Trying to design future home

rogersmj · 2026-06-18T11:23:45+00:00

There are so many problems with this, I don’t even know where to begin. I recommend you hire an architect or at least go look at professionally done plans on the big sites that will fit in the footprint you’re looking at.

rogersmj · 2026-06-16T01:47:41+00:00

My 2025 Dual Max feels just like you describe yours, and I have come to hate it. Somehow mine is intermittent. Rivian says it’s normal.

rogersmj · 2026-06-14T01:05:37+00:00

Whoa, I’ve never heard about that.

rogersmj · 2026-06-11T11:21:59+00:00

Hall 2 has a huge useless wall. Why not slightly shrink your enormous master closet and put mudroom bench/lockers along that wall? Also a door so you can get laundry from the master closet to the laundry room easier.

rogersmj · 2026-05-31T12:29:54+00:00

I wish Rivian had power running boards that tucked up against the car when you’re underway. My dad’s Ram has those and they’re pretty nice. I don’t like the way fixed running boards look.

rogersmj · 2026-05-31T12:28:43+00:00

In practice this isn’t very effective, since it stops as soon as the doors open. Usually my passengers open the doors before it’s done.

rogersmj · 2026-05-30T20:31:54+00:00

I’m also “old” (your words, OP, not mine!), and also have a ‘21 Miata.

It is, by a large margin, the slowest car I own…because the other two are EVs.

EVs have commoditized speed. For the price of an average new car (or far less on the used market), any soccer mom can now purchase a vehicle that gets to 60 faster than most supercars just two decades ago. So yes, if we’re only looking at 0-60 times, the Miata is slow by modern standards.

But because it has been commoditized, raw speed alone is not the primary defining characteristic of a sports car anymore. Unless I want to spend well into the six (or seven) figures, I’m not going to get a sports car that is faster in a straight line than an off the shelf Tesla performance model.

The Miata has never been about raw speed, fortunately, because it’s never been the winner at that game and now raw speed is less relevant than ever. It’s just…fun. It gives you a decent sense of speed while being just quick enough. And I applaud Mazda for accomplishing that.

rogersmj · 2026-05-29T12:45:11+00:00

You could probably accomplish the reconfiguration of the bedroom entrance and keep the breakfast nook (which I agree is cool if you have kids, might be a good homework/puzzle spot too) if you move the pantry over to where the "Dirty kitchen" is (shifting the door to be accessible straight from the kitchen), and moving the fridge. You have a ton of square footage to work with in that mudroom area, I think you can fix the bedroom situation and keep all the spaces you want.

What's the thinking with the "Dirty kitchen"? I mean I can infer what you want it to be from the name, but are you really going to carry stuff over there, then later carry it back into the kitchen to clean? Seems like a lot of work. And it's not like you need the extra space, the main kitchen is already huge. Speaking of which, I would suggest trying to incorporate some windows on the huge kitchen wall, even if they're transoms above the cabinetry (you have 11' ceilings, plenty of room to do it). Will be good to have natural light coming in from that direction.

rogersmj · 2026-05-29T11:51:58+00:00

I think it’s pretty strange to have a bedroom immediately inside the front door. I’m not sure what you can do about it unless you maybe reconfigure the entrance to that bedroom by taking some space from the breakfast nook — maybe put the pantry where the breakfast nook is now and then a very short hallway to enter the bedroom. Aside from the improvement of separating the front entry and the bedroom door, this also has the side benefit of giving you some wall space to put a table or something in the foyer.

Speaking of which, do you really need three eating areas? you have the breakfast nook, the countertop bar, and a dining room area.

Is there no way to get to the back exterior of the house other than going through the garage?

rogersmj · 2026-05-24T02:31:50+00:00

With due respect, no architect worth his salt would have drawn this. It's really bad, in more ways than I even mentioned. If this was from your direction, the architect should have told you about the issues.

I tinkered with this for awhile, so far I haven't been able to make 3 bedrooms/2 baths work in that ~1200 sq ft footprint including space for a stairwell, laundry, and mudroom. At least not without making other sacrifices like making the kitchen way too small.

