ᐅ Floor Plan Design for a Single-Family Home of Approximately 150 m²
Created on: 12 Feb 2018 18:09
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chrisw81
Hello,
After a long search, we signed the notarized contract for the land purchase at the end of December. We are now actively planning the floor plan. Unfortunately, the plot is somewhat awkwardly shaped (not rectangular), which creates some limitations for the layout from our perspective. We already have a first draft, but there are several areas we don’t like and are unsure how to improve. Maybe you have some ideas; we would appreciate your input.
Development Plan / Restrictions
Plot size: 601 m² (6465 sq ft)
Building envelope, building line, boundary: Building line with the house on the west side
Peripheral setbacks: 7 m (23 ft) from the street (north), otherwise the usual 3 m (10 ft)
Number of parking spaces: 2 desired
Number of floors: 1 full story allowed
Roof style: Gable roof
Design style: open construction method
Orientation: South
Maximum heights / limits: Ridge height max. 8.5 m (28 ft)
Additional requirements: Max. 100 m² (1076 sq ft) of built-up area
Client Requirements
Style, roof form, building type: Solid construction house, rectangular, no bay windows, no projections, etc., gable roof
Basement, floors: no basement; 1.5 stories
Number and age of residents: 2 people, age between 30 and 40, possibly children later
Space needs on ground floor and upper floor: Ground floor – living/dining room, kitchen, guest toilet, utility room, office
Office: family use or home office?: family use
Guest stays per year: 20 days
Open or closed architecture: open living area, closed hallway
Conservative or modern style: conservative
Open kitchen, kitchen island: open kitchen, island without cooktop
Number of dining seats: 2-4
Fireplace: yes, chimney planned
Music/stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: carport
Utility garden, greenhouse: no
Further wishes, special features, daily routine, and reasons for preferences:
- A wardrobe area on the ground floor is important where coats can be stored relatively out of sight.
- On the upper floor, it would be nice to have an open gallery with a desk or similar (not a must and not necessarily next to the stairs).
- A walk-in closet would be nice but not essential.
- A storage room on the upper floor is very important since we do not have a basement.
House Design
Who created the design:
- Basic design by the construction company (FIBAV Stadthaus Vision Studio)
- DIY modifications based on online floor plans (especially Viebrockhaus Maxime 330)
What do you particularly like? Why?:
- Layout of the living/dining area and the narrowing kitchen reduces the hallway effect a bit
- Many windows in the living/dining area
- Wide hallway on the ground floor
What do you dislike? Why?:
- Few options to place furniture (dresser, wardrobe) in the ground floor hallway due to many doors
- Very large hallway upstairs, considered wasted space
- Bedroom is quite small; should be the largest room upstairs (preferably 16 m² (172 sq ft), children’s rooms rather 14 m² (151 sq ft))
- Stair placement limited by chimney location
- Door placement upstairs limited by chimney
- A staircase rotated 90 degrees (entrance next to front door) would appeal more
- Difficult to align windows upstairs and downstairs on the gable end vertically
- Floor-to-ceiling windows upstairs; wider windows with a sill height around 100 cm (40 inches) would be preferred
Price estimate by architect/planner: 200,000 €
Personal price limit for the house including equipment: 210,000 €
Preferred heating technology: gas heating
What details or expansions could you give up?
- Can do without: gallery next to stairs upstairs. Living area could also be narrower (e.g., 4.20 m (14 ft) instead of 4.47 m (15 ft))
- Cannot do without: storage room upstairs, shower in guest toilet, extra natural light in the ground floor hallway (e.g., side panel on front door or window)
Why was the design made this way? For example, standard plan from planner?
- Since the house has very little space on the south side, the house should be very narrow in order not to waste more space to the south. It should be wider so that living, dining, and kitchen areas face south as much as possible.
Were corresponding wishes from the architect implemented? No architect meeting has taken place yet.
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan summarized in 130 characters?
How can the ground floor hallway be better designed to fit a wardrobe? Can the stairs be positioned better or replaced? Should the hallway be enlarged and living space reduced? How can the upstairs hallway be better utilized? Can the bedroom be enlarged? Is it possible to swap the bedroom with another room, e.g., move it to the southeast to allow a walk-in closet?
Thank you very much in advance for your criticism and suggestions!
After a long search, we signed the notarized contract for the land purchase at the end of December. We are now actively planning the floor plan. Unfortunately, the plot is somewhat awkwardly shaped (not rectangular), which creates some limitations for the layout from our perspective. We already have a first draft, but there are several areas we don’t like and are unsure how to improve. Maybe you have some ideas; we would appreciate your input.
