We purchased a beautiful LifeForms home last December that was built in 1993. I don't know what the name of the floorplan is, but it's a very traditional, almost all red brick, four-bedroom, three-&-a-half bath, two-story, with all bedrooms on the second floor. You walk through the front door, with the staircase (which is really pretty) being just a tad off center to the left. There's a small entry foyer, with the formal living room to the right & the dining room to the left. On the other side of the formal living room is the family room, with both these rooms sharing the same fireplace. After you pass the dining room, you come to the laundry room on the left, which leads to the attached, two-car garage. On the right is the powder room. All of this leads to the kitchen, which is HUGE! The kitchen & family room each have a door that opens to the back yard. I've seen some houses where everything is flipped to the opposite side. The family room fireplace is flanked by display cases. We also have hardwood floors in the foyer, formal living room & dining room. The kitchen & bathrooms are white ceramic tile, which I desperately want to get rid of because it's so sterile looking & the grout is hard to clean, & white wall-to-wall carpeting throughout the rest of the house. On the second floor, the master is off to the right, kind of at an angle at the top of the stairs. The sitting area is a little strange. Instead of it being off to the side, the room is where you walk in, thinking this is all there is to the bedroom, but when you step in to the room & look over to the left, that's where the sitting area is. This was very awkward at first in trying to place the furniture, but I'm pretty satisfied with the way I have it set up. The master bath is off to the right when you're in the bedroom, & has two separate sinks, as opposed to one long vanity with a double sink. As soon as you walk toward the bathroom, the tub is centered, with the toilet closet to the left & the shower to the right of the tub. The bathroom window faces the front of the house & the bedroom windows face the back. Prior to setting foot into the actual bathroom itself, there's a large, walk-in closet on the left & a smaller closet on the right. Before you enter the bedroom, you immediately see built-in shelves & cabinets when you get to the top of the stairs. There's a bedroom to the left of the shelves & another bedroom kind of across from that, where it sits above the dining room. The first secondary bedroom's window faces the back yard & the other secondary bedroom faces the street. As you go further down the hallway, there's a full bathroom with double vanity to the left. At the end of the upstairs, at the opposite end from the master bedroom, is the fourth bedroom, which is above the garage. This room has a small, full bathroom & the "Texas basement." I notice with this floor plan, which is almost 3,000 sq. ft., you could actually convert that storage room into a bedroom, but you'd still have the attic & garage for storage, & use that fourth bedroom as a game room. You could also take the sitting room part of my bedroom & wall up the bedroom, turning that into a loft when you come up the stairs & remove the built-in bookshelves/cabinet. My only complaint is the way the kitchen is laid out. It's big & sunny, & the woodwork is beautiful (my cabinets are a warm chestnut color), but the sink & dishwasher lead into the family room. If I'm cleaning up in the kitchen, my husband is complaining that with the water running the sound goes right into the room & he can't hear the TV. Also, at first it was very awkward having the stove on the other side of the room from the sink. Typically, the stove & sink/diswasher are located on the same side of the kitchen or in close proximity to each other. Also, if we stay in our house for a long time, we'll probably change the tile countertops. That seems to be a LifeForms signature of their homes built during this time -- white ceramic tile countertops with a band of color tile on the edge. We ended up with blue, which is my least favorite color. I've seen other homes where the tile is red, green, black or mauve. I also don't like this tile because it's hard to clean & shows dirt. We also have the original towel bars & toilet-paper roll holders -- white with a gold band trim & faucets. But these are things that can be easily changed. Is anyone else familiar with this floorplan? I can't seem to find a website on the company. I'd also like to mention that our house is in Haydens Run in Chochran's Crossing. All the homes in this neighborhood are LifeForms.
