ᐅ Floor Plan Design for a Single-Family Home of Approximately 160 sqm
Created on: 28 Dec 2018 15:28
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d.düsentrieb
Hello everyone,
We have been working on the floor plan for our future home for several months now. We have been long-time silent readers of this forum and have finally decided to ask for your opinion.
The more we work on the planning and refine it, the more doubts arise :/ Therefore, we kindly ask you for honest and constructive (!) feedback here.
Development Plan/Restrictions
Plot size: 840 sqm (9,042 sq ft)
Slope: no
Adjacent buildings: garage/outbuilding, carport possible
Number of parking spaces: 2
Homeowners’ Requirements
Style, roof type, building type: hipped roof, urban villa
Basement, floors: no basement, 2 full stories
Number of people, age: currently 2 (30 years)
Room needs Ground Floor: living/dining/kitchen, office/guest room, guest bathroom with shower, utility/technical room
Room needs Upper Floor: bathroom, separate toilet, master bedroom, 2 children’s rooms, storage room (utility room?)
Office: home office, guest room
Occasional overnight guests: few
Open kitchen, kitchen island: originally planned as a separable kitchen (sliding door), but this is no longer so important
Number of dining seats: extendable table
Fireplace: yes
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: double carport in front of the house, garage (outbuilding) next to the house. The 2 parking spaces should be side by side
House Design
Who designed it: planner from a construction company / DIY
What do you like most? Why? roughly equal-sized children’s rooms, clean lines, room sizes, room layout (children’s rooms facing south)
What do you dislike? Why? hallway from entrance too narrow? upper floor layout could be improved?
Preferred heating technology: air-to-water heat pump with underfloor heating
What details/features could you do without
-can you do without: the large utility room on the upper floor
-can’t do without: separate toilet on the upper floor, office in basement
Why is the design as it is now? e.g.
several discussions with the planner
What is the main/fundamental question about the floor plan in 130 characters?
Our concerns:
Furniture arrangement in the living room?
Overall orientation of the house towards the south building setback – that’s why there is about 6.5 m (21 ft) distance to the neighbor (who hasn’t built yet) – is this too little?
Would an L-shaped layout of kitchen/dining/living be better than the current linear form? The main garden is located to the west. The office would then have to be moved to the front (currently where the kitchen is)
Window placement is still not fully developed.
We have been working on the floor plan for our future home for several months now. We have been long-time silent readers of this forum and have finally decided to ask for your opinion.
The more we work on the planning and refine it, the more doubts arise :/ Therefore, we kindly ask you for honest and constructive (!) feedback here.
Development Plan/Restrictions
Plot size: 840 sqm (9,042 sq ft)
Slope: no
Adjacent buildings: garage/outbuilding, carport possible
Number of parking spaces: 2
Homeowners’ Requirements
Style, roof type, building type: hipped roof, urban villa
Basement, floors: no basement, 2 full stories
Number of people, age: currently 2 (30 years)
Room needs Ground Floor: living/dining/kitchen, office/guest room, guest bathroom with shower, utility/technical room
Room needs Upper Floor: bathroom, separate toilet, master bedroom, 2 children’s rooms, storage room (utility room?)
Office: home office, guest room
Occasional overnight guests: few
Open kitchen, kitchen island: originally planned as a separable kitchen (sliding door), but this is no longer so important
Number of dining seats: extendable table
Fireplace: yes
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: double carport in front of the house, garage (outbuilding) next to the house. The 2 parking spaces should be side by side
House Design
Who designed it: planner from a construction company / DIY
What do you like most? Why? roughly equal-sized children’s rooms, clean lines, room sizes, room layout (children’s rooms facing south)
What do you dislike? Why? hallway from entrance too narrow? upper floor layout could be improved?
Preferred heating technology: air-to-water heat pump with underfloor heating
What details/features could you do without
-can you do without: the large utility room on the upper floor
-can’t do without: separate toilet on the upper floor, office in basement
Why is the design as it is now? e.g.
several discussions with the planner
What is the main/fundamental question about the floor plan in 130 characters?
Our concerns:
Furniture arrangement in the living room?
Overall orientation of the house towards the south building setback – that’s why there is about 6.5 m (21 ft) distance to the neighbor (who hasn’t built yet) – is this too little?
Would an L-shaped layout of kitchen/dining/living be better than the current linear form? The main garden is located to the west. The office would then have to be moved to the front (currently where the kitchen is)
Window placement is still not fully developed.
d.düsentrieb schrieb:
Result attached. Where is the washing machine located now?
Could you try adding the technical equipment into the utility room? It seems too small to me.
The windowless small alcoves and the almost windowless living room are a disaster.
Does your toilet have no sink? That’s rather unhygienic.
In those built-in bookshelves with a 40cm (16 inch) depth in the dressing room, you might only be able to store a few socks – no hangers will fit.
I’d be interested in seeing the elevations.
Anyone going to the kitchen has to pass the chill-out area, which will disrupt the space. When the kids bring friends over, that will get annoying.
So no, it’s not great, I’d say.
I still have this one in my archive – maybe it could work (south at the bottom):
d.düsentrieb schrieb:
We have been following the discussion; we don’t want it to end like this for us. But it will if
d.düsentrieb schrieb:
We also tried moving the entrance to the side, result attached. the next step is taken, which unfortunately fully follows the pattern of StanSch. Well, your study is 3sqm (32 sq ft) larger, and the axis of the house is oriented lengthwise instead of widthwise.
Niloa schrieb:
Is there supposed to be no sink in the separate toilet on the upper floor, or did you just not include one in the plan? Men.
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d.düsentrieb3 Jan 2019 17:33kaho674 schrieb:
Where is the washing machine located now? Upstairs in the bathroom, next to the shower.
Of course, the washbasin in the toilet was forgotten...
By the way, the staircase looks quite short to me in the latest posted floor plan. Even with a rough construction floor-to-ceiling height of 2.70 m (8 ft 10 in), I measure over 4 m (13 ft).
kaho674 schrieb:
In those bookshelves with a depth of 40 cm Right, it should be at least 45 cm (18 inches). For shirts, suits, and dresses, the nearly 3 m (10 ft) long wardrobe with a depth of 60 cm (24 inches) in the bedroom should be sufficient.
Your floor plans are definitely moving in the right direction, thanks for that!
@11ant What do you think would be the next sensible step?
d.düsentrieb schrieb:
Even with a raw structural floor-to-floor height of 2.70m (8 ft 10 in), I end up with over 4m (13 ft 1 in). How high do you want your rooms to be? 2.70m (8 ft 10 in) is quite tall for this rather compact house with many small rooms.
You can find an overview of the staircase in the introductory thread of this forum.
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d.düsentrieb3 Jan 2019 19:06For the shell construction dimension story height, you still have to subtract the thickness of the ceiling (I assumed 20cm (8 inches)). In my example, that would result in a clear room height of 2.50m (8 feet 2 inches).
If you calculate the staircase based on the actual room height, it becomes difficult to ever reach the upper floor. (because the floor slab thickness still has to be added)
If you calculate the staircase based on the actual room height, it becomes difficult to ever reach the upper floor. (because the floor slab thickness still has to be added)
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