Hello, we are currently planning a house. So far, we have a hand-drawn sketch at a scale of 1:100, which we like very much. However, we are looking for ideas on how to save some square meters to reach approximately 150–155 m² (1,615–1,669 sq ft). Current floor areas:
Ground floor:
- Bathroom: 4.5 m² (48 sq ft)
- Cloakroom: 3.5 m² (38 sq ft)
- Office: 14.5 m² (156 sq ft)
- Hallway: 10.5 m² (113 sq ft)
- Storage under the stairs: 1.5 m² (16 sq ft)
- Utility room: 8 m² (86 sq ft)
- Kitchen: 11.5 m² (124 sq ft)
- Dining: 19 m² (205 sq ft)
- Living room: 25 m² (269 sq ft)
= total approx. 98 m² (1,055 sq ft)
Upper floor:
- Bathroom: 7.5 m² (81 sq ft)
- Bedroom: 12.5 m² (135 sq ft)
- Walk-in closet: 5 m² (54 sq ft)
- Gallery: 10.5 m² (113 sq ft)
- Children's room 1: 13.5 m² (145 sq ft)
- Children's room 2: 13.5 m² (145 sq ft)
= total approx. 62.5 m² (673 sq ft)
This brings the overall total to approx. 160.5 m² (1,728 sq ft).
The extension (living room) should preferably remain to keep a view of the forest to the east from the sofa. On the upper floor, the children’s rooms should be swapped with the bathroom and the master bedroom.
Orientation: entrance to the north, kitchen on the east side, office on the west.
Do you have any other ideas for optimization? Possibly adding a (hidden) pantry. Different staircase design?
Are the room sizes sufficient or still too small?
Many thanks in advance!
Ground floor:
- Bathroom: 4.5 m² (48 sq ft)
- Cloakroom: 3.5 m² (38 sq ft)
- Office: 14.5 m² (156 sq ft)
- Hallway: 10.5 m² (113 sq ft)
- Storage under the stairs: 1.5 m² (16 sq ft)
- Utility room: 8 m² (86 sq ft)
- Kitchen: 11.5 m² (124 sq ft)
- Dining: 19 m² (205 sq ft)
- Living room: 25 m² (269 sq ft)
= total approx. 98 m² (1,055 sq ft)
Upper floor:
- Bathroom: 7.5 m² (81 sq ft)
- Bedroom: 12.5 m² (135 sq ft)
- Walk-in closet: 5 m² (54 sq ft)
- Gallery: 10.5 m² (113 sq ft)
- Children's room 1: 13.5 m² (145 sq ft)
- Children's room 2: 13.5 m² (145 sq ft)
= total approx. 62.5 m² (673 sq ft)
This brings the overall total to approx. 160.5 m² (1,728 sq ft).
The extension (living room) should preferably remain to keep a view of the forest to the east from the sofa. On the upper floor, the children’s rooms should be swapped with the bathroom and the master bedroom.
Orientation: entrance to the north, kitchen on the east side, office on the west.
Do you have any other ideas for optimization? Possibly adding a (hidden) pantry. Different staircase design?
Are the room sizes sufficient or still too small?
Many thanks in advance!
H
hanghaus20237 Nov 2024 10:53Is the house roughly positioned like this?
Are 10m (33 feet) boundary setbacks allowed in NI?
Has a survey been done for the land elevations?
It seems the driveway area was filled in by the neighbor. All of that will need to be removed.
If there’s no basement planned, an open staircase can be considered. Or do you need the storage space?
The question about the budget remains unanswered.
Are 10m (33 feet) boundary setbacks allowed in NI?
Has a survey been done for the land elevations?
It seems the driveway area was filled in by the neighbor. All of that will need to be removed.
If there’s no basement planned, an open staircase can be considered. Or do you need the storage space?
The question about the budget remains unanswered.
The house is planned to be positioned roughly like this, possibly shifted slightly to the east.
Building right up to the boundary would be about 4 meters (13 feet) from the property line.
There has not been a survey of the elevations yet.
The driveway would need to be excavated; a farmer will take the soil away for us.
We would like to keep storage space under the stairs, as otherwise that area would be "dead" space for us.
Our budget for the house alone is between 350,000 and 370,000.
Building right up to the boundary would be about 4 meters (13 feet) from the property line.
There has not been a survey of the elevations yet.
The driveway would need to be excavated; a farmer will take the soil away for us.
We would like to keep storage space under the stairs, as otherwise that area would be "dead" space for us.
Our budget for the house alone is between 350,000 and 370,000.
It won’t work without dimensions.
The hallway is already too narrow at the stair entrance, and the dressing room will likely end up as narrow as the wardrobe. To make it functional, it will need to be even larger.
The straight staircase takes up a lot of hallway space, followed by the living room. The kitchen counter or island will need to be wider. Even then, there isn’t enough space.
Between the living room and dining area, there’s free space for the Christmas tree.
How is the sofa and the side view supposed to work? Wouldn’t the dining area suffice for that? When sitting on the sofa, people usually watch TV or look at their phones rather than out into the forest, right?
The hallway is already too narrow at the stair entrance, and the dressing room will likely end up as narrow as the wardrobe. To make it functional, it will need to be even larger.
The straight staircase takes up a lot of hallway space, followed by the living room. The kitchen counter or island will need to be wider. Even then, there isn’t enough space.
Between the living room and dining area, there’s free space for the Christmas tree.
How is the sofa and the side view supposed to work? Wouldn’t the dining area suffice for that? When sitting on the sofa, people usually watch TV or look at their phones rather than out into the forest, right?
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hanghaus20237 Nov 2024 11:30In my opinion, the house measures 11.5m (38 feet) by 9.5m (31 feet) without the extension. The hallway is 1.5m (5 feet) wide if the staircase is designed to be 1m (3 feet) wide.
The building plot is hardly the reason to try saving 5 to 10 square meters (54 to 108 square feet). So it’s probably more about the budget? – In that case, it would be much more effective to eliminate the protruding section of the living room (commonly called a “bay window”) in both dimensions before translating the room layout into a building volume. The plan needs to be redone – trying to tweak it by just a few square meters usually leads to complications and is likely a waste of effort. It’s better to create a new preliminary design (or ideally, no scaling down from the preliminary to the design phase would have been necessary here).
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The building area is probably not the issue here when trying to save 5 to 10 square meters (54 to 108 square feet). So it’s more likely for budget reasons? Sarah K. schrieb:
Our budget for the house alone is between 350,000 and 370,000 euros. At about 3,000 euros per square meter (279 per square foot), that would allow for approximately 120 square meters (1,292 square feet) of living space.According to the original poster, the current design is "about 160.5 square meters (1,728 square feet) total."
A Town & Country Flair 134, with almost 131 square meters (1,410 square feet) of living space, costs just 283,000 euros in our postal code area. You might want to check local prices and see if you can manage with more standard floorplans and a budget-friendly provider.
Are you planning to do a lot of the work yourselves?