ᐅ Floor Plan Design for a 150 sqm Single-Family Home – Tips for Improvement?

Created on: 22 Jan 2019 13:30
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Franky73
Hello everyone,

we are in the process of building a single-family house with a basement suitable for living. This is the design we have come up with. I would like to hear from you if you see any possibilities for improvements.

On the ground floor, there is a side entrance door on the right. The carport will be located there.

In the basement living area, the children's rooms face south. From there, it should be possible to access the terrace and the garden.

I look forward to your tips and suggestions!

Ground floor plan: open living and dining area, kitchen, bathroom, hallway, and two rooms.


Apartment floor plan: kitchen, living room, hallway, and bedrooms with dimensions.
11ant12 Mar 2019 15:54
montessalet schrieb:
And about stairlifts: guess why I really want a straight staircase (with a power outlet)... you never know, right?

Then the plot of land remains the bottleneck for the mobility concept, or is there a similar solution for the driveway as well?
Zaba12 schrieb:
The only person here who planned properly for old age is Karsten.

But most homebuilders are more like Karsten was with his first house: not yet realizing that they will build again later. And generally not yet noticing that the trend is moving in that direction. I would dare to say that at least those homebuilders well under 40 are making unnecessary considerations about a bedroom for old age in their current planned home.
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haydee
12 Mar 2019 16:16
Especially since stairlifts for a straight indoor staircase don’t cost that much anymore. Certainly not enough to go through the trouble of living on the ground floor as you get older.

There are stairlifts for indoor use and platform lifts for outdoor use. Platform lifts, however, are significantly more expensive than indoor stairlifts. On the other hand, they can transport walkers, wheelchairs, and shopping.

There are even elevators that can be retrofitted from the outside.
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Franky73
12 Mar 2019 18:49
kaho674 schrieb:
Then explain that

in more detail.

What exactly am I supposed to explain???
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kbt09
12 Mar 2019 18:57
Why don’t you want to use Katja’s adjustments

as a basis, @Franky73? You should explain that. After all, you want to stick to your original concept.
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Franky73
12 Mar 2019 19:44
kbt09 schrieb:
Why don’t you want to use Katja’s adjustments

as a basis, @Franky73 … you should explain that. Because you want to stick to your original concept after all.

Come on, guys, I was just asking if the area with the hallway, stairs, utility room, and guest room in my proposal could still be optimized!

It feels like we already reached an acceptable result (ours), which could certainly be improved, but then everything gets completely discarded and a completely different proposal is debated here. At this rate, I/we won’t be finished until 2055!

I do think Katja’s version is good in parts, and I’ve said this before about many other partial variations here too. In the end, though, our personal preferences need to fit as well, and in Katja’s layout I find the utility room upstairs unsuitable for us, and I also already sketched my ideas about the bathroom.
face2612 Mar 2019 20:07
Franky73 schrieb:
Oh guys, I was just asking if the area including the hallway, stairs, utility room, and guest room in my proposal could be optimized further!

I think you’re having some trouble assessing the relationships within a floor plan. You can’t simply change a straight staircase in an existing layout to a quarter-turn stair without adjusting the rest of the floor plan accordingly.

“Your” floor plan has a few design issues that, for example, don’t work for me. These have been pointed out to you. I believe several others feel the same way, which is why hardly anyone here is fiddling with it. Katja, in her design, I think addressed every issue. But somehow you hardly reveal what you don’t like and instead prefer to call your plan “optimized.” You seem stuck. That’s my impression.