Hello everyone 🙂
After so much feedback on my initial plan, it has now gone back and forth with our architect, and everything is finally completed 🙂
I’m excited if you take a look!
Here are a few details:
The floor plans don’t yet include our basement living area. Basements intended for living are allowed here. It is planned to have a laundry room, the boiler room, storage room, an office, and a large hobby room with a bathroom and a small kitchenette.
Slope: none
Number of floors: 2 floors (attic counts as 2nd floor due to knee wall) + basement living area
Roof type: Gable roof with 25-degree pitch, knee wall 160 cm (63 inches) (we received an exemption for this) + a dormer on the south side for the two children’s bedrooms is also planned but not finalized yet (exemption also received)
Number of occupants: 2 adults (eventually + 2 children), aged 28 and 34
Heating system: Heat pump with ventilation
The orientation of the floor plan very closely matches the actual cardinal directions. Except for the guest WC, the rightmost window in the living room, the kitchen, and the bathroom, all windows are floor-to-ceiling.
Ground floor: A small path leads to the right into the house. Right at the entrance is a small niche for storing water crates, ironing board, vacuum cleaner, and other odds and ends. Instead of a door, this space will be separated by a curtain, saving space and looking nice 🙂 Next to it is a guest WC with a urinal. Opposite the stairs on the wall, three coat racks are planned, which will be screwed from floor to ceiling. There is space for a shoe bench and a tall shoe cabinet beside the front door and along the WC wall. Strollers, bicycles, etc. will be stored in a small shed in front of the house. That covers the entrance area.
The kitchen can be accessed from two sides via sliding doors. The garden is reached through the double doors in the dining area.
Upper floor:
The bedroom is designed to be quite small. I know. That is intentional. Our current sleeping area is even smaller, and we manage well with it. In case of need (broken leg, bassinet, etc.), we can push the bed against the wall to gain some more space. The walk-in closet is not separated from the bedroom by a door. The two children’s rooms may still get a dormer. There is a small change in the bathroom that is not shown in the drawings: the washbasin will be integrated into the bathtub ledge and will shift by 25 cm (10 inches). The passage will be about 90 cm (35 inches) wide then.
Done 🙂
After so much feedback on my initial plan, it has now gone back and forth with our architect, and everything is finally completed 🙂
I’m excited if you take a look!
Here are a few details:
The floor plans don’t yet include our basement living area. Basements intended for living are allowed here. It is planned to have a laundry room, the boiler room, storage room, an office, and a large hobby room with a bathroom and a small kitchenette.
Slope: none
Number of floors: 2 floors (attic counts as 2nd floor due to knee wall) + basement living area
Roof type: Gable roof with 25-degree pitch, knee wall 160 cm (63 inches) (we received an exemption for this) + a dormer on the south side for the two children’s bedrooms is also planned but not finalized yet (exemption also received)
Number of occupants: 2 adults (eventually + 2 children), aged 28 and 34
Heating system: Heat pump with ventilation
The orientation of the floor plan very closely matches the actual cardinal directions. Except for the guest WC, the rightmost window in the living room, the kitchen, and the bathroom, all windows are floor-to-ceiling.
Ground floor: A small path leads to the right into the house. Right at the entrance is a small niche for storing water crates, ironing board, vacuum cleaner, and other odds and ends. Instead of a door, this space will be separated by a curtain, saving space and looking nice 🙂 Next to it is a guest WC with a urinal. Opposite the stairs on the wall, three coat racks are planned, which will be screwed from floor to ceiling. There is space for a shoe bench and a tall shoe cabinet beside the front door and along the WC wall. Strollers, bicycles, etc. will be stored in a small shed in front of the house. That covers the entrance area.
The kitchen can be accessed from two sides via sliding doors. The garden is reached through the double doors in the dining area.
