ᐅ Floor Plan Design for Semi-Detached Homes Suitable for Large Families
Created on: 7 Jan 2018 20:12
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Hello everyone,
At the moment, we are planning to build a semi-detached house together with my brother’s family. We already have a plot of land on the edge of the village, see attachment.
The plan is for a timber frame house. Before consulting an architect for detailed planning, we want to first draft a preferred floor plan ourselves to clarify our own wishes.
Since this is our first house, we hope to get some suggestions regarding our ideas here.
The two halves of the house should be mirror-symmetrical in terms of the ground area in the first draft, to keep the building simple. The room layout can basically differ but, due to similar requirements, it is also planned to be mirror-symmetrical. The floor plans of one half are outlined in the attachment.
Now to the conditions:
1. Zoning/building restrictions
2. Requirements of the builders
3. House design
4. If you have to omit something, which details/extensions would you forgo?
- Could do without: fireplace in the living room, smaller footprint
5. What is the most important question about the floor plan summarized in 130 characters?
What do you think of the shown floor plans, especially the chosen room layout?
At the moment, we are planning to build a semi-detached house together with my brother’s family. We already have a plot of land on the edge of the village, see attachment.
The plan is for a timber frame house. Before consulting an architect for detailed planning, we want to first draft a preferred floor plan ourselves to clarify our own wishes.
Since this is our first house, we hope to get some suggestions regarding our ideas here.
The two halves of the house should be mirror-symmetrical in terms of the ground area in the first draft, to keep the building simple. The room layout can basically differ but, due to similar requirements, it is also planned to be mirror-symmetrical. The floor plans of one half are outlined in the attachment.
Now to the conditions:
1. Zoning/building restrictions
- Plot size: approx. 2300 square meters (25,000 square feet)
- No slope, completely level
- No formal zoning plan exists, neighboring buildings mostly two-storey and of a comparable size to the shown design. Plot is on the edge of the village.
2. Requirements of the builders
- Roof shape: gable roof, roof pitch approx. 45° (typical for this area)
- Style: conservative, inspired by local traditional farmhouses
- Planned building orientation: east-west
- Floors: basement, two finished full floors, cold roof space
- Occupants: per family/house half 2 adults and 4 children
- Space requirements: see planning
- Office: one home office room per household
- Occasional guests: approx. 20 per year
- Tend to prefer a rather closed architecture with a semi-open living/dining area
- Construction method: traditional with modern elements
- Kitchen should be separable from the dining area
- Dining places: 8
- Fireplace: masonry heater in the living room
- No built-in stereo wall
- Balcony on the upper floor
- No garage, no carport
- Large utility garden behind the house
- Upper and ground floors should be divisible and basically independent from each other; the master bedroom together with the bathroom could be converted into a kitchen. The wall containing the water pipes is planned as a walk-in shaft.
3. House design
- Do-it-yourself planning
- Living area: approx. 90 square meters (970 square feet) per floor and half of the house
- What we particularly like: simple floor plan, simple exterior shape. Evenly distributed children’s rooms, balcony access for three of the four children’s rooms
- Cost estimate: none available
- Personal budget limit per half of the house: approx. 400,000 euros (without plot)
- Preferred heating system: own solar system with heat pump
4. If you have to omit something, which details/extensions would you forgo?
- Could do without: fireplace in the living room, smaller footprint
5. What is the most important question about the floor plan summarized in 130 characters?
What do you think of the shown floor plans, especially the chosen room layout?
kaho674 schrieb:
Yep.
Layout options with and without a play corner.
Overall, really nice. However, it will most likely not work. From ages 1 to 2, little ones have a lot of fun dragging all kinds of stuff to your feet. Everything, of course, must be accepted with great gratitude. The toys end up scattered all over the house.
From 2 to 3 years it gets a bit calmer, but balance bikes and similar things become very popular—so anything big, fast, and annoying. Most play still happens right under the parents’ feet. And from age 3, you can start sending them to play in their rooms. By then, there is enough understanding to express the wish to keep the toys in the kid’s room. Perhaps a dedicated playroom would be more practical, and later on, it could be converted into a guest room or utility room.
@ypg: What the original poster meant about putting children in the utility room: Especially when they are small, you often run to them at night to put the pacifier back in, give their bottle, or simply stroke their head. Doing all that constantly up and down the stairs wears you out a lot. Therefore, the idea to use the utility room temporarily as a bedroom for the youngest child came up.
Evolith schrieb:
It's really nice in itself. However, it most likely won’t work. Between the ages of 1 and 2, little kids really enjoy dragging all sorts of stuff to your feet. Of course, everything has to be accepted with lots of gratitude. The toys end up scattered all over the place throughout the whole house... What I don’t understand is, what exactly was supposed to work? That the children wouldn’t drag things to your feet? I think for that you’d have to lock them in the basement. Otherwise, that hardly has anything to do with the floor plan, right?
Evolith schrieb:
So the idea is to use the utility room temporarily as a bedroom for the youngest child. That makes sense, but where should the stuff normally kept in the utility room go in the meantime? Does the child want a clothes dryer as a roommate?
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11ant schrieb:
As far as I understand, just wondering: where should the stuff go in the meantime that normally belongs in the utility room? Does the child really want a clothes dryer as a roommate?They do have the basement for that. And upstairs there’s also a room free for boxes and an ironing board.Similar topics