ᐅ Ground Floor Layout: Dining / Kitchen / Living Area

Hello everyone

We are planning the dining/cooking/living area, so I’m not sure if this is the right forum?

We have a 3.5-room apartment on the ground floor. We enjoy cooking, also for family and friends.
We have a space of 7.25 m x 7.10 m (24 ft x 23 ft 4 in) available.
Our requirements:
- A bar in the kitchen for 2 or more people
- Enough space to cook together with family and friends
- A dining table for 8 people

Attached you will find the floor plan. What would be your suggestions for the layout of the dining/cooking/living area?
I have attached the floor plan as a JPEG and a PDF; both are the same.

We already had 1-2 ideas, but they all had their weaknesses. Therefore, as a starting point, I removed all furniture from the floor plan to avoid any bias.
Additionally, due to the large open space, a support column will be needed. This can be placed relatively flexibly somewhere central, so I would like to first plan the dining/cooking/living area. The column can then be integrated where it makes the most sense (e.g., near a bar or kitchen corner).

What other information would be helpful?
Thanks in advance and best regards

I’m not exactly sure what bothers me, but having the layout viewed spontaneously wouldn’t appeal to me. I imagine furnishing the dining area, the living area, and the kitchen might be somewhat challenging.

The kitchen would probably be in the lower right, the dining area on the left, and the living area towards the bedrooms. It all seems quite open, in my opinion.

faselph schrieb:

We already had one or two ideas, all of which had their weaknesses. That’s why I removed all furniture once again from the floor plan to avoid any bias.

It would be helpful to present each of these ideas in separate posts within this thread, including what you considered to be their weaknesses.

Additionally, a lot of information is missing, such as where water supply and drainage connections are possible throughout the building. What about storage space that you generally need, since there isn’t much room for wardrobes in the bedroom? How many people will be living there? Some details about people’s heights would also be useful, as significantly different heights might require work surfaces at varying levels. Please also specify the sill heights of the windows above the finished floor level, and so on.

Is this a demolition and new build? Is there a basement? What does the upper floor look like? The support is based on the loads from the upper floor. I don’t think 5 doors from the web are a good idea. Also, the ventilation intake is located directly above the manure pit, which is not ideal.

Snow57 schrieb:

I imagine furnishing the dining area, living room, and kitchen will be somewhat challenging.

Especially since the upper part of the living area will also function as the hallway to the rooms.

Almost square spaces are always difficult to subdivide.

hanghaus2023 schrieb:

Is this a demolition and new build? Is there a basement? What does the upper floor look like? The support post depends on the loads coming from the upper floor. I don’t like the five doors from the web design. Also, having the ventilation intake directly above the manure pit is not good.

This is just an apartment. Otherwise, I would also say it’s a disaster with the open-plan space that also serves as a corridor to the bedroom/office/bathroom.
There isn’t much room for furniture since the exterior walls are mostly windows and there are hardly any interior walls available. More than a kitchenette can’t really be set up, unless you add drywall partitions.

This looks like student housing, not proper apartments. I hope you are tenants and can move to a different apartment. I would never want to live there.