ᐅ Single-Family Home – Feedback on Our Design

Created on: 29 Sep 2017 23:14
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MBS2201
Hello, I need your advice on how to create a better layout for the master bathroom – utility room – children’s bathroom area.

Requirements:
Children’s bedrooms are on the south side.
The children’s bedrooms should be approximately the same size. The utility room should accommodate a dryer and washing machine since we are building without a basement.

Thank you for your help.
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haydee
13 Dec 2017 10:56
The hallway on the upper floor is quite dark, or have you planned a skylight?

Please draw your bed in the bedroom with the actual dimensions. The bed seems a bit narrow to me.
Possibly an access from the dressing room to the hallway.
The parents' bathroom area with bathtub, sink, and shower access feels quite cramped.

Ground floor
Instead of a full bathroom, I would have planned only a guest toilet and used the remaining space for the utility room. You have very little storage space in the house. Not much fits in the pantry.
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MBS2201
13 Dec 2017 11:09
Hello,
haydee schrieb:
The upstairs hallway is quite dark, or have you planned a skylight?

Unfortunately, no skylight is planned. However, no walls will be built around the staircase/stairwell as shown in the plans; instead, a glass railing will be installed to create a more open and airy feel.
haydee schrieb:
Bed with the actual dimensions

According to the plans, the bed measures 2m x 2.50m (6 ft 7 in x 8 ft 2 in). We will adjust the width of the dressing room when the upper floor is constructed—for example, reducing it from 4.20m to 3.80m (14 ft to 12 ft 6 in).
haydee schrieb:
Ground floor
Instead of a full bathroom, I would only plan a guest toilet

The shower is intended for when relatives might move in or if, in old age, we can no longer use the upper floor. Then it would be relatively easy to relocate to the ground floor.
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MBS2201
13 Dec 2017 11:16
Do you have any tips on how I can get more natural light into the hallway on the upper floor? Recessed lights and similar fixtures are already planned.
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haydee
13 Dec 2017 11:26
Spotlights are artificial light, after all.

Skylights or glass doors. Although only the utility room remains suitable for glass doors. I can’t think of any other options.

If you plan to have relatives or yourselves use the ground floor as you get older, please make sure to design it barrier-free. Voluntarily moving to the ground floor usually only happens when climbing the stairs to the upper floor becomes too difficult, even with aids.
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kbt09
13 Dec 2017 18:24

Hmm... access to the walk-in closet is right next to the head of the bed. The bathroom entrance is also located at the narrowest point.

How can the 13 sqm (140 sq ft) walk-in closet be used efficiently? How would you furnish it?

I would probably also use the walk-in closet as access to the bedroom and bathroom. But I’m still not quite sure how.

Where was north again? Top of the plan?
11ant13 Dec 2017 23:44
kbt09 schrieb:
How exactly are the 13 sqm (140 sq ft) of the walk-in closet supposed to be used effectively? How is it supposed to be furnished?

Probably that’s why it’s that size—to avoid having to use the space very efficiently.
kbt09 schrieb:
Hmm ... access to the walk-in closet right next to the head of the bed. Bathroom entrance also at the narrowest point. [...]
I would probably also access the bedroom and bathroom through the walk-in closet.

That also bothered me a lot.
kbt09 schrieb:
I’m still not quite sure how though.

I am: start over completely. Then develop the plan from top to bottom, since apparently the upper floor is much more complicated in terms of what needs to fit together there. Kids don’t really care about balconies anyway, maybe as teenagers for smoking weed, but that doesn’t justify taking up so much floor area. So get rid of it, and as I said, focus on the upper floor first.
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