ᐅ Bungalow floor plan approximately 16 x 9.5 meters (exterior dimensions) on a 1000 m² plot with existing structures
Created on: 25 Jun 2019 09:14
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micric3
Hello forum community,
after gathering a few more ideas—and having received and tried to incorporate good feedback from previous posts—I would like to ask for your feedback on the current floor plan and your general opinion of the bungalow on our 1000m² (10,764 sq ft) plot with existing buildings.
The floor plan was created with RoomSketcher. I have tried to include quite a few pieces of furniture (kitchen is still missing) as references. The windows for the bedrooms and bathroom are not yet finalized, as I don’t have ideas for them yet.
Attachments:
1.) Plot image + orientation
2.) Original building permit/planning permission (BU) after I designed/modified the draft
3.) My draft (with RoomSketcher)
Zoning plan / restrictions
Plot size: 1000m² (10,764 sq ft)
House dimensions: 15.87 m x 9.50 m (52.1 ft x 31.2 ft) (specified by BU to keep price close)
Slope: No
Parking spaces: 0
Number of floors: Bungalow (single story)
Roof type: Hip roof or gable roof (BU includes hip roof in price)
Orientation: Entrance west, living room southeast facing, dining room southwest facing
Maximum height / limits
Other requirements: must adapt to existing buildings
Owners’ requirements
Number of people, ages: 4 people (2 x 40 years, 2 x 3 years)
Office: In the outbuilding
Guests per year: Max. 2
Open or closed layout: undecided
Conservative or modern style: doesn’t matter
Open kitchen, kitchen island: sliding door, probably L- or U-shaped kitchen
Number of dining seats: 4 in kitchen, possibly 6-8 in living room
Fireplace: possibly a wood-burning stove
Garage/Carport: along the access driveway
House design
Who planned it: based on the Bungalow 131 floor plan by Town & Country. Draft designed by myself using RoomSketcher
- Planner of a construction company
What do you particularly like? Why?
- Access from the west
- simple and compact
Price estimate according to architect/planner: 215,000
Personal price limit for the house, including equipment: 250,000
Preferred heating technology: air-to-water heat pump (either Vaillant aroSplit or Vaillant recoCompact)
If you had to give up some features or expansions, which ones?
- Can give up: size of the living room
- Cannot give up: 2nd bathroom
Why is the design the way it is now?
- Position on the plot
- Location relative to existing outbuilding
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan, summarized in 130 characters?
- Is the west orientation of the children’s rooms better than east orientation?
- Is the bedroom too narrow considering the ~2 x 2 m (6.6 x 6.6 ft) bed?
- Should the kitchen have its own small dining area?
- Size and number of windows for the living room with southeast orientation
- How should the living room furniture be arranged?
- Should the living and dining rooms be swapped? (SE <-> SW orientation)
--> Dining room faces southwest to see who is arriving
- Is it better to have one floor-to-ceiling window (which size?) or two windows in the children’s rooms?
after gathering a few more ideas—and having received and tried to incorporate good feedback from previous posts—I would like to ask for your feedback on the current floor plan and your general opinion of the bungalow on our 1000m² (10,764 sq ft) plot with existing buildings.
The floor plan was created with RoomSketcher. I have tried to include quite a few pieces of furniture (kitchen is still missing) as references. The windows for the bedrooms and bathroom are not yet finalized, as I don’t have ideas for them yet.
Attachments:
1.) Plot image + orientation
2.) Original building permit/planning permission (BU) after I designed/modified the draft
3.) My draft (with RoomSketcher)
Zoning plan / restrictions
Plot size: 1000m² (10,764 sq ft)
House dimensions: 15.87 m x 9.50 m (52.1 ft x 31.2 ft) (specified by BU to keep price close)
Slope: No
Parking spaces: 0
Number of floors: Bungalow (single story)
Roof type: Hip roof or gable roof (BU includes hip roof in price)
Orientation: Entrance west, living room southeast facing, dining room southwest facing
Maximum height / limits
Other requirements: must adapt to existing buildings
Owners’ requirements
Number of people, ages: 4 people (2 x 40 years, 2 x 3 years)
Office: In the outbuilding
Guests per year: Max. 2
Open or closed layout: undecided
Conservative or modern style: doesn’t matter
Open kitchen, kitchen island: sliding door, probably L- or U-shaped kitchen
Number of dining seats: 4 in kitchen, possibly 6-8 in living room
Fireplace: possibly a wood-burning stove
Garage/Carport: along the access driveway
House design
Who planned it: based on the Bungalow 131 floor plan by Town & Country. Draft designed by myself using RoomSketcher
- Planner of a construction company
What do you particularly like? Why?
- Access from the west
- simple and compact
Price estimate according to architect/planner: 215,000
Personal price limit for the house, including equipment: 250,000
Preferred heating technology: air-to-water heat pump (either Vaillant aroSplit or Vaillant recoCompact)
If you had to give up some features or expansions, which ones?
- Can give up: size of the living room
- Cannot give up: 2nd bathroom
Why is the design the way it is now?
- Position on the plot
- Location relative to existing outbuilding
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan, summarized in 130 characters?
- Is the west orientation of the children’s rooms better than east orientation?
- Is the bedroom too narrow considering the ~2 x 2 m (6.6 x 6.6 ft) bed?
- Should the kitchen have its own small dining area?
- Size and number of windows for the living room with southeast orientation
- How should the living room furniture be arranged?
- Should the living and dining rooms be swapped? (SE <-> SW orientation)
--> Dining room faces southwest to see who is arriving
- Is it better to have one floor-to-ceiling window (which size?) or two windows in the children’s rooms?
11ant schrieb:
"It is particularly noticeable when the duplication occurs just three meters (10 feet) away."Then I'll ask for an idea or solution, which I don’t see if I don’t prefer an open kitchen or a kitchen island but would like to keep the kitchen as a separate room.
