ᐅ Floor Plan Review: Single-Family House with Three Children's Bedrooms
Created on: 29 Oct 2020 08:47
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DasWirdNix
Hello everyone,
We are quite far along in our floor plan design, so I now dare to "throw it to the pros for feedback."
Thank you in advance for your tips and suggestions!
Development Plan / Restrictions
Plot size: 843 sqm (9065 sq ft)
Slope: no
Floor area ratio
Gross floor area ratio
Building window, building line, and boundary
Edge development
Number of parking spaces: 6
Number of floors: 2
Roof type: gable roof
Architectural style: modern
Orientation: North/South
Maximum height / limits: 18 m (59 ft)
Other requirements: no geothermal probe, 3 m (10 ft) setback from boundary
Homeowners’ Requirements
Style, roof type, building type: gable roof, minimum 23 degrees
Basement, floors: yes, 2 floors
Number of people, ages: 5 (> 35, > 35, 13, 9, 2)
Room requirements on ground floor and upper floor: guest bathroom, office, kitchen, living room, dining area, utility room
Office: family use or home office? Home office and guest room
Number of overnight guests per year:
Open or closed architecture: open
Conservative or modern building style: modern
Open kitchen, cooking island: yes
Number of dining seats: 1
Fireplace: yes
Music / stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: possibly later on canopy/garage
Garage, carport: yes
Utility garden, greenhouse: raised garden beds
Other wishes / special features / daily routine, including reasons why certain options are preferred or not
House Design
Planning by: combination of DIY and architect
What do you particularly like? Why? Large children’s rooms, orientation towards the garden
What do you not like? Why? Kitchen not very large, dining area borderline too tight, but both not serious; no open space (void); stair design not ideal (straight or with landing would be better but difficult); facade facing north (street) currently doesn’t feel very harmonious
Price estimate by architect/planner: n/a
Personal budget limit for the house including fittings: n/a
Preferred heating technology: trench collector, alternatively air-to-water heat pump (groundwater protection area)
If you have to give up something, which details / expansions
- can you give up: garage could be a bit narrower
- cannot give up: children’s rooms
Why did the design turn out as it is now? For example:
Standard design from planner? Basic considerations regarding orientation towards the garden, design of children’s rooms, and experience with open living in our current home
Which wishes were implemented by the architect? Everything possible
What makes it, in your opinion, particularly good or bad? Economical reduction of walking distances, large children’s rooms
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan in 130 characters?
Are we overlooking an important detail in the planning?
We are quite far along in our floor plan design, so I now dare to "throw it to the pros for feedback."
Thank you in advance for your tips and suggestions!
Development Plan / Restrictions
Plot size: 843 sqm (9065 sq ft)
Slope: no
Floor area ratio
Gross floor area ratio
Building window, building line, and boundary
Edge development
Number of parking spaces: 6
Number of floors: 2
Roof type: gable roof
Architectural style: modern
Orientation: North/South
Maximum height / limits: 18 m (59 ft)
Other requirements: no geothermal probe, 3 m (10 ft) setback from boundary
Homeowners’ Requirements
Style, roof type, building type: gable roof, minimum 23 degrees
Basement, floors: yes, 2 floors
Number of people, ages: 5 (> 35, > 35, 13, 9, 2)
Room requirements on ground floor and upper floor: guest bathroom, office, kitchen, living room, dining area, utility room
Office: family use or home office? Home office and guest room
Number of overnight guests per year:
Open or closed architecture: open
Conservative or modern building style: modern
Open kitchen, cooking island: yes
Number of dining seats: 1
Fireplace: yes
Music / stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: possibly later on canopy/garage
Garage, carport: yes
Utility garden, greenhouse: raised garden beds
Other wishes / special features / daily routine, including reasons why certain options are preferred or not
House Design
Planning by: combination of DIY and architect
What do you particularly like? Why? Large children’s rooms, orientation towards the garden
What do you not like? Why? Kitchen not very large, dining area borderline too tight, but both not serious; no open space (void); stair design not ideal (straight or with landing would be better but difficult); facade facing north (street) currently doesn’t feel very harmonious
Price estimate by architect/planner: n/a
Personal budget limit for the house including fittings: n/a
Preferred heating technology: trench collector, alternatively air-to-water heat pump (groundwater protection area)
If you have to give up something, which details / expansions
- can you give up: garage could be a bit narrower
- cannot give up: children’s rooms
Why did the design turn out as it is now? For example:
Standard design from planner? Basic considerations regarding orientation towards the garden, design of children’s rooms, and experience with open living in our current home
Which wishes were implemented by the architect? Everything possible
What makes it, in your opinion, particularly good or bad? Economical reduction of walking distances, large children’s rooms
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan in 130 characters?
