ᐅ Floor Plan – Design of a Single-Family Home with Two Full Stories – Urban Villa
Created on: 12 Nov 2020 06:19
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Development Plan / Restrictions
Plot size: 550m² (0.14 acres)
Slope: approximately 1 meter (3.3 feet) incline from the street to the back of the property
Floor area ratio: Garage on boundary line, terrace 2.5m (8 feet) from neighbor - otherwise unrestricted, see attached plot plan
Plot coverage ratio: 2 full stories
Building envelope, building line and boundary: very flexible, see attached plot plan
Number of parking spaces: 1 large garage
Number of stories: 2 full stories
Roof type: hipped roof
Architectural style: modern urban villa
Client Requirements
Style, roof type, building type: urban villa with hipped roof
Basement, floors: with basement and 2 full stories
Number of occupants: 2 persons, mid/late 20s, planning for 2 children
Room requirements on ground floor and upper floor: see floor plans
Office: family use or home office? office/home office
Guest bedrooms per year: -
Open or closed layout: -
Conservative or modern construction: 70% conservative - 30% modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island: open kitchen without island
Number of dining seats: 8
Fireplace: none
Music / stereo wall: none
Balcony, roof terrace: none
Garage, carport: double garage
Utility garden, greenhouse: ornamental garden
Additional wishes / special features / daily routine, including reasons for choices or exclusions
House Design
Planner:
-General contractor (GC): general contractor of a construction company
-Architect: none
-Do-it-yourself: floor plan partially self-designed according to personal preferences
What do you like most? Currently nothing to criticize
What do you dislike? Front canopy not flush with hallway window upstairs - unfortunately not feasible otherwise
Estimated cost according to architect/planner: fixed price $450,000 (excluding land and additional construction costs)
Personal budget limit for house including fixtures: $450,000 (excluding land and additional construction costs)
Preferred heating technology: air-to-water heat pump + controlled mechanical ventilation
If you have to give up something, which details or add-ons
-Can give up: budget reached, no further cutbacks or simplifications needed
-Can’t give up: see above
Why is the design the way it is now? e.g.
Standard design from the planner? Compared roughly 100 floor plans and, in coordination with our current GC, created the dream layout ourselves
Which requests were implemented by the architect? all
A mix of many examples from various magazines: yes 🙂
What makes it particularly good or bad in your eyes? very practical and conservatively executed, child-friendly, enough parking/storage space inside, yet modern
What is the most important / fundamental question about the floor plan in 130 characters?
As I am very active here in the forum and like to help others with topics like floor plans, financing, etc., I would now like to share our project here and hear your opinions. I hope you like it too. Perhaps there is still a serious flaw or something that could be quickly improved, if it appeals to us.
We have invested a lot of time in planning. Since March/April 2020 we have been actively planning—from a prefab home supplier with about 120m² (1,292 sq ft) to a current regional solid builder with 160m² (1,722 sq ft). A lot of effort went into our planning and we hope it pays off during construction and upon completion.
We will sign the contract in the next 2-3 weeks and will release the offer as well as the floor plan and our revised building and service specification to prepare everything for contract signing.
We are building with solid construction through a regional general contractor. Construction start: May 2021.
Plot size: 550m² (0.14 acres)
Slope: approximately 1 meter (3.3 feet) incline from the street to the back of the property
Floor area ratio: Garage on boundary line, terrace 2.5m (8 feet) from neighbor - otherwise unrestricted, see attached plot plan
Plot coverage ratio: 2 full stories
Building envelope, building line and boundary: very flexible, see attached plot plan
Number of parking spaces: 1 large garage
Number of stories: 2 full stories
Roof type: hipped roof
Architectural style: modern urban villa
Client Requirements
Style, roof type, building type: urban villa with hipped roof
Basement, floors: with basement and 2 full stories
Number of occupants: 2 persons, mid/late 20s, planning for 2 children
Room requirements on ground floor and upper floor: see floor plans
Office: family use or home office? office/home office
Guest bedrooms per year: -
Open or closed layout: -
Conservative or modern construction: 70% conservative - 30% modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island: open kitchen without island
Number of dining seats: 8
Fireplace: none
Music / stereo wall: none
Balcony, roof terrace: none
Garage, carport: double garage
Utility garden, greenhouse: ornamental garden
Additional wishes / special features / daily routine, including reasons for choices or exclusions
House Design
Planner:
-General contractor (GC): general contractor of a construction company
-Architect: none
-Do-it-yourself: floor plan partially self-designed according to personal preferences
What do you like most? Currently nothing to criticize
What do you dislike? Front canopy not flush with hallway window upstairs - unfortunately not feasible otherwise
Estimated cost according to architect/planner: fixed price $450,000 (excluding land and additional construction costs)
Personal budget limit for house including fixtures: $450,000 (excluding land and additional construction costs)
Preferred heating technology: air-to-water heat pump + controlled mechanical ventilation
If you have to give up something, which details or add-ons
-Can give up: budget reached, no further cutbacks or simplifications needed
-Can’t give up: see above
Why is the design the way it is now? e.g.
