ᐅ Floor Plan Design for a Single-Family Home, 160 sqm – Your Opinions Welcome
Created on: 27 Dec 2017 19:09
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pascalf
Good evening,
after reading along here diligently for several weeks and already receiving a lot of helpful information, I would like to briefly introduce myself and ask for your opinions on our floor plan. I am looking for input on aspects we might not have considered.
My wife and I are 30 years old and have a 4-year-old daughter (no plans for more children). We live in Bavaria and recently purchased a plot of land in Straubing. We plan to build our single-family home there by mid-2019.
We have hired an architect with whom we are in close contact. Our currently agreed floor plan is attached.
Development plan / restrictions
Plot size – 680 m² (7,326 sq ft)
Slope – no
Site coverage ratio – 0.3
Floor area ratio – 0.6
Building envelope, building line and boundary: see attachments: blue and red dashed lines
Edge development: see red dashed line for outbuildings
Number of parking spaces: minimum 2 spaces
Number of storeys: knee wall up to 1.2 m (4 ft) or over 2.0 m (6 ft 7 in)
Roof style: free (slope for gable roof: 20–35°)
Architectural style: free
Orientation: free
Maximum heights / limits: free
Other requirements: none
Client requirements
Architectural style, roof form, building type: gable roof preferred
Basement, storeys: no basement, 2 full storeys
Number of occupants, ages: 3 (30 y, 30 y, 4 y)
Room requirements on ground floor and upper floor
Office: home office on the ground floor desired (due to client visits)
Guest stays per year: 15
Open or closed architecture: mixed, rather closed 😉
Conservative or modern design: mixed 😉
Open kitchen, kitchen island: open kitchen
Number of dining seats: 6
Fireplace: no
Music/speaker wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: not a priority
Garage, carport: very spacious garage (two parking spaces plus storage)
Utility garden, greenhouse: raised bed planned
Other requests / special features / daily routines, also reasons for preferences
House design
Source of plan:
Architect (also acting as general contractor; currently contracted only as architect)
What do you particularly like? Why?
What do you dislike? Why? Compared to the current plan, we have already requested the architect to extend the garage northwards to the plot boundary. Also, we want to shift the southern exterior wall about 30 cm (12 inches) further south and allocate the gained space to living room, kitchen, and bedrooms, aiming for around 160 m² (1,722 sq ft).
Price estimate according to architect/planner: none yet, as the floor plan is not finalized.
Personal price limit for the house, including fittings: 390,000 (including, for example, kitchen, garden, bathroom, photovoltaic system, built-in wardrobes. So ready to move in or better), the plot is of course not included in the 390,000.
Preferred heating technology: natural gas boiler without solar thermal, with central ventilation system, energy saving ordinance standard.
If you have to give up something, which details/extensions
– can you do without: roof terrace
– cannot do without: storage space (since no basement)
Why is the design the way it is? For example:
Standard design from the planner? No
Were specific wishes from the architect implemented? No generic “cookie-cutter” façade.
A mix of many examples from various magazines? Yes
What makes it, in your view, particularly good or bad? Tailored to our individual wishes.
The furniture shown in the living/dining area exactly matches our current furniture. I am a bit concerned about the storage space because we are moving from a fully basement-equipped semi-detached house (but for various reasons no longer want a basement), and quite a bit has accumulated in the basement that will need to be stored elsewhere in the new house. That is why we planned a very large garage and a large utility room.
The exterior views are currently being developed by the architect.
The plot is located in a new development area.
I look forward to your opinions! 🙂
Best regards,
Pascal
after reading along here diligently for several weeks and already receiving a lot of helpful information, I would like to briefly introduce myself and ask for your opinions on our floor plan. I am looking for input on aspects we might not have considered.
My wife and I are 30 years old and have a 4-year-old daughter (no plans for more children). We live in Bavaria and recently purchased a plot of land in Straubing. We plan to build our single-family home there by mid-2019.
We have hired an architect with whom we are in close contact. Our currently agreed floor plan is attached.
