Hello everyone, we are in the final stages of planning our house and would like to get your opinion on our floor plans. The building permit / planning application has not yet been submitted, so changes are still possible.
Urban villa / hipped roof
Plot size: 615 sqm (6620 sq ft)
Orientation: Entrance facing east, garden area southwest
Number of parking spaces: 2 plus a large garage (6 x 6 m) (20 x 20 ft)
Number of floors: 2 full stories
Roof type: hipped roof
Style: modern
Owners’ requirements:
Style, roof type, building type: urban villa, modern
Basement, floors: without
Space requirements on ground floor and upper floor: everything shown in the floor plan
Office: family use or home office? home office
Conservative or modern construction: modern
Open kitchen
Number of dining seats: up to 10
Oven / stove: yes
Garage, carport: garage
Energy: air-to-water heat pump and possibly an electricity storage system with solar panels
At the moment, we are considering moving the kitchen to the other side and creating a passage to the utility room. This would change the shape of the bathroom, making it longer and narrower, and allow us to enlarge the utility room so it could also serve as a pantry.
The layout upstairs should remain as it is. We know the bathroom is quite large, but if possible we would like to keep it that way. The window arrangement is not finalized yet. We would appreciate any suggestions.
Urban villa / hipped roof
Plot size: 615 sqm (6620 sq ft)
Orientation: Entrance facing east, garden area southwest
Number of parking spaces: 2 plus a large garage (6 x 6 m) (20 x 20 ft)
Number of floors: 2 full stories
Roof type: hipped roof
Style: modern
Owners’ requirements:
Style, roof type, building type: urban villa, modern
Basement, floors: without
Space requirements on ground floor and upper floor: everything shown in the floor plan
Office: family use or home office? home office
Conservative or modern construction: modern
Open kitchen
Number of dining seats: up to 10
Oven / stove: yes
Garage, carport: garage
Energy: air-to-water heat pump and possibly an electricity storage system with solar panels
At the moment, we are considering moving the kitchen to the other side and creating a passage to the utility room. This would change the shape of the bathroom, making it longer and narrower, and allow us to enlarge the utility room so it could also serve as a pantry.
The layout upstairs should remain as it is. We know the bathroom is quite large, but if possible we would like to keep it that way. The window arrangement is not finalized yet. We would appreciate any suggestions.
DanielaS schrieb:
Thank you very much for the suggestions. We are considering swapping the kitchen with the living room, which would make the kitchen smaller because there would be a passage to the utility room. As a result, the other entrance to the bathroom would be removed. I called it a pantry, but basically, it would be a multipurpose room also for the vacuum cleaner, cleaning supplies, etc. We are still undecided about the bathroom upstairs and need to think it over again. The dressing room has space for a large 3-meter (10 feet) wardrobe and a chest of drawers on the window side. The children's rooms are intentionally large.
Kitchen swap: then you would still have a door in the kitchen, and every passage, even with muddy shoes, from the garage would go through the kitchen to the cloakroom. The other way around always goes through the chill area, even for tradespeople... I wouldn’t find either option appealing.
Dressing room: yes, that’s what I mean. You don’t actually get more space there than in the bedroom itself. But that’s where the (to me boring) symmetry comes into play, so no space is available in the bedroom for a wardrobe because of the windows, meaning an additional room has to be used.
I’m not a fan of these symmetrical townhouses – you pay for a lot of living space but get less out of it because the design includes buffers everywhere to keep it symmetrical. And from an objective standpoint, it’s just really uninteresting.
ypg schrieb:
Nice house 🙂
Is it sold? Are these sales photos, staged for selling?
Regards, YvonneYes, it was sold within one day. It was absolutely crazy considering the Canadian real estate market. These are sales photos, but most of the furniture was ours. I miss the house [emoji17]
Well, we just want to get the most space for our money. The budget excluding the land is about 370,000 euros. We had originally considered a shed roof but decided against it. To be honest, the style was not really our preference in Canada. We lean more towards modern buildings, but those are not available there.
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