ᐅ Floor Plan Design for a Two-Family House

How much narrower would you like it to be? Why don’t you show us more of the design? For example, some elevations.

Unfortunately, I don’t have any plans yet. I will receive them in the next few days. Originally, I was thinking of about 12x11 meters (39x36 feet). But that doesn’t work. So now I’m aiming for 13x11 meters (43x36 feet). The setback to the neighbor should be 3.20 meters (10.5 feet) if I calculated it correctly.

Robert84 schrieb:

@ Arauki...I meant that I generally like the layout of the rooms. What I’m still not happy with is that the house is a bit too wide, and the hallway is also too large for me. I’m hoping for some suggestions to optimize these aspects. The window front, especially on the south side, also does not yet meet my expectations.

I honestly don’t understand how you can like this room layout with a budget of 850,000.

You didn’t respond to my comment about the dark hallways. My former neighbor’s house had a windowless corridor — a complete planning failure for a new build! The bathrooms turned out rather mediocre and are now being filled with accessories as a last resort, which isn’t attractive but still costs the same money. Even an architecture student would surely tell you the same: a dark, windowless space in the middle is a flop.

A hallway can also be a living corridor that fits nicely into a living concept, but I don’t see that here.

I just noticed that you submitted a different design on page 5. This is the problem with missing questionnaires or piecemeal messages. After three days, everyone forgets what was written in an unrelated thread on page such-and-such and no one wants to search for it anymore. People would rather watch something like Bonanza.

What can one say about your issue with the window front if you only show a floor plan draft that only appears after countless requests? What is it about this front? Is there a nuclear power plant or a mountain peak there? Building a house is a comprehensive project.

What is the south side like, and how do the individual residents on each floor want to live there? Might it be more sensible not to have balconies or terraces positioned directly above each other, for example?

If you want to build it as it is now, I would probably remove the entire wall between the hallway and the open living area to create one open space that can be furnished with modular furniture as needed; that way you get more light there. Perhaps a glass door could be added next to that to separate the complete bedroom area; then you’d also have some light behind it while keeping a division.

I would also give the living area larger window surfaces, but this can’t really be evaluated properly just by looking at a floor plan. Maybe adding blinds and slightly higher ceilings would create at least some “loft character” in my imagination — but that also requires an overall concept. Using raw oak furniture and a checkered 3-2-1 sofa, for example, would look silly again.

Robert84 schrieb:

Yes, the two apartments are identical, stacked in a city villa style.

I always cringe at such platitudes here in homebuilding forums. A villa or Bauhaus style does not come from a simple geometric shape alone. I once lived in an Art Nouveau villa apartment with 150 sqm (1,615 sq ft) per floor and grand, though rather awkwardly usable rooms. Your floor plan has nothing to do with a villa — and doesn’t have to — but it could still have a nice design, even without the word “villa.”

Your current floor plan feels uninspired, uncomfortable, and not homey, but you want to build it like this. You can’t just cut off one meter (approximately 3 feet) somewhere and expect it to work.

So — if you really want help here, start a new thread. It’s not a problem. Make it easier for the participants here by providing plenty of information and maybe lower your resistance to advice. Then you will see positive progress!

Or just build the thing quickly, since speed clearly seems more important to you than creativity, and be done with it; countless soullessly designed houses have already been built, so one more won’t make a difference.

Sorry — I prefer to be direct. It’s really not meant to be offensive or hurtful, but I can’t express my lack of understanding for this dark corridor any other way. Ultimately, it’s your choice, and my opinion can be completely irrelevant to you.

@Arauki11 I also prefer direct communication and thank you for your constructive feedback.
Since the hallway bothers me a bit as well, I quickly opened Paint. Is this what you meant in this direction?
I’m happy to receive more suggestions regarding the room layout.

Here is an alternative version without a guest toilet. It might make sense to leave it out in order to reduce the size of the hallway and the entire house.

Feedback is welcome.

There is quite a bit of patchwork going on here.
An apartment of just under 100 sq meters (1,076 sq feet) without a guest toilet would be a no-brainer for me.

How is the terrace or balcony supposed to be positioned now?

For example, living areas rather in the retreat area away from the large open-plan space, so where the kitchen/pantry is now.