Traditional homes have the main living areas on the lower level; reverse living house plans flip the design and place the kitchen, family, and meal rooms on the upper level, with most bedrooms on the lower level. Gaining in popularity right across Australia, reverse living is a shift in the ‘classic’ home design and delivers an attractive, ultra-modern alternate lifestyle option. Pillar Build Group has several reverse living house plans and an attractive suite of reasons you should consider this alternative living design.
Upside-down living—the primary intention of the design—is to maximize any potential views of the property, whether they be coastal, river, acreage, parkland, mountain, or whatever view you are lucky enough to have.
Listed below are a few benefits of reverse living house plans explained in this article.
Example of a Reverse Living Floor Plans
This is a three-storey home designed by Pillar Build Group. This is a great home designed to suit a narrow block with ocean views, including your own personal lift. Very conveniently positioned near the garage entry, it aids in traversing between levels.
The middle floor features the primary living zones, including the open-plan Kitchen, Meals and Living zone,a extending out to the large rear balcony. A third-level retreat caters to a luxurious master suite with its very own private balcony.
Reverse Living Homes Floor Plans Costings
As this concept of upside-down living is gaining momentum in our region, so is the number of upside-down living homes we design and build. The current display is a reverse living home, pleasing to the eye, with immense street presence due to its corner block location.
Whether you are thinking of Reverse Living or the traditional, your new home will be passively designed to suit your block of land and your family’s individual lifestyle requirements. This is also where personal service comes in, unmatched by any other.
Just click here to go through our Custom Home Building Costing quote for an approximate price of your dream reverse living two-storey home plan. It turned out to be very helpful to a lot of families in understanding the costs quickly for all different types of land.
2 Storey U Shaped Reverse Living Home Plans
This floor plan by Pillar Build shows a very good example of clever design in creating an internal courtyard, forming a ‘U’ shape design on a narrow block reverse living 2-storey home. The ground floor caters to minor bedrooms, a theatre room, and a separate games room that accesses the Alfresco backyard and swimming pool.
The second floor is accessed by the stairwell or personal lift and features the main living areas towards the front of the home with a large, wind-protected balcony to enjoy views. Also on the second floor is the large master suite with an oversized dressing area, en-suite, and two small wind-protected balconies.This design really showcases how reverse living can enhance livability. The upstairs balconies provide extra space and excellent cross-ventilation across the entire upper floor. The U-shaped design creates a natural central courtyard and light well, allowing natural light to stream into the home on both levels.
Benefits of Reverse Living
Reverse living refers to when a kitchen, living area, and dining space are located upstairs in the home design, as opposed to the bedrooms being on that level. It is literally flipping the ground floor of a traditional home design up into the upstairs, so it’s reversed, but more and more Australians are embracing the trend, and for a good reason: it’s perfectly suited to many aspects of Australian family lifestyles and environments.
Natural Light and Sustainability
Reverse living allows the kitchen, living, and dining areas to receive the maximum possible amount of natural lighting. No other structure overshadows the first-floor windows, and as such, these houses serve to remind that at day time, your home shall receive as much light as possible while the family is mostly at home during this time. That reduces the dependence on lights and thus the number of power consumption that can be fed into as it makes the human way where we save more in expenses and conserve the natural environment. Adding slider doors in floor-to-ceiling lengths and putting in bigger windows that can let the breeze in when they are opened is another way of incorporating better airflow in the house. This way, the opened window would serve as a source of welcome respite during the hotter months and less dependency on the air conditioners used all day long.
Environment and Surrounds
The single best advantage of reverse living is that it gives you a home that uses its surroundings to the fullest. Suited to many different locations, whether coastal living in open country spaces or even bushland, having your main living space upstairs means that your family gets beautiful views throughout the day, taking in the natural beauty from the most suitable viewpoint.
Holiday Home Solution
Reverse living is perfect for the family to begin designing their forever holiday home. Any coastal or county getaways are fantastic for reverse living, maximizing panoramic views and tranquillity of locations that are a little quieter, hence ideal for escaping to. You could also put a small kitchenette downstairs, near the bedrooms, to make your guests feel right at home and create an additional level of privacy by giving them their own space to which to retreat.
Kids’ Retreat
Many reverse living designs place children’s bedrooms downstairs with a main bathroom, and then the master suite is upstairs off of the living area. With older kids in the family, this will provide a little buffer between noisy teens and their parents, offering a little more space to relax! This will also keep the bedrooms shaded and cooler in the Summer months, again reducing the need to air condition each space all day long. Many people also opt to include an additional rumpus room or media room downstairs so the kids have another area to chill out in, particularly as they get older.
More Guest Flexibility
A small kitchenette is ideal for guests or even just those guests who enjoy healthy, home-cooked meals. They come compactly in almost every kind of available space with plenty of space-saving tricks up the sleeve. Above the countertop, a towel bar amiably takes up the wall spaces, saving you in many ways. Dish towels, utensils, pans, and whatever else would fit are stored elsewhere. There are pegs for mugs, so you will not run out of space for your cookware.
A great feature of one nicely placed light is that the kitchenette will look bigger, despite the fact that one may remove cabinets and use open shelving. This does reveal the contents of cupboards but also helps in keeping track of all the useless stuff you’d otherwise cram in a cupboard and then forget about. Marble or tile backsplash can lend a classy and downtown look to space, although the extent of this will depend upon your budget. You could also use substitute materials where required and still sport the same look.