Development Plan / Restrictions
Plot size: 601 m² (6465 sq ft)
Building envelope, building line, boundary: Building line with the house on the west side
Peripheral setbacks: 7 m (23 ft) from the street (north), otherwise the usual 3 m (10 ft)
Number of parking spaces: 2 desired
Number of floors: 1 full story allowed
Roof style: Gable roof
Design style: open construction method
Orientation: South
Maximum heights / limits: Ridge height max. 8.5 m (28 ft)
Additional requirements: Max. 100 m² (1076 sq ft) of built-up area
Client Requirements
Style, roof form, building type: Solid construction house, rectangular, no bay windows, no projections, etc., gable roof
Basement, floors: no basement; 1.5 stories
Number and age of residents: 2 people, age between 30 and 40, possibly children later
Space needs on ground floor and upper floor: Ground floor – living/dining room, kitchen, guest toilet, utility room, office
Office: family use or home office?: family use
Guest stays per year: 20 days
Open or closed architecture: open living area, closed hallway
Conservative or modern style: conservative
Open kitchen, kitchen island: open kitchen, island without cooktop
Number of dining seats: 2-4
Fireplace: yes, chimney planned
Music/stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: carport
Utility garden, greenhouse: no
Further wishes, special features, daily routine, and reasons for preferences:
- A wardrobe area on the ground floor is important where coats can be stored relatively out of sight.
- On the upper floor, it would be nice to have an open gallery with a desk or similar (not a must and not necessarily next to the stairs).
- A walk-in closet would be nice but not essential.
- A storage room on the upper floor is very important since we do not have a basement.
House Design
Who created the design:
- Basic design by the construction company (FIBAV Stadthaus Vision Studio)
- DIY modifications based on online floor plans (especially Viebrockhaus Maxime 330)
What do you particularly like? Why?:
- Layout of the living/dining area and the narrowing kitchen reduces the hallway effect a bit
- Many windows in the living/dining area
- Wide hallway on the ground floor
What do you dislike? Why?:
- Few options to place furniture (dresser, wardrobe) in the ground floor hallway due to many doors
- Very large hallway upstairs, considered wasted space
- Bedroom is quite small; should be the largest room upstairs (preferably 16 m² (172 sq ft), children’s rooms rather 14 m² (151 sq ft))
- Stair placement limited by chimney location
- Door placement upstairs limited by chimney
- A staircase rotated 90 degrees (entrance next to front door) would appeal more
- Difficult to align windows upstairs and downstairs on the gable end vertically
- Floor-to-ceiling windows upstairs; wider windows with a sill height around 100 cm (40 inches) would be preferred
Price estimate by architect/planner: 200,000 €
Personal price limit for the house including equipment: 210,000 €
Preferred heating technology: gas heating
What details or expansions could you give up?
- Can do without: gallery next to stairs upstairs. Living area could also be narrower (e.g., 4.20 m (14 ft) instead of 4.47 m (15 ft))
- Cannot do without: storage room upstairs, shower in guest toilet, extra natural light in the ground floor hallway (e.g., side panel on front door or window)
Why was the design made this way? For example, standard plan from planner?
- Since the house has very little space on the south side, the house should be very narrow in order not to waste more space to the south. It should be wider so that living, dining, and kitchen areas face south as much as possible.
Were corresponding wishes from the architect implemented? No architect meeting has taken place yet.
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan summarized in 130 characters?
How can the ground floor hallway be better designed to fit a wardrobe? Can the stairs be positioned better or replaced? Should the hallway be enlarged and living space reduced? How can the upstairs hallway be better utilized? Can the bedroom be enlarged? Is it possible to swap the bedroom with another room, e.g., move it to the southeast to allow a walk-in closet?
Thank you very much in advance for your criticism and suggestions!
haydee schrieb:
200,000 sounds very ambitious, 210,000 including additional construction costs won’t work. Just under 200,000 is the price according to our house contract, of course there will still be additional costs for better plastering, possibly electrical work, flooring/painting, etc.
That’s right, 210,000 is not accurate, the 10,000 are the connection fees. Additional construction costs will be around 20,000.
haydee schrieb:
Please mark your existing or desired furniture layout. I will do that.
haydee schrieb:
Toilet is too narrow.
No cloakroom. Especially with children, just two hooks won’t be enough. Hmm, I read somewhere that 1.20m (4 feet) should be okay. Maybe the bathroom can also be designed more square.