Development plan / restrictions
Plot size – 680 m² (7,326 sq ft)
Slope – no
Site coverage ratio – 0.3
Floor area ratio – 0.6
Building envelope, building line and boundary: see attachments: blue and red dashed lines
Edge development: see red dashed line for outbuildings
Number of parking spaces: minimum 2 spaces
Number of storeys: knee wall up to 1.2 m (4 ft) or over 2.0 m (6 ft 7 in)
Roof style: free (slope for gable roof: 20–35°)
Architectural style: free
Orientation: free
Maximum heights / limits: free
Other requirements: none
Client requirements
Architectural style, roof form, building type: gable roof preferred
Basement, storeys: no basement, 2 full storeys
Number of occupants, ages: 3 (30 y, 30 y, 4 y)
Room requirements on ground floor and upper floor
Office: home office on the ground floor desired (due to client visits)
Guest stays per year: 15
Open or closed architecture: mixed, rather closed 😉
Conservative or modern design: mixed 😉
Open kitchen, kitchen island: open kitchen
Number of dining seats: 6
Fireplace: no
Music/speaker wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: not a priority
Garage, carport: very spacious garage (two parking spaces plus storage)
Utility garden, greenhouse: raised bed planned
Other requests / special features / daily routines, also reasons for preferences
House design
Source of plan:
Architect (also acting as general contractor; currently contracted only as architect)
What do you particularly like? Why?
What do you dislike? Why? Compared to the current plan, we have already requested the architect to extend the garage northwards to the plot boundary. Also, we want to shift the southern exterior wall about 30 cm (12 inches) further south and allocate the gained space to living room, kitchen, and bedrooms, aiming for around 160 m² (1,722 sq ft).
Price estimate according to architect/planner: none yet, as the floor plan is not finalized.
Personal price limit for the house, including fittings: 390,000 (including, for example, kitchen, garden, bathroom, photovoltaic system, built-in wardrobes. So ready to move in or better), the plot is of course not included in the 390,000.
Preferred heating technology: natural gas boiler without solar thermal, with central ventilation system, energy saving ordinance standard.
If you have to give up something, which details/extensions
– can you do without: roof terrace
– cannot do without: storage space (since no basement)
Why is the design the way it is? For example:
Standard design from the planner? No
Were specific wishes from the architect implemented? No generic “cookie-cutter” façade.
A mix of many examples from various magazines? Yes
What makes it, in your view, particularly good or bad? Tailored to our individual wishes.
The furniture shown in the living/dining area exactly matches our current furniture. I am a bit concerned about the storage space because we are moving from a fully basement-equipped semi-detached house (but for various reasons no longer want a basement), and quite a bit has accumulated in the basement that will need to be stored elsewhere in the new house. That is why we planned a very large garage and a large utility room.
The exterior views are currently being developed by the architect.
The plot is located in a new development area.
I look forward to your opinions! 🙂
Best regards,
Pascal
ypg schrieb:
If there is customer traffic, I would also avoid having clients wandering through my house. The hallway is not exactly welcoming either, way too long.
Edit: looked again... is the street on the right side of the plan????? Okay... [emoji6] then the orientation makes more sense. kaho674 schrieb:
Is the plan oriented? North at the top? There is a north arrow at the bottom left of the ground floor plan. 🙂
So it is almost north-oriented. The terrace faces south-southwest.
EDIT: SORRY, while editing the image I removed the north arrow! The bottom is south-southwest, the top is north-northeast!
kaho674 schrieb:
If the office is actually meant to be used for clients or external visitors, I would swap it with the utility room so that people don’t have to walk through the whole house and can be met right at the entrance. Customer visits don’t happen very often — maybe once every two weeks. Still, we want an office on the ground floor. But due to the low frequency of client visits at home, it’s not that important whether clients have to walk a few extra meters through the house.
kaho674 schrieb:
I don’t find the long hallway at the entrance very appealing. Also, I don’t like that when you enter, you immediately face a wall. The one closet for coats and shoes would be insufficient for me. I would completely rethink the entrance area. We also see the hallway as a drawback.
We have now developed a small improvement: the utility room will be shifted about 40cm (16 inches) upwards from the bottom left corner towards the right, just before the door. This creates an additional break in the "hallway tube" and leaves space for another shoe cabinet/wardrobe. I lose about one square meter (roughly 10.8 sq ft) of utility room space, but the wall space for placing furniture only decreases marginally.
The entrance area is indeed not quite optimal either. Without fundamentally redesigning the plan, I don’t see a possibility for improvement.
kaho674 schrieb:
The dining area in the bay window seems very cramped to me. I would make it wider. The dining area in the bay feels cramped because the chairs are drawn fully pulled out in the plan. When not hosting six people, the chairs are pushed in. If I make the bay larger, it would reduce space in the kitchen and living room or require buying significantly more total living space. I have an aversion to building a 170 m² (1,830 sq ft) house or larger for a family of three that I will eventually live in as just two people in 20 years. 😉
kaho674 schrieb:
The piano is half in the living area and half in the dining room. It feels like you can’t decide where it really belongs. A clear separation or none at all would be better. The piano and the cabinet next to it can (and probably will) be swapped. That will certainly look more harmonious. But those are just minor details. 😉
It’s not about the customer having a long way to go, it’s about the fact that when the customer is inside the house, no one has any privacy.
