ᐅ Floor Plan for Urban Villa – Requesting Opinions, Feedback, and Suggestions for Improvement

This is a layout option that we really like. Unfortunately, it doesn’t include a guest room, but it offers a more relaxed arrangement on the ground floor. This floor plan covers only 128 square meters (1,378 square feet), so it might be possible to add a small guest room of about 7 square meters (75 square feet).

I’m currently working on it... The upper floor looks almost similar to mine, but mirrored.

The walk-in closet in the new plans is really poorly designed. No window, extremely narrow, and only accessible through the bedroom, so there’s no advantage of not disturbing the person sleeping if someone needs to get up earlier. Wouldn’t it be more sensible to have the 3m (10 feet) closet niche once in the bedroom and once in the children's room? That way, there would even be space for a second 3m (10 feet) closet.

RomeoZwo schrieb:
The walk-in closet in the new plans is really poorly designed. No window, extremely narrow, and only accessible through the bedroom, so there’s no benefit that the person sleeping won’t be disturbed if someone needs to get up earlier. Wouldn’t it make more sense to have the 3m (10 feet) closet recess once in the bedroom and once in the kids’ room? Then there would even be space for a second 3m (10 feet) closet.

Honestly, I don’t really need a window in the walk-in closet, nor a door to avoid disturbing the other person. We didn’t have that in our apartment before, and we still get along well.

Sandrine90 schrieb:
and we still love each other

...still... that can change quickly

Sandrine90 schrieb:
Honestly, I don’t really need a window in the walk-in closet,

The problem is simply that you constantly have to turn on a light..

Well then: I played around with the dimensions 9.5 x 9.3 meters (31.2 x 30.5 feet). Exterior walls are 36 cm (14 inches), interior walls I roughly took as 12 cm (5 inches).
The software doesn’t support smart dimensioning. The bed is 2 x 2 meters (6.6 x 6.6 feet) (a bit larger because of the ceiling), bathtub 1.80 x 0.8 meters (5.9 x 2.6 feet)...
Windows should be roughly symmetrical where desired or aligned vertically where it makes sense.
There is a cloakroom under the stairs, otherwise the freezer room should be sufficient. There should still be enough capacity next to the beverage crates.
Bathroom and kitchen are arranged roughly how I find most practical...

Sandrine90 schrieb:
Honestly, I don’t really need a window in the walk-in closet, just like I don’t need a door that could disturb the other person. We didn’t have that in our apartment before, and we still get along fine

So you didn’t have a walk-in closet in the apartment and didn’t need one. Then you probably don’t need one now either.

The point of a walk-in closet is to take the wardrobe out of the bedroom in order to:
a) avoid disturbing the person in the bedroom
b) separate the bedroom from the hallway (walk-through closet) to create a “parents’ area”
c) keep the bedroom looking “nicer” visually

You can use motion sensors to turn on the lights, sure, but have you noticed how colors look completely different under artificial light compared to natural daylight? For example, under those awful cold-white LEDs.

Just think carefully about whether you really need a walk-in closet like in the design above. Because it takes up space! Without it, the second child would also have room for a large wardrobe like the first child, and you would have the same wardrobe space in the bedroom. I don’t see any exact measurements in the design, but with wardrobes on both sides as shown, that won’t work. We have 2.15 meters (7 feet) width in the walk-in closet (structural dimension), and that just fits two 60cm (24 inch) wardrobes (cabinet size, plus 3 cm (1 inch) for doors) on both sides.