ᐅ Ideas for Improving the Floor Plan?

Draw all the furniture you have or want to include to scale, including the building services with all required clearances. Make sure to allow enough maneuvering space around the table and the freezer.

I would reduce the size of the courtyard. The area is costly.

What do you want to store in the storage room on the upper floor? Could you perhaps use the attic for items you rarely need? That way, you could use the storage room as an office and have more space downstairs. Then swap the living room and kitchen, and use the office as a pantry. This would also free up space on the lower right side for a guest toilet, which I would always plan near the entrance—especially useful with kids who might want to quickly use the toilet from outside without taking off their shoes.

Melanie23 schrieb:

What do you all think about the rest of the floor plan?

Melanie23 schrieb:

How would you arrange everything? It’s quite difficult.

It’s difficult without useful information from you.
Regarding the utility room: with three children, I wouldn’t want to do laundry in a stacked washer and dryer without any space for folding or drying easy-care clothes. I don’t even do that for our two-person household. There’s also a pinned post about what utility rooms are usually used for.
Maybe you could create a utility room upstairs? I find the pantry too large compared to the actual space needed. The guest toilet is well located, even if many guests sleep in the office.
The fireplace restricts the space: the living room is only about 15m² (160ft²), so watching TV won’t work with the planned furniture layout.
I find the kitchen island too large. The kitchen hardly feels like a separate room.
From what you show of the rest, I would rotate the garage toward the house entrance – but you can’t see everything, so much has to be guessed.

Hello,

why does the kitchen not really feel like a separate room? Everything is open. The pantry is sized so that I can store everything there—kitchen appliances, etc.—because I don’t want to have them cluttering the kitchen. I would like to use the storage room upstairs with a large cupboard to store bathroom items, children’s things, and whatever else comes up.

Living room, dining area, and kitchen are all open plan. I think 15 square meters (160 square feet) is common for the living area... it will just have a sofa, a table, and a TV.

Unfortunately, the house costs are already high enough, so we won’t be able to make it bigger. Also, once the children have moved out, what would you do with a huge house?

On top of that, the building plot restrictions don’t allow for a larger city villa. How did you build your houses?

@Melanie23, why don’t you fill out the questionnaire?

It’s not about the square meters, but how and why.

Here, there were floor plans of 200 sqm (2,150 sq ft) for 3 people that had artificial bottlenecks and made every Flair113 look like a spacious palace.

Write down your exact room requirements. Not just bedroom, kitchen, bathroom,
but
bedroom bed dimensions 210 x 220 cm (83 x 87 inches)
At least x centimeters between wall and frame
Minimum 400 cm (13 ft) wardrobe
and so on.
Then take your floor plan and draw the furniture to scale.
For tables, make sure there is at least 80 cm (31 inches) between the table edge and the wall/cabinet.
Direct walking paths and clear sight lines feel more spacious than a zigzag layout.