ᐅ Floor Plan Design for an L-Shaped Single-Family Home

Oops... I didn’t even consider that you want to rotate the house like that. I’m wondering how you plan to get from street level down to the basement/garage level. Or am I missing something?

Regarding the house in general... Why is there only one bathtub in the bedrooms? Then the shower in the ground floor bathroom can only be reached by passing in front of the main entrance.

A straight staircase only 360 cm (12 feet) long is quite short, and with the very short landings before and after it—especially upstairs where they are only about 80 cm (31 inches) deep.

The entire living/dining/kitchen area will end up quite dark, with only a 1x1 m (3x3 ft) window facing south.

The study will also be a rather odd, cave-like room.

Since the basement needs to be excavated anyway, we were thinking of having the driveway for the garage dug out at the same time. Similar to a parking garage where you can easily drive in at an angle. A slope of about 2 meters (6.5 feet) in depth should be manageable, right? Or are we mistaken here?

The shower/bathroom on the ground floor is actually intended for old age, in case it becomes difficult to go upstairs. At the moment, we only have a bathtub and are quite satisfied with it, whether for quick showers or long baths. So the bathroom downstairs would probably be used rarely, maybe more in summer for a quick rinse.

For the stairs, I chose the shortest option because I don’t want to waste 6 square meters (65 square feet) just on stairs. Right now, I feel the hallway is already nearly too much wasted space, but well, the stairs have to go somewhere. Initially, we wanted the stairs in the living room as a design feature, but now they have been moved to the entrance hall to create more space in the living room. I really want to minimize wasted space as much as possible 🙁

Should we perhaps reduce the size of the children’s bedroom on the upper floor to get a larger landing? One meter (3.3 feet) should be more than enough, right? I mean, a door is only 80 cm (31 inches) wide and you can easily pass through that.

Are the two windows facing east plus the small window on the south really not enough? I have never really noticed this in our current apartment, it is practically never dark there.

I have now tried to position the living room more on the light side and moved the bathroom towards the north. The staircase would now be in the middle of the room again.

Is this better or worse than the previous layout?

Edit: Of course, this means it won’t be possible to set back the upper floor again 🙁

Something like this would work better to allow for an upper floor as well.

Better or worse than the other version (page 3)?

The area with the sofa looks like a waiting room, completely a passageway.
In my opinion, this is not acceptable at all.

RobsonMKK schrieb:
The area with the sofa looks like a waiting room, a complete passageway.
In my opinion, that just doesn’t work.

So, the version from page 3 is better? I tried to position the living room on the south side here 🙁