ᐅ Upper Floor Layout with Sloped Ceilings – What Can Be Improved?

Hello everyone.
My partner and I designed our floor plan ourselves and have now received the attached drawing.
The main dimensions were intended to be 11 x 9 meters (36 x 30 feet), but the current drawing shows 11 x 9.5 meters (36 x 31 feet). We have already requested a revision.

However, we are not completely satisfied with the layout of the upper floor:

- The bathroom is too large
- The upper left room is not optimally shaped

By reducing the size of the house, we will probably be able to make the bathroom and the lower left room smaller. However, it will then be difficult to access the bathroom, since the master bedroom cannot really be made any smaller. The partition wall would then be at the level of the staircase. The staircase is also shown as 4 meters (13 feet) long. Is there potential to reduce this length with a standard ceiling height? The steps, of course, should meet building regulations.

For your information: South is roughly behind the building. My partner does not want the master bedroom and the child's bedroom to be next to each other. Also, the bathroom cannot be placed in the upper left corner due to the layout of the ground floor.

Do you have any ideas on what else could be changed or improved?

We are happy to help, but we would prefer to have all floor plans as JPG files including a north arrow and the completed questionnaire from the pinned thread in this forum. 🙂

For everyone else, here is the first floor plan:

Have you ever tried a layout where you extend the walk-in closet a bit and place the entrance to the bedroom above it? This way, you could create a bit more space for the bathroom door if you move the wall toward the bedroom slightly to the north. The bathroom itself wouldn’t become any smaller because of this.

I don't think the walk-in closet is really usable as it is. How do you plan to fit a standard 3m (10 feet) wardrobe there? You should draw in the intended furniture.

I also find the double bed as currently drawn quite questionable. The wall at the head of the bed is 3.27m (11 feet) in the shell construction, right? Then a standard 2m (6.5 feet) bed, and less than 60cm (2 feet) on each side afterward is not really comfortable.

Please upload JPGs... I can’t see the ground floor (GF), and the upper floor (UF) only with the help of @kaho674.

Tx-25 schrieb:
The base dimensions are intended to be 11 x 9 meters (36 x 30 feet). Unfortunately, the current drawing shows 11 x 9.5 meters (36 x 31 feet). We have already requested a change.

However, we are not yet completely satisfied with the floor plan for the upper floor:

- Bathroom is too large
- Upper left room is not optimally shaped

By reducing the size of the house, we will probably be able to make the bathroom and the lower left room smaller. However, it will then be difficult to access the bathroom since the master bedroom cannot really be made smaller. The partition wall would then be at the level of the staircase. The staircase is also specified as 4 meters (13 feet) here. Is there still potential to save space with a standard ceiling height? The stairs of course need to comply with regulations.

You are forcing yourselves into a constraint with the symmetry and the dormers/additional gables. Reducing the house by half a meter (about 1.5 feet) might make the bathroom a bit smaller (if nothing fundamental is changed), but the other rooms will also be affected. The upper left room will not get bigger, rather smaller...

Crossy schrieb:
I think the walk-in closet is not really usable as shown. How do you want to fit a standard 3-meter (10-foot) wardrobe there? You should draw in the intended furniture.

Exactly.

What is the standard ceiling height or floor-to-ceiling height? What is the pitch angle of the roof slope? What does the stairway landing on the ground floor look like? Could you provide the measurements?
What does the ground floor layout look like? Where exactly is “behind the house”? And which room is the “upper left room” exactly?

This is really frustrating.