ᐅ Single-family house with approximately 150 sqm floor area – how to plan the staircase?
Created on: 15 Oct 2017 20:12
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manyyuu
We are currently in the middle of planning our dream house and have now finished the initial drafts. We would greatly appreciate any suggestions, critiques, or improvement ideas. Our main priorities were a large, bright, and open living/dining area, a home office on the ground floor that can also accommodate a pull-out sofa bed, two showers—one being a walk-in shower upstairs alongside a bathtub—and two children's bedrooms of approximately equal size.
We are still uncertain about the following: a separate dressing room (advantages: my husband leaves for work earlier in the morning and can get dressed in a separate room, plus more sound insulation to the children’s room, which will later be a teenager’s room), a small pantry behind the kitchen and whether it should be open or have a narrow sliding door, and whether the staircase should be open or closed with space for a wardrobe underneath. We are also open to general advice on other aspects.
The house will have a gable roof with a 44° pitch and a slightly projecting captain’s gable. The knee wall (kniestock) will be about 1 meter (3 feet) high. Attached are the floor plans for the ground floor and upper floor, as well as the ground floor with the dimensions and outlines of the plot, terrace, and carport. Thank you very much!
Development plan/restrictions
Plot size: 600 m² (90 m² of which is driveway, due to rear development)
Slope: none
Site coverage ratio: 0.3
Floor area ratio: no specification
Building line and boundary: building line on the north side is 5 meters (16 feet) from the property boundary
Boundary setback: 3 meters (10 feet)
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of floors: 1 full floor
Roof type: gable roof
Architectural style
Orientation
Maximum height/limits: 8.50 meters (28 feet)
Other specifications: none
Owner requirements
Architectural style, roof type, building type: captain’s house
Basement, floors: no basement, 1.5 floors
Number of residents, ages: 4 people, two adults, 2 children aged 3 years each
Space requirements on ground floor and upper floor
Office: family use or home office: home office once per week
Guest sleepers per year: 3
Open or closed architecture
Conservative or modern design
Open kitchen, kitchen island: open living-dining area with kitchen island
Fireplace: no
Carport
Additional wishes/special features/daily routine, including reasons why certain features are included or excluded
House design
Planner: Do-it-Yourself
What do you especially like? Why? The open and bright living area.
What do you not like? Why? The hallway, not enough space for the wardrobe, floor plan not optimal
Personal budget limit for the house including fittings: 300,000 euros (including development but excluding other additional construction costs and land), building in Schleswig-Holstein.
Preferred heating technology: gas boiler with solar thermal for hot water
If you have to do without, which details/features could you forego: pantry, separate dressing room
Why has the design developed the way it is now?
A mix of many examples from various sources.
We are still uncertain about the following: a separate dressing room (advantages: my husband leaves for work earlier in the morning and can get dressed in a separate room, plus more sound insulation to the children’s room, which will later be a teenager’s room), a small pantry behind the kitchen and whether it should be open or have a narrow sliding door, and whether the staircase should be open or closed with space for a wardrobe underneath. We are also open to general advice on other aspects.
The house will have a gable roof with a 44° pitch and a slightly projecting captain’s gable. The knee wall (kniestock) will be about 1 meter (3 feet) high. Attached are the floor plans for the ground floor and upper floor, as well as the ground floor with the dimensions and outlines of the plot, terrace, and carport. Thank you very much!
Development plan/restrictions
Plot size: 600 m² (90 m² of which is driveway, due to rear development)
Slope: none
Site coverage ratio: 0.3
Floor area ratio: no specification
Building line and boundary: building line on the north side is 5 meters (16 feet) from the property boundary
Boundary setback: 3 meters (10 feet)
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of floors: 1 full floor
Roof type: gable roof
Architectural style
Orientation
Maximum height/limits: 8.50 meters (28 feet)
Other specifications: none
Owner requirements
Architectural style, roof type, building type: captain’s house
Basement, floors: no basement, 1.5 floors
Number of residents, ages: 4 people, two adults, 2 children aged 3 years each
Space requirements on ground floor and upper floor
Office: family use or home office: home office once per week
Guest sleepers per year: 3
Open or closed architecture
Conservative or modern design
Open kitchen, kitchen island: open living-dining area with kitchen island
Fireplace: no
Carport
Additional wishes/special features/daily routine, including reasons why certain features are included or excluded
House design
Planner: Do-it-Yourself
What do you especially like? Why? The open and bright living area.
