ᐅ Floor plan for a 160 sqm urban villa – Requesting advice!
Created on: 28 Jan 2019 09:23
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Bauherrin92
Hello everyone,
we are planning to build an urban villa with 160 sqm (1720 sq ft) plus a basement in rural Bavaria. Since we are now in the crucial phase of floor plan design, we would really appreciate your opinions and suggestions for improvements.
The following issues concern us the most:
1. Arrangement of the house and garage on the plot: The garage has been deliberately placed on the west side to create distance from the neighbor. To catch the evening sun, the house has been set back. However, I wonder if this looks "good," as I have never seen such an arrangement before. We are also undecided whether the garage should be detached or attached to the house (possibly with access through the pantry?). On the plans, the garage is at the neighbor’s boundary. There is currently no house there.
2. The cloakroom and dressing room seem too small to comfortably place proper wardrobes and move around freely.
3. In general, I feel the overall design could still be improved, including the arrangement of windows.
Here is the questionnaire:
Development plan / restrictions
Plot size: 800 sqm (8,600 sq ft)
Slope: no
Floor area ratio: 0.35
Floor space index: 0.7
Building window, building line and boundary: 3 m (10 ft) to the street
Edge development: garage yes
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of storeys: 2
Roof style: open construction
Homeowners’ requirements
Style, roof type, building type: urban villa, 2 full storeys, hipped roof
Basement, storeys: basement, ground floor, first floor
Number of people, age: two adults, schoolchild, expecting a baby
Space requirements ground floor, upper floor: three bedrooms, spacious living-dining area, separate cloakroom, shower toilet on the ground floor
Office: none
Guest bedrooms per year: none
Open or closed architecture: open
Conservative or modern construction: modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island: yes
Number of dining seats: 4–10 (when guests visit)
Fireplace: yes
Garage, carport: prefabricated double garage
Other wishes / special features / daily routine, also reasons why this or that should or should not be included:
- Cloakroom in a niche
- Shower toilet on the ground floor, later for the teenage daughter
- Large children’s rooms with floor-to-ceiling windows facing the garden
- Dressing room in the master bedroom
- Pantry for yellow bags (recycling waste bags), vacuum cleaner, cleaning supplies, pasta stock, etc.
House design
Who made the plan: planner from a construction company
What do you particularly like? Why?
- Basement: fine as is
- Ground floor: large pantry, L-shaped kitchen/living/dining area
- Upper floor: large children’s rooms
What don’t you like? Why?
- Ground floor: layout of toilet and cloakroom
- Upper floor: dressing room and bathroom possibly too small
- detached garage
Preferred heating technology: undecided so far
If you had to give up something, which details/upgrades would you skip?
- Could give up: access from garage into the house
- Could not do without: pantry, dressing room, cloakroom
Why has the design turned out as it is now? Our wishes were implemented by the planner
We look forward to your advice!!!
P.S.: The red circle is supposed to indicate north, sorry, it couldn’t be done otherwise!
we are planning to build an urban villa with 160 sqm (1720 sq ft) plus a basement in rural Bavaria. Since we are now in the crucial phase of floor plan design, we would really appreciate your opinions and suggestions for improvements.
The following issues concern us the most:
1. Arrangement of the house and garage on the plot: The garage has been deliberately placed on the west side to create distance from the neighbor. To catch the evening sun, the house has been set back. However, I wonder if this looks "good," as I have never seen such an arrangement before. We are also undecided whether the garage should be detached or attached to the house (possibly with access through the pantry?). On the plans, the garage is at the neighbor’s boundary. There is currently no house there.