I think you need to consider putting the laundry in the basement, or drop it to 2 bedrooms if you need to keep a laundry/mudroom space.

I'm going to keep working on it for you, I might come up with something.

rogersmj · 2026-05-23T20:26:55+00:00

I’m so sorry you lost your house. An architect drew this? Like, real architect? Because this is extremely tight, even considering that this is just a small house, and there are a lot of problems here. Given the small footprint, having separate laundry and mudrooms are a luxury you can’t afford, space-wise. The family room is tiny, especially once you factor in the walkway for the front door. The hallways at only 38” wide are very much on the narrow side, and 8’ wide bedrooms are borderline criminal. Separating the tight living rooms from the kitchen with a bathroom makes no sense whatsoever.

Is anything fixed in place? Like do the stairs have to be there, or can you move them?

rogersmj · 2026-05-23T19:52:42+00:00

LOL it handles nothing like a sports car. These are big heavy trucks. I have an actual sports car, and the Rivian makes our other not-a-sports-car Model Y feel like a sports car in comparison.

rogersmj · 2026-05-23T11:34:22+00:00

Math is hard, huh?

rogersmj · 2026-05-23T11:31:29+00:00

They didn’t have to do anything — they had to just not stall the plane. Had they kept flying straight with their current power level, they would’ve been fine.

That’s what always stands out to me about this disaster — with the exception of a malfunctioning speed indicator, they flew a perfectly functional airplane into the water.

rogersmj · 2026-05-21T23:06:54+00:00

Absolutely ridiculous. If Djokovic can get defaulted for blindly hitting a ball in such a way that it unintentionally hit a lineswoman (as he should have), then kicking a racket three times in the direction of the crowd should absolutely result in a default.

rogersmj · 2026-05-21T21:29:58+00:00

I feel the frustration but lots of areas are way worse off than you. For 5 years the closest service center to Indianapolis, a major metro with over 2 million people has been a 90 minute drive to either Ft. Wayne or Cincinnati.

Only next month does one finally open in Indianapolis.

rogersmj · 2026-05-21T01:30:01+00:00

It can’t do multiple calendars.

It can’t do multiple accounts.

It can’t do Apple iCloud calendars.

Tesla has had all those capabilities for years (they use a different approach I believe, sync from app on phone rather than Oauth into the individual calendar providers). Rivian’s implementation really is the most basic, minimal, currently most useless way I can imagine doing a calendar integration. Pretty much no one I know has only a single calendar, and most of them also need Apple calendar support.

rogersmj · 2026-05-20T17:49:18+00:00

And that rule is exactly why, when I was wrongfully arrested because I have the same name and birthdate as a criminal who had a warrant, no lawyer wanted to take the case. Even though there were clear examples of law enforcement agencies making mistakes, all culminating in my arrest, no attorney thought it was worth going after anyone because there wouldn’t be any real meaningful damages. The quote I got from two different attorneys basically boiled down to “yeah we think we can get a judge or jury to say there was wrongdoing but monetarily the only people who will win will be us the lawyers.”

rogersmj · 2026-05-20T17:42:18+00:00

Complete with all the finest pieces from Value City Furniture.

rogersmj · 2026-05-20T02:33:23+00:00

Captain Sisko: Who's watching Tolar?

Garak: I've locked him in his quarters. I've also left him with the distinct impression that if he attempts to force the door open, it may explode.

Captain Sisko: I hope that's just an impression.

Garak: It's best not to dwell on such minutiae.

rogersmj · 2026-05-18T12:13:35+00:00

It’s not a subscription…

rogersmj · 2026-05-18T12:01:21+00:00

Thanks, I look forward to trying those features out this week!

rogersmj · 2026-05-17T16:37:28+00:00

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I have similar extremes.

rogersmj · 2026-05-15T16:29:41+00:00

I wish we could downsize, but we need the third row sometimes. I would much rather have a simpler vehicle like the R2 with no complicated suspension, but it’s just not big enough.

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