ᐅ Do you think the floor plan of our urban villa is alright?

The entrance area is often designed like you have done here nowadays, but I don’t think it’s very practical. Just think about what happens in winter. Streets and sidewalks are covered with gravel, salt, and mud. All of that gets tracked inside the house. Since you don’t have an airlock (vestibule or lobby), this dirt spreads throughout the entire home. Every time a child comes downstairs from upstairs to eat, they have to go down the stairs and past the entrance, carrying a bit of dirt each time. The same happens when going from the living room upstairs—the dirt gets carried up as well.

I would rotate the staircase by 180 degrees (since the space is open anyway), so there would be room for a closet under the stairs and you wouldn’t have to walk through dirt to go upstairs.

The walk-in closet was already mentioned: add a door from the hallway and change the window to allow space for wardrobes.

Almost 16 square meters (about 172 square feet) for the bathroom seems too large to me—really TOO large, bigger than spacious. I would allocate about 3 to 4 square meters (about 32 to 43 square feet) of that for a washer and dryer area.

Hello F.K.,

in addition to the comments above regarding the walk-in closet (which in my opinion is not very practical) and the too-small cloakroom, I have the following suggestions:

- The sliding door to the pantry significantly limits the profile and usability of your kitchen cabinets in that area due to the installation requirements. I would consider recessing the door into the wall – this would increase the wall thickness but would eliminate obstructive edges on the exterior.

- The door from the garage to the utility room takes up a lot of space. As an alternative, you might consider converting the kitchen window into a secondary entrance door and accessing the garage through the workshop. In this case, you could use the resulting recess as a technical installation space and extend the shower from the guest bathroom directly opposite as a fully recessed solution into the utility room, so that in the guest bathroom only a shower door would be needed.

Regards,

Dirk

Hello,

Thank you very much in advance for the information, suggestions, and tips so far!

milkie schrieb:
Hello.

That is quite a lot of windows you have there. Are you keeping an eye on the costs or do you have the necessary budget?
I do like a lot of windows, but somehow it seems a bit overloaded to me.

Otherwise, I would first paint the cloakroom and enlarge the shower/toilet. The entrance area is big enough to carve out more space for a wardrobe there, for example in the form of a niche in the utility room wall.

I am also a fan of pantries, but this one is very cramped and the sliding door alone is very expensive, so it might make more sense to budget for two extra tall cabinets and store the beverage crates in the utility room. Then again, you could also move the utility room door so that a wardrobe niche could be created.
For kitchen planning, I can recommend the kitchen forum website. (You can never start planning a kitchen too early!)

The living room corner seems very tight to me. How is it supposed to be furnished?

Upstairs, I wonder why the children get the north-facing rooms. Children and teenagers spend most of their time in their rooms and should also get the sunlight (especially in winter).
That means I would move the bedroom and bathroom to the back and the two children's rooms to the front.
The drainage from bathroom via toilet and utility room should be easier.

The walk-in closet would probably have to be placed either in front of or behind the bedroom, with one child’s room running across the front.
But the current walk-in closet doesn’t work anyway. It consists only of circulation space and windows. There’s no room for wardrobes in there!

milkie

We are aware that there are quite a lot of windows. Our wish was to build a house with corner windows and middle windows, which unfortunately results in this number of windows.

The cloakroom next to the toilet is mainly intended for guests. We also imagine having another wardrobe in a kind of niche along the utility room wall. Perhaps even painted the same color as the wall, so the wardrobe is hardly noticeable!

Thanks for the tip about kitchen planning!

In my opinion, the living room corner is also a bit tight.
We might move the right wall 0.5m to 1m (20 to 40 inches) towards the dining area.
The furnishing is planned so that the TV is on or hangs on the stair wall and the sofa is opposite it, with perhaps a sideboard or something similar along the wall to the study/guest room.

(So far the layout of this area is not 100% decided.)

If the bedroom and bathroom are moved to the back, the drainage via the toilet would certainly be easier. However, if the walk-in closet stays as it is, there would be no way to get into the bedroom because the staircase is in the way, and the walk-in closet would be even smaller than on the south side.

But I just realize that there’s really no space for wardrobes in the walk-in closet because of the windows and doors :-/

P.S. Attached is a picture where you can roughly see our visual idea from the outside. (Referring to the window arrangement)

Best regards

hbf12 schrieb:
I think the hallway on the ground floor is too much wasted space, and the cloakroom is too small for four people.

If the ventilation system is located in the utility room, I’m not sure there will be much space left for anything else, especially if you want to include a niche for the shower. Most of the utility room ends up as circulation area just to get through.

The ventilation system should be placed on the wall of the pantry.
The window facing outside should be a narrow one at head height, so there is still the possibility to place something underneath it.
The only appliances in the utility room will probably be a washing machine and a freezer chest.
However, I will still give it some more thought. After all, the electrical distribution also needs to be accommodated somewhere!

Best regards