ᐅ Floor Plan Design: Single-Family Home with 4 Bedrooms and Office, 160 sqm
Created on: 9 Mar 2024 21:55
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Hello dear community,
we are a family of five (2 adults, 3 children) currently planning to build a house. It is quite challenging to find a floor plan with 4 bedrooms plus an office/guest room while keeping the overall size affordable. We have already tested several layouts and would appreciate your feedback and comments. Our current plan is a compromise between construction costs and size. So our main focus is to get the most out of the available space. Of course, having more space would be better, but unfortunately, we are limited to about 160 square meters (1,722 square feet). We would like to use this floor plan to obtain comparable offers from home builders.
Thank you in advance!
Development Plan / Restrictions
Plot size: 550 square meters (5,920 square feet)
Building envelope: 12 m x 20 m (39 feet x 66 feet)
Slope: none
Site coverage ratio: 0.2
Floor area ratio: 0.4
Number of floors: 2
Roof type: hip roof
Architectural style: classic city villa
No formal development plan, §34
Owners’ Requirements
Style, roof type, building type: city villa with hip roof, 2 floors without basement
Space requirements ground floor, upper floor: approx. 150 square meters (1,615 square feet) (2 adults, 3 children)
Office: home office with 2 workstations
Guest stays per year: mainly grandparents, 2-3 times
Open or closed architecture: open
Conservative or modern design: modern, open kitchen
Number of dining seats: 8
Fireplace: no
Additional requirements:
House Design
Origin of the plans: self-designed based on several examples and inspirations from the internet. The windows are still placeholders.
We are unsure about the bay window. We have planned it to gain some extra space for the dining table, especially when guests come, as we can easily have 10 people. Additionally, it helps to fit in the 3rd children’s bedroom better. The question is how the cost of a bay window compares to simply increasing the overall floor area. Maybe someone here has experience with this. Also, if other arrangements might exist that use the space more efficiently.
Budget limit for the house, including fixtures: 550,000 euros (approx. $) (including photovoltaic system and ready to move in)
Preferred heating system: heat pump
Ground Floor
Upper Floor
Site Plan
we are a family of five (2 adults, 3 children) currently planning to build a house. It is quite challenging to find a floor plan with 4 bedrooms plus an office/guest room while keeping the overall size affordable. We have already tested several layouts and would appreciate your feedback and comments. Our current plan is a compromise between construction costs and size. So our main focus is to get the most out of the available space. Of course, having more space would be better, but unfortunately, we are limited to about 160 square meters (1,722 square feet). We would like to use this floor plan to obtain comparable offers from home builders.
Thank you in advance!
Development Plan / Restrictions
Plot size: 550 square meters (5,920 square feet)
Building envelope: 12 m x 20 m (39 feet x 66 feet)
Slope: none
Site coverage ratio: 0.2
Floor area ratio: 0.4
Number of floors: 2
Roof type: hip roof
Architectural style: classic city villa
No formal development plan, §34
Owners’ Requirements
Style, roof type, building type: city villa with hip roof, 2 floors without basement
Space requirements ground floor, upper floor: approx. 150 square meters (1,615 square feet) (2 adults, 3 children)
Office: home office with 2 workstations
Guest stays per year: mainly grandparents, 2-3 times
Open or closed architecture: open
Conservative or modern design: modern, open kitchen
Number of dining seats: 8
Fireplace: no
Additional requirements:
- Open living/dining area and kitchen
- Utility/technical room large enough for laundry and with exterior access
- Bathroom with double sink and preferably a T-layout
- Guest toilet with shower on the ground floor
- Office for home office that can also serve as a guest room
- Option to have a second small desk in the master bedroom or a second workspace (both work from home frequently)
House Design
Origin of the plans: self-designed based on several examples and inspirations from the internet. The windows are still placeholders.
We are unsure about the bay window. We have planned it to gain some extra space for the dining table, especially when guests come, as we can easily have 10 people. Additionally, it helps to fit in the 3rd children’s bedroom better. The question is how the cost of a bay window compares to simply increasing the overall floor area. Maybe someone here has experience with this. Also, if other arrangements might exist that use the space more efficiently.
Budget limit for the house, including fixtures: 550,000 euros (approx. $) (including photovoltaic system and ready to move in)
Preferred heating system: heat pump
Ground Floor
Upper Floor
Site Plan
Jasmin schrieb:
Good evening, at first glance I noticed that your ground floor bathroom is planned as an interior room. Is that intentional?
A three-meter (10 feet) wide living room is quite narrow. What kind of sofa is supposed to fit there and for how many people? Unfortunately, there is also a “dead hallway” between the living and dining areas.
Best regards Yes, good point about the interior bathroom. That is actually rather inconvenient and should be redesigned. The unused space in the living/dining area also bothers us. We are just not sure how to improve the layout.
hanse987 schrieb:
Where is the TV supposed to go in the living room and how large will it be? In the current design, the TV would only fit on the right exterior wall. Unfortunately, with the narrow living room, we also can’t fit a larger sofa. So we are still looking for ideas there.
Hello everyone,
after going through a few more rounds and working hard on the floor plan, we would like to present our latest design.
We are quite happy with the layout and proportions, but we still have some issues with the windows. We definitely need to make some adjustments there.
At this point, we would really appreciate any further feedback! Is there anything else you notice or would like to point out?
Thanks again!
after going through a few more rounds and working hard on the floor plan, we would like to present our latest design.
We are quite happy with the layout and proportions, but we still have some issues with the windows. We definitely need to make some adjustments there.
At this point, we would really appreciate any further feedback! Is there anything else you notice or would like to point out?
Thanks again!
I don’t think it’s very good either. In the office/guest room downstairs, there’s no space to place a wardrobe or something similar. Also, only one person can really sleep there, right? How does it work with the grandparents (a larger bed doesn’t really fit, and at the back in front of the window you could only get in from the front because the room is so narrow)? The kitchen probably has too little storage for five people, and there’s no space for storage anywhere in the entire living/dining area without blocking walkways. The same goes for the utility room because of the large window. By the way, with a family of five, a drying rack with laundry that can’t go in the dryer will likely block the path from the secondary entrance 90% of the time.
If you only have overnight guests 2-3 times a year, I would consider, depending on the location of the house, either investing in a good sofa bed or asking the grandparents to stay at a hotel overnight (we did the same in our last apartment, with a hotel practically next door). Then both desks can fit into a better-shaped office (I find it more pleasant atmospherically to have background noise from others instead of working in the bedroom), and you can save some width upstairs in the bedroom. This is also possible in the bathroom, where there’s at least one wasted meter in the middle.
If you only have overnight guests 2-3 times a year, I would consider, depending on the location of the house, either investing in a good sofa bed or asking the grandparents to stay at a hotel overnight (we did the same in our last apartment, with a hotel practically next door). Then both desks can fit into a better-shaped office (I find it more pleasant atmospherically to have background noise from others instead of working in the bedroom), and you can save some width upstairs in the bedroom. This is also possible in the bathroom, where there’s at least one wasted meter in the middle.
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