ᐅ Floor plan design for a hillside house with 5 children's bedrooms

Created on: 17 Jun 2017 12:31
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Arifas
Dear fellow contributors,
I’m sharing our first attempt at the floor plan. Unfortunately, I can’t fill out the list because copying it over on my phone doesn’t work properly, sorry.

Key data:
5 children between 0 and 11 years old
2 adults in their mid-thirties
Plot of about 900 sqm (9700 sq ft), facing north
Building window edge on the street side: 17.35 m (57 ft)
Sloped site; within the building window, the ground rises about 2 m (7 ft) over 10 m (33 ft) from front to back

We want 5 small children’s bedrooms, a slightly larger office for working from home, a master bedroom, three showers, three toilets, a bathtub, and access to the garden through the living room on the upper floor. One wall in the children’s rooms should be removable later.
The attic is walkable.

We are allowed to build 2 full stories, with a ridge height of about 12 m (39 ft) and an eave height of 11.6 m (38 ft).
We would prefer a hip roof.
The current drawing is 9.5 by 11 m (31 by 36 ft), but we would like to have around 195 to 205 sqm (2100 to 2200 sq ft) of living space later; garage or storage will be added.
The back wall of the house is embedded up to about 2 m (7 ft) into the slope.

I will try to attach a rough overview of the plot.

Handgezeichnetes Grundriss-Skizzenblatt mit Raumaufteilung und Beschriftungen

OG-Grundriss: Terrasse oben, Sofa, Küche, Essen, Kamin, HWR, Bad, Kind 4, Treppe
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ypg
25 Jul 2017 15:00
The difference:


Two simple sketches of window frames; left empty, right with a small section on the right with GS


Your pantry on the left, better on the right [emoji2]
RobsonMKK25 Jul 2017 15:02
Arifas schrieb:
Also here

I’m glad to be rid of the side-by-side refrigerator.
Unfortunately, the freezer section is rather mediocre in terms of usability. The fridge section is actually a bit too narrow as well.
Arifas25 Jul 2017 15:11
Mh, good questions. Making it one meter (3 feet) wide and 2.5 meters (8 feet) deep walkable probably doesn’t make much sense? Should it be wider to be walkable? I think I’ll look for examples on Pinterest tonight and then sketch it out "furnished" with our appliances and stuff [emoji6]
Arifas25 Jul 2017 15:15
RobsonMKK schrieb:
I’m glad once we get rid of the side-by-side fridge. Unfortunately, the freezer section is rather mediocre. And the fridge part is actually quite narrow.
Oh no, I really didn’t want to hear that now [emoji85] [emoji28]. Thanks anyway. So maybe a narrow, tall freezer for the pantry?
We’ll have to buy a new one anyway for the move, the old one is very old and probably due for replacement. But a standard size would likely be better for affordability.
I’ll take a look at what we might need and then check the pantry dimensions.
The kitchen might be easier to plan with a slightly smaller fridge as well.
11ant25 Jul 2017 15:21
ypg schrieb:
On the left is your pantry, on the right is better

On the right, I don’t see any space for the vacuum cleaner. On the left, it would probably be behind the door, right in the way, making it a prime tripping hazard. So, the right side is better, but it should be half a meter (about 20 inches) wider.
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Aotearoa
25 Jul 2017 17:55
How about rotating the master bathroom and the pantry so that the partition wall runs horizontally instead of vertically? (In the last design) Then the pantry could have a door (sliding door?) in the middle, making it easier to enter and allowing for more practical use, similar to ypgs’ example.