I see only the following options:
- Either change the floor plan, but how?
- Kitchen island with a small seating area at the island
micric3 schrieb:
Idea/solution that I don’t see, We can’t see it either: simply because currently there is only a table in the kitchen and nothing else.
The kitchen’s separation is fine. I’m a bit unclear linguistically: do you want a kitchen with or without an island, and should the overall layout be more of an L-shape or a U-shape?
Regarding the dining table, I would decide either to have it in the kitchen or the living room. For larger gatherings, you can extend it and place the table in the passageway, which is wide enough.
In the current floor plan, I would rather keep the table in the kitchen, because the one in the living room is almost just an obstacle in the way.
With two tables (and the frequently open passage), you always just see from one table to the other, which is unused at that moment—something more comical than practical.
I don’t understand the purpose of kitchen island seating areas: breakfast should be eaten calmly or not at all; grabbing a quick bite on the go is unhealthy. Or is this needed as a parking spot for guests with two left hands, who would otherwise just get in the way while cooking (like the living room dining table here)?
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Maybe first think about how your dream kitchen looks, and then design the floor plan accordingly. We can’t tell you whether the dining table fits better in the kitchen or the living room; that’s something you need to decide for yourself.
What are your reasons against an open kitchen?
What are your reasons against an open kitchen?
Ok. I would suggest the following changes regarding the kitchen.
- There will be only one table in the kitchen, which can be extended into the living room area if needed.
- Possibly move the kitchen wall further towards the living room to a.) create a slightly larger kitchen and b.) potentially optimize the structural design.
Are there any opinions or suggestions about the rest (excluding the kitchen and dining table)?
Thank you
Michael
- There will be only one table in the kitchen, which can be extended into the living room area if needed.
- Possibly move the kitchen wall further towards the living room to a.) create a slightly larger kitchen and b.) potentially optimize the structural design.
Are there any opinions or suggestions about the rest (excluding the kitchen and dining table)?
Thank you
Michael
First of all, I have to say that the layout of the rooms is well adapted to the foundations provided by Town & Country and the plot. I haven’t checked the other thread recently, but the arrangement makes sense.
To get to the point: swap the living room and kitchen. Swap the sofa with the kitchen cabinets.
You will end up with a nice large open kitchen-living area by the terrace, with access to the living area, which you might also be able to close off sometimes.
So I would keep the open access (former living room).
Well, at least you should have calculated in advance how many tall cabinets are needed (e.g., oven, refrigerator, side-by-side fridge) and how many meters of cabinetry and countertop are required. Since your utility room is limited in space and quite far away, everything should fit there as well.
If you still want an island, then good luck.
The details:
4.50 meters (15 feet) depth for the sofa/TV area is plenty, but an open wardrobe is not practical, and the hallway, if extended (more on that shortly), is too narrow.
Make the living room width 4.20 meters (14 feet) and include the WC. The hallway then reaches 1.70 meters (5.5 feet)!
Then make the wardrobe a separate room with a door. Place the door at the bottom of the plan, opening outwards.
If needed, move the partition wall between kitchen and living room slightly downward on the plan so that the walls line up straight.
If it bothers you to take space from the living room (actually, you already have less space in the current state), then move one of the children's room walls back a bit to gain space for the hallway. The children’s rooms are quite large and can afford to lose a square meter or so. You can balance this by using an angled partition wall between the two children’s rooms where a built-in wardrobe can be installed for the smaller room.
Make the bedroom width 3.20 meters (10.5 feet) instead of 3 meters (10 feet). This way, you can fit a standard wardrobe there.
The hallway there is again quite wide with 1.40 meters (4.5 feet) compared to the entrance hallway, as it is not long. It can afford to lose 20 cm (8 inches).
I would be glad if you could implement this for yourself and for us.
Edit: Rotate the table, it creates more space and also looks more spacious.
To get to the point: swap the living room and kitchen. Swap the sofa with the kitchen cabinets.
You will end up with a nice large open kitchen-living area by the terrace, with access to the living area, which you might also be able to close off sometimes.
So I would keep the open access (former living room).
micric3 schrieb:
whether I really have to plan my kitchen first before I can create a kitchen layout, like "design follows function".
Well, at least you should have calculated in advance how many tall cabinets are needed (e.g., oven, refrigerator, side-by-side fridge) and how many meters of cabinetry and countertop are required. Since your utility room is limited in space and quite far away, everything should fit there as well.
If you still want an island, then good luck.
The details:
4.50 meters (15 feet) depth for the sofa/TV area is plenty, but an open wardrobe is not practical, and the hallway, if extended (more on that shortly), is too narrow.
Make the living room width 4.20 meters (14 feet) and include the WC. The hallway then reaches 1.70 meters (5.5 feet)!
Then make the wardrobe a separate room with a door. Place the door at the bottom of the plan, opening outwards.
If needed, move the partition wall between kitchen and living room slightly downward on the plan so that the walls line up straight.
If it bothers you to take space from the living room (actually, you already have less space in the current state), then move one of the children's room walls back a bit to gain space for the hallway. The children’s rooms are quite large and can afford to lose a square meter or so. You can balance this by using an angled partition wall between the two children’s rooms where a built-in wardrobe can be installed for the smaller room.
Make the bedroom width 3.20 meters (10.5 feet) instead of 3 meters (10 feet). This way, you can fit a standard wardrobe there.
The hallway there is again quite wide with 1.40 meters (4.5 feet) compared to the entrance hallway, as it is not long. It can afford to lose 20 cm (8 inches).
I would be glad if you could implement this for yourself and for us.
Edit: Rotate the table, it creates more space and also looks more spacious.
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