ᐅ Floor Plan Design for Urban Villa – Catalog Floor Plan Inspiration
Created on: 22 Sep 2021 10:45
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miriam85
Hello dear members,
After a long time of quietly following the forum and officially reserving our preferred plot, we are now venturing into planning our urban villa. We have drawn inspiration from many catalog floor plans and sketched extensively on paper. The result is a design we are reasonably satisfied with. We would now like to have it reviewed by you to understand what works (or doesn’t).
First, the questionnaire:
Development plan / restrictions
Plot size 600 sqm (20x30 m) (6460 sq ft, 66x98 ft)
Slope no
Building area, building line and boundary 3 m (10 ft) setback
Number of parking spaces 2
Number of floors max. 2
Roof style any
Architectural style modern
Orientation garden facing southwest
Client requirements
Architectural style, roof type, building type urban villa with hipped roof
Basement, floors 2 floors without basement
Number of occupants, ages 3 (36, 35, 2)
Room area on ground and upper floors approx. 85 sqm (915 sq ft) each
Office: family use or home office? home office
Overnight guests per year 4
Open or closed architecture open
Open kitchen, kitchen island yes
Number of dining seats 6, extendable to 10
Balcony, roof terrace no
Garage, carport double garage
House design
Who designed it? do-it-yourself
What do you like most? Why? Our space requirements are met. Front entrance centered.
What do you dislike? Why? We are unsure if the upper floor works as planned. To make the fitness room functional in size, we had to move walls and reduce the upstairs hallway. Could this result in too little natural light on the upper floor? Also, we are uncertain if the utility room is adequately sized.
Preferred heating system: air-to-water heat pump + controlled mechanical ventilation
If you had to give up, which details/ additions would you omit
-could you give up: pantry, door from utility room to garage, straight staircase (even though we like it for being easy to use and providing storage underneath)
-could you not give up: fitness room, two children's bedrooms, office
Why is the design the way it is? For example,
What do you consider particularly good or bad about it? See above. We have included all the required rooms but are not sure the upper floor layout works. We also have concerns about storage space.
Regarding orientation, the plan is to position the house as close as possible to the street (northeast) to maximize garden space in the southwest.
Enough said: we look forward to feedback from the lions’ den. ;-)
After a long time of quietly following the forum and officially reserving our preferred plot, we are now venturing into planning our urban villa. We have drawn inspiration from many catalog floor plans and sketched extensively on paper. The result is a design we are reasonably satisfied with. We would now like to have it reviewed by you to understand what works (or doesn’t).
First, the questionnaire:
Development plan / restrictions
Plot size 600 sqm (20x30 m) (6460 sq ft, 66x98 ft)
Slope no
Building area, building line and boundary 3 m (10 ft) setback
Number of parking spaces 2
Number of floors max. 2
Roof style any
Architectural style modern
Orientation garden facing southwest
Client requirements
Architectural style, roof type, building type urban villa with hipped roof
Basement, floors 2 floors without basement
Number of occupants, ages 3 (36, 35, 2)
Room area on ground and upper floors approx. 85 sqm (915 sq ft) each
Office: family use or home office? home office
Overnight guests per year 4
Open or closed architecture open
Open kitchen, kitchen island yes
Number of dining seats 6, extendable to 10
Balcony, roof terrace no
Garage, carport double garage
House design
Who designed it? do-it-yourself
What do you like most? Why? Our space requirements are met. Front entrance centered.
What do you dislike? Why? We are unsure if the upper floor works as planned. To make the fitness room functional in size, we had to move walls and reduce the upstairs hallway. Could this result in too little natural light on the upper floor? Also, we are uncertain if the utility room is adequately sized.
Preferred heating system: air-to-water heat pump + controlled mechanical ventilation
If you had to give up, which details/ additions would you omit
-could you give up: pantry, door from utility room to garage, straight staircase (even though we like it for being easy to use and providing storage underneath)
-could you not give up: fitness room, two children's bedrooms, office
Why is the design the way it is? For example,
What do you consider particularly good or bad about it? See above. We have included all the required rooms but are not sure the upper floor layout works. We also have concerns about storage space.
Regarding orientation, the plan is to position the house as close as possible to the street (northeast) to maximize garden space in the southwest.
