ᐅ Optimize the upper floor of the townhouse. Install floor-to-ceiling windows.

Created on: 5 May 2020 18:37
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Coletrickle_7808
Hi, attached is a floor plan for a townhouse (142sqm (1,527 sq ft)).

What can be improved here? How can the upper floor be optimized in relation to Child 2’s room?

All windows on the upper floor are floor-to-ceiling and located in the same positions as on the ground floor.

On the ground floor, for example, I would create an opening from the kitchen to the hallway opposite the floor-to-ceiling window.

1. This would save having to go through the living room.

2. It would allow natural light into the hallway through that window.

Additionally, I might consider moving the fireplace closer to the living room.
- This would make the walk-in closet more usable; it would probably not disturb Child 1’s room.

Regarding Child 2’s room, the only idea I have is to incorporate the hallway space. Child 2 would then have the wide floor-to-ceiling window, but the hallway would lose its window entirely...

I’m really at a loss here.

Open living/dining area (36.87 sqm (397 sq ft)) with kitchen on the left, sofa on the right, shower and storage room.


Floor plan of the upper level: hallway, bedroom, walk-in closet, bathroom, 2 children's rooms, office/guest room.
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Coletrickle_7808
5 May 2020 22:29
Something like this here...

Floor plan of a square house with hallway, doors, and stairs.
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haydee
5 May 2020 22:47
The staircase seems a bit small.

Swap the children's room with the bedroom. 1. Cooler 2. more separated from the children's room by the walk-in closet

Only then will the staircase not fit.
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Curly
5 May 2020 22:50
That is exactly the same; it doesn’t matter whether you extend the stairs downward or not. I would rather choose the option with the straight staircase at the entrance, as you can also plan a storage room underneath it.

Best regards
Sabine
11ant5 May 2020 23:54
Coletrickle_7808 schrieb:

This was the original... the only thing bothering us here is the staircase.
It started the same way for @Shiny86 about eight hundred posts ago—following the seemingly harmless approach of slightly optimizing a originally functional floor plan; it also began with the staircase, and then the domino effect took hold. Eventually, a trivial downpipe beside the sofa abruptly ended the LSD trip, but since then the Damocles sword of symmetry still hangs by a thread over an unsatisfactory cloakroom without a key bowl. And if they haven’t given up, they’ll still be unsure tomorrow which of the French doors leads back out of the fairy tale forest. Do you want that?
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Coletrickle_7808
6 May 2020 07:09
Okay.
What bothers me about the Brooklyn floor plan is that the hallway on the upper floor has no window. It feels very dark there.

Would it be possible to build a floor plan like this approximately? Unfortunately, there are no dimensions provided here.

Two floor plans of a house: ground floor and upper floor with living areas, kitchen, and bathroom.
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Curly
6 May 2020 09:23
Everything is feasible; you just have to like it. I would miss having a wardrobe area on the ground floor, and upstairs I wouldn’t want L-shaped children’s rooms with an excessively large hallway. In the bedroom, I would also find a dark walk-in closet bothersome.

Take a look at the many floor plans available online first.

Best regards,
Sabine