Are we overlooking an important detail in the planning?
DasWirdNix schrieb:
The problem is that we cannot make it wider. Building boundary limits on the plan could have indicated that.
DasWirdNix schrieb:
I will provide them as soon as I get the revisions from the architect. This implied to me that the previous drawings were already professional architectural work. I doubt that, not only because of the amateurish dimensioning. They don’t look like they were created with ArchiCAD or similar software — although also not like the typical user-friendly, basic 3D programs often seen here. I suspect some kind of semi-professional drawing tool aimed at more advanced users, but not architects.
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DasWirdNix29 Oct 2020 18:49ypg schrieb:
Your clothes tend to accumulate over the years. Although you can clear out and discard items, most people rarely do.
Eventually, you’ll have sports and rehab clothes, carnival costumes (okay, those can go to the basement) and fluctuating clothing sizes.
I don’t really care. You’re right. We regularly move summer and winter clothes down to the basement and back up again, and we actually don’t have that much. I mostly have suits and shirts. What I have now is enough for me and for my wife. But I’m wondering how it would look if we had even more storage space.
Thanks for your input and for giving me something to think about!
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DasWirdNix29 Oct 2020 18:5311ant schrieb:
The building boundaries on the plan could have shown that. I trimmed those off. That was my mistake as a layperson. The boundaries are 3m (10 feet) beside the garage, 4m (13 feet) on the east side (kitchen), and 3m (10 feet) toward the street.
11ant schrieb:
That implied to me that the previous drawings were already architectural work. I don’t believe that, not only because of the amateurish dimensioning. It doesn’t look like ArchiCAD or a similar software to me — although it’s also not like the typical 'MaggiFix'-style point-and-click 3D you usually see here. I suspect some semi-professional drawing tool for somewhat advanced users, but not architects. This is the preliminary design plan we developed together with the architect. If you judge his professionalism solely based on the software used, I will pass that feedback on. I have a call with him tomorrow anyway, so I’ll ask which software he used.
If you’re looking for a user-friendly tool for non-professionals: Floorplanner (.com) (pronounced like “floor planner”) is one I experimented with for a while. It worked quite well, except I couldn’t model the roof. But its 3D visualizations were very good.
DasWirdNix schrieb:
If you judge professionalism solely based on the tool used, ... then you have misunderstood me. I see so many drawings here (even though I don’t know or recognize all the planning software) that I can tell how often I encounter them. I tend to assess the (questionable) level of professionalism rather by which details are mentioned and, not least, which ones are given dimension lines.
DasWirdNix schrieb:
If you’re looking for an easy-to-use tool for beginners: flaoplaner. I experimented with it for a while. It worked quite well, except I couldn’t model the roof. But it handled 3D views very well. Thanks, I’ll be happy to check that out sometime. I personally prefer the analog tool “paper and pencil”—at least when I switch from abstract to visual thinking. For me, a beginner-friendly tool’s value always depends heavily on how widely it is used in this community. I occasionally dream of a good tool that also gains relevant popularity here. However, it would have to allow me to export files in various formats, since screenshots are difficult for others to further edit—at best no better than scans of hand drawings.
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DasWirdNix schrieb:
and so I shower in the bathtub,Me too – the tub was important to us... and two showers for two people is one too many DasWirdNix schrieb:
I somehow can’t manage that. When I turn and push, I either end up with a tiny office or a narrow corridor. Maybe I’m just misunderstanding your idea.Three meters (10 feet) office width... but it creates an awkward layout for the living room. Forget it.D
DasWirdNix29 Oct 2020 21:4311ant schrieb:
In my opinion, the corridor needs to be wider; otherwise, it feels like you have to brake suddenly at the top of the stairs. I’ve noted this topic for discussion with the architect. However, I also believe it’s not really necessary. The bathroom door is usually open, and even if it’s closed, the door frame with a depth of at least 15cm (6 inches) doesn’t give the impression of running into a wall.
The only alternative would be to create an angle towards the bathroom, but that probably wouldn’t improve things significantly. Everything else (such as moving the stairs) would be too much wasted space in my view, just for an extra 10cm (4 inches) of width.
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