Kevster wrote:Rembrandt's Girl wrote:KENJI wrote:Hi Pahonu,
Question.....
Did you ever figure out the dimensions of each room? It wouldn't be hard to get a fairly accurate idea of the dimensions, but it would take a bit of time, just wondering if you've already done this research and would be willing to share it with the gang.
(Posting for Pahonu) Here you go,
KENJI...
BTW... The outstanding job done on this floor plan is amazing. KUDOS!!!
The "Powder Room" off the end of the "Terrace" (top image) would normally be called a "Cabana Bath." The naming of a bath may be subjective or regional, and subtle differences with bath configurations that happen to have exterior (or exterior ONLY) access can also influence the right term/name. However, this one would definitely qualify if there truly is no interior access to it and it's on the ground floor.
Anyway, Cabana Baths are usually associated with POOLS in many locales. Clearly, the design of any home may plan for a pool that is never added. This also still applies as it has a MASSIVE POOL known as the Pacific Ocean.
I hope that muddies everything nicely.
Hey Kevster,
Thanks for the compliment.
Rather ironically, I've never heard the term cabana bath even though I've used one more than once! A friend of my wife has a huge pool/outdoor entertaining space with a bar and grill, waterfall, water slide, and an actual hut-like cabana. It's over the top. When we are over, they have two cabana baths. One that we change in and is unattached to the house, and another that leads into their master bathroom that they use. Also, a friend of mine lives in the Belmont Shore neighborhood of Long Beach about 50 yards from the sand. If you walk down a narrow side yard of there home, there is an outdoor shower behind a wall, and it has a door leading into the downstairs powder room. It's nice to get the sand and saltwater off outside and step inside to change out of your trunks. I've seen more than one outdoor shower in the neighborhood.
Pahonu does have the bath house in the rear courtyard with changing rooms, but it may not have a bathroom. Either way, the powder room in the ell is like most of the other rooms in the house in that it opens to the outdoors from the lanais rather than interior halls. It's also quite large, at 10x10 feet so I speculate it may be compartmentalized with a toilet room and a separate space with sink and mirror for guests to "freshen up", as they say. That kind of generous dressing room/toilet room seems quite common in many of the larger historic home plans I've studied. They tend to be off of the front door, however. This one is clearly near the beach gate, as is the bar. Nice!
Some really large historic home plans even show separate men's and women's spaces by the entrance.