ᐅ Floor plan of a single-family house with three children's bedrooms and a double garage
Created on: 7 Jul 2023 11:37
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Kenche2024
Hello everyone,
My wife and I want to build a single-family house in a new residential development. We have received the first draft from our designer and would like to gather suggestions and improvement ideas.
Our basic requirements:
- An extra room on the ground floor as an office / guest room
- Shower bathroom on the ground floor
- 3 children’s bedrooms on the upper floor
- Double garage
What we don’t like about the current design:
- Secondary entrance is outside the garage
- Living area is too small
- Entrance area is a bit tight, with a small coat closet
- Layout on the upper floor
-> Master bedroom is very large (we actually don’t need a walk-in closet)
-> 1 children’s room is large, the other 2 are quite small (ideally all around 15sqm (160 sq ft))
Maybe some of you have optimization suggestions. We have thought about converting the attic and creating a kind of studio for ourselves or preparing it for future expansion. We currently have 2 children (2 1/2 years and one on the way). Although 3 children are planned, you never know... So currently, we only need 3 rooms on the upper floor, which could all be made larger, and we might even have space for a storage room or a children’s bathroom. Of course, this would involve significantly higher costs. What do you think?
Thanks for your help and best regards
Kenche2024
My wife and I want to build a single-family house in a new residential development. We have received the first draft from our designer and would like to gather suggestions and improvement ideas.
Our basic requirements:
- An extra room on the ground floor as an office / guest room
- Shower bathroom on the ground floor
- 3 children’s bedrooms on the upper floor
- Double garage
What we don’t like about the current design:
- Secondary entrance is outside the garage
- Living area is too small
- Entrance area is a bit tight, with a small coat closet
- Layout on the upper floor
-> Master bedroom is very large (we actually don’t need a walk-in closet)
-> 1 children’s room is large, the other 2 are quite small (ideally all around 15sqm (160 sq ft))
Maybe some of you have optimization suggestions. We have thought about converting the attic and creating a kind of studio for ourselves or preparing it for future expansion. We currently have 2 children (2 1/2 years and one on the way). Although 3 children are planned, you never know... So currently, we only need 3 rooms on the upper floor, which could all be made larger, and we might even have space for a storage room or a children’s bathroom. Of course, this would involve significantly higher costs. What do you think?
Thanks for your help and best regards
Kenche2024
11ant schrieb:
It's not the staircase, but the shed roof that is out of place here.I'm talking about the gable roof house anyway!
ypg schrieb:
I am talking about a gable roof house anyway!In that case, the staircase would be near the entrance, which makes sense. A gable roof would probably suit a townhouse, while the floor plans here fit almost stereotypically with the style of a substituted villa ;-)https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
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11ant schrieb:
In this case, the staircase would be located near the entrance, which would not be illogical. A gable roof would probably suit a townhouse well, while the floor plans here are almost stereotypical for this type of substitute villa ;-)Mien Jung:I will relocate the main entrance and the staircase. What remains of the original floor plan is almost nothing. Perhaps just the office at the bottom right of the plan.
And yet you come back with your substitute villa... Your replies keep spinning in circles without being constructive.
ypg schrieb:
I am relocating the main entrance and the staircase. What remains from the original floor plan is practically nothing. Maybe the office in the lower right corner. That roughly matches my expectation of the low similarity between an improved design and the original submission.
ypg schrieb:
And you come again with your “replacement villa”… You keep spinning pirouettes in your replies without being constructive. This accusation is blatantly false: in my last post (#16), I provided a detailed diagnosis including easily implementable recommendations, as well as a very simple, precise individual measure in post #24.
#1 Importing a floor plan template will inevitably fail if the template represents a different “family status”;
#2 Draftsmen are trained to distill working construction plans from positively tested, functional designs,
but not to develop new designs or modifications;
#3 the indentation of the ground floor causes the unfortunate effect of unnecessary compression of the living area and also
#4 is an excessive measure against morning sun shading.
And what is true must remain true: the current design uses floor plans from the category of “replacement villa of the most standard kind,” whereas a gable roof for a city villa without quotation marks would be fitting, but for a “city villa” aka replacement villa it is almost a cheeky variation.
So, I summarize the measures:
#A only work with a room program and wish list, but explicitly without a template
#B hire an independent architect instead of a general contractor with an all-inclusive planner
#C don’t be surprised if the architect develops the more complex floor first
These are simple measures—but by no means a reason for the claim that I gave no advice and limited myself to mocking the “quotation mark city villa” :-(
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If the original poster (OP) is really willing to spend 600K on the house, I’m a bit surprised by the rather modest design. I’m not exactly sure if we’re still around $300 per square meter, but with that budget, I would expect something close to 200 square meters (about 2150 square feet). I don’t see that here.
I’ll just give an example with an attic conversion and a knee wall height of 1 meter (3.3 feet) and a total height of around 10.60 meters (34.8 feet). Roughly estimated, that’s just over 200 square meters (about 2150 square feet).
I would also add a patio door from the utility room to the garden. I quickly forgot to include that.
I can’t really judge whether the support next to the kitchen island is absolutely necessary. Obviously, it would look better without it.
The children's rooms are around 18 to 19 square meters (about 195 to 205 square feet). If that’s too large for the kids, smaller bedrooms could be planned, and the guest room could be moved upstairs:
At least the OP can consider whether this might be too much house for them. 🙂
I’ll just give an example with an attic conversion and a knee wall height of 1 meter (3.3 feet) and a total height of around 10.60 meters (34.8 feet). Roughly estimated, that’s just over 200 square meters (about 2150 square feet).
I would also add a patio door from the utility room to the garden. I quickly forgot to include that.
I can’t really judge whether the support next to the kitchen island is absolutely necessary. Obviously, it would look better without it.
The children's rooms are around 18 to 19 square meters (about 195 to 205 square feet). If that’s too large for the kids, smaller bedrooms could be planned, and the guest room could be moved upstairs:
At least the OP can consider whether this might be too much house for them. 🙂
K a t j a schrieb:
I’ll just provide an example with an attic conversion You’re basically considering a two-story house plus an attic conversion—okay. That’s also interesting, given that with a 470 m² (5,057 sq ft) plot you’d still want some garden space.
I would have chosen a slightly steeper roof and set the knee wall height at about 160 cm (63 inches). That way, you get suitable room layouts across three levels. In the attic conversion, you’d then have only bedrooms and storage, and on the upper floor a guest room plus three children’s rooms.
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