ᐅ Our floor plan of 120 sqm on a 469 sqm plot of land

We have a living area of about 120m² (1,292 sq ft), roughly 60m² (646 sq ft) downstairs and just under 59m² (635 sq ft) upstairs. We raised our knee wall to 1m (3.3 ft). Any higher would become too expensive.

I wish you lots of fun with your floor plan. Improvement suggestions have already been made. If you seriously want to put a drying rack in your living room, I don’t know what else to say. As mentioned before, the house will get cluttered. You will have to buy new drinks every day because there isn’t even storage space for that. The vacuum cleaner will probably be parked in the tool shed, and so on.

PS: Please report back after living in the house for a year and let us know how you like the floor plan then.

Hello, you should also consider that you might have two children someday. I have two kids and wash at least one full load of laundry every day. If I had to keep hanging it in the living room all the time, it wouldn’t look nice and would smell like a laundry room. Two children can produce an enormous amount of dirty laundry! When I used to live in a studio apartment as a single person, I managed without a dryer too, and occasionally had a drying rack in the living room. But that is unthinkable for me now—the effort alone! Kids also have lots of toys (tricycle, ride-on car, scooter, electric train, etc.) that you want to quickly store somewhere. You should keep that in mind and not base your space needs on your current situation; everything changes with children. You should also consider your house’s resale value; if the planning is poor, the house will be hard to sell. Best regards, Sabine

erfurter110287 schrieb:
we have a living area of about 120 sqm. So roughly 60 downstair and just under 59 upstairs. We raised our knee wall to 1m (3.3 ft). Everything else gets too expensive.

You are building 9.37 x 9.37 meters (30.7 x 30.7 ft), right? We are building 8.84 x 10.64 meters (29 x 34.9 ft). That makes a difference of 4 sqm (43 sq ft) when calculating the exterior dimensions.

If I add up all your room sizes, I get 69.03 sqm (743 sq ft) for your floor area. We have 74.18 sqm (799 sq ft). That’s 5 sqm (54 sq ft) more, and yet we have very generous space downstairs, almost no wasted circulation space, and still room for a 12 sqm (129 sq ft) room.

Looking at your living room, you have what looks like a ballroom behind the sofa. Is that supposed to be where the drying rack goes? Wouldn’t it make more sense to reduce some of the space in the width of the room and allocate it to a practical utility room?
And the space between the living and dining room? There’s a lot of unused space there as well! And why do you need room for chairs at the (non-functional) island when the dining room is just 2 meters (6.6 ft) away?

If I could only build 120 sqm (1,292 sq ft), I would use the floor plans much more efficiently.

Curly schrieb:
Hello, you should also consider that you might eventually have two children. I also have two children and wash at least one full load of laundry daily. If I had to hang it all in the living room constantly, it would not only never look nice but also smell like a laundry room. Two children can produce an enormous amount of dirty laundry!

Sabine, they only want one child. Naturally, that doesn’t create as much mess, and the child only plays in their own bedroom. So there is enough space for the drying rack in the living room.

There is a storage room available!!!