ᐅ Looking for a floor plan: Single-family home with 3 children's bedrooms within 140 sqm – any ideas?

Hello everyone,
We are looking for a floor plan for a 140 sq m (1,507 sq ft) house that includes three children's bedrooms, a master bedroom, and a bathroom upstairs, with a knee wall height of no more than 50 cm (20 inches). Are there any such clever floor plans?
Thanks in advance. Minexe

Hello Minexe,
That probably won’t work out. The problem is less the layout and more the limited knee wall height. With such steeply sloping walls, the rooms become very small near the top. Dividing rooms there on a total of 140m² (1,507 sq ft) would only result in storage closets. However, a very practical solution could be three children’s bedrooms plus a bathroom upstairs, with the parents’ bedroom and a shower toilet downstairs.

Here’s a first example from Danwood (though I would plan the staircase differently to create three equally sized children’s rooms and, of course, the shower needs to be inside the toilet):

Is it possible to fit a double bed and a wardrobe into an 11sqm (118 sq ft) room???

That won’t be tricky, it will be tight. You will have to make compromises.

You can find sample floor plans in large numbers on prefab house builders’ websites. Maybe you’ll find something that roughly matches what you need or are looking for.

Climbee schrieb:
Is it possible to fit a double bed and a wardrobe into an 11sqm (118 sq ft) room???

It won’t just be tricky, it will be tight. You’ll have to make compromises.

You can find plenty of example floor plans on prefab home provider websites. Maybe there’s something that roughly matches what you need/are looking for.

We currently have a 10.50m² (113 sq ft) bedroom. Double bed – large wardrobe – 2 dressers. It all fits ;-)

Yes, 12m² (130 sq ft) is actually the minimum I consider reasonable for a bedroom. This allows space for a large wardrobe and a double bed, if the layout is well planned.

The floor plan above was just meant as a quick example. Without the completed questionnaire and information about the plot, any discussion is basically pointless.

We have a similar floor plan but with two full stories and a basement. With three children, honestly, 140m² (1507 sq ft) of living space requires two full stories and a basement, because 10m² (108 sq ft) of living space is effectively lost to the utility room, and you still wouldn’t have any storage or functional space available.

So my floor plan wouldn’t really help you either.

Initially, we planned without a basement, with 148m² (1593 sq ft) for three children. Storage and utility space were also not really accounted for and caused us some headaches. That’s why we decided on a basement eventually, without losing actual living space.