ᐅ Our Floor Plan – Please Share Your Opinions

Created on: 15 Jan 2013 13:04
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Schdin
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.

2D floor plan of a house with terrace, kitchen, living room, and garage


Floor plan of the upper floor with bedroom, children’s room, bathroom, hallway, and balcony


Basement floor plan with technical room, hobby room, and hallway


3D view of a modern single-family house with garage, terrace, and garden
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ypg
20 Jan 2013 11:16
haus22 schrieb:
Nice house. But why are children’s rooms usually planned so small? The bedroom is always made as large as possible, but what about the children’s?

The child isn’t even planned for.
@Schdin: I noticed something else... what are your morning routines like?
In our case, my husband gets up about an hour earlier, so it would bother me if he had to walk back and forth from the bathroom to the dressing area. Maybe the bed should be placed under the sloped ceiling and the closets arranged between the bathroom and the bedroom? Just a suggestion 🙂
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Conny1980
20 Jan 2013 11:31
Hello,
we are still at the very beginning. So I’m completely open and unbiased.
I really like your floor plan ideas. At first glance, it looks quite unusual, but everything makes sense.
I wouldn’t go for an open kitchen because I find the cooking odors in the kitchen enough and wouldn’t want them also in the dining area. But I seem to be alone with that opinion anyway.
You probably will hardly ever close the sliding door to the living room. My grandmother had the same setup, and it was always open. Maybe you could save costs there. May I ask what the house will cost in the end, or is that not a question people usually ask?
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Schdin
21 Jan 2013 13:06
I have already mentioned the topic of the children’s rooms and said that if we do decide to have kids and end up with two, the rooms will be sufficient for the beginning. If the rooms turn out to be too small, it is still possible, once the children are around 13 years old, to accommodate one in the basement and remove the wall between the two upper rooms to make one larger room. Personally, I grew up sharing a small 18 sqm (194 sq ft) room with my sister, plus a playroom upstairs of just under 30 sqm (323 sq ft). Later, I had a 30 sqm (323 sq ft) room, which I think is much too large. In my opinion, the rooms are big enough for sleeping, doing homework, and reading. A playroom is possibly planned for the basement as well. With the existing heating there, you can create a really great playroom, and the rooms upstairs remain clean and quiet for sleeping.

The pellet storage can be expanded by using the adjacent planned room, so that’s not a problem. We don’t need to enter the pellet storage itself since the pellets are drawn out automatically.

I want an open kitchen because when I was younger, we always did our homework at the dining table while mom was cooking. Everyone has their own habits. :o)

The door to the living room probably won’t be used often, but I want the option to close it when someone is watching TV in the living room and someone else wants to have a conversation in the dining area. For me, it’s definitely worth the cost to have some quiet when I want it.

Our wake-up times vary quite a bit due to our different work shifts. However, we have already developed the habit in the apartment of preparing our clothes the night before. Still, it’s a very good idea that I will discuss with our architect.
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haushexe
21 Jan 2013 14:11
I really like the floor plan, especially the design with the kitchen-dining-living area. We plan to build something very similar. This creates a great sense of openness in the house, which is definitely valuable.