Hello fellow home builders,
we would love to benefit from your experience and would appreciate it if you could critically review our floor plan draft. The images are attached.
We recently found a plot of land and have started planning. In terms of the house shape and design, I fell in love with a house by Kitzlinger (reference house Erkenbrechtsweiler). This Cape Cod style in sandalwood or cappuccino color just looks great, in my opinion, and goes really well with white. Using a free software program, I copied the exterior dimensions and rearranged the interior walls and staircase completely to our taste. So this is just an amateur draft. Of course, I copied from other floor plans as much as possible.
The ideas behind it:
- We prefer a straight staircase even though it takes up a lot of space. However, it is not a must-have.
- The office/guest room (northwest side) should be on the ground floor, as my wife needs it for work and sometimes wants to take documents into the living room.
- The idea of a separable kitchen: An open-plan kitchen is great. But we would like the option to close it off. If you look closely, I left a gap in the wall between the pantry and kitchen. A slim, lightweight partition could be installed there as a sliding element, allowing the kitchen to be completely separated from the living room. I know that would be 4 meters (13 feet). Such a long sliding door would be a custom solution and the question is whether it can even be built.
Additional details:
- KFW 55 standard
- Solid brick house (which probably means the wall thicknesses in the floor plan aren’t accurate)
- Air-to-water heat pump with underfloor heating
Best regards
we would love to benefit from your experience and would appreciate it if you could critically review our floor plan draft. The images are attached.
We recently found a plot of land and have started planning. In terms of the house shape and design, I fell in love with a house by Kitzlinger (reference house Erkenbrechtsweiler). This Cape Cod style in sandalwood or cappuccino color just looks great, in my opinion, and goes really well with white. Using a free software program, I copied the exterior dimensions and rearranged the interior walls and staircase completely to our taste. So this is just an amateur draft. Of course, I copied from other floor plans as much as possible.
The ideas behind it:
- We prefer a straight staircase even though it takes up a lot of space. However, it is not a must-have.
- The office/guest room (northwest side) should be on the ground floor, as my wife needs it for work and sometimes wants to take documents into the living room.
- The idea of a separable kitchen: An open-plan kitchen is great. But we would like the option to close it off. If you look closely, I left a gap in the wall between the pantry and kitchen. A slim, lightweight partition could be installed there as a sliding element, allowing the kitchen to be completely separated from the living room. I know that would be 4 meters (13 feet). Such a long sliding door would be a custom solution and the question is whether it can even be built.
Additional details:
- KFW 55 standard
- Solid brick house (which probably means the wall thicknesses in the floor plan aren’t accurate)
- Air-to-water heat pump with underfloor heating
Best regards
11ant schrieb:
Still, I would develop a floor plan based more on the needs than by working backwards from the exterior (which even advanced designers don’t always manage, but they usually work forward). OT: It’s boring to always go through the needs checklist. Buying a house for its beauty is perfectly legitimate.
Let the architect figure out how to fit the needs inside. That’s what you pay them for, after all.