ᐅ Floor Plan of Semi-Detached House – Bathroom and Laundry Room Layout Planning
Created on: 12 Dec 2023 22:36
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Klinkerhof86
Hello,
we have a plot of land adjoining a neighboring house, where we plan to build a semi-detached house.
I am currently focusing on the bathrooms and would appreciate any feedback. I have explained the specific questions further below. In the attached floor plans, the latest changes are shown in red, which is why there is a gap in the upper floor where the old bathtub used to be.
Development Plan / Restrictions
Plot size: approx. 450sqm (4844 sq ft)
Slope: no
Site coverage ratio
Floor area ratio
Building envelope, building line and boundary
Edge development: carport/garage
Number of parking spaces
Number of floors: 2.5
Roof style: gable roof, 45 degrees
Design style
Orientation
Maximum heights / limits
Additional requirements: extension attached to an existing semi-detached house; total plot width: 11m (36 ft); therefore maximum house width 8m (26 ft) & building depth 10m (33 ft)
Client Requirements
Design style, roof shape, building type: roof form and size follow the neighbor’s
Basement, floors: no basement, 2 full floors, 1 attic floor
Number of occupants, ages: 4 (37, 36, 3, 0 years)
Space requirements on ground floor: dining/living/kitchen, utility room, guest bathroom, cloakroom
Upper floor (1st floor): 2 children’s bedrooms, office 1, bathroom plus laundry room
Attic floor: master bedroom, bathroom, office 2/guest room/second living area
Office: family use or home office? Both, 2x home offices needed
Number of overnight guests annually: various, 8–10
Open or closed architecture: mixed
Traditional or modern construction
Open kitchen, kitchen island: preferably a semi-detached island, even if the kitchen space is a bit tight
Number of dining seats: 6–8
Fireplace: no
Music/sound system wall
Balcony, roof terrace: terrace
Garage, carport: yes, also serving as basement substitute
Kitchen garden, greenhouse: no
Other wishes/special features/daily routine, including reasons for preferences or restrictions
House Design
Who designed it:
- Planner from a construction company: yes
What do you particularly like? Why?
Implementation of the ground floor, equally sized children’s rooms, the attic floor is also okay. -> Comments still welcome.
What don’t you like? Why?
The bathrooms on the upper and attic floors are still a work in progress.
Laundry should be done on the upper floor, so a laundry area with privacy connected to the main bathroom is desired. Washer/dryer should be elevated, so preferably not placed under a window.
Several drafts have been made with passages at top and bottom of the plan. Current idea: move the bathtub to the attic floor, and use the gained space to widen the laundry room to 1.6m (5.2 ft) to allow some storage.
A separate DIY sketch from me is attached (without technical elements/pipes etc.).
In the attic floor the bathtub is planned under the sloped ceiling. Does this work from a spatial design perspective? Any other ideas for arranging the sanitary fixtures? Would you build the shower as drywall with a glass door or fully as a glass enclosure (more light but more cleaning)?
Another topic: What do you think about the kitchen and possible layout of furniture/semi-island?
If you had to give up, which details/features
- Could you give up:
- Could you not give up: completely omitting a bathtub is not preferred
Why did the design end up as it is now?
Our wishes were implemented by the planner over several iterations.
What do you think makes it especially good or bad:
For the relatively narrow plot and semi-detached house format, many fixed constraints leave little room to maneuver, but I still hope for creative solutions.
we have a plot of land adjoining a neighboring house, where we plan to build a semi-detached house.
I am currently focusing on the bathrooms and would appreciate any feedback. I have explained the specific questions further below. In the attached floor plans, the latest changes are shown in red, which is why there is a gap in the upper floor where the old bathtub used to be.
