perlenmann schrieb:
As a father of two children: Which child gets which room? If two are planned, change it!
If there is a basement, why have a pantry? I keep everything in the basement and that’s enough. I would definitely use that space for the kitchen and separate it from the living room.
You’ve planned a show kitchen. Do you actually cook? Will it always look like a SHOW and be perfectly tidy? I’m looking forward to closing my sliding door to the kitchen when I want to (my wife baking, dishwasher running, guests over, kitchen not spotless...) Hello, thanks a lot for your input.
We currently have one child who will get the larger room :-) The other is planned for the future and will get the smaller one. We reconsidered everything again yesterday but somehow it doesn’t work any other way. And does a child really notice if their room is 3cm (1 inch) smaller?
Pantry: Well, does your wife run down to the basement every time she needs something? Okay, the pantry is very, very large, that might still change a bit and the office might be made slightly bigger. But I would like to keep everything in the pantry—vacuum cleaner, cleaning supplies, freezer, etc. That’s why I wanted a large pantry.
Why a show kitchen? I’m not sure if it is obvious. On the side where you enter the pantry, the whole area is a built-in wall cabinet… so you actually walk through the cabinet to get to the pantry. This side has plenty of storage compartments. The kitchen island is for cooking.
perlenmann schrieb:
No idea how to edit.... two more points:
You can get shade for the patio more cheaply than with a balcony (just as a note... if you have the budget and like it that way, then go for it).
And I don’t know how big your TV needs are... 47 inches is just about large enough for 3m (10 feet). For you, it would probably be a few meters more...Yes, the balcony is also partly intended to break up the look of the house :-)
The living room is about 6m (20 feet) long and the wall with the TV is 3m (10 feet) wide. I definitely wanted a large living room because that’s usually where you spend time with the kids.
svenson schrieb:
I can only agree with perlenmann’s comments about the kitchen. It probably looks great as you’ve planned it, but in the long run, it’s quite impractical. Also, something I miss in all the house plans and the reason many homeowners build a second time: what happens when your children move out? I could never rent out the upper floor in the current plan. I’m currently working on my own floor plans, and I would design the rooms downstairs so that the office can be converted into a bedroom in old age, when less space is needed. A large living/dining room could be reduced in size by adding 2-3 walls – of course, plumbing connections for a future bathroom should be installed during construction. The staircase must be planned so that it can be accessible to a tenant, but as long as it’s not rented out (if the children live there for 20-25 years), it should be integrated into the living area.
All of this is doable and definitely something you shouldn’t overlook!!!Thanks a lot for your reply as well!! Well, I don’t think we will rent it out later. That way we will still have rooms for grandchildren :-) Or a guest room, which we currently don’t have.
Furthermore, what I find missing in all the planned houses and why many homebuilders build a second time: What happens when your children move out? I could never rent out the upper floor in the current design. Why would I want, when I’m older and the children have left home, to have strangers living above me (noise) and be limited to a tiny living room, etc.?
If the house really becomes too large for me in old age, I would rather sell or rent out the entire house and build a nice, age-appropriate bungalow in a great location or rent a nice apartment...
Additionally, many people have separate bedrooms in old age (which gives a use for one of the children’s rooms), and you occasionally have grandchildren visiting (a second bedroom = guest room). Also, if you have plenty of free time in retirement, an extra hobby room can come in handy. 🙂
Sometimes it helps to start completely from scratch. Is this a design created with an architect? If not, you might want to consider investing a few euros. Compared to the total cost of the project, it’s worth it. Our architect significantly revised our original idea. Honestly, with 140 sqm (1,507 sq ft), we have more space than you do in a much larger house. (The bedroom is almost 20 sqm (215 sq ft), and the children’s rooms are each 18 sqm (194 sq ft). The bathroom is 10 sqm (108 sq ft). The living-dining area is just under 37 sqm (398 sq ft), and we have an open kitchen of 10 sqm (108 sq ft) plus a 2 sqm (22 sq ft) pantry. On top of all that, we have the entire building services on the ground floor (we are building without a basement), and even a guest room of 12 sqm (129 sq ft). The house has 1.5 stories with a knee wall height of 1.0 m (3.3 ft).
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