ᐅ Semi-detached house floor plan review

Created on: 5 May 2017 23:21
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Ev-Marie86
It is a semi-detached house with 145 m² (1,560 sq ft)... and the bay window is included in the price for this house type. An open kitchen was important to us... We are currently just two people... if you have any more questions... just ASK
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Ev-Marie86
5 May 2017 23:34
Guest room = office ... and space for coats and so on ...
RobsonMKK5 May 2017 23:45
Then change the children's room and the bedroom. That way, there may be no issues.
11ant5 May 2017 23:45
If the dimensions did not suggest a solid construction, I would assume the floor plan is for a prefabricated house. An Okal house from around 1980. The floor plan designer seems to lack passion for their profession.

The pantry sliding door requires more wall space for its casing than the space it saves compared to a swinging door. The utility room on the upper floor looks as if it was strictly designed to fit exactly above the hallway on the ground floor, without being a millimeter wider. The bathroom is probably drawn without fixtures for a good reason—to avoid quickly revealing how cramped it actually is.

I don’t see any potential for a joyful living experience there.

What are the angles at the ends of the exterior gable walls supposed to represent?
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ypg
6 May 2017 00:06
Ev-Marie86 schrieb:
Unfortunately, the door cannot be moved... there’s simply no space... and the kitchen door can’t be moved either... because a cabinet will go there... and the hallway is intentionally small because I think large hallways waste space... the house isn’t that big anyway... the staircase is open underneath with no plans for anything there..

Planning without any measurements is nearly impossible. But the utility room door on the ground floor can be moved... and so can the kitchen door... I also don’t understand large hallways, but you hardly have any space for furniture... and children are planned, with all that comes with it. Don’t you have shoes that need to be stored somewhere? We put the entire coat storage under the stairs as a storage room for two people – it’s necessary, otherwise it looks messy.
11ant schrieb:
If the measurements didn’t suggest solid construction, I would conclude from the floor plan that this is a prefabricated house. Okal house from around 1980. The floor plan designer seems to have a serious lack of passion for their profession.

And what’s the value of this comment now? Doesn’t matter!
11ant schrieb:
The bathroom is probably drawn without fixtures for a good reason, so you don’t immediately notice how cramped it is.

I agree with you on that!
11ant6 May 2017 00:34
11ant schrieb:
If the dimensions didn’t suggest solid construction, I would guess from the floor plan that it’s a prefabricated house. Okal house from around 1980.
ypg schrieb:
And what’s the added value in this post? Doesn’t matter!

If you can’t follow me linguistically here, I’ll put it more bluntly: the floor plan looks as messed up as the typical one-meter-twenty-five beam grid used in prefab houses back then. Unimaginative to the power of three. Didn’t fit here, didn’t fit there—the machine step dictated it.
Ev-Marie86 schrieb:
Guest room = office ... and space for coats and so on...

Twelve square meters (about 130 square feet) of coat storage instead of a proper wardrobe. No comment.

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Now, a bit more constructive—I’ll try a quick, minimal improvement on this mess:


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



2D floor plan of a family house with bedroom, children’s rooms, bathroom, and hallway


Although I actually like the idea of the utility room upstairs, spatially I found it botched.

So I integrated it into the utility room on the ground floor, moved the WC to the other side, expanded the pantry a bit “upwards,” and slightly adjusted the living room door’s swing.

Upstairs, I enlarged (decreased the cramped feeling of) the bathroom and adjusted the wall lines to match the roof shape. You have to imagine the quick sketch: the door to child 1 slightly shifted, the doors to child 2 and the master bedroom at the end of the hallway.

Not a Picasso or a dream house, just a minimally invasive suggestion to fix the mess.
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ypg
6 May 2017 00:45
11ant schrieb:
If you can’t follow me linguistically here, I’ll put it more bluntly: the floor plan looks as messed up as the typical 1.25-meter (4 feet) beam grid used in prefab houses back then. unimaginative to the third power. Didn’t fit here, didn’t fit there, the machine spacing dictated it.

I can definitely follow vulgar language – but I still don’t see how it benefits the original poster.

But too late: OP has the post deleted – that was your “contribution”! Makes me sick!!!