ᐅ Single-family house floor plan, approximately 200 sqm without a basement – assessment

Yes, in my opinion, it’s not quite that simple to say.
Your floor plan wouldn’t work for us. You have to imagine that one side of the house with the garage plus a narrow workshop area is about 8m (26 feet) long, and most of the north side of the house is covered.
The staircase needs to be designed so that the upper floor can later be separated from the ground floor, or so that you can access the upper floor directly without having to go through the ground floor.
The kitchen and living room should be on the south side. The entrance must be on the west or at that corner.

I don’t find these requirements “standard.”
Let’s assume I (or the architect) position the staircase in the middle of the house and the entrance in the center of the west side. Then the kitchen would be on the right (meaning the south side).
Above that would be the living room, possibly extended a bit around the corner.

To the left of the front door could be the bathroom and utility room, and in the northeast corner a guest room. Or those last three rooms could be positioned differently on the left half of the house. Either way, whether I start downstairs or finish upstairs, one of the rooms will probably not be able to have a window.
A central hallway from which I can access every individual room is also important to me.

If someone could sketch an idea for me, I would really appreciate it.

Regards,
Mathias

Hmm... you haven’t mentioned the possibility of separating later on so far.

I sketched something out.

I always find the kitchen nice on the east side, as the morning sun makes the start of the day more pleasant.

I’m still not completely convinced about the gable solution for the children’s rooms. A professional architect will surely come up with better ideas to get larger windows on the south side in the kids’ rooms.

Now the building services and the cloakroom storage are separated.

Staircase as a spacious landing staircase. And… just have a look… this is really just to provide ideas, since anything that gets very technical in terms of construction is surely still quite incomplete. Whether this balcony on the extension is feasible has already been doubted earlier.

Hello,

Thank you very much for your draft and ideas. I really appreciate it. As it stands now, the utility room and the separate cloakroom have basically been moved out of the house into the "garage and basement replacement area." Of course, this creates more space inside the house, but naturally there is less space in that area.

Also, only one person or at most two people can use the airlock to hang up jackets at the same time. Additionally, there is no possibility to ventilate. A window would be possible, but then there would be less closet space. Everything has its pros and cons.

What is important to us, however, is a separate kitchen with a small seating area and a living room combined with a dining area. The kitchen should be on the west side because from there you can look out onto the street.

Put another way, the living room would then be about 4-5 meters (13-16 feet) from the street, so anyone could just join in. That’s why I have always liked the kitchen as a sort of "buffer zone."

Also, a straight staircase was part of our requirements. I hadn’t mentioned that it needs to be by the entrance—sorry for that, I thought it was included in the spatial concepts.

The upper floor has some ideas I will take up. I will also consider having fewer rather than more walls in the garage area; this will make it larger but potentially more cluttered. The left 3 meters (10 feet) next to the garage might have to go anyway, since the space to the south is needed for the garden. So that area is still undecided.

Thanks again, kbt09!!!

You should ensure that storage space is created wherever it is needed.

Unfortunately, your long straight staircase doesn’t feel spacious (and it also seems too short to me, with the bathroom located right above the first three steps—I don’t think that will work well)... plus, it is located in the house’s entrance area. Now, the staircase becomes the focal point and central hub.

The problem with dividing an approximately 6.5 x 6.5 m (21 x 21 ft) room into living and dining areas lies in the square shape. A generous dining area should be at least 300 cm (10 ft), preferably 350 cm (11.5 ft). That only leaves about 300 cm (10 ft) for the living area.

I personally like morning sunlight from the east in the kitchen for coffee and direct access to the terrace—specifically to the area where people will sit outside. My living/dining/kitchen layout can generally be mirrored, and the wall can be moved. Unfortunately, that makes the kitchen entrance tight again.

I wouldn’t overestimate the use of the airlock (mudroom) area. That’s why I enlarged the standard cloakroom and placed it outside the main living areas. That way, when coming down from above, you don’t have to pass through the “dirty zone” of the entrance.

Overall, my entire plan is already 125 cm (5 inches) narrower than the original version since I simply removed the bay window.

A bay window is a point that could possibly be eliminated, that’s correct.

I also think/know that this exact square living/dining room is a problem.
How can you cleverly arrange it around a corner without neglecting the other requirements?

On the south side, I have a maximum of 12m (39 feet), so I need to fit the kitchen, dining, and living areas somehow, or extend one slightly around a corner.

You mean the 12 m (39 feet) depth?

The problem is, you can’t just move a room without it affecting many other aspects.

I think someone really needs to sit down with the floor plan again and start from scratch.

You should also seriously reconsider things like whether, in a house this large, the staircase really needs to begin just 80 cm (31 inches) next to the main entrance door. And whether all the rooms need to have that many corners, etc.