ᐅ Floor Plan Design: Single-family Home; 1,500 sq ft; No Basement; 7,860 sq ft Lot
Created on: 1 Mar 2024 08:55
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numerobis
Good morning,
At the end of last year, we were offered a plot of land. Since then, I have been regularly visiting this forum—until now only as a silent reader. I have already picked up many interesting ideas here. Maybe some of you would also have feedback on our initial designs.
Many thanks in advance for your time.
Best regards,
numerobis
Development Plan / Restrictions (Development Plan No. 122 "Ochtruper Straße-Nord" (Rheine))
Homeowners’ Requirements
House Design
What do you especially like? Why?
What do you not like? Why?
If you had to give up something, which details/room additions
At the end of last year, we were offered a plot of land. Since then, I have been regularly visiting this forum—until now only as a silent reader. I have already picked up many interesting ideas here. Maybe some of you would also have feedback on our initial designs.
Many thanks in advance for your time.
Best regards,
numerobis
Development Plan / Restrictions (Development Plan No. 122 "Ochtruper Straße-Nord" (Rheine))
- Plot size: 730 sqm (7857 sq ft)
- Slope: no
- Floor area ratio (FAR): 0.4
- Total floor space index (FSI): 0.8
- Building window, building line and boundary: yes, existing
- Edge development: possible with garage
- Number of parking spaces: 1
- Number of stories: 1–2
- Roof type: gabled roof (1 story: slope min. 35°, max. 45°; 2 stories: min. 18°, max. 32°)
- Architectural style: modern, clean lines and shapes, red brick
- Main ridge orientation: east-west
- Maximum heights / limits: none known
- Additional requirements: none known
Homeowners’ Requirements
- Style, roof type, building type: gabled roof
- Basement, stories: 1 full story without basement
- Number of occupants, age: 4 persons (2 toddlers)
- Space requirements on ground floor: approx. 75 sqm (807 sq ft)
- Hallway: as small as possible, as large as necessary, approx. 8 sqm (86 sq ft)
- Office: home office and guest room? approx. 10 sqm (108 sq ft) (guests per year: 5–10 overnight stays)
- Open kitchen (with island), open dining area with 6 seats, open living room: approx. 45 sqm (484 sq ft)
- Guest WC with shower: approx. 4 sqm (43 sq ft)
- Utility room 1 (technical equipment, etc.): approx. 10 sqm (108 sq ft)
- Space requirements on upper floor: approx. 60 sqm (646 sq ft)
- Hallway: as small as possible, as large as necessary, approx. 8 sqm (86 sq ft)
- Bedrooms: 3 with approx. 14 sqm (151 sq ft) each
- Utility room 2 (storage, laundry): approx. 8 sqm (86 sq ft)
- Bathroom: approx. 10 sqm (108 sq ft)
- Open or closed layout: open kitchen-living-dining area, closed hallways
- Conservative or modern construction: modern (see style)
- Fireplace: no
- Music/stereo wall: no
- Balcony, roof terrace: no
- Garage, carport: carport with shed
- Utility garden, greenhouse: no
House Design
- Designer: architect
What do you especially like? Why?
- Modern design
- Open living/dining room
- Office facing south
- Laundry room on upper floor
- Guest WC with shower
- Storage cupboard next to the kitchen (under the stairs)
- Option for a multipurpose room (playroom, TV room, guest room alternatively on ground floor or attic)
What do you not like? Why?
- I am unsure whether we should reduce the number of rooms or slightly increase the floor area (e.g., extend the house by about 50–100 cm (20–40 inches) towards the south).
- Ground floor: is 4.37 sqm (47 sq ft) large enough for the guest WC with shower?
- Ground floor: is 8.19 sqm (88 sq ft) enough for the office for 3–4 days of home office? Would a sofa bed fit in?
- Upper floor: is child’s bedroom 1 too narrow? 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) height up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in), 2.47 m (8 ft 1 in) height up to 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in), 2.76 m (9 ft 1 in) width to wall up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in) height
If you had to give up something, which details/room additions
- could you do without: office on ground floor, laundry room on upper floor
- could you not do without: 2nd shower, storage space under the roof
numerobis schrieb:
I’ll go back to reading for now and will get back when there are new drawings from the architect. Thanks to you, we now have a long list of issues that we first need to clarify. hanghaus2023 schrieb:
That’s a very good idea. For me too.
Hopefully, you can organize the defects pointed out here well and pass them on to the architect. I would find it very unfortunate if the original poster tried to work through the list of questions like a defect list with the architect instead of finally demanding transparency from the architect to understand the design intentions. An architect should be able to explain their concept to the client in a way that a layperson can evaluate it. Simply adjusting a confusing staircase to the correct length and making it straight is not enough.
numerobis schrieb:
Just because I currently have a good salary doesn’t necessarily mean it will stay that way until retirement.
[...] (although I don’t even agree that children’s rooms must be at least 14sqm (150 sq ft)). Fully agree.
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