Enough said: we look forward to feedback from the lions’ den. ;-)
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majuhenema26 Sep 2021 00:25motorradsilke schrieb:
You can find many plants, including larger sizes, through classified ads. If you’re flexible about what you want and don’t need anything special, it can be very affordable, sometimes even free.What a great tip! I’ll definitely remember that.
motorradsilke schrieb:
You can find many plants, including larger ones, through classified ads. If you don’t have specific requirements or want something special, this can be very affordable, sometimes even free. We also made use of this 🙂
… but it’s only a drop in the ocean. You can do this with perennials, but not with shrubs and similar plants. Digging them up and transplanting them costs not only the plants’ energy 😉
And a small warning: even a small lavender plant from a friend’s garden can bring unwanted weeds like ground elder into your garden, which you didn’t have before. We’ve had that experience ourselves.
or questions during a walk. Lilacs do quite well and don’t grow very slowly.
In old gardens, there is a lot of seed that is true to type. Kindly ask the grandmother three streets away. Maybe she will also dig up two or three bearded irises.
Nevertheless, money goes out.
Flower bulbs. The 100 pieces for 4.95 from the sales flyer have a high reject rate.
Mulch material
Soil
Tools
Fertilizer
Support stakes
Bed edging, etc.
I believe a beautiful garden has to grow, and that takes time. It has to suit the house and its residents. For us, everything happens in small steps. Not because we ran out of money. Every part is considered, planned, discarded, and replanned.
In old gardens, there is a lot of seed that is true to type. Kindly ask the grandmother three streets away. Maybe she will also dig up two or three bearded irises.
Nevertheless, money goes out.
Flower bulbs. The 100 pieces for 4.95 from the sales flyer have a high reject rate.
Mulch material
Soil
Tools
Fertilizer
Support stakes
Bed edging, etc.
I believe a beautiful garden has to grow, and that takes time. It has to suit the house and its residents. For us, everything happens in small steps. Not because we ran out of money. Every part is considered, planned, discarded, and replanned.
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motorradsilke26 Sep 2021 06:46ypg schrieb:
We also used that 🙂
… but it’s just a drop in the ocean. You can do this with perennials, but not with shrubs and the like. Digging up and replanting not only takes a lot of energy from the plants 😉Why shouldn’t this be possible with shrubs? Many shrubs and trees about 1 to 2 m (3 to 6.5 feet) tall can still be transplanted quite well. Of course, it takes effort and the plants need some time to establish, but you can save a lot of money and immediately have uniform hedges. For example, thuja can be transplanted fairly easily when they are already large but not too old, as can bamboo. Privet also works very well; it is available in (almost) evergreen varieties and can be propagated easily from cuttings, so it doesn’t take long to grow big. Hydrangeas are easy to transplant, too—you can cut them back heavily and they will regrow the following year. Rhododendrons can also be transplanted as large shrubs. There are certainly more examples, these are just my experiences; I prefer only evergreen plants for hedges.
@motorradsilke We probably invested too much energy and time into our own house, leaving us too tired for anything else. Have I mentioned before: at a certain age, you also want to enjoy hanging a hammock on a tree. You can’t just dig up a standard fruit tree that easily… Transporting used bushes might work within a village, but not over highways.
My goodness, you’re right that it’s possible, but only to a limited extent. This is about the parallel thread where the landscaping costs are discussed. But if @Pinkiponk believes she can achieve the garden she imagines just by using cuttings, then I’d say: she won’t get to enjoy that garden. It just doesn’t work that way.
Don’t always generalize when responding directly to someone here, @motorradsilke.
And don’t always assume that others are building under the same conditions as you.
My goodness, you’re right that it’s possible, but only to a limited extent. This is about the parallel thread where the landscaping costs are discussed. But if @Pinkiponk believes she can achieve the garden she imagines just by using cuttings, then I’d say: she won’t get to enjoy that garden. It just doesn’t work that way.
Don’t always generalize when responding directly to someone here, @motorradsilke.
And don’t always assume that others are building under the same conditions as you.
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Myrna_Loy26 Sep 2021 16:53It also depends a lot on the soil. You should consider what plants you want and what type of soil those plants prefer. If I want a rose garden but have sandy soil, it’s not enough to just dig a hole and add some rose soil. You need to prepare larger amounts of soil properly. Similarly, grass doesn’t thrive well in clay soil. If you only have 80 m² (860 sq ft) of garden space, you can do many things yourself and let them grow over the years. If you have no experience with plants and want to design 150 m² (1,615 sq ft) or more, a landscape gardener is the right contact, even if it’s just for plant planning.
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