What do you not like? Why? The hallway, not enough space for the wardrobe, floor plan not optimal
Personal budget limit for the house including fittings: 300,000 euros (including development but excluding other additional construction costs and land), building in Schleswig-Holstein.
Preferred heating technology: gas boiler with solar thermal for hot water
If you have to do without, which details/features could you forego: pantry, separate dressing room
Why has the design developed the way it is now?
A mix of many examples from various sources.
manyyuu schrieb:
... and wouldn’t have to use the phone flashlight to gather the things he forgot to prepare in the evening ). Well, he really is a very sweet man, isn’t he? Cute!I would raise the knee wall and reduce the roof pitch accordingly to maintain the single-story appearance despite the captain’s dormer. This creates more space on the upper floor.
Then, I would slightly adjust the size of the children's rooms on the upper floor to a more standard layout.
If I understand correctly, the dormer is located on the northwest side? I would place the bathroom there completely, so every family member can benefit from the nice dormer.
A slightly larger storage room on the upper floor could be used as a utility room, but only if it fits well. Alternatively, the storage and pantry on the ground floor could be combined and made accessible via the hallway – the passage through the kitchen compromises the dormer feeling as well as the kitchen layout. There should also be enough space left for a home office.
Then, I would slightly adjust the size of the children's rooms on the upper floor to a more standard layout.
If I understand correctly, the dormer is located on the northwest side? I would place the bathroom there completely, so every family member can benefit from the nice dormer.
A slightly larger storage room on the upper floor could be used as a utility room, but only if it fits well. Alternatively, the storage and pantry on the ground floor could be combined and made accessible via the hallway – the passage through the kitchen compromises the dormer feeling as well as the kitchen layout. There should also be enough space left for a home office.
@ypg, I’m not quite sure what you mean at the bottom. Could you make a sketch? Moving the bathroom to the center at the top and reducing the size of the children’s rooms could potentially create a huge walk-in closet. I think that might be a bit of a waste. Or what did you have in mind?
What roof pitch and knee wall height could be roughly targeted without creating an additional full story? It shouldn't be too high either, as I don’t find that visually appealing from the outside... Smaller children’s rooms are okay, but with the bathroom in the middle, they would actually be too small for me. We don’t need that much dressing area/parent bedroom space, and the children will later spend much more time in their rooms...
kaho674 schrieb:
@ypg, I’m not quite sure what you mean down here. Could you make a sketch? Moving the bathroom to the center upstairs and reducing the kids’ rooms might create a large walk-in closet. I think that might be a bit of a waste. Or what did you mean?Unfortunately, I don’t have time to make a sketch. I believe there is still a lot of potential that could lead to a good result if you rearranged the rooms for a few days. While taking another look at the upper floor, I noticed it’s only 3 meters wide (about 10 feet). So, you can’t even place the bed under the sloped ceiling. Therefore, the area under the roof slope is wasted here.
It makes sense to reconsider the staircase position… possibly just mirroring the hallway would be enough. In your example, kaho, the walk-in closet could become a bedroom with access through the closet. Behind the closet and under the sloped ceiling, a storage room could be arranged…
Dear original poster @manyyou,
Space for the kids is nice and all, but 3-year-olds don’t need that much yet. The older they get, the more time they spend outside: send them to the garden or sports field. Later, they hang out with friends, which can happen at home too—on the bed or in front of the PC—but it doesn’t require nearly 20 square meters (about 215 square feet). Some living rooms aren’t even that big. With 15 square meters (about 160 square feet), you can already call the space "ample" or "adequate." Of course, next to a 1.40-meter (4 feet 7 inches) bed, there won’t be a sofa set for three or two or a single seat, but there’s definitely room for a comfortable armchair.
So, the rooms can certainly be slightly adjusted.
(Also, with a higher knee wall, there’s more standing room.)
Maybe not today or tomorrow, but in the near future.
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