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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Pinkiponk26 Sep 2021 16:58Myrna_Loy schrieb:
The problem often is that after a construction site, there is no intact topsoil and the subsoil is extremely compacted, so nothing grows on it. And you can’t really dig up a 30 sqm (320 sq ft) terrace with a spade.Until now, I assumed we would rent small excavators. My husband and I have always wanted to try working with an excavator.11ant schrieb:
Which gifted wart remover is supposed to encourage the cut-down tree to regrow roots? — it seems to me that a normal green thumb won’t suffice; it probably has to be metallic green ;-) 🙂 🙂 🙂There are Christmas trees you can buy with roots still attached. They are still alive. 🙂
ypg schrieb:
But it’s about your own house, the one you live in yourself 😉Alright, for the first occupancy, that would be acceptable to me as well.ypg schrieb:
...It seems I need to experience this myself in order to understand it properly. You motivated me to start keeping a garden Excel spreadsheet from the beginning, and I’m happy to share its contents in the garden thread if anyone is interested. Now I’m really curious to see how the landscaping costs will develop.(Have to go now. Counting ballots. :-) )
Unfortunately, the landscape gardener doesn’t always do everything as well as they could...
For example, I had prepared a planting list for the hedge, which they followed exactly (so they provided the plants, and I helped plant them).
Unfortunately, it turned out that the soil was too dry for a viburnum, that it’s better to plant witch hazel with more space, and that holly prefers a bit more moisture rather than a warm and windy spot.
Okay, I could have figured all that out myself beforehand—I honestly didn’t pay close enough attention when choosing.
However, since the landscape gardener was familiar with the garden (or rather the vacant lot) because they had inspected it beforehand, I would have expected them to say something like: wait a moment, this plant selection isn’t ideal because… do you really want it this way? Alternatively, you should choose xyz instead.
Hindsight is always 20/20, and this example shows me that you really need to do thorough research on all topics beforehand if you don’t want to rely on luck to find truly knowledgeable professionals.
For example, I had prepared a planting list for the hedge, which they followed exactly (so they provided the plants, and I helped plant them).
Unfortunately, it turned out that the soil was too dry for a viburnum, that it’s better to plant witch hazel with more space, and that holly prefers a bit more moisture rather than a warm and windy spot.
Okay, I could have figured all that out myself beforehand—I honestly didn’t pay close enough attention when choosing.
However, since the landscape gardener was familiar with the garden (or rather the vacant lot) because they had inspected it beforehand, I would have expected them to say something like: wait a moment, this plant selection isn’t ideal because… do you really want it this way? Alternatively, you should choose xyz instead.
Hindsight is always 20/20, and this example shows me that you really need to do thorough research on all topics beforehand if you don’t want to rely on luck to find truly knowledgeable professionals.
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motorradsilke26 Sep 2021 18:08ypg schrieb:
@motorradsilke We probably spent too much energy and time on our own house, so now we’re too tired for it. Have I already said: at a certain age, you also want to experience hanging a hammock on a tree. You can’t just dig up a standard tree so easily… transporting used shrubs might work within one village, but not over highways.
My goodness, you’re right that it’s possible, but only to a limited extent. This is about the parallel thread where the landscape gardener charges. But if @Pinkiponk thinks they can create their garden with cuttings exactly as they imagine it, then I say: they won’t get to experience that garden. It doesn’t work like that.
Don’t generalize too much when replying to someone directly here, @motorradsilke.
And don’t always assume that others are building under the same conditions as you. And don’t always assume that everyone wants the same as you.
If you can’t imagine that, used trees can be transported even over highways. How else would the landscape gardener get the tree to your place?
I think Pinkiponk is younger than us. Yes, maybe the garden won’t be 100% exactly as you want it with used plants. But it can still turn out great.
motorradsilke schrieb:
I think Pinkiponk is even younger than we are.No. motorradsilke schrieb:
And don’t always assume that everyone wants the same things as you do.Right now, you’re convinced that people can create their gardens easily with cuttings and self-excavation. I’m saying it takes time and a lot of effort.
Who wants what here now?
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Pinkiponk schrieb:
You encouraged me to keep a gardening Excel spreadsheet from the start, and I’m happy to share its contents in the gardening thread if anyone is interested. Why use a spreadsheet?
Just write down what you spend in a notebook... after six months you’ll probably stop because the totals will be shocking 😉
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saralina8727 Sep 2021 08:01... And so that at least a few on-topic posts are included here:
The Porto house from Gussek Haus might be of interest to you, TE.
The Porto house from Gussek Haus might be of interest to you, TE.
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