ᐅ Floor Plan Optimization Single-Family Home, Two Full Stories, Approximately 180 m²
Created on: 29 Oct 2021 11:47
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hansipansi
Hello dear community,
We are in the final stages of planning our floor plan and would like to hear your opinions on our design and any suggestions for improvement. When you look at a plan for the hundredth time, it’s easy to lose perspective...
Here is the questionnaire first:
Development Plan / Restrictions
Plot size: 776 sqm (8,356 sq ft)
Slope: no
Site coverage ratio: 0.3
Floor area ratio: 0.6
Building envelope, building line, and boundary: see blue line
Adjacent buildings: no
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of floors: max. 2 full stories
Roof type: no specifications
Style: no specifications
Orientation: no specifications
Maximum heights / limits: eaves height 6.50 m (21.3 ft); building ridge height 10.50 m (34.4 ft)
Other specifications: none
Homeowner Requirements
Style, roof shape, building type: gable roof, 22 degrees
Basement, floors: 2 full stories, no basement
Number of people, age: currently 2, both around 30 (planning for 4)
Space requirements on ground and upper floors: as in the floor plan
Office: family use or home office: both
Guest bedrooms per year: not relevant
Open or closed layout: open
Conservative or modern construction: modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island: yes
Number of dining seats: at least 6
Fireplace: yes, currently planned
Music / stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no, only garden terrace
Garage, carport: double garage
Utility garden, greenhouse: no
Additional wishes / special features / daily routine, also reasons why something should or should not be included
House Design
Who designed it: custom architect design based on our drawings
Preferred heating system: air-source heat pump with underfloor heating and photovoltaic system (KfW 40+)
What do you like most? What do you not like? Why?
Basically, we are satisfied with the floor plan. What I am still not completely happy with is the exterior appearance. I am concerned that it might look too much like a barrack.
If you absolutely have to give up on certain details / features,
- could you do without: possibly the fireplace (probably doesn’t make much sense with KfW 40+)?
- can you not do without: large upstairs hallway (because of the beautiful view), open living/dining area, walk-in closet
Why is the design the way it is now?
We had several wishes that influenced the design:
Thanks a lot in advance!
We are in the final stages of planning our floor plan and would like to hear your opinions on our design and any suggestions for improvement. When you look at a plan for the hundredth time, it’s easy to lose perspective...
Here is the questionnaire first:
Development Plan / Restrictions
Plot size: 776 sqm (8,356 sq ft)
Slope: no
Site coverage ratio: 0.3
Floor area ratio: 0.6
Building envelope, building line, and boundary: see blue line
Adjacent buildings: no
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of floors: max. 2 full stories
Roof type: no specifications
Style: no specifications
Orientation: no specifications
Maximum heights / limits: eaves height 6.50 m (21.3 ft); building ridge height 10.50 m (34.4 ft)
Other specifications: none
Homeowner Requirements
Style, roof shape, building type: gable roof, 22 degrees
Basement, floors: 2 full stories, no basement
Number of people, age: currently 2, both around 30 (planning for 4)
Space requirements on ground and upper floors: as in the floor plan
Office: family use or home office: both
Guest bedrooms per year: not relevant
Open or closed layout: open
Conservative or modern construction: modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island: yes
Number of dining seats: at least 6
Fireplace: yes, currently planned
Music / stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no, only garden terrace
Garage, carport: double garage
Utility garden, greenhouse: no
Additional wishes / special features / daily routine, also reasons why something should or should not be included
House Design
Who designed it: custom architect design based on our drawings
Preferred heating system: air-source heat pump with underfloor heating and photovoltaic system (KfW 40+)
What do you like most? What do you not like? Why?
Basically, we are satisfied with the floor plan. What I am still not completely happy with is the exterior appearance. I am concerned that it might look too much like a barrack.
If you absolutely have to give up on certain details / features,
- could you do without: possibly the fireplace (probably doesn’t make much sense with KfW 40+)?
- can you not do without: large upstairs hallway (because of the beautiful view), open living/dining area, walk-in closet
Why is the design the way it is now?
