Hello everyone, now it’s our turn. We’ve read a lot and heard much about circulation paths and related topics. Now we would like to know what the experienced but also critical community thinks about our floor plan. So please type away and give us feedback on the layout. Thank you very much.
Development Plan / Restrictions
Plot size - 500 sqm (about 5380 sq ft)
Slope - no
Site coverage ratio - 0.4
Floor area ratio - 0.8
Building envelope, setback lines - 5 meters (16.4 ft) from the street and 5 meters (16.4 ft) to the rear
Edge development
Number of parking spaces - 1 garage 3 x 8 meters (10 x 26 ft) / 1-2 in front of the garage
Number of storeys - 2
Roof type - none/open
Architectural style - none/open
Orientation - none/open
Maximum heights / limits - none/open
Further requirements - none/open
Client Requirements
Architectural style, roof type, building type - Modern – urban villa
Basement, number of floors - no basement, 2 floors
Number of occupants, age - 2 adults and 1 child (early 30s and 1 year old)
Space requirements on ground floor (GF), upper floor (UF) -
GF WC with shower, living room with kitchen and dining area, study;
UF: study, children’s room, bathroom, master bedroom with dressing room;
Office: family use or home office? - office for home office, guests for visitors
Number of guest stays per year - 20-30
Open or enclosed architecture - rather open
Conservative or modern construction - open
Open kitchen, kitchen island - preferably, but not mandatory
Number of dining seats - 3 daily; irregularly 5-6; rarely 7-10 (mostly in summer)
Fireplace - a MUST!!!
Music / stereo wall - no, only TV wall
Balcony, roof terrace - no
Garage, carport - garage, possibly carport in front
Utility garden, greenhouse - small greenhouse only
Additional wishes / special features / daily routine, also reasons why some things are wanted or not - Friends advised us not to make the utility room (laundry/household room) too small, so it should be somewhat larger.
House Design
Designer:
- planner from a construction company
What do you particularly like? Why?
- As non-homeowners, we find the design very nice and think it should fit us very well.
What do you not like? Why?
- The fireplace flue. We are unsure if it fits well so that the smoke can be properly vented above.
Price estimate according to architect/planner:
- $410,000
Personal budget limit for house including fixtures:
- open
Preferred heating system:
- air-to-water heat pump
If you had to give up on any details / expansions
- What can you do without:
- dressing room in the bedroom
- What you cannot do without:
- guest WC shower, study, fireplace
Why is the design as it is now?
Standard design from the planner with small wall adjustments
What do you think makes it particularly good or bad?
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan in 130 characters or less?
What do you think of the floor plan? How do you find the number and arrangement of windows? What is good and what could be improved? How could the fireplace flue (by the way room-air-independent) be solved? And anything else we might have missed
House dimensions 10.12m x 8.99m (33.2 ft x 29.5 ft)
Development Plan / Restrictions
Plot size - 500 sqm (about 5380 sq ft)
Slope - no
Site coverage ratio - 0.4
Floor area ratio - 0.8
Building envelope, setback lines - 5 meters (16.4 ft) from the street and 5 meters (16.4 ft) to the rear
Edge development
Number of parking spaces - 1 garage 3 x 8 meters (10 x 26 ft) / 1-2 in front of the garage
Number of storeys - 2
Roof type - none/open
Architectural style - none/open
Orientation - none/open
Maximum heights / limits - none/open
Further requirements - none/open
Client Requirements
Architectural style, roof type, building type - Modern – urban villa
Basement, number of floors - no basement, 2 floors
Number of occupants, age - 2 adults and 1 child (early 30s and 1 year old)
Space requirements on ground floor (GF), upper floor (UF) -
GF WC with shower, living room with kitchen and dining area, study;
UF: study, children’s room, bathroom, master bedroom with dressing room;
Office: family use or home office? - office for home office, guests for visitors
Number of guest stays per year - 20-30
Open or enclosed architecture - rather open
Conservative or modern construction - open
Open kitchen, kitchen island - preferably, but not mandatory
Number of dining seats - 3 daily; irregularly 5-6; rarely 7-10 (mostly in summer)
Fireplace - a MUST!!!
