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Helping a friend determine the best strategic setup for his house. He and his wife are buying a new home and they have a 10 yr old son. He has a large gun collection and safes.
Prospective home is in an upscale neighborhood. Home is HUGE (3400 sq ft.).
All bedrooms on 2nd floor. Front door leads right to stairs. At the top of the stairs on left is master bedroom, which looks out to the street/front of home. To the right is bedroom 2 facing the street. To the right is also bedroom 3 facing the back yard, which is a forested area leading out to a hill and a road 1/4 mile away. Rooms 2 and 3 are identical in size.
Finally, there is a HUGE bonus room over the garage.
He is getting a room to himself as a "guys" room - mainly for guns an other hobbies. He is highly unlikely to get the bonus room. That's going to be made into a combonation extra TV room with couch/spare bedroom with bed/kids play room.
He realistically will get to choose between bedrooms 2 and 3.
From a security standpoint, which room would you recommend considering among other things -
- the view is better out over the back yard and woods than into the neighbors homes, so 3 is better than 2
- master bedroom offers the same views as bedroom 2, so bedroom 3 is better for variety
- neither room is very good for self defense shooting in the home and the child would almost certainly need to be secured before any self defense shooting because the master bedroom door is more in line with room 3 than 2, but it would be very dangerous either way. but if forced to choose to fire toward the master bedroom door from inside, bedroom 3 is definately more in the line of fire than bedroom 2 and hence bedroom 2 would be safer from that standpoint. but it's impossible to predict and a person could be within the room moving around, etc...
- there is a 3' roof over the front porch directly in front of room 2, which could possibly be an access point for a burglar.
just wondering if there are any angles that haven't been considered.
Prospective home is in an upscale neighborhood. Home is HUGE (3400 sq ft.).
All bedrooms on 2nd floor. Front door leads right to stairs. At the top of the stairs on left is master bedroom, which looks out to the street/front of home. To the right is bedroom 2 facing the street. To the right is also bedroom 3 facing the back yard, which is a forested area leading out to a hill and a road 1/4 mile away. Rooms 2 and 3 are identical in size.
Finally, there is a HUGE bonus room over the garage.
He is getting a room to himself as a "guys" room - mainly for guns an other hobbies. He is highly unlikely to get the bonus room. That's going to be made into a combonation extra TV room with couch/spare bedroom with bed/kids play room.
He realistically will get to choose between bedrooms 2 and 3.
From a security standpoint, which room would you recommend considering among other things -
- the view is better out over the back yard and woods than into the neighbors homes, so 3 is better than 2
- master bedroom offers the same views as bedroom 2, so bedroom 3 is better for variety
- neither room is very good for self defense shooting in the home and the child would almost certainly need to be secured before any self defense shooting because the master bedroom door is more in line with room 3 than 2, but it would be very dangerous either way. but if forced to choose to fire toward the master bedroom door from inside, bedroom 3 is definately more in the line of fire than bedroom 2 and hence bedroom 2 would be safer from that standpoint. but it's impossible to predict and a person could be within the room moving around, etc...
- there is a 3' roof over the front porch directly in front of room 2, which could possibly be an access point for a burglar.
just wondering if there are any angles that haven't been considered.
