Hello everyone, now it’s our turn. We’ve read a lot and heard much about circulation paths and related topics. Now we would like to know what the experienced but also critical community thinks about our floor plan. So please type away and give us feedback on the layout. Thank you very much.
Development Plan / Restrictions
Plot size - 500 sqm (about 5380 sq ft)
Slope - no
Site coverage ratio - 0.4
Floor area ratio - 0.8
Building envelope, setback lines - 5 meters (16.4 ft) from the street and 5 meters (16.4 ft) to the rear
Edge development
Number of parking spaces - 1 garage 3 x 8 meters (10 x 26 ft) / 1-2 in front of the garage
Number of storeys - 2
Roof type - none/open
Architectural style - none/open
Orientation - none/open
Maximum heights / limits - none/open
Further requirements - none/open
Client Requirements
Architectural style, roof type, building type - Modern – urban villa
Basement, number of floors - no basement, 2 floors
Number of occupants, age - 2 adults and 1 child (early 30s and 1 year old)
Space requirements on ground floor (GF), upper floor (UF) -
GF WC with shower, living room with kitchen and dining area, study;
UF: study, children’s room, bathroom, master bedroom with dressing room;
Office: family use or home office? - office for home office, guests for visitors
Number of guest stays per year - 20-30
Open or enclosed architecture - rather open
Conservative or modern construction - open
Open kitchen, kitchen island - preferably, but not mandatory
Number of dining seats - 3 daily; irregularly 5-6; rarely 7-10 (mostly in summer)
Fireplace - a MUST!!!
Music / stereo wall - no, only TV wall
Balcony, roof terrace - no
Garage, carport - garage, possibly carport in front
Utility garden, greenhouse - small greenhouse only
Additional wishes / special features / daily routine, also reasons why some things are wanted or not - Friends advised us not to make the utility room (laundry/household room) too small, so it should be somewhat larger.
House Design
Designer:
- planner from a construction company
What do you particularly like? Why?
- As non-homeowners, we find the design very nice and think it should fit us very well.
What do you not like? Why?
- The fireplace flue. We are unsure if it fits well so that the smoke can be properly vented above.
Price estimate according to architect/planner:
- $410,000
Personal budget limit for house including fixtures:
- open
Preferred heating system:
- air-to-water heat pump
If you had to give up on any details / expansions
- What can you do without:
- dressing room in the bedroom
- What you cannot do without:
- guest WC shower, study, fireplace
Why is the design as it is now?
Standard design from the planner with small wall adjustments
What do you think makes it particularly good or bad?
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan in 130 characters or less?
What do you think of the floor plan? How do you find the number and arrangement of windows? What is good and what could be improved? How could the fireplace flue (by the way room-air-independent) be solved? And anything else we might have missed
House dimensions 10.12m x 8.99m (33.2 ft x 29.5 ft)
Development Plan / Restrictions
Plot size - 500 sqm (about 5380 sq ft)
Slope - no
Site coverage ratio - 0.4
Floor area ratio - 0.8
Building envelope, setback lines - 5 meters (16.4 ft) from the street and 5 meters (16.4 ft) to the rear
Edge development
Number of parking spaces - 1 garage 3 x 8 meters (10 x 26 ft) / 1-2 in front of the garage
Number of storeys - 2
Roof type - none/open
Architectural style - none/open
Orientation - none/open
Maximum heights / limits - none/open
Further requirements - none/open
Client Requirements
Architectural style, roof type, building type - Modern – urban villa
Basement, number of floors - no basement, 2 floors
Number of occupants, age - 2 adults and 1 child (early 30s and 1 year old)
Space requirements on ground floor (GF), upper floor (UF) -
GF WC with shower, living room with kitchen and dining area, study;
UF: study, children’s room, bathroom, master bedroom with dressing room;
Office: family use or home office? - office for home office, guests for visitors
Number of guest stays per year - 20-30
Open or enclosed architecture - rather open
Conservative or modern construction - open
Open kitchen, kitchen island - preferably, but not mandatory
Number of dining seats - 3 daily; irregularly 5-6; rarely 7-10 (mostly in summer)
Fireplace - a MUST!!!
Music / stereo wall - no, only TV wall
Balcony, roof terrace - no
Garage, carport - garage, possibly carport in front
Utility garden, greenhouse - small greenhouse only
Additional wishes / special features / daily routine, also reasons why some things are wanted or not - Friends advised us not to make the utility room (laundry/household room) too small, so it should be somewhat larger.
House Design
Designer:
- planner from a construction company
What do you particularly like? Why?
- As non-homeowners, we find the design very nice and think it should fit us very well.
What do you not like? Why?
- The fireplace flue. We are unsure if it fits well so that the smoke can be properly vented above.
