ᐅ Single-family house floor plan, approximately 200 sqm without a basement – assessment
Created on: 14 Dec 2014 10:37
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Slammer0909
Hello everyone,
I have been following this forum for some time now, looking at other threads as well as their floor plans and feedback.
My wife and I are already in contact with a construction company, and the floor plan is roughly finalized. I also contributed to the design of the ground floor.
However, I am not satisfied with the layout of the upper floor because you have to walk through the dressing area to reach the bedroom.
I have been planning and moving walls around for about a year now, and I am starting to get somewhat "blind" to the design.
I would really appreciate any constructive feedback, both positive and negative, on the floor plan.
The rooms are quite large, but we prefer it that way (child’s room about 20sqm (215 sq ft), etc.).
Originally, we wanted a full basement, but due to the groundwater level, this is no longer possible.
That is why the rooms are arranged around the garage, with a large utility room including a cloakroom on the ground floor, and a laundry room on the upper floor.
The site plan including the property boundary is provided just to help visualize the dimensions of the plot.
Attached are the floor plans.
Thank you in advance.
Best regards,
Mathias
I have been following this forum for some time now, looking at other threads as well as their floor plans and feedback.
My wife and I are already in contact with a construction company, and the floor plan is roughly finalized. I also contributed to the design of the ground floor.
However, I am not satisfied with the layout of the upper floor because you have to walk through the dressing area to reach the bedroom.
I have been planning and moving walls around for about a year now, and I am starting to get somewhat "blind" to the design.
I would really appreciate any constructive feedback, both positive and negative, on the floor plan.
The rooms are quite large, but we prefer it that way (child’s room about 20sqm (215 sq ft), etc.).
Originally, we wanted a full basement, but due to the groundwater level, this is no longer possible.
That is why the rooms are arranged around the garage, with a large utility room including a cloakroom on the ground floor, and a laundry room on the upper floor.
The site plan including the property boundary is provided just to help visualize the dimensions of the plot.
Attached are the floor plans.
Thank you in advance.
Best regards,
Mathias
Slammer0909 schrieb:
How would you start from scratch with the plot and our ideas?Hi, I don’t want to go through the whole topic from the beginning.
Please make a list: number of rooms with their intended use, minimum sizes, is the top of the plot facing south?, all special requests collected so far. If I’m in the mood, I’ll take a look and see if I come up with the same as you. Please don’t forget anything! For example, are spiral staircases allowed? And so on.
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Slammer09091 Feb 2015 16:47Here is a summary of our requirements:
Room preferences/ideas for the new house:
Attached double garage directly next to the house including a workshop and a connecting corridor/space for bicycles, plus a second staircase leading to the party room.
Ground Floor:
- Bathroom with shower (approx. 6-9sqm (65-97 sq ft))
- Workroom that could later serve as a bedroom, including 2-3m (6.5-10 ft) of wardrobes (approx. 17sqm (183 sq ft))
- Utility room or rather a cloakroom/shoe room, directly accessible from the garage (so you can always enter the house from the garage) (approx. 18sqm (194 sq ft) including a small kitchenette)
- Combined living and dining area (at least 40sqm (430 sq ft))
- Stove in the living room
- Kitchen (closed off, but ideally with a large double sliding door to open it up), including a seating area and preferably some kind of kitchen island
- Pantry directly next to the kitchen (approx. 3sqm (32 sq ft), including a freezer)
- Hallway with guest wardrobe (ideally with access to the toilet)
- Ground floor and first floor should later be relatively easy to separate, for example, if a child and partner want to live there and we move entirely downstairs.
- Every room must have a window.
First Floor:
- Child’s bedroom 1 (at least 18sqm (194 sq ft))
- Child’s bedroom 2 (at least 18sqm (194 sq ft))
- Master bedroom with an additional dressing room (narrow and long, wardrobes on both sides)
- Bathroom with two washbasins, large shower, and bathtub
- Laundry room upstairs (dryer, washing machine, iron, and drying rack)
- No children’s toilet
Room above garage as cellar replacement:
- Large room as alternative party room
- Second staircase from garage to the room above
- Toilet (WC + washbasin) in the garage area
General wishes:
- Terrace facing south, accessible from both the living/dining area and the kitchen
- Straight staircase preferred, but alternative designs are fine if necessary
- Roof as steep as possible, currently planned at 30° with 1.1m (3.6 ft) knee wall. Possibly 35° could also work (main concern: attic space becoming too large and effectively forming a new floor).
Planning Requirements:
- Single-story
- Maximum eaves height 4.5m (15 ft)
- Many roof types allowed, but we prefer a gable roof
Plot:
East-West 20m x North-South 40m (66 x 131 ft), narrow shape (getting narrower towards the south) with street frontage on west side of 31.5m (103 ft)
Bordering buildings on the north side, planned 3m (10 ft) setback on the east side.
