ᐅ Upper floor above ground floor – too dark?

Created on: 16 Oct 2015 18:09
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joho78
Hello!

Yesterday, we received the first preliminary design from our architect, and it is already very close to our dream house. Among other things, we wanted the upper floor to extend over the ground floor to create a roofed terrace, which he has implemented exactly as requested. However, since the roof in the current plan extends about 3.8 m (12.5 feet), we are wondering if the kitchen/dining/living area might become too dark. He has designed an open roof section on the left side (kitchen), where the tree is, and some glass elements on the right (the terrace faces south), but we are not sure about this. Does anyone have experience with this? What would you consider a suitable maximum roof overhang, or is 3.8 m (12.5 feet) completely fine?


Moderne zweigeschossige Villa mit Pool, Terrasse und grosszuegigem Garten.




2D-Grundriss eines Wohn- und Essbereichs mit Terrasse, Küche und Abstellraum
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Müllerin
18 Oct 2015 17:56
Having a separate toilet is a good idea!
But it’s quite a detour to get to the bedroom...
Well, since you only sleep there, hmm, so in the evening you go to the bathroom, take off your clothes in the dressing room, wash up, and then to bed. In the morning, the opposite, and otherwise you don’t really need to enter the bedroom...
So I understand the reasoning—it saves hallway space. My initial reaction was: that’s inconvenient. But I think I’ll give it some more thought...
emer18 Oct 2015 18:57
To me, the whole thing looks poorly designed and completely impractical.

It may look nice from the outside, but fortunately, I don’t have to live inside 🙂

Even if the kids move out someday, 12.6 sq m (136 sq ft) – wow
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Username_wahl
18 Oct 2015 19:02
I wouldn’t want to live in the dark basement on the ground floor. Also, going through the bathroom to get to the bedroom seems too inconvenient to me.
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kbt09
18 Oct 2015 19:18
97 sqm (1,042 sq ft) on the upper floor and only 25% allocated for the children?? But almost 50% for the parents, including a bathroom that is nearly as large as the two children's bedrooms combined? And then in the bathroom, the toilet is placed in a corner without a window ... honestly, I can only shake my head at that.

What happened to the shared TV corner?

Unfortunately, I really don’t like the layout of the upper floor.
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joho78
18 Oct 2015 19:25
I agree about the dark ground floor. Therefore, we need to make some changes to the layout here.

The bathroom and bedroom don’t bother me at all, since there is only a bed in the bedroom and you usually only enter once a day and leave in the morning.

We have already specified the size of the children’s rooms (this was one of the first topics), as we want them to be at least 15 m2 (160 ft²).
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kbt09
18 Oct 2015 19:31
Were the children already older? Or are they still in the planning stage? If they are still planned, the first years of childhood should also be taken into account. The path from the parents’ bedroom to the children’s rooms is not very practical.