Development Plan / Restrictions
Plot size: approx. 450sqm (4844 sq ft)
Slope: no
Site coverage ratio
Floor area ratio
Building envelope, building line and boundary
Edge development: carport/garage
Number of parking spaces
Number of floors: 2.5
Roof style: gable roof, 45 degrees
Design style
Orientation
Maximum heights / limits
Additional requirements: extension attached to an existing semi-detached house; total plot width: 11m (36 ft); therefore maximum house width 8m (26 ft) & building depth 10m (33 ft)
Client Requirements
Design style, roof shape, building type: roof form and size follow the neighbor’s
Basement, floors: no basement, 2 full floors, 1 attic floor
Number of occupants, ages: 4 (37, 36, 3, 0 years)
Space requirements on ground floor: dining/living/kitchen, utility room, guest bathroom, cloakroom
Upper floor (1st floor): 2 children’s bedrooms, office 1, bathroom plus laundry room
Attic floor: master bedroom, bathroom, office 2/guest room/second living area
Office: family use or home office? Both, 2x home offices needed
Number of overnight guests annually: various, 8–10
Open or closed architecture: mixed
Traditional or modern construction
Open kitchen, kitchen island: preferably a semi-detached island, even if the kitchen space is a bit tight
Number of dining seats: 6–8
Fireplace: no
Music/sound system wall
Balcony, roof terrace: terrace
Garage, carport: yes, also serving as basement substitute
Kitchen garden, greenhouse: no
Other wishes/special features/daily routine, including reasons for preferences or restrictions
House Design
Who designed it:
- Planner from a construction company: yes
What do you particularly like? Why?
Implementation of the ground floor, equally sized children’s rooms, the attic floor is also okay. -> Comments still welcome.
What don’t you like? Why?
The bathrooms on the upper and attic floors are still a work in progress.
Laundry should be done on the upper floor, so a laundry area with privacy connected to the main bathroom is desired. Washer/dryer should be elevated, so preferably not placed under a window.
Several drafts have been made with passages at top and bottom of the plan. Current idea: move the bathtub to the attic floor, and use the gained space to widen the laundry room to 1.6m (5.2 ft) to allow some storage.
A separate DIY sketch from me is attached (without technical elements/pipes etc.).
In the attic floor the bathtub is planned under the sloped ceiling. Does this work from a spatial design perspective? Any other ideas for arranging the sanitary fixtures? Would you build the shower as drywall with a glass door or fully as a glass enclosure (more light but more cleaning)?
Another topic: What do you think about the kitchen and possible layout of furniture/semi-island?
If you had to give up, which details/features
- Could you give up:
- Could you not give up: completely omitting a bathtub is not preferred
Why did the design end up as it is now?
Our wishes were implemented by the planner over several iterations.
What do you think makes it especially good or bad:
For the relatively narrow plot and semi-detached house format, many fixed constraints leave little room to maneuver, but I still hope for creative solutions.
ypg schrieb:
we have 8x10 here,... which, in my view, is where the fundamental misunderstanding stems from. ypg schrieb:
But I feel the OP might have been a bit put off by the digression?!Perhaps it’s simply being considered that a restrictive condition creates an unfavorable working basis. And/or it has dawned on them that the self-planning (or modification thereof) is full— to put it mildly— of awkwardness(?)
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11ant schrieb:
And/or the realization has dawned that the self-planning (modification) is full of, to put it kindly, awkwardness (?)As far as I can tell, this is not self-planning.@HeimatBauer ... I even bookmarked your post to have it ready for the next discussion on "dividing the house for later use by two households." You explain very well what should sensibly be considered in such planning. It’s not enough to just point to any wall on the upper floor and say, the kitchen will go here 🙂
ypg schrieb:
As far as I can tell, this is not a self-designed plan. I did say "self-design (modification)" – meaning at least one personal alteration of a plan. In the meantime, I have taken a closer look at the barely legible drawings and am now quite confident that it is more like a seven and three-quarter variation of a plan that was already influenced early on by the homeowners’ suggestions given to the draftsman. The awkwardness in the plan has now reached the concentration of a bouillon cube. Crumpling it up won’t be enough; to be safe, the trash bin should be blown up afterwards. Then, please systematically (which is the OPPOSITE of cross-laminated multi-layer self-binding!) redevelop it. I recall my suggestion to replace the error-prone 8x10 base with orientation based on the house profile of the neighboring unit. When developing it, please don’t go wrong again—that is, don’t overload the project requirements for the house with all-knowing provisions for some distant future and so on.
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HeimatBauer15 Dec 2023 07:29ypg schrieb:
@HeimatBauer
You misunderstood something there, and I hope my private message clarified it.Neither is true, and your private message only made it more intrusive. I don’t have to put up with that.