ᐅ Floor plan – requesting feedback and suggestions for improvement
Created on: 27 Aug 2014 19:29
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Möter
Hello,
I am planning to build a two-family house without a basement. The plot size is 560 sqm (approximately 6000 sq ft).
I have planned a hipped roof (pyramid roof) with a 22° pitch. All roof styles are permitted.
My mother will live on the ground floor, and my two children, my wife, and I will live on the upper floor.
Thank you in advance.
Thomas
I am planning to build a two-family house without a basement. The plot size is 560 sqm (approximately 6000 sq ft).
I have planned a hipped roof (pyramid roof) with a 22° pitch. All roof styles are permitted.
My mother will live on the ground floor, and my two children, my wife, and I will live on the upper floor.
Thank you in advance.
Thomas
Smaller doesn’t always mean less space. With smart furnishing, it can actually create more usable space. For example, the extra space gained in the hallway could be used for a storage room. You only lose space if you can’t effectively use the area in a large room.
Your children are still quite young. The storage options for a two-family house seem very limited to me. Do you still have a garage? Where will the bikes, balance bikes, balls, stroller, etc., be stored?
In the storage room on the ground floor, about 3m2 (32 sq ft) are unusable due to the two doors. I would definitely position the door in the center so that at least one side of the room can be used along its entire length.
The balcony, at 1.5m (5 feet) wide, is hardly usable—probably not even wide enough for breakfast. I would consider widening the balcony to about 3m (10 feet) and adding support. This would be a great improvement for comfort—but of course, that’s not my call.
Your children are still quite young. The storage options for a two-family house seem very limited to me. Do you still have a garage? Where will the bikes, balance bikes, balls, stroller, etc., be stored?
In the storage room on the ground floor, about 3m2 (32 sq ft) are unusable due to the two doors. I would definitely position the door in the center so that at least one side of the room can be used along its entire length.
The balcony, at 1.5m (5 feet) wide, is hardly usable—probably not even wide enough for breakfast. I would consider widening the balcony to about 3m (10 feet) and adding support. This would be a great improvement for comfort—but of course, that’s not my call.
Möter schrieb:
I’m very reluctant to give that up because of the kids and visitors
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I can’t quite follow you Of course, if you take every sentence on its own, I can’t follow myself either 😉
Just try reading it as a whole and then step outside your usual framework.
The design in a grid layout looks neat, but it has too many drawbacks in the living area.
Also, the children’s bedrooms should be located on one side. In doing so, opposing noise sources (parents/children) as well as cardinal directions (light) need to be considered. I don’t understand the bathroom’s location (west?) at all.
A square floor plan creates a large central hallway, and by placing the rooms side by side, you will have difficulties maximizing the living quality from the available floor space.
Try dividing zones, use closet niches/built-in wardrobes, and leave out the T-shaped bathroom layout – also upstairs 🙂 Pure waste of space!
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Wanderdüne28 Aug 2014 09:24Möter schrieb:
Unfortunately, I have to make sure that the house remains affordable for me Who doesn't feel that way?
Möter schrieb:
and that's why I have to accept many compromises. Cost/benefit No, your space plan can be more efficient = more cost-effective and with significantly better living quality. Wasting space and money on one hand while complaining about compromises on the other doesn’t add up.
WD
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