ᐅ Floor plan design for a 130 sqm urban villa with two full stories

Hello everyone,

We have now received the floor plan and I would like to ask for your assessment.

Development Plan/Restrictions
Plot size: 600–800 sqm (6467–8611 sq ft)
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of floors: 2 full stories
Roof style: hipped roof
Architectural style: modern
Orientation: -

Client Requirements
Style, roof type, building type: modern, townhouse, hipped roof, solid construction
Basement, number of floors: 2 full stories
Number of occupants, ages: 27, 27, plus 2 planned children
Space requirements on the ground floor: kitchen, utility room, guest WC with shower, cloakroom, living/dining area, guest room/sports room
Space requirements on the upper floor: master bedroom, 2 children’s bedrooms, dressing room, bathroom
Number of overnight guests per year: 3–5
Open or closed architecture: closed
Conservative or modern construction: modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island: open with kitchen island
Number of dining seats: 6–8
Fireplace: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: -
Other wishes/special features/daily routine, with reasons why certain aspects should or should not be included: we enjoy cooking a lot, so the kitchen should have enough space and be integrated into the living area, but also somewhat separated.

House Design
Planner:
- Architect
What do you like particularly? Why?
Bathroom in T-shape, living room with open kitchen

What do you not like? Why?
Current kitchen layout with partition wall and 2 doors (kitchen and living room), kitchen should be U-shaped. Table possibly better placed between sofa and kitchen? Not quite optimal yet.

Price estimate from architect/planner: approx. 230,000
Personal price limit for the house including fittings: 250,000

If you had to give up something, which details/attachments could you do without:
- Could you give up: ???
- Could not give up: T-shape bathroom, guest/sports room on ground floor

What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan summarized in 130 characters?
Will the living/dining area be too cramped? Are the window arrangements optimal? Has anything important been forgotten? Any fundamental mistakes?

Best regards and a huge thank you 🙂

kruemel89 schrieb:
Who was responsible for the design:
- Architect

From a creativity standpoint, you wouldn’t notice.

In my opinion, the floor plan suffers from trying to be square. That always causes some issues somewhere.

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How wide is that one child's room? 2.00m (6.6 feet)? Or even 2.05m (6.7 feet)? When the little one grows up—and will grow up—he'll hardly be able to move around without bumping into things.

Sorry, but as previous commenters have already mentioned, there are some tight spots.

lastdrop schrieb:
How wide is that one kid’s room? 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)? Or even 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in)?

Once the plaster is applied, there will still be 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) left ;-)

Yes, this is how a chain of unfortunate circumstances happens: exterior dimensions are square >> there’s just about a hand’s width behind the last stair step to the bedroom door >> the partition wall between the bedroom and kid’s room, plus the exterior wall, squeeze the kid’s room. This issue appears in all four corners. Therefore, my advice is to break this Gordian knot by abandoning the “square floor plan” dead end. You can afford that with luxurious, jet-set dimensions, but with just 81 m² (872 sq ft) of floor area, it becomes too tight.

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For example, you can start the wardrobe directly to the right of the bedroom door and shift the bedroom slightly, making Children’s Room 1 wider. 2.18 meters (7 feet 2 inches) of clear room width is actually too narrow. If you’re unlucky, you might not even be able to fit a bed across the width. It should be at least 2.50 meters (8 feet 2 inches), even if you have to be economical with the total square meters. The bed shown is a child’s bed with a maximum length of 180 centimeters (71 inches).

You could also shorten the hallway at the top properly and integrate a storage room. Storage space is much more important for you, especially in a 130 square meter (1,399 square feet) home for four people, than having space in the bathroom for a toilet. Personally, I would make some compromises in the bathroom; otherwise, you will fill every room with stuff. Therefore, I don’t see any space where you could exercise, because the ground floor room will have to bear all the loads (coat storage, jackets, sports bags, decorations, cleaning supplies, mops, vacuum cleaner, recycling, beverage crates, etc.).

I also don’t see any storage space in the kitchen at all. In this house, there are tight spots almost everywhere where you need to store something.

The desire to own a townhouse like this is probably to blame. In my opinion, you can only build a practical one for four people starting from about 10 by 10 meters (33 by 33 feet). A rectangular floor plan offers more possibilities.

Ok, thanks for your honest feedback. To be honest, we didn’t really expect that and are a bit surprised now. 🙂

So it doesn’t necessarily have to be as square as it is now. It was an idea of ours that the architect implemented exactly as we wanted.

If it’s more rectangular, would more options be possible? We really like the T-shaped layout in the bathroom. If the toilet is not immediately visible but the space is smaller, that’s fine with me. You just have to clean everything anyway. 🙂

It should have two full stories, that’s important to us.