Entrance Areas

• Entry separate or integrated into main living space
• Locations
• Amount of coat, boot and umbrella storage needed
• Size

Living Space

• Discuss ambiance you wish
• Full of natural light or dark and quiet
• Size - small and intimate, or large for entertaining and gathering of guests
• Openness or closeness to dining and food preparation spaces
• Living style:
  · Couch potato
  · Active discussion, entertaining, etc.
  · TV watching or not
  · Quiet place for reading of books
• Furniture preferences:
  · Couch(s)
  · Chair(s)
  · Tables
  · Antiques - clocks, cupboards, amoires, etc.
  · TV or entertainment center cabinetry
  · Fireplace or stove
  · Piano or other musical instruments
• Office space or alcove with furniture required
  · Credenza(s)
  · Desls and Chairs
  · Tables
  · Books -amount and preference for storage and accessibility
  

Food Preparation Area

• How do you use the space?
  · Is it a place where the family and guests gather during meal preparation to socialize?
  · Is this a center of family activity or a separate place to accomplish single task of meal preparation
  · Do you like to prepare meals alone, with others out of your space?
  · Is to be a family kitchen with table in the food preparation area or dining area separate?
  · Describe degree of separation.
• Can the space be open to other areas? Living Room?
• Describe your natural and electrical lighting and acoustical needs.
• Describe storage needed for pots, pans, dishes, and food.
• Discuss finishes you want, counter tops, cabinets, floor, etc.
• Describe the appliances you feel are necessary
• Stove preferences:
  · combination cook top with integral oven,
  · separate cook top and oven,
  · number of ovens,
  · Electric, natural gas, propane, coal, wood, other
• Refrigerator Preferences:
  · Electric or propane
  · Small, medium, large
  · Commercial or residential
  · Freezer on top or bottom or side by side
  · Utilize existing or buy new
• Separate freezer Preferences:
  · In kitchen or separate location
  · Upright or chest
  · Electric or propane
• Dishwasher or hand wash dishes?
• Other major appliances

Dining Space

• Discuss ambiance you wish to enjoy
  · Relaxed meals filled with conversation
  · Convivial center of enjoying friends and meals together
  · Eat quick and get on with other pressing matters
  · Formal or informal atmosphere
• Construction and enclosure preferences:
  · Built in banquette,
  · Free standing dining table and chairs or
  · Bar extension of food preparation area with stools
  · Separate from living space or open to it
• Preferences for natural and electric light
• Other features that come to mind

Sleeping Space

• Discuss ambiance you wish to enjoy
  · Light filled or dark and secluded, preferences for windows
  · Small and cozy or large with other furniture in room
  · Is dressing integral to room or separate from sleeping room
  · TV watching preferences
  · Music extent and speaker preferences
• Discuss furniture needed in bedroom:
  · Dressers, cedar chests, chest of drawers in room or in separate dressing area
  · Exercise equipment in room or not
  · Specific furniture preferences:
  · Bed - king, queen, double, twins, other
  · Rocking chairs
  · Sofas, overstuffed chairs, etc.
• Discuss adjacencies and openness of:
  · Dressing areas
  · Sitting and conversation areas
  · Bathroom
  · Outdoor access for sleeping, private garden, etc.

Dressing Area

• Integral with clothes storage or separate
• In sleeping room or separate room
• Adjacency preferences to bath and sleeping spaces
• Size: amount of hanging, shoe storage, shelf space, etc.
• Preferences for natural light and electric light

Bathing Area

• Large with separate compartments for toilet, sinks, bath, shower
• Single space with all fixtures
• Fixture preferences:
  · Bath (large, small, Jacuzzi, hot tub, etc.)
  · Shower (In bath or separate)
  · Water closet
  · Sinks - how many?
• Medicine cabinet requirements
• Natural and electric light preferences
• Discuss preferences for towel and bathroom supplies storage
• Mirrors - large or small