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

130 sqm (1400 sq ft) with an office and utility room on the ground floor seems almost impossible to me.

We can only manage this because the utility/storage room is in the basement.

I also find the floor plan rather so-so.

What kind of sports activity is planned for that extra room? Is it really necessary? Could it be omitted in favor of the kitchen/living room and utility room? Maybe rearrange the chairs somewhere else?

kruemel89 schrieb:
Okay, thanks for your honest feedback. To be honest, we didn’t really expect that and are a bit surprised now. 🙂

So it doesn’t have to be as square as it is now. It was an idea from us, which the architect implemented exactly as we wanted.

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

It should be two full floors, that is important to us.

We built a T-shaped bathroom ourselves. It looks good, but please don’t go below 10m² (108 sq ft)!
Do you really want the toilet directly in view of the window? Maybe swap its position with the shower...

kruemel89 schrieb:
If it’s more rectangular, would that allow for more options?

An unsymmetrical rectangle is not inherently better or worse than a square. The point is: you can only afford a square “in principle” if you take the longer side as your benchmark and extend the shorter side to match it. If, on the other hand, you try to achieve a square by reducing the longer side, then it becomes problematic.

Therefore, I recommend first laying out the room program and then being "surprised" if, through clever room arrangement, the overall dimensions just happen to be the same in both directions or not.

Before someone complains that this abstract explanation needs to be read seven times, here is a numerical example: suppose the finished room program results in exterior dimensions of 8 x 10 meters (26 ft 3 in x 32 ft 10 in); then it is possible to make a square if you can afford to expand to 10 x 10 meters (32 ft 10 in x 32 ft 10 in). Forcing it to become 9 x 9 meters (29 ft 6 in x 29 ft 6 in) puts pressure on the longer side.

kruemel89 schrieb:
We really like the T-shaped bathroom layout.

For any design detail you find appealing somewhere, be cautious about trying to replicate it in a smaller house. For the house size here, the typical basic layout is divided into five parts: one half split into two (two adjacent corner rooms) and the other half split into three (two corner rooms separated by a staircase or hallway). A T-shaped bathroom layout is as challenging an architectural constraint for the entire floor as a strict square footprint.

Both constraints must be “affordable”: a square layout can generally be handled from around 120 square meters (about 1,290 sq ft) of living space per floor, while a T-shaped bathroom layout may be feasible starting at about 90 square meters (970 sq ft). The planned size here of approximately 65 square meters (700 sq ft) per floor is too small for either. An island kitchen layout carries about the same design weight as a T-shaped bathroom, while a U-shaped kitchen or a walk-in closet is slightly easier to accommodate.

Roughly speaking, the “square principle” requires a roughly twenty percent increase in floor area allowance unless you are willing to accept restricted room dimensions somewhere.

RobsonMKK schrieb:
I consider 130 square meters with an office and utility room on the ground floor almost impossible.

The office on the ground floor here seems, with all due respect, more like a leftover space declared as useful. In the basement, such a room would typically be called a “hobby room.”

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11ant schrieb:
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The study on the ground floor seems, with all due respect, to be a leftover space labeled as useful. In the basement, such a room would be called a “hobby room.”

However, this results in the kitchen being only slightly larger than a kitchenette—more like a kitchen for a single-person household or holiday apartment, not one suitable for a family of four. A Christmas dinner would then probably have to consist of potato salad, and baking cookies wouldn’t be possible either. I don’t even see space for a coffee machine or a refrigerator [emoji20].

I also find the kitchen much too narrow. I would completely do without the kitchen door here and rather accept the detour instead.

It’s best if you draw up your ideal kitchen with actual measurements and take a close look at it.

I think you will really have trouble fitting plates, pots, coffee maker, toaster, and so on in there.