Hello,
we are currently planning our dream house.
We have an appointment with an architect next week, but wanted to get your opinions on everything beforehand.
The house is oriented with the front facing northeast. The garden is at the back, facing southwest. The plot has a 21m (69 feet) frontage and about 29m (95 feet) in depth.
We want to set it up with 3m (10 feet) of free space, the house at 10.75m (35 feet), a 1m (3 feet) walkway between the house and garage, and then the garage about 6.25m (20.5 feet) wide.
Many might not understand the two larger walk-in closets upstairs since the planned children's room is smaller, but so far we haven’t found any other way to make that room bigger.
The two bathrooms (one with a shower and one with shower and bathtub) are important to us.
The biggest challenge I see right now is the staircase. Although I have looked through various stair catalogs and found one with a depth of 1.11m (3.6 feet) that would fit at the bottom, I’m not sure if everything will actually fit as planned. An alternative could be to extend the house in depth by about 50cm (20 inches).
Also, we’re still undecided about having a bay window or not. This is partly a question of the extra cost and partly because, with the bay window option, I have no idea where to put the TV.
I’m looking forward to your responses. Thanks in advance.
Best regards
we are currently planning our dream house.
We have an appointment with an architect next week, but wanted to get your opinions on everything beforehand.
The house is oriented with the front facing northeast. The garden is at the back, facing southwest. The plot has a 21m (69 feet) frontage and about 29m (95 feet) in depth.
We want to set it up with 3m (10 feet) of free space, the house at 10.75m (35 feet), a 1m (3 feet) walkway between the house and garage, and then the garage about 6.25m (20.5 feet) wide.
Many might not understand the two larger walk-in closets upstairs since the planned children's room is smaller, but so far we haven’t found any other way to make that room bigger.
The two bathrooms (one with a shower and one with shower and bathtub) are important to us.
The biggest challenge I see right now is the staircase. Although I have looked through various stair catalogs and found one with a depth of 1.11m (3.6 feet) that would fit at the bottom, I’m not sure if everything will actually fit as planned. An alternative could be to extend the house in depth by about 50cm (20 inches).
Also, we’re still undecided about having a bay window or not. This is partly a question of the extra cost and partly because, with the bay window option, I have no idea where to put the TV.
I’m looking forward to your responses. Thanks in advance.
Best regards
dbrain86 schrieb:
Many people will likely not understand why we have two large walk-in closets upstairs, especially since the planned children’s room is smaller. However, so far we haven’t found another way to enlarge this room.
The two bathrooms (one with a shower, the other with a shower and bathtub) are important to us. dbrain86 schrieb:
First of all, thank you for the many responses, even though only about 20% contained truly useful comments.
I didn’t write in the original thread without reason that people shouldn’t get upset about the walk-in closets, and that we would have liked the children’s room to be a bit larger, but so far I haven’t found any suggestions for improvement. A sensible answer: remove the entire upper floor, use a standard staircase, and redesign the upstairs. Remove one walk-in closet and plan one that can actually be furnished (not just with dressers). That way, the child who might join the family later can also see that they are wanted 😉
dbrain86 schrieb:
Well, out of 12 responses, only 2 provided constructive criticism and suggestions for improvement; the rest were just for discarding.
Of course, we don’t need a 40sqm (430 sq ft) bedroom, but currently I can’t figure out how to organize the upper floor with the rooms differently to meet our wishes (such as two bathrooms, the children’s room not next to the master bedroom, bathrooms accessible directly from the hallway, etc.). Therefore, I had hoped for discussions about improvements on how to design the staircase more efficiently, so the layout could be better.
In our family planning, no children are expected in the next 5-6 years, and at most one after that. If, for whatever reason, there were to be two children in the future, the larger walk-in closet could still be repurposed. Have you ever considered that the upper floor might be the place for discarding ideas, and that there simply are no improvements but only misguided attempts?
We are just tactful and try to hint at this by questioning some things. Because you must have had some ideas in mind, but we don’t know what. So you expect us to come up with a new design instead of simply deleting it and starting over?!
You have received enough feedback — you just can’t see it through all the walls and the maze 😱 😎