We had several wishes that influenced the design:
- Large hallway window upstairs
- Window seat in the kitchen (we don’t want a bar counter with stools)
- Hidden door from kitchen to pantry (not shown in the current plan but possible and already discussed with the kitchen planner)
- Garden should be as large as possible
- Is the living room big enough? (just the TV area)
- Will the hallway on the ground floor be too dark?
- Is 51 cm (20 inches) depth enough for a wardrobe?
- Any other general suggestions for improvement? What do you think is bad or would you do differently?
Thanks a lot in advance!
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Myrna_Loy8 Nov 2021 14:58Alessandro schrieb:
Do you always have so many guests, or is that why you have both a guest room and a home office?Children are still in the planning phase.H
hansipansi8 Nov 2021 15:15Alessandro schrieb:
Do you always have so many guests, or why do you have a guest room and an office?I work from home several times a week, even beyond the pandemic.
In addition, the sewing machine and its accessories also need their own space.
I’ll admit that I didn’t find the first plans bad at all (unlike the new ones). However, there are a few things I don’t understand, so I have some questions for @hansipansi:
- You mention the beautiful view to the southeast, but what is so bad about the west/southwest that you are fully building it up or have extremely minimized windows there?
- I find a double garage rather plain by default. Is it a must-have, or could you imagine having a carport attached directly to the house instead?
- Why is the entrance on the west side and not facing the street?
- You mention the beautiful view to the southeast, but what is so bad about the west/southwest that you are fully building it up or have extremely minimized windows there?
- I find a double garage rather plain by default. Is it a must-have, or could you imagine having a carport attached directly to the house instead?
- Why is the entrance on the west side and not facing the street?
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Kreisrund8 Nov 2021 17:26Hangman schrieb:
- You mention the beautiful view in the southeast, but what is so bad about the west/southwest that you completely block it with buildings or have very limited windows there?
- Why is the entrance on the west side and not facing the street?I have asked this question earlier as well. I would rather mirror the entire house.I was thinking more along these lines:
The main entrance faces the street: this allows the carport to be positioned close to the house, saving space, and creates a convenient private corner on the west side. The utility room can be redesigned and also used as a pantry. This helps to reduce the length of the ground floor hallway. The cloakroom area is located between the hallway and the guest room, as well as beneath the staircase. The kitchen and dining area are compact and can be fitted with windows according to preference. The living area, on the other hand, is now spacious and could be separated from the dining area with a room divider or similar. From the staircase hallway, I can access the kitchen or living room (the optimal furnishing of the living area still needs to be figured out).
The eastern hallway window upstairs I would make as wide as the hallway with a sill height of 45cm (18 inches) and have a carpenter build a built-in window seat, also hallway-wide and nicely deep. Otherwise, there are only a few minor things to improve upstairs.
The main entrance faces the street: this allows the carport to be positioned close to the house, saving space, and creates a convenient private corner on the west side. The utility room can be redesigned and also used as a pantry. This helps to reduce the length of the ground floor hallway. The cloakroom area is located between the hallway and the guest room, as well as beneath the staircase. The kitchen and dining area are compact and can be fitted with windows according to preference. The living area, on the other hand, is now spacious and could be separated from the dining area with a room divider or similar. From the staircase hallway, I can access the kitchen or living room (the optimal furnishing of the living area still needs to be figured out).
The eastern hallway window upstairs I would make as wide as the hallway with a sill height of 45cm (18 inches) and have a carpenter build a built-in window seat, also hallway-wide and nicely deep. Otherwise, there are only a few minor things to improve upstairs.
hansipansi schrieb:
The bay window shouldn’t stay in the kitchen as shown in the plan but should be moved eastward between the living room and dining room. Please draw in the bay window. Because you also have a chimney there...
Hangman schrieb:
But what’s so bad about the west/southwest side that you want to close it off completely or have extremely reduced windows there? I don’t understand this objection. There are actually the most windows on the southwest side!
And instead of the bay window, there will still be another window, right?
I myself noticed that on the upper floor, the window area on the southeast side is quite sparse—only in the hallway...
For clarity or comparison: south is top left 😎
Anyway: I also wouldn’t have swapped the living room and kitchen. But I like the upper floor better now.
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