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I live in a three bedroom ranch-style home and designed the floorplan myself. Every room save for my bathroom and my office has two egress routes and they all

• ghotli 5y ago
  Hey what tool did you use to design the floorplan? Pen and paper?
  • jcims 5y ago
    This was 2007 and I did it out of necessity because we couldn’t find a floorplan we liked. I did most of my thinking on paper and used sketchup to visualize, check measurements, etc. We were dead-set with sticking to a budget and I think it really allowed us to maximize the utility per square foot.
• freemint 5y ago
  Do you talked about the floor plan and the reasoning behind it somewhere? It might be interesting.
  • jcims 5y ago
    No. It probably isn’t that interesting. I lived in a two story home previously and i just felt kind of vulnerable having only one way down to the ground floor. Having two young girls at the time i wanted to avoid that. We also built out in the middle of the woods and i wanted to maximize our mobility in case anyone decided they could break in without getting caught (in fact you could bulldoze our house without getting caught) Everything else flowed from that. One interesting side effect is that i can put an exhaust fan in a window of my office and by closing select doors can pull fresh air through the entire house by cracking two other windows open.