ᐅ Floor Plan Review: Single-Family House with Three Children's Bedrooms

Created on: 29 Oct 2020 08:47

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?

Floor plan of a house: entrance area, kitchen, living/dining, office, storage rooms, garage.

Floor plan of an apartment with hallway, 5 rooms, bath/WC and shower/WC, doors marked

11ant30 Oct 2020 13:01

#37

DasWirdNix schrieb:

My children love the rain shower, so I’ve “given in” and now shower in the bathtub. I’m not really into wellness, so it doesn’t bother me at all. [...] Otherwise, we take baths just as often as you do.

I only “give in” when the Hesse arrive, and since Thoelke, the rule for major laundry is “Saturday in eight days.”
By the way, my shower head switches quickly between the settings “cleaning,” “wellness,” and “cleaning & wellness mixed.” And adding a switchable shower head and/or rain shower probably only costs a few francs. You could even shower with a rubber duck—but obviously only with a classic shower tray; in a walk-in shower you’d probably have to leash the duck.

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DasWirdNix30 Oct 2020 15:47

#38

11ant schrieb:

So you basically have a fixed area budget, and I would have to make the house narrower if I wanted to give it more building depth (?)

For us, pricing is determined based on the volume and the desired level of finish. We have already obtained some rough offers for individual trades, but even there we can see that we are at the upper limit of our budget. Therefore, I can practically exclude any building extensions.

11ant schrieb:

You hadn’t really used clear Swiss-German expressions so far, and otherwise you don’t really notice it in written language. It’s no longer worth looking at the profile, as there is almost nothing left there these days. I didn’t notice anything at the basement level either – don’t you have to build with an air-raid shelter anymore, or am I mistaken?
In German land-use plans, it is common to mark more precisely where the house is allowed to be built (our land-use plans historically developed from alignment plans, and here it is quite strict that houses must not stand out from the line). We Germans are just as humorless as perfect cliché Swiss in this regard.

You’re right, apologies. I was firmly convinced that the first page profile had a question “Location: CH”. Now I realize I was very mistaken.

For us, there are no building envelopes, only setback distances and a floor area ratio (living space in relation to the plot size).

DasWirdNix30 Oct 2020 15:53

#39

pagoni2020 schrieb:

....not yet......but it’s also not as comfortable as in the rest of the house. There HAS to be a shower for Dad!!! And it has to be a proper one.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

But unfortunately, I don’t see the point (for us) of having an additional shower. We have a shower on the ground floor that I can use if I can no longer get over the bathtub edge. If necessary, there is also a shower in the nearby bathroom.
Currently, our schedules and shower times are very different, so that works well for us. I don’t shower for 15 minutes, so mathematically all five of us can fit in one shower within about 1.5 hours.

So, thanks for the suggestion, but for me it’s an unnecessary use of space and money based on today’s circumstances (and only suitable for us, of course).

By the way, the same goes for the wardrobe. We could still put a sideboard under a window, but in the last 15 years we haven’t needed more closet space, so we won’t need more in the next 15. Otherwise, we use one of the children’s rooms or rotate with the basement. Or it ends up in the attic above our bathroom.

Regarding the sudden stop (full stop) issue: We will probably actually plan a bend in the children’s bathroom so the clearance is a bit larger. Currently, there is about 1 meter (3.3 feet) between the stair exit and the wall. That’s too little. I assumed 1.1 meters (3.6 feet). If necessary, we will move the stairs a bit toward the children’s room, although that would be unfortunate.

ypg30 Oct 2020 18:16

#40

Interior dimensions are 10.6 x 9.6 meters (34.8 x 31.5 feet)... I hope I didn’t miscalculate.
I think everything is self-explanatory. However, the interior walls are only 10 cm (4 inches) thick—I’m not motivated to change that now.
For reference: the dining table is 220 x 110 cm (87 x 43 inches), the island is 2.40 meters (7.9 feet), as are the tall cabinets. The bed is 185 cm (73 inches) wide, and the showers are about one meter (3.3 feet) wide. I’m not sure about the sofa...

Grundriss eines Hauses: Zimmer 4, 3, 6, Büro/Gast 13,3; Allraum 55, Essen, Sofa, Treppe.

Grundriss eines Hauses: Elternzimmer, Bad, Zimmer 5, K 1 13,5, K 2 13,5, Sam 18,5.

3D-Ansicht: offener Wohn- und Küchenbereich mit Insel, Esstisch, Sofa und Kaminofen.

DasWirdNix30 Oct 2020 18:24

#41

Wow, thank you! Even though I am very afraid to change something fundamental and start from scratch, I will take a close look at your design! Thank you!

ypg30 Oct 2020 18:35

#42

The basis is your old design!
Maybe something like this?

ᐅ Floor Plan Review: Single-Family House with Three Children's Bedrooms

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