Standard design from the planner? Compared roughly 100 floor plans and, in coordination with our current GC, created the dream layout ourselves
Which requests were implemented by the architect? all
A mix of many examples from various magazines: yes 🙂
What makes it particularly good or bad in your eyes? very practical and conservatively executed, child-friendly, enough parking/storage space inside, yet modern
What is the most important / fundamental question about the floor plan in 130 characters?
As I am very active here in the forum and like to help others with topics like floor plans, financing, etc., I would now like to share our project here and hear your opinions. I hope you like it too. Perhaps there is still a serious flaw or something that could be quickly improved, if it appeals to us.
We have invested a lot of time in planning. Since March/April 2020 we have been actively planning—from a prefab home supplier with about 120m² (1,292 sq ft) to a current regional solid builder with 160m² (1,722 sq ft). A lot of effort went into our planning and we hope it pays off during construction and upon completion.
We will sign the contract in the next 2-3 weeks and will release the offer as well as the floor plan and our revised building and service specification to prepare everything for contract signing.
We are building with solid construction through a regional general contractor. Construction start: May 2021.
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Alessandro12 Nov 2020 11:07my personal favorite:
evelinoz schrieb:
How wide is the kitchen space? The dimensions are cut off. Overall, there is a lot of unused space on the ground floor. The kitchen area is far too long—you keep walking and walking and end up closer to the neighbor than to the terrace.
I don’t understand why anyone would want to look out onto the street. I want to look into MY own garden. For what happens at the entrance, there are cameras.The kitchen space is 3.40 meters (11 feet) wide—without cabinets. As mentioned, with cabinets, we’re at about 2.10 to 2.20 meters (7 to 7.2 feet).
Alessandro schrieb:
my personal favorite:
These are all beautiful floor plans, but they incorporate the sofa area too much into the overall living room, which we do not want. The area should be cozily separated; the kitchen should not be too integrated, which is why our solution works much better for us personally. We don’t really like these open floor plans on the ground floor. This makes it difficult for us to rearrange anything in that area, which we also believe isn’t necessary there. We like the space between the kitchen and living room very much because it allows us to use the bar area. The dining room feels spacious, and when we have many guests, there is a lot of room around. The kitchen is somewhat integrated into the dining area, but not excessively. I think the interaction works quite well.
I do understand what you mean by the narrow layout, but I suspect that, according to our preferences, it won’t bother us.
After several months, I have now looked at the pictures, including the finished floor plan, and thought to myself: I am in love... That’s exactly how we imagined it. 😀
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Alessandro12 Nov 2020 11:22In my opinion, you’re contradicting yourselves. You don’t like open floor plans, yet you want a cozy living area.
Your current living/dining area feels like a large hall—long, open, and "cold."
I personally walk from the living room to the kitchen about 1,000 times (mostly to the fridge :p). For me, that would almost feel too far apart in your case.
I would at least try to create some kind of room divider between the dining and living areas that adds to the coziness, similar to what @Steffi33 has...
Edit: A toilet directly adjacent to the living area would bother me.
Your current living/dining area feels like a large hall—long, open, and "cold."
I personally walk from the living room to the kitchen about 1,000 times (mostly to the fridge :p). For me, that would almost feel too far apart in your case.
I would at least try to create some kind of room divider between the dining and living areas that adds to the coziness, similar to what @Steffi33 has...
Edit: A toilet directly adjacent to the living area would bother me.
Alessandro schrieb:
In my opinion, you are contradicting yourself. You don’t like open floor plans, yet you want a cozy living area.
Your living/dining area currently feels like a hall—long, open, and “cold.”
I personally walk from the living room to the kitchen probably 1000 times (mostly to get to the fridge :p). That would almost feel too far for me in your layout.
I would at least create some kind of room divider between the dining and living areas to add coziness, similar to what @Steffi33 has...
Edit: A guest toilet directly adjacent to the living area would bother me. Well, the furnishings determine the warmth of a room. We have a large living area on the ground floor—which I think is very nice. With color, furniture, etc., it feels cozier, but it’s not cramped like a 40m² (430 sq ft) living space, for example.
So, I don’t see any problems there.
I see that the kitchen is really the main topic, which we can handle very well! So the feedback has already helped us a lot and also reassures us about the rest of the floor plan 🙂
We were more concerned whether there might still be any “mistakes” or anything really impractical that we hadn’t considered.
Why not have a guest toilet adjacent to the living area? 😀
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Alessandro12 Nov 2020 11:33There is definitely no mistake in the floor plan itself. Only the walkways are impractical. You will also definitely need a small cloakroom or storage area near the staircase if you don’t want shoes scattered around the hallway.
I also wouldn’t want to go down to the basement every time to get the vacuum cleaner, broom, groceries, drinks, and so on...
Because you will hear everything through the wall 😉
I also wouldn’t want to go down to the basement every time to get the vacuum cleaner, broom, groceries, drinks, and so on...
Because you will hear everything through the wall 😉
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