ᐅ Floor Plan Design for Urban Villa – Catalog Floor Plan Inspiration
Created on: 22 Sep 2021 10:45
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miriam85
Hello dear members,
After a long time of quietly following the forum and officially reserving our preferred plot, we are now venturing into planning our urban villa. We have drawn inspiration from many catalog floor plans and sketched extensively on paper. The result is a design we are reasonably satisfied with. We would now like to have it reviewed by you to understand what works (or doesn’t).
First, the questionnaire:
Development plan / restrictions
Plot size 600 sqm (20x30 m) (6460 sq ft, 66x98 ft)
Slope no
Building area, building line and boundary 3 m (10 ft) setback
Number of parking spaces 2
Number of floors max. 2
Roof style any
Architectural style modern
Orientation garden facing southwest
Client requirements
Architectural style, roof type, building type urban villa with hipped roof
Basement, floors 2 floors without basement
Number of occupants, ages 3 (36, 35, 2)
Room area on ground and upper floors approx. 85 sqm (915 sq ft) each
Office: family use or home office? home office
Overnight guests per year 4
Open or closed architecture open
Open kitchen, kitchen island yes
Number of dining seats 6, extendable to 10
Balcony, roof terrace no
Garage, carport double garage
House design
Who designed it? do-it-yourself
What do you like most? Why? Our space requirements are met. Front entrance centered.
What do you dislike? Why? We are unsure if the upper floor works as planned. To make the fitness room functional in size, we had to move walls and reduce the upstairs hallway. Could this result in too little natural light on the upper floor? Also, we are uncertain if the utility room is adequately sized.
Preferred heating system: air-to-water heat pump + controlled mechanical ventilation
If you had to give up, which details/ additions would you omit
-could you give up: pantry, door from utility room to garage, straight staircase (even though we like it for being easy to use and providing storage underneath)
-could you not give up: fitness room, two children's bedrooms, office
Why is the design the way it is? For example,
What do you consider particularly good or bad about it? See above. We have included all the required rooms but are not sure the upper floor layout works. We also have concerns about storage space.
Regarding orientation, the plan is to position the house as close as possible to the street (northeast) to maximize garden space in the southwest.
Enough said: we look forward to feedback from the lions’ den. ;-)
After a long time of quietly following the forum and officially reserving our preferred plot, we are now venturing into planning our urban villa. We have drawn inspiration from many catalog floor plans and sketched extensively on paper. The result is a design we are reasonably satisfied with. We would now like to have it reviewed by you to understand what works (or doesn’t).
First, the questionnaire:
Development plan / restrictions
Plot size 600 sqm (20x30 m) (6460 sq ft, 66x98 ft)
Slope no
Building area, building line and boundary 3 m (10 ft) setback
Number of parking spaces 2
Number of floors max. 2
Roof style any
Architectural style modern
Orientation garden facing southwest
Client requirements
Architectural style, roof type, building type urban villa with hipped roof
Basement, floors 2 floors without basement
Number of occupants, ages 3 (36, 35, 2)
Room area on ground and upper floors approx. 85 sqm (915 sq ft) each
Office: family use or home office? home office
Overnight guests per year 4
Open or closed architecture open
Open kitchen, kitchen island yes
Number of dining seats 6, extendable to 10
Balcony, roof terrace no
Garage, carport double garage
House design
Who designed it? do-it-yourself
What do you like most? Why? Our space requirements are met. Front entrance centered.
What do you dislike? Why? We are unsure if the upper floor works as planned. To make the fitness room functional in size, we had to move walls and reduce the upstairs hallway. Could this result in too little natural light on the upper floor? Also, we are uncertain if the utility room is adequately sized.
Preferred heating system: air-to-water heat pump + controlled mechanical ventilation
If you had to give up, which details/ additions would you omit
-could you give up: pantry, door from utility room to garage, straight staircase (even though we like it for being easy to use and providing storage underneath)
-could you not give up: fitness room, two children's bedrooms, office
Why is the design the way it is? For example,
What do you consider particularly good or bad about it? See above. We have included all the required rooms but are not sure the upper floor layout works. We also have concerns about storage space.
Regarding orientation, the plan is to position the house as close as possible to the street (northeast) to maximize garden space in the southwest.
Enough said: we look forward to feedback from the lions’ den. ;-)
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Bertram10024 Sep 2021 12:00ypg schrieb:
You mean usable from both sides?!
I would always try to do that, at least between the kids’ bedrooms – it visually removes the wardrobe. This is an achievable goal with the Pax models. But I don’t understand why most people dislike wardrobes. There are nice ones too – especially second hand. 😉 Mid-century wardrobes can be really beautiful, as well as antique or antique-style ones.
Sometimes I think hiding storage furniture mainly serves to avoid being confronted with your stuff and changing fashion tastes.
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Myrna_Loy24 Sep 2021 12:48Bertram100 schrieb:
With the Pax models being a desirable option. However, I don’t understand why most people are against wardrobes. There are also beautiful ones—especially second hand. 😉 Mid-century wardrobes can be really attractive, as can antique or antique-style ones.
Sometimes I think that hiding storage furniture mainly serves to avoid being confronted with your stuff and changing fashion tastes.I simply don’t like having tall, wide furniture 60cm (24 inches) or more into the room. Especially in small rooms, this leaves hardly any space for other things.
Bertram100 schrieb:
antiekeIf anything, it should be "anteake" – haha
Myrna_Loy schrieb:
I just don’t like it when tall, wide furniture sticks out 60cm (24 inches) or more into the room. Especially in smaller rooms, this leaves hardly any space for other things. Moreover, it’s quite impractical for most uses — or even more expensive, since ideally you would install drawers to make full use of and access the depth.
For example, we have built some wardrobes using Ikea Metod. But in shallower versions, around 35cm (14 inches) of usable depth. Apart from clothes hangers, this is the perfect depth for almost everything, and the wardrobes look much less bulky.
opalau schrieb:
Except for hangersIs the trend moving towards a second wardrobe or just skipping hangers altogether?Bertram100 schrieb:
I don’t understand why most people dislike wardrobes. There are beautiful ones—especially second hand. 😉 Mid-century wardrobes can be really attractive, as well as antique or those made to look antique.There really are beautiful ones, yes 🙂 You can also furnish nice rooms for yourself where such a great wardrobe takes center stage. But if you’re planning two children’s rooms and put the square meters into the desired walk-in closet instead, so that the 12m² (130ft²) children’s rooms have no storage behind the doors, then you end up with a solid wardrobe showing its broad side intimidatingly in the often cluttered and playful space.P.s. in our case it’s called “antik” 😉
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