ᐅ Floor Plan of Bungalow with Separate Apartment – Floor Plan Feedback
Created on: 22 Mar 2018 20:01
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blaupuma
Hello, I would like to finally share the first draft of our bungalow floor plan with you. Maybe you have some suggestions for improvements?
Some information in advance.
We are building a bungalow with a granny flat (for mother-in-law).
My goal was to design the bungalow floor plan as spacious as possible, around 150 sqm (1,615 sq ft).
The main focus is a generous living/dining area.
The living/dining area with kitchen in both units is open up to the ridge.
The ceiling height of the rooms is 265 cm (8 ft 8 in).
Due to space reasons, the office has now been moved to the gallery above the bedroom. There is a height of 2 meters (6 ft 7 in) and an area of 20 sqm (215 sq ft) with sloping ceilings, so only 12 sqm (130 sq ft) is usable. The rest of the attic remains storage space.
Unfortunately, the children’s rooms are relatively small [emoji53], but for my wife, it is important to have the front door exactly in the middle. The wall will get a slight projection to better highlight the gables.
(The total length of the front facade is 23.3 meters (76 ft 5 in).)
In the second unit, there is actually one bathroom too many, but it has to be that way. Okay.
The pantry will be enlarged, and the shower will be removed.
There is no room for a garage in this floor plan anymore. We have pushed the size to the maximum. It is not important for us anyway.
Oh, and there will be a fireplace near the staircase, as otherwise, the chimney would stick out too far above the roof.
The window in the upper floor will be removed and replaced by a Velux window in the roof, and the gables will be built up quite high.
Development plan / restrictions
Plot size: 905 sqm (9,738 sq ft)
Slope: no
Site coverage ratio: 0.3
Floor area ratio:
Building envelope, building line and boundary:
Edge development:
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of storeys: 1
Roof type: gable roof
Architectural style: modern Danish
Orientation
Maximum heights / limits
Other requirements
Client requirements
Style, roof type, building type: bungalow, gable roof 35 degrees
Basement, storeys: no basement,
1 storey
Number of occupants, age: 2 people plus child; 30, 29, 2
Space requirement on ground and upper floors: approx. 150 sqm (1,615 sq ft)
Office: family use or home office?
Guests per year: 0
Open or closed architecture: open
Conservative or modern design: modern
Open kitchen, no island
Number of dining seats: 4-6
Fireplace: yes
Music/stereo wall:
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage: no
House design
Who created the plan:
- architect from a construction company own design
What do you particularly like and why?: open living area, open up to the ridge.
What do you dislike and why?: possibly too small children’s rooms
Heating system: district heating
Now I’m looking forward to your feedback on our bungalow floor plan – thank you
Some information in advance.
We are building a bungalow with a granny flat (for mother-in-law).
My goal was to design the bungalow floor plan as spacious as possible, around 150 sqm (1,615 sq ft).
The main focus is a generous living/dining area.
The living/dining area with kitchen in both units is open up to the ridge.
The ceiling height of the rooms is 265 cm (8 ft 8 in).
Due to space reasons, the office has now been moved to the gallery above the bedroom. There is a height of 2 meters (6 ft 7 in) and an area of 20 sqm (215 sq ft) with sloping ceilings, so only 12 sqm (130 sq ft) is usable. The rest of the attic remains storage space.
Unfortunately, the children’s rooms are relatively small [emoji53], but for my wife, it is important to have the front door exactly in the middle. The wall will get a slight projection to better highlight the gables.
(The total length of the front facade is 23.3 meters (76 ft 5 in).)
In the second unit, there is actually one bathroom too many, but it has to be that way. Okay.
The pantry will be enlarged, and the shower will be removed.
There is no room for a garage in this floor plan anymore. We have pushed the size to the maximum. It is not important for us anyway.
Oh, and there will be a fireplace near the staircase, as otherwise, the chimney would stick out too far above the roof.
The window in the upper floor will be removed and replaced by a Velux window in the roof, and the gables will be built up quite high.
