ᐅ Floor Plan of a Single-Family Home with a Secondary Suite
Created on: 22 May 2017 10:40
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zwei&vierzig
Hello everyone,
We are in the process of building a house and, after much deliberation, have decided on the floor plans. I’d like to share the plans with you and look forward to your objective opinions.
Please do not comment on the kitchen layout. We are currently in the middle of kitchen planning, and the kitchen as shown on the plan will almost certainly not be implemented as is.
The plot has a steep slope from north to south (there is an 8-meter (26 feet) difference between the street and the lower boundary of the property) and a slight slope from east to west (this is the street side, with a 2-meter (6.5 feet) difference). Only the tenant of the basement apartment has access to the garden. Since the house turned out quite large, we decided to include a basement apartment to rent out. It has a separate entrance.
It was important for us to separate the living room from the kitchen and dining area because we have three cats, and I want to buy a nice sofa without worrying about destructive cat claws. Upstairs, we wanted a large hallway as a second living room. I’m not a fan of having TVs or computers in the children’s rooms.
There is no building permit/planning permission for the site. The garage will be built directly on the property boundary.
Building plan/restrictions
Plot size: 630 sqm (6,780 sq ft); plot width: 18 m (59 feet)
Slope: yes, steep south-facing slope
Building envelope, building line, and boundary:
Number of floors: basement/souterrain, two full floors, attic
Floor height: 2.80 m (9.2 feet)
Roof type: 25-degree hip roof
Architectural style: Swedish house (timber frame construction)
Orientation: south
Number of occupants, age: 2 adults and two children (not yet born)
Office: home office
Open or closed architecture: modern, but rather closed architecture
Open kitchen, kitchen island: large open kitchen with island; living room separate
Fireplace: planned
Balcony, roof terrace: large balcony with garden access and a small balcony on the bedroom
Garage: double garage
I hope I’ve covered all the important points upfront.
Best regards from the galaxy!
We are in the process of building a house and, after much deliberation, have decided on the floor plans. I’d like to share the plans with you and look forward to your objective opinions.
Please do not comment on the kitchen layout. We are currently in the middle of kitchen planning, and the kitchen as shown on the plan will almost certainly not be implemented as is.
The plot has a steep slope from north to south (there is an 8-meter (26 feet) difference between the street and the lower boundary of the property) and a slight slope from east to west (this is the street side, with a 2-meter (6.5 feet) difference). Only the tenant of the basement apartment has access to the garden. Since the house turned out quite large, we decided to include a basement apartment to rent out. It has a separate entrance.
It was important for us to separate the living room from the kitchen and dining area because we have three cats, and I want to buy a nice sofa without worrying about destructive cat claws. Upstairs, we wanted a large hallway as a second living room. I’m not a fan of having TVs or computers in the children’s rooms.
There is no building permit/planning permission for the site. The garage will be built directly on the property boundary.
Building plan/restrictions
Plot size: 630 sqm (6,780 sq ft); plot width: 18 m (59 feet)
Slope: yes, steep south-facing slope
Building envelope, building line, and boundary:
Number of floors: basement/souterrain, two full floors, attic
Floor height: 2.80 m (9.2 feet)
Roof type: 25-degree hip roof
Architectural style: Swedish house (timber frame construction)
Orientation: south
Number of occupants, age: 2 adults and two children (not yet born)
Office: home office
Open or closed architecture: modern, but rather closed architecture
Open kitchen, kitchen island: large open kitchen with island; living room separate
Fireplace: planned
Balcony, roof terrace: large balcony with garden access and a small balcony on the bedroom
Garage: double garage
I hope I’ve covered all the important points upfront.
Best regards from the galaxy!
Z
zwei&vierzig22 May 2017 11:53matte1987 schrieb:
Am I understanding correctly that the main owner has a large balcony while the tenant in the granny flat has access to the garden? If that's the case, I would definitely swap the basement and the upper floor.
That way, the children would have garden access from their room, and the tenant upstairs would get a balcony.
Regarding the plans:
Basement:
- The open space in the granny flat is very difficult to furnish, and the bathroom is disproportionately large compared to the rest of the flat.
- Why is there another toilet in the "basement 2" area?
Ground floor:
- You’re already working on the kitchen layout, but the space has great potential.
- Is the living room really going to be furnished like that? With a room width of about 3.40m (11 feet), you only have approximately 2.50m (8 feet) left for the couch after accounting for the door. Our sofa is 3.30m (11 feet) wide.
Just a thought—it's best to draw the furniture to scale using actual measurements.
- How wide is the balcony?
From what I can see, only the part with the bay window would fit a garden table, but that would block the house entrance. Since this is supposed to be the main terrace, that seems very inconvenient.
Upper floor:
- Having the master bedroom as a walk-through room is very impractical.
- I would probably make the bathroom a bit smaller and move the guest room further toward the top of the plan so that it remains accessible. This way, the narrow children’s bathroom would become larger and easier to furnish.I don’t want anyone walking over my head, so there are no tenants above me in my house. Yes, the tenant has garden access, and we “only” have a balcony with stairs leading down to the garden. The basement gets quite dark because of the balcony, and we would be missing rooms if we moved into the basement.
The large bathroom for the tenant and the awkwardly large living room are indeed not ideal. However, we still haven’t come up with a better solution.
A toilet is planned in the basement so that during garden parties or while working in the garden, no one has to walk through the entire house.
The living room will have a sofa, the TV will be mounted on the wall, and there will be a display cabinet. Nothing else. The furniture shown in the plans is purely the designer’s imagination.
How exactly is the master bedroom a walk-through room? No one but the parents is supposed to enter there.
Tentakel schrieb:
Garage integrated into the house? Why not convert it into living space? That would probably be cheaper than insulating the building envelope above/below/sideways.
The layout of bathrooms and the utility room concerns me a bit. That wastes a lot of space for piping.
Master bathroom very large / kids’ bathroom too small? Overall, I find the upper and basement floors a bit convoluted.
I think the granny flat has a very good layout.The garage is a sensitive topic. What you’re seeing here is the result of a year of tough negotiations between my husband and me. He wanted a double garage.
The positioning of the utility rooms hasn’t been finalized yet. The planning isn’t far enough along.
What exactly do you find convoluted about the upper and basement floors?
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zwei&vierzig22 May 2017 11:56hbf12 schrieb:
Should the coat closet on the ground floor be placed against the wall adjacent to the garage?
I find the children's bathroom upstairs too small.Exactly. Pax wardrobes with sliding doors.
The children's bathroom is indeed compact. Because of the doors and staircase, it's more challenging than expected. The office also shouldn't end up too small.
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zwei&vierzig22 May 2017 12:03matte1987 schrieb:
Regarding the bedroom:
If one person gets up earlier than the other, they usually go to the bathroom. Afterwards, they have to walk back through the bedroom to reach the closet or leave the parents’ area.Well, that personally doesn’t bother me much. We get up and go to bed together anyway, like an old married couple. We spent a long time debating to find THE perfect solution. But since we really need 6 meters (20 feet) of closet space, that will be difficult.
I would also be fine with walking through the dressing room to get to the bathroom, but then everything that comes through the bedroom door ends up right in front of the bed (for example, kids, burglars, in-laws, dog, and cat). We didn’t find that very appealing either.
Z
zwei&vierzig22 May 2017 12:11The bathroom is indeed quite large, you’re right about that. I’ll ask my husband if he has any thoughts on it. Thanks for pointing it out.
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