ᐅ Opinion on the Floor Plan Design for a Single-Family House with a Gable Roof
Created on: 10 Dec 2017 13:47
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chrisw81Hello,
I am currently planning a single-family house with a pitched roof (38 degrees) and would like to hear your opinions here… or if I have made any major mistakes. Since my plot in the south has very limited space, I want to build a relatively narrow house where the kitchen and living area plus dining open to the south. The living room is currently 4.3 m (14 ft) wide, and the kitchen is 4 m (13 ft). It might be possible to separate the kitchen completely with a wall (which might also need to be load-bearing?). Upstairs, there is a nice large hallway and four roughly equal-sized rooms, as well as a storage room. Would you arrange the living room windows differently? The dining table is supposed to be in front of a floor-to-ceiling window, and there should be another window for stepping outside. I’m not sure if the window above the sofa feels cozy, but I haven’t found a better position yet. To the west, there is a neighboring house right next to the plot, from which the windows could be easily overlooked.
I am also still deciding on the knee wall height, weighing between 1.25, 1.37, and 1.5 m (4.1 ft, 4.5 ft, and 4.9 ft). Are there really big differences visible? In any case, the exterior wall will be quite tall, and I don’t want the house to look too “leggy.”
To explain the floor plans: Measurements are taken from the center of the walls to the center of the walls, so they do not correspond to interior wall dimensions (subtract about 20 cm (8 inches)). The kitchen/dining/living area is on the south side—kitchen in the southeast, living room in the southwest.
Maybe you have some good suggestions for me. Thanks!
I am currently planning a single-family house with a pitched roof (38 degrees) and would like to hear your opinions here… or if I have made any major mistakes. Since my plot in the south has very limited space, I want to build a relatively narrow house where the kitchen and living area plus dining open to the south. The living room is currently 4.3 m (14 ft) wide, and the kitchen is 4 m (13 ft). It might be possible to separate the kitchen completely with a wall (which might also need to be load-bearing?). Upstairs, there is a nice large hallway and four roughly equal-sized rooms, as well as a storage room. Would you arrange the living room windows differently? The dining table is supposed to be in front of a floor-to-ceiling window, and there should be another window for stepping outside. I’m not sure if the window above the sofa feels cozy, but I haven’t found a better position yet. To the west, there is a neighboring house right next to the plot, from which the windows could be easily overlooked.
I am also still deciding on the knee wall height, weighing between 1.25, 1.37, and 1.5 m (4.1 ft, 4.5 ft, and 4.9 ft). Are there really big differences visible? In any case, the exterior wall will be quite tall, and I don’t want the house to look too “leggy.”
To explain the floor plans: Measurements are taken from the center of the walls to the center of the walls, so they do not correspond to interior wall dimensions (subtract about 20 cm (8 inches)). The kitchen/dining/living area is on the south side—kitchen in the southeast, living room in the southwest.
Maybe you have some good suggestions for me. Thanks!
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MIA_SAN_MIA__10 Dec 2017 14:39Why this short partition wall in the kitchen?
chrisw81 schrieb:
I am still considering which knee wall height to choose; I am torn between 1.25, 1.37, and 1.5 meters. Are there really significant differences at that range? The height of the knee wall largely determines how the rooms on the eaves side can be glazed. If you want to avoid dormers, the knee wall height is basically the dividing line between facade windows and roof windows.
Personally, I would relate the visual impact more to the ridge height, which I would not simply raise linearly by increasing the knee wall height (instead, with a higher knee wall, I would use a shallower roof pitch). Calculate how high you would be with a 1.00 m (3 ft 3 in) knee wall at a 38° roof pitch, and keep the ridge height constant while varying the knee wall height.
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