Development plan / restrictions
Plot size: 905 sqm (9,738 sq ft)
Slope: no
Site coverage ratio: 0.3
Floor area ratio:
Building envelope, building line and boundary:
Edge development:
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of storeys: 1
Roof type: gable roof
Architectural style: modern Danish
Orientation
Maximum heights / limits
Other requirements
Client requirements
Style, roof type, building type: bungalow, gable roof 35 degrees
Basement, storeys: no basement,
1 storey
Number of occupants, age: 2 people plus child; 30, 29, 2
Space requirement on ground and upper floors: approx. 150 sqm (1,615 sq ft)
Office: family use or home office?
Guests per year: 0
Open or closed architecture: open
Conservative or modern design: modern
Open kitchen, no island
Number of dining seats: 4-6
Fireplace: yes
Music/stereo wall:
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage: no
House design
Who created the plan:
- architect from a construction company own design
What do you particularly like and why?: open living area, open up to the ridge.
What do you dislike and why?: possibly too small children’s rooms
Heating system: district heating
Now I’m looking forward to your feedback on our bungalow floor plan – thank you
Priorities differ for everyone.
Some of the tips here are really extreme.
You don’t like my design at all, from start to finish. Wrong style, wrong layout. Everything is wrong, okay.
I’m having trouble taking anything useful from it.
What I understand:
The kitchen is too small.
The bedroom next to the living room has disadvantages.
The rest, well...
I need to digest this first.
Some of the tips here are really extreme.
You don’t like my design at all, from start to finish. Wrong style, wrong layout. Everything is wrong, okay.
I’m having trouble taking anything useful from it.
What I understand:
The kitchen is too small.
The bedroom next to the living room has disadvantages.
The rest, well...
I need to digest this first.
ypg schrieb:
By the way, Blaupuma, you can do the same with your furniture: just pick up a pencil and get a feel for measurements and spaces. chand1986 schrieb:
Is that a symmetry obsession? I’m currently experiencing a pretty strong déjà vu with Schustrik’s project, see https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/Einliegerwohnung-für-Eltern-210-m-efh-und-80-m-elw.24218 (fixation on symmetry, granny flat, resistance to advice).
blaupuma schrieb:
Everyone has different priorities. But not necessarily to a degree that leads straight to disaster!
blaupuma schrieb:
I’m struggling to take anything useful from this. I have the same difficulty when it comes to making concrete suggestions for improvements. The problems are so fundamental here that quick fixes won’t help—what’s needed is to completely start over.
At first glance, I don’t see a “bungalow” here at all, but rather something like a one-and-a-half-story house. Then there’s the wish for Scandinavian-inspired openness, which in this case especially accentuates the narrowness (present in several room widths as well as in the overall dimensions of the pantry-style “kitchen”). I’m almost amazed at how much tightness you manage to create in such a spacious house.
The attitude of “we don’t need a garage” is something you have to be able to afford. But who can afford to not care whether their house would fetch a good price if auctioned? A building of this scale without a garage is like a luxury sedan with crank windows—you’ll only be able to sell it to traveling salesmen.
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Bullying? That’s rude! I’m out!
I regret that I even sketched for 10 minutes today... having to listen to comments that the shape might be wrong, even though I copied it exactly.
And by the way: as the original poster, you should read through the posts carefully and take them in, trying to understand, rather than ruining your own thread and thereby losing the chance to improve the design.
I regret that I even sketched for 10 minutes today... having to listen to comments that the shape might be wrong, even though I copied it exactly.
And by the way: as the original poster, you should read through the posts carefully and take them in, trying to understand, rather than ruining your own thread and thereby losing the chance to improve the design.
ypg schrieb:
Bullying?
That’s cheeky! Well, on the other hand, from a structural logic perspective (or whatever the term is), it’s quite understandable. The original poster creates a drawing that looks neat and tidy to them, as if they are nearly at the finish line. And then they only get criticism. But unfortunately, there are some people whose work only their own mother can appreciate, and this house design is a perfect example of that. I would have liked to take the time to address individual points (like rotating the staircase, for example). It’s just that if something only has six corners and seven corners need fundamental changes, then starting over is simply the best option. This is said without any intention of being harsh.
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11ant schrieb:
Well, on the other hand, it’s quite understandable from a logical perspective (or however you call it). The OP creates a drawing that looks neat and polished to them, as if they are almost at the finish line. And then they just get criticism.This is probably less about bullying and more—when you look at the drawing—self-explanatory.
The OP asked, we shared our expertise. That’s it… I’m out before I get cheeky myself.
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