Yes, a cloakroom is really missing. I would have placed it either in one corner of the hallway or under the stairs, there is space there as well.
haydee schrieb:
Is the storage room intended as a utility room?
The technical room is small for building services, storage, and laundry. The storage room is meant purely as a technical room (heating, electrical), plus a washing machine. Probably no storage for supplies. I would not make it larger. In many floorplans, it is about the same size.
11ant schrieb:
I won’t get into detailed questions — there is one major issue I see: I notice a lot of similarities between the Fibav Stadthaus Vision Studio and the Viebrockhaus Maxime 330, but almost no overlap between those designs and your preferences.
Many rooms you would like placed differently and/or with a different layout, the staircase oriented differently, and so on. Strictly speaking, the shallow building depth seems to be the only common ground between these base designs and your wishes.
It seems you didn’t really attempt your own floor plan designs and simply searched for standard plans with less than 9 meters (30 feet) building depth. That’s true, we liked the shallow building depth and that the kitchen and living/dining area face south.
I have tried to redesign the floor plan, but I always ran into problems with the building depth or the chimney (which needs to be near the roof ridge but not exact).
Increasing the building depth (with a narrower house width) causes issues as well, since that often results in an L-shaped kitchen/living area because the width then isn’t sufficient for a straight-line (I-shaped) arrangement.
The only ideas I have left are:
- A narrower house width and a greater building depth, but still enough space for an I-shaped layout. However, there is very little room to maneuver and still fit all the furniture in the living area.
- Reduce the living area depth from 4.47 meters (14 feet 8 inches) to about 4.10 or 4.20 meters (13 feet 5 inches or 13 feet 9 inches), using the freed-up space for a hallway closet or similar.
11ant schrieb:
Can the "shed I" remain and serve as a substitute basement/storage room? The shed is actually going to stay, and it could also be used to store various supplies (stuff that is not accessed often), but mainly it will hold garden tools.
11ant schrieb:
Is the marked outline on the plot meant to represent the planned house, or a demolished predecessor building? The outline is intended to show the planned house, roughly drawn to the current planned dimensions.
RobsonMKK schrieb:
I can’t see where you are building in Tapatalk, but isn’t that a two-story house? In terms of calculations, it might be difficult to meet the required single-story limit with that knee wall height. A few weeks ago, I visited the building authority, and I was only told that the house must align with the neighboring houses in terms of height, building line, etc. It must have a pitched roof with about a 30-40° slope and must not exceed a ridge height of 8.50 m (28 feet). That already limits the knee wall height. I also asked specifically about the knee wall, but no restrictions were mentioned.
And why not simply move the chimney 40cm (16 inches) to the left as planned? The solution is practically handed to you on a silver platter! [emoji848]
And opposite the staircase, you can install a wonderful built-in closet, of course next to the chimney [emoji6]
Edit: Swap room 1 with the bedroom...
Edit 2: For the windows on the front facade, break away from symmetry a bit to add some dynamic to the exterior design: the interior will also benefit from this [emoji2]
And opposite the staircase, you can install a wonderful built-in closet, of course next to the chimney [emoji6]
Edit: Swap room 1 with the bedroom...
Edit 2: For the windows on the front facade, break away from symmetry a bit to add some dynamic to the exterior design: the interior will also benefit from this [emoji2]
ypg schrieb:
And why not simply shift the chimney 40cm (16 inches) to the left as planned? The solution is right there on a silver platter! [emoji848]
And opposite the stairs, you could install a great built-in closet, of course next to the chimney [emoji6] I’m not quite sure what benefit that would bring to the hallway?
There is currently only about 1 meter (39 inches) of space opposite the stairs, so the interior wall would need to be moved quite far south, right?
Also, a built-in closet doesn’t offer much as a coat storage—it usually requires at least about 80cm by 80cm (31 inches by 31 inches) to function as a wardrobe.
And if the chimney is shifted to the left, wouldn’t it end up in the hallway on the upper floor?
ypg schrieb:
Edit: swap Room 1 with the bedroom... Yes, I already considered that idea; maybe you could even take some space from the storage room to gain more room. Of course, then the kids’ room would be in the north, but maybe that’s not too bad.
ypg schrieb:
Edit 2: for the windows on the gable end, depart from strict symmetry a bit and add some dynamism to the facade: the interior design will thank you for it [emoji2] Shouldn’t the windows be aligned one above the other on the ground floor and upper floor?
I actually arranged the windows based on the interior design, but there’s probably still some flexibility. Maybe the windows don’t have to be equally spaced from the exterior walls...
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