Upper floor:
The bedroom is designed to be quite small. I know. That is intentional. Our current sleeping area is even smaller, and we manage well with it. In case of need (broken leg, bassinet, etc.), we can push the bed against the wall to gain some more space. The walk-in closet is not separated from the bedroom by a door. The two children’s rooms may still get a dormer. There is a small change in the bathroom that is not shown in the drawings: the washbasin will be integrated into the bathtub ledge and will shift by 25 cm (10 inches). The passage will be about 90 cm (35 inches) wide then.
Done 🙂
Maria16 schrieb:
Well... if there are essential points that take priority: fine. But then what else can a forum really do?
Maybe the original poster could explain again what exactly she hopes to achieve with this thread? 🙂If inconsistencies and wasted square meters are not addressed at all.
This storage corner costs more floor area than can actually be used. The adjacent toilet, positioned like on a display, also consumes more space than a toilet generally requires.
Well then.
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Schnuckline9 Apr 2017 00:30You’re funny. You’ve already helped me a lot with all three threads, even if it might not seem that way. You’ve pointed out things and small details that I either didn’t notice or misunderstood. It’s really made me think, and I’m planning some things differently now.
On the other hand, I’m quietly ignoring some things, like the kitchen island. Of course, I’m aware that it takes up space. But right now, I don’t prioritize having a lot of free space in the kitchen. Instead, I want a kitchen island. Maybe someday I won’t like it anymore, and then I’ll just remove it.
Today we visited the show home center again and got a lot of inspiration.
On the other hand, I’m quietly ignoring some things, like the kitchen island. Of course, I’m aware that it takes up space. But right now, I don’t prioritize having a lot of free space in the kitchen. Instead, I want a kitchen island. Maybe someday I won’t like it anymore, and then I’ll just remove it.
Today we visited the show home center again and got a lot of inspiration.
Schnuckline schrieb:
At the moment, I don’t prioritize having a lot of open space in the kitchen. But I do want a kitchen island. Maybe someday I won’t want it anymore, and then we’ll just remove it.Well, that’s an unusual kitchen island, since without any installations it can easily be taken down again. Actually, it’s more like a large fixed cutting block.
Schnuckline schrieb:
Today we visited the display home center again and got lots of ideas.Hopefully also about how you will overcome the break between the (except for the cutting block) consistent scale on the ground floor and the smaller scale on the upper floor (we still don’t know the basement).
But: what was the purpose of going there? After deciding on the supplier and base design (or, in this case, you could almost say starting model), that makes little sense.
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Schnuckline9 Apr 2017 02:14@11ant Hi there, we just wanted to get a feel for the rooms—what it’s like to be in a 13-14 sqm (140-150 sq ft) children’s bedroom, and so on. Then we specifically looked at the bathrooms and considered how they could be rearranged. Also, how to visually hide the toilet in the bathroom. Unfortunately, show homes somehow aren’t very practical. In some bathrooms, it would be impossible to shower without flooding half the house, even though they looked nice. We also took another look at the trend (without exception, every show home had it) of the open-plan kitchen and thought it over but just can’t get used to it. Same with so many oversized windows. It may look nice in a show home, but feeling comfortable in your own home seems different. In a glass house like that, I’d probably end up crawling on the floor at some point, haha. But it was still helpful to see how much light so many windows actually let in. We also looked at walk-in closets—how much space you roughly need, how it feels to move around in them, and so on.
It was really interesting once you start paying attention to specific details.
It was really interesting once you start paying attention to specific details.
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Caspar20209 Apr 2017 08:02I’m not sure which ones you have looked at, but here near Cologne, almost all the floor plans come from the current software programs of the manufacturers. The only limitation is that they are usually the slightly larger floor plan variants of each model.
However, the windows generally match those included in the base floor plan.
However, the windows generally match those included in the base floor plan.
Schnuckline schrieb:
I quietly ignore other things 🙂 for example, the kitchen island.Or, for example, the question of why you don’t build a larger house. I have already explained that the floor area ratio allows this. And I find it hard to believe that the house cannot be rotated parallel to the street because of the fixed ridge direction. Especially since exemptions have been granted for other, much more decisive regulations.
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