tub personal preference, not having a tub in my current master bathroom makes me very sad, so even though it will make the bathroom a bit more cramped I am really looking forward to having one. And it will be freestanding, so I think it could be removed without terrible trouble if in the future someone else really wanted more floor space.

Given everyone's feedback, I am definitely leaning towards removing the peninsula. I want to wait to tape it out in the actual space once demo is done, but everyone seems fairly aligned on that point!

Unfortunately, as much as I would love to have the third floor be a bit larger, that is the part we fought with historic about the most. The roof of the third floor slopes to the back of the house and making the room any larger creates very low ceilings. We proposed sloping the roof to the front of the house, but there was concern that it would change the view of the house from the street.

Glad to hear that others are willing to admit to watching tv  :lol: I'm not that ashamed to admit its mostly of what happens in the living room... Good luck with your renovation as well! Hopefully you'll eventually post some before and afters, I love seeing changes and one of the things I love about DC rowhouses is how they're all pretty similar at their core, so its fascinating to see how similar/different they ultimately end up. [/quote]

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