ᐅ Floor Plan Optimization – Need Help

Steve123 schrieb:
Where should the staircase be located so that it works?

So that rooms on the left and right fit well, rather than being narrow, difficult-to-furnish corridors.
An architect knows the rules.

Maybe someone has a suitable floor plan available.

As mentioned, we would like a straight concrete staircase. The house dimensions should be about 9.35 meters (31 feet) wide and 10.35 meters (34 feet) long. Otherwise, because of the north-facing orientation, we would like to capture some sunlight from the south side through the kitchen. We don’t need an office or guest room on the ground floor or first floor.

Just a quick hand-drawn sketch to roughly show the idea 😊
But you can probably see quite well that the floor plan could be organized much more clearly and calmly:
- Staircase accessed directly from the living area
- Better use of southern sunlight in the house
- Fewer narrow, corridor-like rooms
- Overall better proportions and furniture layout

If planned carefully in detail, it might even be possible to include a walk-in closet and perhaps a second children’s bathroom on the upper floor.

Best regards,

NAVIE schrieb:
Just quickly sketched by hand to roughly show the idea 😊

But I think you can see quite well that the floor plan could be organized much more clearly and calmly:

- Staircase accessed directly from the living area
- Better use of southern sunlight in the house
- Fewer narrow, corridor-like rooms
- Overall better proportions and furniture layout

If planned thoroughly in detail, it might even be possible to include a walk-in closet and perhaps a second kids’ bathroom on the upper floor.

Best regards,

Thanks, that’s already a useful idea.

What do you think about this floor plan otherwise? Or could the ground floor become too dark due to the north-facing orientation?

To be honest, I see several major issues here that might not be obvious at first glance:

1. How does the load-bearing structure actually work here? Many walls seem to be placed arbitrarily. It looks more like furniture arrangement than realistically planned architecture.
2. The kitchen is extremely small for the size of the house. The passage to the pantry already removes an important tall cabinet, and the island is more decorative than a functional work island.
3. What exactly is this cabinet unit in the middle of the living room?
4. I don’t understand the use of the bottom left area at all. Office? Cloakroom?
5. With a normal ceiling height, the staircase is missing several steps.
6. Having the bathroom entrance directly in the dirty area is also problematic.
7. What surprises me the most is the complete disregard for the south orientation. The living area hardly receives any southern sunlight, although this is usually where the highest quality of stay should be.
8. The upper floor is basically okay, but even there you can tell the focus was more on the visual presentation than on real usability:
   - Closet room with little practical wardrobe space
   - Bed without room for proper bedside tables
   - Access on both sides of the bed → resulting in a lack of protected feeling in the sleeping area

Found north. Please mark the building structure (GS) on the aerial image.