Music / stereo wall - no, only TV wall
Balcony, roof terrace - no
Garage, carport - garage, possibly carport in front
Utility garden, greenhouse - small greenhouse only
Additional wishes / special features / daily routine, also reasons why some things are wanted or not - Friends advised us not to make the utility room (laundry/household room) too small, so it should be somewhat larger.
House Design
Designer:
- planner from a construction company
What do you particularly like? Why?
- As non-homeowners, we find the design very nice and think it should fit us very well.
What do you not like? Why?
- The fireplace flue. We are unsure if it fits well so that the smoke can be properly vented above.
Price estimate according to architect/planner:
- $410,000
Personal budget limit for house including fixtures:
- open
Preferred heating system:
- air-to-water heat pump
If you had to give up on any details / expansions
- What can you do without:
- dressing room in the bedroom
- What you cannot do without:
- guest WC shower, study, fireplace
Why is the design as it is now?
Standard design from the planner with small wall adjustments
What do you think makes it particularly good or bad?
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan in 130 characters or less?
What do you think of the floor plan? How do you find the number and arrangement of windows? What is good and what could be improved? How could the fireplace flue (by the way room-air-independent) be solved? And anything else we might have missed
House dimensions 10.12m x 8.99m (33.2 ft x 29.5 ft)
Grantlhaua schrieb:
But you do have your room thermostat for that, right? Yes, it probably can do that too (if you have one). But regarding individual room control, I don’t see a clear consensus here, judging by the threads on this topic.
Grantlhaua schrieb:
We also installed a floor sensor to prevent the floor from cooling down completely when the stove is heated for a longer period. I’m a bit stuck here: the floor sensor actually signals that it’s warm near the stove — not that anything is cooling down there; so to prevent the consequence of the heating system reducing its activity, wouldn’t it be less about the sensor itself and more about having a “program” that, in this case, ignores it?
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Grantlhaua6 Feb 2020 21:5611ant schrieb:
I'm a bit confused here: the floor sensor currently indicates that it is warm near the stove – not that anything is cooling down there; so to prevent the consequence of reducing heating activity, wouldn't you need less the floor sensor itself and more a "program" to ignore it in this case (?)No, in this case the floor sensor compares the room temperature of the living area with the floor temperature so that, for example, if we heat the stove a lot during a winter weekend and the room is relatively warm, the floor does not cool down because the living area heating system does not activate the underfloor heating.
Moriarty schrieb:
So... these are the original floor plans. This is how the house can be built. Wow... are you trying to turn something bad into gold now? That won’t work.
In my opinion, the hallway and staircase ruin the hallway and therefore the entire design. Seems someone wanted to be especially creative?!
Choose a different basic design, with the staircase along the exterior wall or a quarter-turn staircase by the stairs... all better starting points, where a fireplace can also fit.
You don’t need to worry about the technical details yet. A fireplace is great; the house will get very warm, but I don’t see how that would cause any (unsolvable) problems.
Moriarty schrieb:
North – Garage
East – Street
South – Guest bathroom
West – Garden / Living, Dining, Kitchen Is this layout intentional?
Utility rooms facing the sun and living spaces in the shade?
Initially, I would mirror the entire room arrangement on both floors, especially to place the children’s bedrooms on the sunny side.
As for the staircase and hallway, I find it hard to believe that this came from a professional planner. It’s a bulky obstacle that you have to squeeze around.
The garage has already been mentioned; boundary-adjacent construction of 8 meters (26 feet) plus an additional front carport (if I’m interpreting the drawing correctly) will likely not be permitted.
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Grantlhaua7 Feb 2020 07:48Consider whether you want to position the walk-in closet next to Child 1’s room on the upper floor and access the bedroom through the walk-in closet. For us, it was important that no bedroom shares a wall with another, which in your case applies to all three rooms (this could at least be solved with the walk-in closet). Additionally, in my opinion, the walk-in closet should not be entered from the bedroom, but rather the bedroom should be accessed through the walk-in closet. How do you get up in the morning? At the same time? If not, one person might be coming and going for half an hour while the other is still sleeping. Either arrange it this way, or I would make the walk-in closet directly accessible from the hallway, but never through the bedroom for the reasons mentioned above.
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