ᐅ Floor Plan Design for a Single-Family Home, 190 sqm, Slab Foundation, Saarland
Created on: 12 Mar 2020 01:12
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Henning_85
Development Plan/Restrictions
Plot size 541 sqm (5819 sq ft)
Slope slight slope
Site coverage ratio 0.4
Floor area ratio 0.8
Building window, building line and boundary each approx. 6 m (20 ft)
Edge development
Number of parking spaces 2 parking spaces
Number of floors 2 full stories
Roof style flat roof
Architectural style Bauhaus
Orientation garden facing south
Maximum heights/limitations
Additional requirements
Client Requirements
Style, roof type, building type
Basement, number of floors
Number of occupants, age 2 persons, aged 33 and 35
Space requirement on ground and upper floors approx. 190 sqm (2045 sq ft)
Office: family use or home office? family use
Overnight guests per year negligible
Open or closed architecture open
Conservative or modern design modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island yes
Number of dining seats 12
Fireplace yes, decorative
Music/stereo wall planned stereo wall
Balcony, roof terrace almost wrap-around roof terrace
Garage, carport double garage
Utility garden, greenhouse no
Additional wishes/special features/daily routine, also reasons why certain things should or should not be included
House Design
Designer:
-builder’s planner
-architect
-Do-it-yourself own design
What do you particularly like? Why?
What do you dislike? Why?
Cost estimate according to architect/planner: rough estimate approx. 450,000 according to DIN
Personal price limit for the house including fittings: 500,000
Preferred heating technology: geothermal energy
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan in 130 characters?
Hello dear forum members,
here is the first draft of our planned single-family home. I would appreciate your ideas, criticism, tips, and tricks. Sorry that dimensions and some furnishings are still missing. I am only interested in the rough floor plan for now.
Between the living and dining areas, there will be a fireplace or a decorative element serving as a room divider. In the pergola, which should have a solar glass roof, a pool is planned if the budget allows.
We plan to build using a construction manager or site supervisor with separate trade contracts, using solid construction methods.
Thank you very much for your opinions.
Plot size 541 sqm (5819 sq ft)
Slope slight slope
Site coverage ratio 0.4
Floor area ratio 0.8
Building window, building line and boundary each approx. 6 m (20 ft)
Edge development
Number of parking spaces 2 parking spaces
Number of floors 2 full stories
Roof style flat roof
Architectural style Bauhaus
Orientation garden facing south
Maximum heights/limitations
Additional requirements
Client Requirements
Style, roof type, building type
Basement, number of floors
Number of occupants, age 2 persons, aged 33 and 35
Space requirement on ground and upper floors approx. 190 sqm (2045 sq ft)
Office: family use or home office? family use
Overnight guests per year negligible
Open or closed architecture open
Conservative or modern design modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island yes
Number of dining seats 12
Fireplace yes, decorative
Music/stereo wall planned stereo wall
Balcony, roof terrace almost wrap-around roof terrace
Garage, carport double garage
Utility garden, greenhouse no
Additional wishes/special features/daily routine, also reasons why certain things should or should not be included
House Design
Designer:
-builder’s planner
-architect
-Do-it-yourself own design
What do you particularly like? Why?
What do you dislike? Why?
Cost estimate according to architect/planner: rough estimate approx. 450,000 according to DIN
Personal price limit for the house including fittings: 500,000
Preferred heating technology: geothermal energy
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan in 130 characters?
Hello dear forum members,
here is the first draft of our planned single-family home. I would appreciate your ideas, criticism, tips, and tricks. Sorry that dimensions and some furnishings are still missing. I am only interested in the rough floor plan for now.
Between the living and dining areas, there will be a fireplace or a decorative element serving as a room divider. In the pergola, which should have a solar glass roof, a pool is planned if the budget allows.
We plan to build using a construction manager or site supervisor with separate trade contracts, using solid construction methods.
Thank you very much for your opinions.
Henning_85 schrieb:
This floor plan was reviewed by two independent architects who said, "This is how I would build as well." But not in detail... you have to be able to filter that out too. Henning_85 schrieb:
This particular solution was described by the architects as especially comfortable. Which one? The bathroom/bedroom layout?
