ᐅ Floor Plan Design: Is the Living Room and Hallway Too Narrow?
Created on: 20 Apr 2019 08:34
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Marius89
Hello,
My name is Marius, I am 30 years old, and I will be building with my family in a newly developed residential area (Braunschweig).
After a long and exhausting planning process, I now feel that the width of the living room at 3.88m (12 feet 9 inches) rough measurement might be a bit too tight.
Who else has a living room under 4m (13 feet 1 inch) wide and can share their experience with such a space?
Because we really want to have a centrally located staircase, the upstairs hallway is short and only 1m (3 feet 3 inches) wide.
Maybe I am just overthinking it?!
Unfortunately, increasing the exterior dimensions no longer fits within our budget.
I would really appreciate new ideas regarding the floor plan, thank you.
My name is Marius, I am 30 years old, and I will be building with my family in a newly developed residential area (Braunschweig).
After a long and exhausting planning process, I now feel that the width of the living room at 3.88m (12 feet 9 inches) rough measurement might be a bit too tight.
Who else has a living room under 4m (13 feet 1 inch) wide and can share their experience with such a space?
Because we really want to have a centrally located staircase, the upstairs hallway is short and only 1m (3 feet 3 inches) wide.
Maybe I am just overthinking it?!
Unfortunately, increasing the exterior dimensions no longer fits within our budget.
I would really appreciate new ideas regarding the floor plan, thank you.
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hampshire20 Apr 2019 13:42Some things just don’t fit well together. Here: house size and a centrally located straight staircase.
Your design makes living space feel cramped.
If a straight staircase is necessary, you could achieve a sense of spaciousness at the cost of increased sound transmission, reduced hallway comfort, greater risk of accidents, and higher expenses:
Design the staircase narrower and steeper than a steel folded-plate staircase, which extends delicately into a large room used for cooking, dining, and lounging. Instead of the “box” that divides an otherwise large room into three awkward sections, you now have a visually light focal point that restores openness while structuring the space. In this case, I would also skip the two glass doors and leave the room open to the hallway. It might be worth considering making the first three steps a wooden platform with hidden storage.
Upstairs, you can arrange the bedrooms and bathroom above the living area and place the children’s rooms on the entrance side. The roof design should allow the children’s rooms to include a sleeping loft, creating additional space. With some compromise on the generous size of the bathroom and master bedroom, it’s even possible to integrate a narrow gallery-like light well effectively.
However, this is not something a typical builder or prefab home manufacturer would construct for you...
Your design makes living space feel cramped.
If a straight staircase is necessary, you could achieve a sense of spaciousness at the cost of increased sound transmission, reduced hallway comfort, greater risk of accidents, and higher expenses:
Design the staircase narrower and steeper than a steel folded-plate staircase, which extends delicately into a large room used for cooking, dining, and lounging. Instead of the “box” that divides an otherwise large room into three awkward sections, you now have a visually light focal point that restores openness while structuring the space. In this case, I would also skip the two glass doors and leave the room open to the hallway. It might be worth considering making the first three steps a wooden platform with hidden storage.
Upstairs, you can arrange the bedrooms and bathroom above the living area and place the children’s rooms on the entrance side. The roof design should allow the children’s rooms to include a sleeping loft, creating additional space. With some compromise on the generous size of the bathroom and master bedroom, it’s even possible to integrate a narrow gallery-like light well effectively.
However, this is not something a typical builder or prefab home manufacturer would construct for you...
Marius89 schrieb:
After a long and exhausting planning process, I now feel that the width of the living room at 3.88m rough dimension (12.7 feet) was a bit too tight.First of all: You are in excellent company here with hundreds of future homeowners who start their first threads doubting a tiny detail of their carefully and painfully developed design – only to be told, “um, you need to be strong now, start over from the beginning.”
I had a living room like that for a long time, and it never felt too narrow to me, even with a piano. The problem with *your* design is something completely different, and the effort you put into planning is tied to the struggle you are imposing on yourself. The shoe pinches, and the right bride is still waiting at home. Build a house for *your* family instead.
What you’ve tried to do instead is squeeze a Jette onto a Flair plot. The pain this causes isn’t a bug, it’s a feature: it’s meant to warn you to reconsider.
In this respect, I don’t understand how my predecessors can even give advice on *individual* parameters when the *structural* problem is obvious even from the moon: *you are trying to replicate a Jette* – stop doing that, or find a suitable plot for it. A “light” version of a Jette for statutory insured people just doesn’t work, it can only ever turn into a struggle!
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