The Laurel 2

1,334 sq ft

2-bed · 2-bath · Separate dining · 46 × 29 ft footprint · 9 rooms

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Design-quality audit

An objective, weight-independent measure of craft — how faithfully the plan follows code + cited best practice. (Separate from your personal priorities, which you set in the studio.)

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✓ Code-compliant (all mandates)Usable area 89.1%Circulation 10.9%Avg room proportion 1.75:1

✓Every room is reachable from the entry · Walking-path best practice

✓No fixture or furniture blocks a doorway/entrance · Clear-floor best practice (NKBA / IRC R307.1)

✓No bedroom reached only through another bedroom · IRC R311 / functional-obsolescence best practice

✓Every habitable room has a window (daylight + egress) · IRC R303.1 / R310

✓Every bedroom has an emergency-escape window · IRC R310 (emergency escape & rescue opening)

✓Bed headboard not under a window · Best practice (interior design)

✓Sink + toilet share a plumbing wall (not opposite walls) · Best practice (plumbing economy / circulation)

✓No sliver rooms (sane proportions) · Proportion guides (≈1.15–1.6:1 ideal)

✓Circulation ≤ 14% of floor (no dead-end hall) · Young Architect — net/gross efficiency

✓Primary is the largest bedroom · NAHB convention

✓Bedrooms are a sane rectangle (not a corridor) · Proportion guides (≈1.5–1.6 : 1 ideal)

✓Laundry/utility room is functional-sized (not oversized) · Service-room sizing (sized to fixtures, not floor)

✓Half-bath is the smallest bath; primary bath isn't the runt · Bath-program convention (NAHB / NKBA)

✓Every bedroom near a usable full bath · NKBA bedroom-to-bath

✓Front door enters a social/transition space · Front-door best practice

✓Clear floor in front of coat/linen closet doors · Clear-floor best practice (reach-in access)

✓Clear floor in front of a dresser (drawer pull) · NKBA / interior-design clearance

✓Every living/family room has a sofa (not only a TV) · Best practice (a living room's primary furniture)

✓Sofa within comfortable viewing distance of the TV (gap ≈ ≤ 2× screen diagonal) · Viewing-distance best practice (SMPTE/THX)

✓Counter (landing) on both sides of the kitchen sink · NKBA Guideline 11

✓Range/cooktop not under a window · NKBA Guideline 18

✓Wide opening (≥ 6 ft) from the kitchen to the living/dining · NAHB most-wanted (open kitchen/living)

✓Kitchen work triangle not sprawling (sink+range+fridge legs ≤ 26 ft total) · NKBA Guideline 3

✓Kitchen work flow: sink between the fridge and range · NKBA (wash → prep → cook)

✓Dishwasher within 36 in of the sink · NKBA Guideline 24

✓Bedroom door near a corner (long wall stays unbroken for the bed) · Best practice (bedroom layout)

✓A usable walkway (≥ 2 ft) in front of the bed · NKBA bedroom clearance

✓Stand-and-load room in front of the washer/dryer · Best practice (appliance access)

✓Washer + dryer side by side (short reach to transfer) · Best practice (laundry workflow)

✓Clear floor in front of the refrigerator (doors + standing) · NKBA (fridge landing + access)

✓Tub/shower set back behind the sink — not blocking the walk in · NKBA fixture sequence

✓Sink nearest the door, with room to stand at it · NKBA fixture sequence + clear floor (IRC R307.1)

✓Bath vanity keeps mirror wall — window beside it, not behind · NKBA

✓Tub/shower set flush in a corner (alcove, plumbing on one corner) · Alcove-fixture best practice

✓At least one tub in the home (resale) · Resale/bathing best practice

✓Primary bedroom has a closet/walk-in · Convention

✓Closets tuck against a wall (not protruding into the room) · Best practice (built-in storage)

✗Kitchen counter frontage (NKBA, scaled to kitchen size) (9.4 / 10.6 ft) · NKBA Guideline 25

✗Room to pull out chairs + pass around the dining table (sides 2.2/2.3/2.9/4.7 ft) · Best practice (dining clearance)

Fixture-placement check

An automatic sweep for physical placement problems — fixtures overlapping, a blocked door, a toilet with no standing room, a TV off the sofa, a bedroom that reads as a corridor once the closet is removed.

!the TV sits 9 ft off the sofa's centerline · TV centered in front of the sofa (best practice)
!toilet has < 21 in clear in front (blocked by soaker) in Primary Bath · Clear floor in front of the toilet (IRC R307.1 / NKBA)

No hard conflicts — the notes above are tight-but-workable spots, shown for transparency.

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Preliminary and advisory — a schematic layout to explore, never a stamped construction document.