2. The cloakroom and dressing room seem too small to comfortably place proper wardrobes and move around freely.
3. In general, I feel the overall design could still be improved, including the arrangement of windows.
Here is the questionnaire:
Development plan / restrictions
Plot size: 800 sqm (8,600 sq ft)
Slope: no
Floor area ratio: 0.35
Floor space index: 0.7
Building window, building line and boundary: 3 m (10 ft) to the street
Edge development: garage yes
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of storeys: 2
Roof style: open construction
Homeowners’ requirements
Style, roof type, building type: urban villa, 2 full storeys, hipped roof
Basement, storeys: basement, ground floor, first floor
Number of people, age: two adults, schoolchild, expecting a baby
Space requirements ground floor, upper floor: three bedrooms, spacious living-dining area, separate cloakroom, shower toilet on the ground floor
Office: none
Guest bedrooms per year: none
Open or closed architecture: open
Conservative or modern construction: modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island: yes
Number of dining seats: 4–10 (when guests visit)
Fireplace: yes
Garage, carport: prefabricated double garage
Other wishes / special features / daily routine, also reasons why this or that should or should not be included:
- Cloakroom in a niche
- Shower toilet on the ground floor, later for the teenage daughter
- Large children’s rooms with floor-to-ceiling windows facing the garden
- Dressing room in the master bedroom
- Pantry for yellow bags (recycling waste bags), vacuum cleaner, cleaning supplies, pasta stock, etc.
House design
Who made the plan: planner from a construction company
What do you particularly like? Why?
- Basement: fine as is
- Ground floor: large pantry, L-shaped kitchen/living/dining area
- Upper floor: large children’s rooms
What don’t you like? Why?
- Ground floor: layout of toilet and cloakroom
- Upper floor: dressing room and bathroom possibly too small
- detached garage
Preferred heating technology: undecided so far
If you had to give up something, which details/upgrades would you skip?
- Could give up: access from garage into the house
- Could not do without: pantry, dressing room, cloakroom
Why has the design turned out as it is now? Our wishes were implemented by the planner
We look forward to your advice!!!
P.S.: The red circle is supposed to indicate north, sorry, it couldn’t be done otherwise!
Where is the bed supposed to go? I don’t really see a proper place for it in the bedroom. Where should cleaning supplies be stored on the upper floor, for example a vacuum cleaner? The same question applies to the ground floor when vacuuming is done near the entrance area.
Best regards,
Sabine
Best regards,
Sabine
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Bauherrin9219 Mar 2019 08:24Curly schrieb:
Where is the bed supposed to go? I don’t really see a proper place for it in the bedroom. Where are cleaning supplies meant to be stored upstairs, like the vacuum cleaner, for example? And the same for the ground floor when vacuuming near the entrance?
Best regards
SabineThe exterior wall in the bedroom without the walk-in closet is 3.17m (10 ft 5 in). That should be enough. But of course, I still have to arrange all the furniture properly.
The vacuum cleaner will go in the pantry; I don’t see any problem with that. And no, I don’t need a vacuum cleaner on every floor.
Furnish the entrance hall. And the kitchen. And the bedroom. Did you want the downstairs shower bathroom like that? Unfortunately, it all looks very amateurish to me.
Take a look here:
https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/Neubau-efh-2-Vollgeschosse-mit-Doppelgarage-150qm.30471/
This is a solid base plan from a draftsman. With a little imagination, you can easily adapt it perfectly for you on the ground floor (just switch the garage and entrance doors to the other side).
Take a look here:
https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/Neubau-efh-2-Vollgeschosse-mit-Doppelgarage-150qm.30471/
This is a solid base plan from a draftsman. With a little imagination, you can easily adapt it perfectly for you on the ground floor (just switch the garage and entrance doors to the other side).
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Bauherrin9219 Mar 2019 08:53kaho674 schrieb:
The shower room downstairs, did you want it like that? I originally planned a built-in wardrobe that would be recessed into the wall, as shown in the picture. On paper, it doesn’t look good now, so I’m thinking about removing it again.
kaho674 schrieb:
Take a look here:
https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/Neubau-efh-2-Vollgeschosse-mit-Doppelgarage-150qm.30471/ This is how we want our kitchen to look.
[QUOTE="kaho674, post: 314141, member: 17818"]Simply switch the doors from the garage and the entrance to the other side).[ /QUOTE]
I don’t understand what you mean by that? We don’t have direct access from the garage to the house.
P.S.: as you probably already noticed, I really lack imagination
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Bauherrin9219 Mar 2019 09:26kaho674 schrieb:
Unfortunately, I can’t follow you. I’m asking about the shower, and you’re talking about the built-in wardrobe.I thought you were asking why the guest toilet is so angled, because of the built-in wardrobe. What did you mean then?
The floor plan with the garage looks great. However, it doesn’t work for us because the dining room—and therefore the kitchen—should be on the west side.
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