ᐅ Our Floor Plan – Please Share Your Opinions

Hello!
We are in the final stages of planning and would like to hear your opinions on the floor plan.
The kitchen and dining area form one large open space. The living room can be separated by sliding doors.

Final stage, then it’s almost too late anyway, since making changes usually costs extra at this point.
If I calculated correctly, you have almost 145 sqm (1,560 sq ft) of living space, or is that the total floor area?

Several things really stand out to me, and please forgive my directness.
A 12 sqm (130 sq ft) children’s room with a sloped ceiling? Have you ever been in such a room?
Then a 19 sqm (205 sq ft) bedroom with a walk-in closet? Well, you have to set your priorities, I guess.
You’ve noticed that your car has more space than your two children.

The second point is the upstairs bathroom. Are you supposed to crawl into the corner next to the toilet? Judging by the roof, you don’t seem to have any knee wall in the bathroom, and you actually have a sloped ceiling in the shower?
That tiny storage room next to the laundry is almost pointless—you can probably skip it, it looks oversized there, right?

The storage room downstairs is way too big, and having two doors is questionable. Make it smaller and treat yourselves to an extra shower in the downstairs bathroom.
When four people live in the house, or if you add a dog, you will be thankful.

In general, the layout of the house is very odd; you’re wasting a lot of living space on storage and laundry rooms.
You have a huge basement… that’s where the clutter and washing machine should go, in my opinion.

Final stage, then it’s usually almost too late anyway, as making changes often costs extra at that point.
-No, because a friend who is an architect is handling it.

If I calculated correctly, you have almost 145 sqm (1,560 sq ft) of living space, or is that the footprint?
-That is the living space.

Several things really stand out to me, and forgive my frankness.
12 sqm (130 sq ft) children’s room with a sloping roof? Have you ever been in such a room?
But then a 19 sqm (205 sq ft) bedroom with a dressing area? Well, everyone has to set their priorities.
You noticed that your car has more space than your two children.
-A double garage simply takes up that much space. And since the two rooms upstairs are planned as an office and guest room, their size is actually secondary for us. At the moment, the life plan is for children or at most one child. It is possible to combine the two rooms into one, which I can say would offer more than enough space. There is hardly any roof slope, as along the dashed line the ceiling height remains two meters (6 ft 7 in). Also, the hobby room downstairs is heated and can be converted into a children’s room with its own entrance. Besides, the children would live in this house for about 20 years at most. I, on the other hand, will live here for at least 40 years. So I should be able to focus on my bedroom. Otherwise, the children might be gone and I’ll end up with a 12 sqm (130 sq ft) bedroom and two empty children’s rooms... or I’d have to remodel everything then.

The second point is the upstairs bathroom. Do you have to crawl into the corner next to the toilet? If I interpret the roof correctly, you don’t have any knee wall in that bathroom, and you really have a sloping roof over the shower?
That tiny storage room next to the laundry room—you can almost leave that out, it looks drawn too large, no?
-In the corner behind the shower, the height is still 1.50 m (5 ft), which is enough to place a cabinet for cleaning supplies and towels. And I don’t need to access it daily. Here, too, the dashed line marks two meters (6 ft 7 in), which is why the shower is set forward. We planned this small storage room as space for old clothes or sewing machine and fabric. Otherwise, it would be wasted space. In my parents’ house, there are little doors under the sloping roof everywhere to use the space behind the knee wall as storage.

The storage room downstairs is way too big, and two doors seem questionable. Make it smaller and add a shower in the downstairs bathroom.
If there are ever four people living in the house or a dog joins, you will be grateful.
-We do not want a shower downstairs. We deliberately did not plan one. The storage room is planned this large to keep beverage crates, supplies, recycling bags, and things (raclette grill, Tupperware) that are not needed daily and would unnecessarily take up space in the kitchen.

In general, the layout inside the house is very unusual; you waste a lot of living space on storage and laundry rooms.
You have a huge basement... that’s where the clutter and washing machine belong... my opinion.
-I want the washing machine upstairs just like he does, because that’s where the most laundry accumulates. Otherwise, you have to carry laundry down and then back up to iron and put away. I prefer everything central in one place so I can distribute it to the rooms. And clutter won’t go into the basement. That room is for garden furniture in winter and spare car parts, and I don’t want to accumulate more junk. I don’t have to host a flea market down there...

Then everything fits... just based on the pictures, your floor plan doesn't make much sense. With your explanations, it makes a bit more sense though. Everyone builds the way they want... It wouldn't be my choice, but you did ask for opinions 😀

Do you often go into your pellet storage? If not, I would remove the wall from the basement and extend the north wall of the utility room. This way, the pellet storage would only be accessible from the basement, but you wouldn't have an unnecessary corridor and would have a larger storage basement. I would be bothered by the narrow hallway in the basement.

Honestly, I can’t really answer that question. Whether we need to go in there often, or if the pellets are automatically delivered to the system. But the idea is interesting. This would make the room larger, or the bothersome door would be partly removed.