ᐅ Floor Plan Design for a Bungalow of 130 to 140 Square Meters

Development Plan/Restrictions
Plot size: 1000 sqm (10,764 sq ft)
Slope: no
Site coverage ratio
Floor area ratio
Building envelope, building line, and boundary
Edge development
Number of parking spaces
Number of floors: 1
Roof type: gable roof
Architectural style: bungalow
Orientation
Maximum heights/limits
Other requirements

Homeowner Requirements
Architectural style, roof type, building type: gable roof bungalow – 1 floor
Basement, floors
Number of people, age: 2 persons (32 + 26), possibly 1 or 2 children later
Space requirements on ground floor, upper floor: ground floor
Office: family use or home office? home office
Overnight guests per year: negligible
Open or closed layout: closed
Traditional or modern construction: modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island: yes
Number of dining seats: 6
Fireplace: no
Music/stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: double garage
Utility garden, greenhouse: no
Additional wishes/particulars/daily routine, also reasons why certain things should or should not be included

House Design
Planner:
- Builder’s in-house planner
- Architect
- Do-it-yourself <-------
What do you particularly like? Why? unknown
What do you not like? Why? unknown
Price estimate according to architect/planner: unknown
Personal price limit for the house, including fittings: 250,000€
Preferred heating system: gas or geothermal

If you have to give up on which details/features
- Can you give up: unknown
- Cannot give up: unknown

Why has the design turned out as it is? e.g.
Standard design from planner? Yes
Which wishes were implemented by the architect?
A mix of many examples from various magazines: yes
What, in your view, makes it particularly good or bad?

What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan summarized in 130 characters?

Does it work or not at all?

Greetings from the North,

I hope you can help or advise me. We are fortunate to be able to build a bungalow due to the size of the plot (1000 sqm / 10,764 sq ft), measuring about 27 m x 39 m (89 ft x 128 ft). I have tried to put something together and am looking forward to any help, ideas, or criticism. This is the first draft; the appointment with the architect is in two weeks. For now, I’m not focusing on the detailed specifics but mainly want to know if the planning makes sense and what could or should be changed.

It was and still is important to us to separate the children’s area from the parents’ area. The utility room should be close to the kitchen and guest bathroom with shower, as my husband sometimes needs to leave quickly for emergency duties and may need to shower after.

I added a sliding door to the living room, though it could also remain open to make the space feel more open. I think the biggest challenge with a bungalow is often the corridor since it tends to be quite dark, but at the same time, you don’t want to waste too much square footage on hallways or entrance areas.

I don’t want to write too much here but would just like to ask what you think about it?

Thanks in advance.

Best regards

You want to send your children to a bathroom that guests also use?
There are often very personal items there, not to mention the usual daily necessities. I wouldn’t want that.
Living room without a window?
Utility room without a window?

Please upload the site plan.

@ Alessandro, whether my children use the guest toilet or the master bathroom, which may also be used by guests and contains personal items, is not really a concern for me. The utility room has no window, which is unavoidable due to the garage. The living room has floor-to-ceiling windows next to the large glass sliding door, so there is plenty of natural light.

@ icandoit, I only used the term from the corridor map, number 257.

My first impression was "foxhole." The walking routes are long and winding – for example, to get from the kitchen to the front door, you either have to go through the living area or the utility room. Some passages are very narrow – for instance, the exit from the kitchen. In the furnished version, it looks as if the vehicles are the main focus. A double bed is roughly the size of a car hood, yet the vehicles appear very large while the dining table seems small – it’s worth checking the dimensions carefully. The tighter the house, the more important this becomes.

Try an approach with a side entrance between the carport/garage and the house. That could solve many of the design’s problems. For the children’s rooms, it would be nice in a bungalow if both had access to their own terrace – especially if the rooms are somewhat larger. Give the children a more western exposure and accept less "prominence of location" for the bedroom.

By the way: Houses can be rotated on a lot unless a parallel orientation to the street is required. This can help make better use of the cardinal directions.

Alessandro schrieb:

you want to send your kids to a bathroom where guests also go to the toilet?

I wouldn’t have interpreted it that way; I saw it as a family bathroom.

Alessandro schrieb:

Living room without windows?
Utility room without windows?

A bungalow has the advantage that daylight can also be brought in from above.

Lindsay88 schrieb:

Living rooms have floor-to-ceiling windows next to the large sliding glass door, so there is plenty of natural light.

The living area is shaded by a wall. Despite the large windows, barely any light reaches that spot. Even during the summer daytime, it will be rather dim there. If the design is to remain as is, definitely plan for daylight from above.

I am missing not only dimensions but also explanations: why does the child’s bedroom on the right side of the plan have an L-shape (surely not just to make the wardrobe too small) and why does the bathroom have a recess near the door of the other child’s bedroom, if the location and overall dimensions of the house are flexible; and does the municipality really want to continue the irregular alignment of the escape routes like this?

If this is supposed to be only 140 square meters (1,507 square feet), the complexity of the layout is too high and the walls are shown too thin.

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