Our article provides a detailed walk-through of a house blueprint, highlighting key features, such as the butler's pantry, the front door, the living room, kitchen, and more. It gives an in-depth explanation of the home layout, including the positioning of the guest rooms and the unique feature wall.
Key Insights
- The navigation through the house begins from the garage, through the mudroom, up the steps and into a small area that leads into the butler's pantry.
- Distinct sections of the house include the foyer with an elevator shaft, the living room surrounded by a deck, a family area and kitchen transition, and a gardening area leading to a music room and guest quarters.
- The blueprint also indicates architectural details like special feature walls and the dimensions of each area, with identical building sections emphasized throughout the project.
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Again, from the garage, I enter the mudroom and go up the steps. When I go up the steps, you can see the note right there for up. When I go up the steps, I'm just going to zoom back and go to the previous page. Here are the steps; what we did is we came up the steps and entered this little area right through here.
So down below, we came up the steps this way, if you can follow my mouse. We came up and over, and we're now in the Butler's Pantry. So you can see there's a door at the end of the steps.
We have a Butler's Pantry here. If this door were to close, we would then come into the foyer over here on the left. There's the elevator shaft.
Again, the reference says to see the elevator in large plan; go to Image One, Sheet D7.2. So again, we came up the stairs into the Butler's Pantry. Here's the foyer. This is the front door.
If I zoom into here, you can see there's a note that says down, and you can see the steps right along there. I've come into the living room. The living room is surrounded by a very gracious deck.
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So the living room feeds into the kitchen over here. This is the Dining Breakfast Family Area. So again, Family Area, Kitchen Area.
I'm back in the Butler's Pantry. These owners wanted to have a gardening area, so there's an enclosed gardening area, which then transitions into their Music Room, and then into Guest Quarters that are over here on the right-hand side of the building. I'm going to look at these dimension strings.
Again, you can see that it's 3'6 from the outside corner of the house to the center of the window, and then it's 3'6 to the slash, follow the extension line up to this part of the pop-out right there. So architecturally, we have a Special Feature Wall. It's just something we're doing architecturally to give it a little bit of a feature.
Then we have the Guest Room with its deck there. You can see that once again, we have the call-outs for the Building Sections. I'm just going to back up a bit, and so what's happening is you see that I have the same Building Sections being called out in this image.
So the Building Sections are identical throughout the project. I'm going to close this visit for a little session just so you can spend some time looking at the drawings, and we'll continue on in a minute.