Hello everyone,
we are still at the very beginning of our building project.
After several discussions with our construction company, we have now developed a floor plan.
It would be great if you could take a look and provide us with any suggestions for improvements or tips.
Thank you very much :-)
Development plan / restrictions
Plot size: 447 sqm (4800 sq ft)
Slope: plot slopes down 2 m (6.6 ft)
Site coverage ratio: 0.3
Floor area ratio: 0.6
Knee wall height: 1.85 m (6 ft)
Roof pitch: 24 degrees
Border development: no
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of floors: 1.5
Roof type: gable roof
Homeowners’ requirements
Basement: yes
Floors: basement, ground floor, and upper floor
Number of occupants: 2 adults and currently 1 child
Office: family use
Guests per year: 1-2
Open-plan design
Modern construction style
Open kitchen with breakfast bar
Number of dining seats: 6
Double carport
House design
Who designed the plan?
Mostly by us. Minor changes by the architect.
What do you like most?
Living and dining area, kitchen, and upper floor
What don’t you like?
Maybe the distance to the TV is a bit too short?!?
Preferred heating system:
Heat pump
Baufie schrieb:
Your design strongly reminds me of the floor plan of a model home from a prefabricated house supplier in southern Baden.
We also like this and will probably implement a slightly modified version. However, the house is a bit wider and longer than your version.
I would swap the WC and the cloakroom/pantry on the ground floor. And completely omit the pantry. What purpose does that small room serve? Your kitchen is big enough. If you move the cloakroom to the front, you only have the dirt area at the entrance, and you don’t have to pass through the dirty zone every time you use the WC.
Unfortunately, your plan doesn’t include any measurements, so I can’t tell if the distance to the TV is too short. In my opinion, it should be at least 4.5m (15 feet).
Do you also have elevations of the building?
And where is south?I have roughly created the floor plan myself. But clearly, you are always influenced by other floor plans. And the layout is often quite similar in many cases.
The pantry is more like a storage room. We actually don’t want to do without it. But your tip about swapping the two rooms is good. I just think it will be more expensive because the toilet drainage pipes, etc., would have to be laid more extensively. If that’s not a concern, we will probably swap them.
Unfortunately, I don’t have a plan with measurements yet. However, our living room is 4 x 4 meters (13 x 13 feet). So, we will probably be sitting less than 3 meters (10 feet) from the TV.
Here is a view of the building:
By the way, southwest is exactly at the corner of the large windows in the dining area.
BeHaElJa schrieb:
I agree with last - dimensions.
What are the Rs?The "R" stands for window roller shutters.
Jochen104 schrieb:
I generally like the plan quite a bit. However, the elevations, site plan, and north arrow are missing.
Does "R" stand for roller shutter?
I would also swap the guest toilet with the cloakroom (and make it just a cloakroom). That would probably improve the window situation on the right side elevation.
I don’t like that you always have to go through the kitchen to get to the living room (and possibly guests as well).We might reduce the door width to 1.50m (5 feet) and move it further to the left (as seen from the kitchen).
Having to go through the kitchen doesn’t bother us at all. We find it more important that the living area feels more like a small retreat. That’s why we don’t want a door there.
We built the laundry chute ourselves, and it was really a hassle... The holes in the floor slabs of the ground floor and top floor need to be included directly in the plans and ordered accordingly, which shouldn’t cause too much additional cost. We then inserted a 300mm (12 inches) PVC pipe into this hole and covered it with drywall. Done!
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