Henning_85 schrieb:
Could you please (@ypg @kaho674 @11ant) refrain from commenting on my posts and give other users a chance to contribute constructively here. No. Why would you want to read comments here from someone who has no experience with floor plans at all, instead of from those who have been doing this for years and have a trained eye?
I could even get my husband to comment: "Yeah... nice."
Henning_85 schrieb:
I don’t know how much time you spend in the bedroom aside from sleeping time. My husband brings me breakfast in bed every weekend. Also, ironing is done in the bedroom. There is a reading chair there as well.
Henning_85 schrieb:
And every route from or to the bedroom first goes through the bathroom or from the bathroom. No, definitely not when you want to take a peaceful bathroom break.
Henning_85 schrieb:
For me, that takes less than 5 minutes. Poor lover!
ypg schrieb:
Bad lover!...exactly because with Yvonne:
ypg schrieb:
Also, ironing is done in the bedroom....ahem...
Now some of my comments:
Ground floor:
- How wide is the door to the guest WC? The space will be quite tight; I would plan it larger. If that’s not possible, at least make the door open outwards.
- What is the purpose of the garden WC? It won’t be used for half the year and maybe only in good weather the rest of the time.
- This also causes the workshop to become more of a passageway. A workshop of 6m (20 feet) with two entrances is definitely not practical. You can’t really store anything either, unless you want to avoid using one of the two doors.
- The garage width of 5.10m (16 feet 9 inches) has already been mentioned. Our carport is 6m (20 feet) deep and still feels about 50cm (20 inches) too shallow to place anything at the front while comfortably walking past the car.
- What is the purpose of the 1m (3 feet 3 inches) wide storage room? After deducting space for cleaning supplies, that leaves about 95cm (37 inches). That can’t be serious, right?
- How deep are the kitchen island and dining table? Something seems off proportionally. I suspect the island isn’t deep enough to be realistic. I doubt you want an island about 3.5x~0.7m (11.5x2.3 feet). That would look odd.
- I would move the door to the utility room further down the hallway. That way you could create a door from the corridor to the main living area, making the utility room accessible from the hallway. This also acts as a sound buffer and looks better than having a door on such a prominent wall.
- The living room looks well done. Do you want a home theater or something similar? If so, I’d research speaker placements, because that will complicate the planned furniture arrangement.
- Overall, I count 7 (!!!) rooms on the ground floor totaling about 30m² (320 square feet), which means less than 5m² (54 square feet) per room on average. Two of those are tiny WCs. What is the point of that? You’re making your life (the layout) unnecessarily complicated. None of these rooms – except the pantry – will realistically be functional enough to serve their intended purpose.
Upper floor:
- With the gallery, reading nook, and hallway, roughly 30m² (320 square feet) is wasted. Then in the children’s bathroom, you immediately bump your knee on the toilet as a welcoming gift.
- Another storage room, this time 1.05m (3 feet 5 inches) wide. Same issue as on the ground floor.
- The child’s bedroom, combined with the “ante-room,” is much smaller than the stated area suggests. The door centered in the ante-room means that with the construction width of only 1.80m (5 feet 11 inches), you can’t place a proper wardrobe on either side.
Therefore, it will have to go into the main room itself.
- The bathroom as a walk-through room is the final straw. I won’t say much about it, but the layout bothers me even more:
For the WC, beyond your sauna placeholder, there’s a mere 65cm (26 inches) of raw width left (2.45m minus 1.80m for the sauna). That’s not just uncomfortable, it simply won’t work.
The 1.40m (4 feet 7 inches) for the double vanity will feel quite cramped and is located in a traffic path.
I would expect the shower in such a bathroom to be without glass, but here glass is absolutely necessary as a splash guard.
At least there’s enough room in the center of the room to dance…
All this comes from the fact that the bathroom as an intimate area has four doors, counting the balcony door.
- The walk-in closet and bedroom seem appropriate when viewed separately. However, I’d make the closet wider and the bedroom narrower so there is 70cm (28 inches) of space on both sides of the door in the closet to place a proper wardrobe.
By the way, how wide are the doors? Especially the ones leading into the master bathroom seem unusually narrow to me.
