I just stumbled upon an article about the house that was built for the new Peter Rabbit movie to represent a version of Beatrix Potter’s house, and it is basically what I’ve been designing in my head for my future tiny house.
I’ve always said I want a Beatrix Potter house-meaning I want a version of it because her house is quite big and on the dark side.
The article mentioned they also wanted to design a house that was a little more whimsical and light, look how sweet it is:
I think what I would do differently is change the dormer to this:
And steeper/deeper roof for an upstairs room, I would not use it much but I think that extra room would be important. So, if I did have an upstairs room the design of the stairs/closets (probably one of the only closets in the house) would be set to the side of the living room like this:
I like how the stairs are to the right and I imagine the the walkway to my bedroom is to the right which then leads to another entrance the studio just like in the house from the movie, but you can access the studio from the living room too. I know a lot of people like open rooms but I like small closed off rooms with hallways and low ceilings. I think I would do the stove thing in a fireplace:
Proportionally the main part of the house, I imagine a lot bigger than the movie version because I think the living room would be the left-front half of the house then the left back half would be the kitchen. There’s something I like about swinging doors that lead to the kitchen... people like being able to talk to who ever is in the kitchen while sitting in the living room but I think I’d rather just make the dining room pleasant enough for people to want to sit in there to socialize too. That also helps make the living room more like a potential bedroom for kidies, Beatrix potter often has a bed in interesting places:
I want a very kitcheny, kitchen:
Like the kitchen in Arsenic and Old Lace. I might need to move the stove to share a wall with the kitchen and share it with the living room and kitchen, I don’t know if they make stoves that open from two sides.
I would love some skylight windows if that doesn’t interfere with the upstairs and a large table.
The dining room leads to the back pop out behind the studio (as pictured in the movie version of the house.) In that pop out the left bit that overlaps the dining room to the back holds the bathroom and then the right 3/4′s is my bedroom. I don’t think I need a utility room because Dad would always put the washer and dryer in random places in our cabins. Probably stacked in the bathroom. But I imagine the bedroom not too huge like this:
Leading out to the studio. The studio in the movie version of the house doesn’t have a roof maybe? But I’d want a roof, just windows all over like a closed in porch/sunroom.
All this is going to change probably but this is what I’ve imagined up so far. Oh, lastly, the upstairs, maybe a potential hubby man cave that doubles as a guest room:
SO it is basically four bedroom one bath if you include the studio and living room, haha. I really want to have company and family stay over. I mostly want to figure out how the back pop out/my bedroom connects the the main house as shown in the movie version of the house. I’d love the see a photo from the back. Actually on second thought, the main house might should just be living room and upstairs mostly (so doesn’t have to be as big and then the back pop out should run along the length of the living room and include the kitchen/dining room and my bedroom and bath. That was there definitely can be skylights in the kitchen and maybe a bathroom upstairs...
Anyhow, I’ll keep building this attainable dream house in my lil head. I do feel it is attainable... if Dad could draw and build it for me!!