I also don’t understand the change made to the hallway: I can’t scroll that much to follow it. However, I already find the width borderline, and the length would only be acceptable to me at about half of what it is 😉
I also don’t understand the change made to the hallway: I can’t scroll that much to follow it. However, I already find the width borderline, and the length would only be acceptable to me at about half of what it is 😉
I just had the thought that it might help the questioners if this forum had a "similarity search": in my opinion, with comparable approaches but at a more advanced stage of development, something like this could be found related to the design discussed here: https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/grundrissplanung-stadtvilla-180m-mit-keller.26308/ 🙂
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
pascalf schrieb:
The dining area in the bay window feels cramped because the chairs are pushed completely out in the plan. Unfortunately, the dimensions are missing 😉 ... the path from the kitchen to the terrace (summer evenings, barbecues, just relaxing) is still an inconvenient zigzag.
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kbt09 schrieb:
The kitchen appears to have only a side-by-side refrigerator and no other tall cabinets planned. It would also be useful to see the entire plot. For example, I consider 2m (6.5 feet) in front of the garage to be a rather impractical driveway area leading to the street.
The door from the garage into the utility room also takes up space in the utility room.
@11ant ... you are responsible for the similarity search anyway 😉 😉.
Thank you for your opinions!
I have gladly taken on some of your suggestions. My architect has already implemented these changes today.
- We did not shorten the hallway, but the entrance door was moved a few centimeters downward, and the hallway was widened by about 12.5 cm (5 inches). This is intended to make the entrance area feel less cramped. The hallway was enlarged by a small additional coat closet at the expense of the utility room. With this, we aim to make the hallway irregular in shape rather than tunnel-like. Nevertheless, the hallway and entrance area will remain a “weak point” for some.
- The living/dining area, kitchen, and upstairs bedrooms and children’s rooms were expanded by 25 cm (10 inches) toward the bottom (south).
- The guest toilet no longer includes a shower because it was too small to fit one comfortably, and we had no motivation to make the room larger. Consequently, the guest toilet is now significantly smaller.
- The office was reduced in size around the bay window but increased around the guest toilet’s shower area. Overall smaller but sufficient for our needs.
- The garage was extended further north until the roof overhang reaches the property boundary. The garage door was enlarged to 4.75 m (15.6 feet) from 4.50 m (14.8 feet). The garage door will be centered, with shelving planned for both the right and left sides.
Many of your other points were gratefully noted but either discarded because I find them irrelevant for us or because I do not prioritize them highly enough to sacrifice other aspects that are more important to us.
I have gladly taken on some of your suggestions. My architect has already implemented these changes today.
- We did not shorten the hallway, but the entrance door was moved a few centimeters downward, and the hallway was widened by about 12.5 cm (5 inches). This is intended to make the entrance area feel less cramped. The hallway was enlarged by a small additional coat closet at the expense of the utility room. With this, we aim to make the hallway irregular in shape rather than tunnel-like. Nevertheless, the hallway and entrance area will remain a “weak point” for some.
- The living/dining area, kitchen, and upstairs bedrooms and children’s rooms were expanded by 25 cm (10 inches) toward the bottom (south).
- The guest toilet no longer includes a shower because it was too small to fit one comfortably, and we had no motivation to make the room larger. Consequently, the guest toilet is now significantly smaller.
- The office was reduced in size around the bay window but increased around the guest toilet’s shower area. Overall smaller but sufficient for our needs.
- The garage was extended further north until the roof overhang reaches the property boundary. The garage door was enlarged to 4.75 m (15.6 feet) from 4.50 m (14.8 feet). The garage door will be centered, with shelving planned for both the right and left sides.
Many of your other points were gratefully noted but either discarded because I find them irrelevant for us or because I do not prioritize them highly enough to sacrifice other aspects that are more important to us.
pascalf schrieb:
I have gladly taken on some of your suggestions. Have you already reviewed the "similar" design I linked? I think if you take some time to study it carefully, you’ll discover even more ideas. Especially if you not only compare the plans but also read through the comments during its development. But I can already see some progress.
pascalf schrieb:
or because I don’t prioritize them highly enough to give up other aspects that are more important to us. Which aspects would have suffered then?
pascalf schrieb:
The garage door was widened to 4.75m (15 ft 7 in) from 4.50m (14 ft 9 in). The garage door will be centered, and shelves will be installed on both sides. Considering the necessary suitability for its alternative use as a cellar replacement, I believe the garage layout will be revised several more times. Similar to the kitchen and bathroom planning, it might be worthwhile to fine-tune it further in detail.
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
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