Overall, there are so many issues here that I find it hard to believe this came from an architect. If they told you they would build exactly like this, they either meant it ironically and were joking or they failed at their job…
The design overall gives me the impression of “appearance over substance.” It doesn’t come across as well thought-out to me.
Ground floor:
- How wide is the door to the guest WC? The space will be quite tight; I would plan it larger. If that’s not possible, at least make the door open outwards.
- What is the purpose of the garden WC? It won’t be used for half the year and maybe only in good weather the rest of the time.
- This also causes the workshop to become more of a passageway. A workshop of 6m (20 feet) with two entrances is definitely not practical. You can’t really store anything either, unless you want to avoid using one of the two doors.
- The garage width of 5.10m (16 feet 9 inches) has already been mentioned. Our carport is 6m (20 feet) deep and still feels about 50cm (20 inches) too shallow to place anything at the front while comfortably walking past the car.
- What is the purpose of the 1m (3 feet 3 inches) wide storage room? After deducting space for cleaning supplies, that leaves about 95cm (37 inches). That can’t be serious, right?
- How deep are the kitchen island and dining table? Something seems off proportionally. I suspect the island isn’t deep enough to be realistic. I doubt you want an island about 3.5x~0.7m (11.5x2.3 feet). That would look odd.
- I would move the door to the utility room further down the hallway. That way you could create a door from the corridor to the main living area, making the utility room accessible from the hallway. This also acts as a sound buffer and looks better than having a door on such a prominent wall.
- The living room looks well done. Do you want a home theater or something similar? If so, I’d research speaker placements, because that will complicate the planned furniture arrangement.
- Overall, I count 7 (!!!) rooms on the ground floor totaling about 30m² (320 square feet), which means less than 5m² (54 square feet) per room on average. Two of those are tiny WCs. What is the point of that? You’re making your life (the layout) unnecessarily complicated. None of these rooms – except the pantry – will realistically be functional enough to serve their intended purpose.
Upper floor:
- With the gallery, reading nook, and hallway, roughly 30m² (320 square feet) is wasted. Then in the children’s bathroom, you immediately bump your knee on the toilet as a welcoming gift.
- Another storage room, this time 1.05m (3 feet 5 inches) wide. Same issue as on the ground floor.
- The child’s bedroom, combined with the “ante-room,” is much smaller than the stated area suggests. The door centered in the ante-room means that with the construction width of only 1.80m (5 feet 11 inches), you can’t place a proper wardrobe on either side.
Therefore, it will have to go into the main room itself.
- The bathroom as a walk-through room is the final straw. I won’t say much about it, but the layout bothers me even more:
For the WC, beyond your sauna placeholder, there’s a mere 65cm (26 inches) of raw width left (2.45m minus 1.80m for the sauna). That’s not just uncomfortable, it simply won’t work.
The 1.40m (4 feet 7 inches) for the double vanity will feel quite cramped and is located in a traffic path.
I would expect the shower in such a bathroom to be without glass, but here glass is absolutely necessary as a splash guard.
At least there’s enough room in the center of the room to dance…
All this comes from the fact that the bathroom as an intimate area has four doors, counting the balcony door.
- The walk-in closet and bedroom seem appropriate when viewed separately. However, I’d make the closet wider and the bedroom narrower so there is 70cm (28 inches) of space on both sides of the door in the closet to place a proper wardrobe.
By the way, how wide are the doors? Especially the ones leading into the master bathroom seem unusually narrow to me.
Overall, there are so many issues here that I find it hard to believe this came from an architect. If they told you they would build exactly like this, they either meant it ironically and were joking or they failed at their job…
The design overall gives me the impression of “appearance over substance.” It doesn’t come across as well thought-out to me.
matte1987 schrieb:
What’s the point of the garden toilet? It won’t be used for half the year and only maybe during good weather the rest of the time. I have only seen something like that with @schustrik so far.
matte1987 schrieb:
Overall, the design gives me the impression of "more appearance than substance." That’s why I said it was built out of personal envy.
matte1987 schrieb:
It doesn’t seem well thought out to me. Yes, but thought through in the sense of "I’m the only one in the world who can think." Well, wrong-way drivers are considerate after all.
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