Price estimate according to architect/planner:
- $410,000
Personal budget limit for house including fixtures:
- open
Preferred heating system:
- air-to-water heat pump
If you had to give up on any details / expansions
- What can you do without:
- dressing room in the bedroom
- What you cannot do without:
- guest WC shower, study, fireplace
Why is the design as it is now?
Standard design from the planner with small wall adjustments
What do you think makes it particularly good or bad?
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan in 130 characters or less?
What do you think of the floor plan? How do you find the number and arrangement of windows? What is good and what could be improved? How could the fireplace flue (by the way room-air-independent) be solved? And anything else we might have missed
House dimensions 10.12m x 8.99m (33.2 ft x 29.5 ft)
11ant schrieb:
Chimney – a must
In the style of Stattwillah (and especially in times of energy-saving regulations), it indicates a lack of planning experience – the eyes are bigger than the stomach...I don’t really understand that. There are not only heating fireplaces. A chimney can also simply be there to add some coziness to the house. I never said I wanted to use it for heating or anything like that.
11ant schrieb:
By the way, the chimney is at least too close to the ridge, if not even penetrating the ridge beam (in the case of a gable roof) – without specifying the roof type, it’s hardly possible to make constructive suggestions about where to put it (but anyway: see above).Yes, we definitely need to revisit that!
11ant schrieb:
Planner of a construction company / only exterior dimensions are available
And what did you use to trace the plans then?If you have the exterior dimensions as well as the position of the walls and their thickness, you can calculate the inner measurements as well. However, in practice, it’s usually not exactly one to one.
@ypg – Thanks… we’ll need to make some changes here. I’ve already considered replacing the staircase with a quarter-turn staircase (is that the correct term?). Additionally, I will slightly adjust the room layout as mentioned earlier. The corner space was originally intended for the wood storage – but that will be modified as well.
Many thanks for all the — admittedly very critical — comments. Hopefully, we will take them into account during the planning phase.
Many thanks for all the — admittedly very critical — comments. Hopefully, we will take them into account during the planning phase.
I also think the space between the kitchen island and the sofa is too tight. There should still be a walkway next to it, even when people are sitting at the table. At the moment, it looks like there’s about 3m (10 feet) total width, which might be a bit too narrow... maybe the sofa doesn’t need to be that wide?
I also see problems with the length – if you want to go outside, whether through a kitchen-dining (KD) door or (which might be better here) a sliding patio door, you need to place the table about 1m (3 feet) away from the door, and in the area near the living room door there should also be at least 1m (3 feet) clearance to the table. Since you have 3.99m (13 feet) available, the table can be a maximum of 2m (6.5 feet) long, and no one can sit at the ends. I would say that means a maximum of 6 people comfortably, or squeezed, 8 people seated along the sides.
I don’t think the house is wide enough for this layout of kitchen – dining area – living area all in a row; perhaps an L-shaped arrangement would work better here?
By the way, what costs 410,000 in this house? It’s not even that large.
I also see problems with the length – if you want to go outside, whether through a kitchen-dining (KD) door or (which might be better here) a sliding patio door, you need to place the table about 1m (3 feet) away from the door, and in the area near the living room door there should also be at least 1m (3 feet) clearance to the table. Since you have 3.99m (13 feet) available, the table can be a maximum of 2m (6.5 feet) long, and no one can sit at the ends. I would say that means a maximum of 6 people comfortably, or squeezed, 8 people seated along the sides.
I don’t think the house is wide enough for this layout of kitchen – dining area – living area all in a row; perhaps an L-shaped arrangement would work better here?
By the way, what costs 410,000 in this house? It’s not even that large.
Moriarty schrieb:
I don’t really understand that. There are not only heating fireplaces. A fireplace can also simply be there to add some coziness to the house. I never said I wanted to use it for heating or anything like that. How is it possible to operate a fireplace without automatically heating the room?
This is a serious question. In our future home, there is a connection for a fireplace that has never been used. However, I wouldn’t want to place a fireplace right next to the sofa or dining table because it would get far too warm there.
A colleague of mine installed a fireplace in his new build about 10 years ago. In hindsight, he admitted it was a mistake because the underfloor heating responds too slowly, and with the fireplace on, the living room gets much too warm.
FloHB123 schrieb:
How can you operate a fireplace without automatically heating the room?
This is a serious question. In our future house, there is a connection for a fireplace that has never been used. However, I wouldn’t want to place a fireplace right next to the sofa or dining table because it would just get too warm.
A colleague of mine installed a fireplace in his new build about 10 years ago. In hindsight, he admitted that it was a mistake because the underfloor heating reacts too slowly and the living room gets way too warm with the fireplace on. I can’t confirm that. We also have a 10 kW fireplace, and after about 2 hours of it running, the room temperature only rises by about 1–2 degrees. You can even sit comfortably right next to it. It’s a three-sided fireplace with a lot of glass area...
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