Offering One-Story, Two-Story and Lennar’s Next Gen – The Home Within a Home
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I can safely say this cuz no one owns – or even has a deposit – on any of these yet, but wow are those some bizarre layouts.
Let’s start with Residence 2 (which is the first one they list, followed by Residence 1 ??). I’d be miffed before I even walked in…it is a 4 car garage but it is double-tandem! I tell ya, the last thing I want to do is jockey cars around to get my favorite ride out for the day. It would make me grumpy. Then what’s with the narrow layout on a 2900 sf home? It feels like a row house! I want some shoulder room if I’m buying a house that big! Also a lil confused as to why there is an office but no LR, though I suppose you could use the office as a LR. Do people not want LRs any more?
Now for Residence 1, which is the second house shown. Single story, 3 car tandem. Still a lil grumble about the garage, but let’s go in. Open door. There’s a BR. There’s another. And yet another. !! You pass 3 bedrooms and then comes the DR. Wait, where’s the LR? That’s right, there isn’t one. And the BRs really couldn’t be used as one without knocking out a wall. Next!
Residence 3. Next Gen. They probably mean 2 generation, cuz there is no way you’d buy this house without a relative wanting to use the part of the house that is partitioned off. And the garage entrance is on the opposite side of the house as the front door. Is there an alley? If not, I’m not sure how that’s gonna work. Let’s go in. DR…nook…FR…BR…garage. No LR? Not even something you can convert into a LR? And this is the 3600 sf big bomber!
Maybe these would work for some families. Maybe times they are a’changin and I’m stuck in the 00s. Maybe I should have a glass of wine and shut up.[/quote]
I was intrigued by the floorplans for the Next-gen thing. After all, we built a casita in our backyard to house my senior in-laws. But I agree – the floorplans are weird.
Residence 2 – I figure the 4 car garage is so that people can have all the crap/junk in their garage, and still fit in 1 car… maybe 2. Lets face it – most folks don’t use their garages for autos… They use them to store junk they’re too lazy to throw out. They leave their valuable asset (car) outside, and keep boxes of “stuff” that wouldn’t bring $300 at a garage sale in their garage. I agree with you about the lack of living room. You need to have two spaces – one for the adults, one for the kids and their toys/stuff.
Residence 1 – what’s with walking past all the private spaces (bedrooms) to get to the public spaces. That is just bizarre. And the next-gen option is not a separate apartment – it’s entered through the main hall. And leaves the rest of the house just as a 2 bedroom. I also don’t like how bathroom 2 acts as the powder room for guests. I don’t know about other folks kids – but my kids are not the tidiest in their bathrooms.
Residence 3 – this one is interesting with the next-gen space at the front. It can be entered by the resident from the 3rd bay garage or from the front porch entrance. (Not from inside the house.) But the side entry (on the side opposite the garage) is weird and will confuse visitors looking for the front door. I’ve never been a fan of hidden front doors. Sure the family will enter through the garage… but unless they don’t have friends and never entertain – it’s annoying. The bonus room is nice – this way the family room can be claimed by the adults – and the kids can be relegated to the bonus room for their toys/video games/etc.
But all in all – the floorplans have a lot of wasted space with small ‘sub-halls” leading to bedroom doors or bathroom doors, or hidden storage closets… Those sub-halls are a waste.
My 1960’s 2020 sf house is more functional than these homes.
