Island layouts

[steinjr]

Tell me about it...

Thanks for the input. I'll factor that in and keep mulling it over. I keep having this nightmare feeling that I'm wasting a lot of space. :?

The objective does not have to be to fill the room with layout. Your stated objective was to to fit in a layout into the room, without too badly compromising other uses of the room (access to bathroom, window, patio doors and closet). If you need access to all those doors and windows, then you pretty much need those aisles in Charlie's proposal (as in my first drawing).

But if the real objective is to totally minimize space used for aisles, then just block the all doors and windows except the hallway door, put a liftout or swing gate by the hallway door and create e.g. an around the walls layout with a central peninsula like this:



One aisle in the middle of a walk-in layout (from which you can access the layout on both sides of the aisle) tends to take less space than putting an aisle around on three sides of an island layout ....

If you decide that you don't need access to all those doors and windows, or if you can drill a hole in the wall into the closet and use the closet as part of a layout, then state your new design objectives clearly and take another swing at it.

Grin,
Stein