ᐅ Floor Plan Proposals – What Works and What Doesn’t?

Created on: 11 May 2017 20:04

Hello everyone...

After our first floor plan attempt failed completely, we worked with the architect to develop two more ground floor versions and one for the upper floor. I would like to know which ones you find good or bad, and what you generally like or dislike about the floor plans?! Also, the pantry door is drawn a bit oddly; it won’t actually look like that...

Development plan/restrictions
Plot size approximately 480 square meters (5167 square feet)
Slope: No
Floor area ratio: No
Building coverage ratio: No
Building envelope, building line and boundary: 19 meters (62 feet)
Edge development: No
Number of parking spaces:
Number of floors: 1.5
Roof shape: gable roof
Architectural style: modern
Orientation: terrace to the west, bay window to the south
Maximum heights/limits:
Additional specifications:

Homeowners’ requirements
Style, roof shape, building type:
Basement, floors: no basement
Number of occupants, ages: 2
Space requirements on ground floor and upper floor
Office: family use or home office?
Occasional guests per year: family occasionally
Open or closed layout: open
Conservative or modern building method:
Open kitchen, kitchen island: open kitchen
Number of dining seats:
Fireplace: no
Music/sound wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace:
Garage, carport:
Utility garden, greenhouse:
Other wishes/special features/daily routine, including reasons why certain things should or should not be included

House design
Who created the plan:
- Planner from a construction company
- Architect: yes
- Do-it-yourself
What do you particularly like and why?
What do you not like and why?
Price estimate according to architect/planner:
Personal price limit for the house, including fittings:
Preferred heating system:
Heat pump
If you have to give up something, which details or extensions:
- can you do without
- cannot do without:
Open kitchen, guest room, window in every room

Attic plan: hallway, bathroom, bedroom, two children’s rooms, storage room, stairs

Floor plan of an apartment: living/dining room, kitchen, guest room, hallway, toilet, utility room, wardrobe, pantry.

j.bautsch19 May 2017 07:58

#115

I find a coat rack at the opposite end of the house somewhat pointless.

Ev-Marie8619 May 2017 07:59

#116

It should also be possible under the stairs, right?

j.bautsch19 May 2017 08:00

#117

Well, I always prefer stairs that start after the cloakroom rather than before it. This way, you don’t carry as much dirt up the stairs and don’t have to walk in socks through melted snow and grit.

Climbee19 May 2017 08:08

#118

Ev-Marie86 schrieb:
A dressing room is not for me... everything just gathers dust there.. I have a three-meter (10-foot) wardrobe and that’s enough for me... I know everyone wants a dressing room... but I can easily do without it..

Replace "dressing room" with "wardrobe room." Of course, you shouldn’t do without wardrobes; no reasonable person hangs their clothes out in the open in the bedroom. The idea behind a wardrobe room is that you don’t disturb each other when getting up at different times in the morning (which is why wardrobe rooms accessed only through the bedroom somewhat miss the point). You make the bedroom smaller and instead have a small separate room with wardrobes. It’s a small luxury, nice if you can afford it both financially and space-wise, but it’s obviously also perfectly fine without one. Then the bedroom is larger and you just place the wardrobes there.

To avoid disturbing your partner who can sleep longer, you take out your clothes for the next day the evening before and leave them in the hallway or bathroom. With a well-designed wardrobe room, you can skip that step. You quietly slip into that room, close the bedroom door, your partner can continue sleeping peacefully, and you can calmly pick your clothes for the day.

As I said, a nice scenario, but it doesn’t work that way if the only access to the wardrobe room is through the bedroom.

Personally, I find a bedroom without huge built-in wardrobes also visually more appealing; a large wardrobe unit doesn’t necessarily make a room feel cozier. Sure, it works, but it’s not really attractive.

j.bautsch19 May 2017 08:14

#119

Personally, I wouldn’t want my wardrobes to be open either, but in a walk-in closet you can install wardrobes with doors just like in the bedroom. As Climbee mentioned, it’s also about not disturbing your partner if you have different wake-up times. I lay out my clothes for the next day in the evening, but since I’m very weather-dependent, sometimes I need something else from the wardrobe in the morning (or I forgot something). So I quietly sneak into the room (our door creaks terribly) and try to find the right thing in my wardrobe without turning on the light. If you don’t want to do that, you have to design the walk-in closet properly: with access from the hallway into the closet and from there into the bedroom, not the other way around, or even better, with no pass-through room at all, so both rooms have their own access from the hallway. Anything else doesn’t make sense, in my opinion.

Basti270919 May 2017 08:35

#120

But you usually know in advance whether you will have to get up frequently at night while your partner is sleeping... or whether the times more or less fit... in my circle of acquaintances, maybe 5% of people experience this... so I have always found the argument about sneaking out and not waking your partner quite overrated... especially since the alarm clock ringing should be the most disturbing thing anyway...

ᐅ Floor Plan Proposals – What Works and What Doesn’t?

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