We have very fixed ideas, and I have quite strong opinions. That’s why there are already 15 pages of correspondence and some conflicts. I know the advice is well intended, but the participants unfortunately keep going back to what has already been decided, which does not improve my position.
Generally, I believe it can be done better, I just don’t know how. Simply making it look nicer with concessions on my part is not an option for me.
In 90% of all floor plans, the kitchen/living and dining rooms are somehow executed overall in an L-shape. Maybe that would help us, but I haven’t been able to integrate it.
Anyone who can offer an approach that greatly improves on what we currently have deserves a reward.
Best regards
Slammer
Room preferences/ideas for the new house:
Attached double garage directly next to the house including a workshop and a connecting corridor/space for bicycles, plus a second staircase leading to the party room.
Ground Floor:
- Bathroom with shower (approx. 6-9sqm (65-97 sq ft))
- Workroom that could later serve as a bedroom, including 2-3m (6.5-10 ft) of wardrobes (approx. 17sqm (183 sq ft))
- Utility room or rather a cloakroom/shoe room, directly accessible from the garage (so you can always enter the house from the garage) (approx. 18sqm (194 sq ft) including a small kitchenette)
- Combined living and dining area (at least 40sqm (430 sq ft))
- Stove in the living room
- Kitchen (closed off, but ideally with a large double sliding door to open it up), including a seating area and preferably some kind of kitchen island
- Pantry directly next to the kitchen (approx. 3sqm (32 sq ft), including a freezer)
- Hallway with guest wardrobe (ideally with access to the toilet)
- Ground floor and first floor should later be relatively easy to separate, for example, if a child and partner want to live there and we move entirely downstairs.
- Every room must have a window.
First Floor:
- Child’s bedroom 1 (at least 18sqm (194 sq ft))
- Child’s bedroom 2 (at least 18sqm (194 sq ft))
- Master bedroom with an additional dressing room (narrow and long, wardrobes on both sides)
- Bathroom with two washbasins, large shower, and bathtub
- Laundry room upstairs (dryer, washing machine, iron, and drying rack)
- No children’s toilet
Room above garage as cellar replacement:
- Large room as alternative party room
- Second staircase from garage to the room above
- Toilet (WC + washbasin) in the garage area
General wishes:
- Terrace facing south, accessible from both the living/dining area and the kitchen
- Straight staircase preferred, but alternative designs are fine if necessary
- Roof as steep as possible, currently planned at 30° with 1.1m (3.6 ft) knee wall. Possibly 35° could also work (main concern: attic space becoming too large and effectively forming a new floor).
Planning Requirements:
- Single-story
- Maximum eaves height 4.5m (15 ft)
- Many roof types allowed, but we prefer a gable roof
Plot:
East-West 20m x North-South 40m (66 x 131 ft), narrow shape (getting narrower towards the south) with street frontage on west side of 31.5m (103 ft)
Bordering buildings on the north side, planned 3m (10 ft) setback on the east side.
We have very fixed ideas, and I have quite strong opinions. That’s why there are already 15 pages of correspondence and some conflicts. I know the advice is well intended, but the participants unfortunately keep going back to what has already been decided, which does not improve my position.
Generally, I believe it can be done better, I just don’t know how. Simply making it look nicer with concessions on my part is not an option for me.
In 90% of all floor plans, the kitchen/living and dining rooms are somehow executed overall in an L-shape. Maybe that would help us, but I haven’t been able to integrate it.
Anyone who can offer an approach that greatly improves on what we currently have deserves a reward.
Best regards
Slammer
So, these are quite a lot of requirements and will definitely require an iterative process of gradual refinement.
I just started sketching freely, and this is what came out.
I ignored the bathroom layout—that can be done by others. These are all sketches and should be understood as such. Unfortunately, I wasn’t aware of the large space requirement in the garage (workshop, etc.), so that area was scaled down. Certainly not a masterpiece, but maybe it offers some new ideas.
The square meter figures are unfortunately quite approximate. The software always measures from the center of the wall! I assumed 0.4m (16 inches) for exterior walls and 0.2m (8 inches) for interior walls.
Um, a small mistake: the room above the garage stairs is not a bathroom but the stairwell.
I just started sketching freely, and this is what came out.
I ignored the bathroom layout—that can be done by others. These are all sketches and should be understood as such. Unfortunately, I wasn’t aware of the large space requirement in the garage (workshop, etc.), so that area was scaled down. Certainly not a masterpiece, but maybe it offers some new ideas.
The square meter figures are unfortunately quite approximate. The software always measures from the center of the wall! I assumed 0.4m (16 inches) for exterior walls and 0.2m (8 inches) for interior walls.
Um, a small mistake: the room above the garage stairs is not a bathroom but the stairwell.
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