ᐅ Single-family home for a family with four children – somehow still not quite balanced

Do you like the exterior and the sloped ceilings in the floor plan?

I think the large hallway is nice. Friends have a big room used as a cloakroom, entrance, and hallway, about 11 m² (120 ft²). With six people and when friends come over, it’s not too big. You know yourself how much hustle there is and how many coats, shoes, and bags you have.

I would prefer to have the bathroom on the ground floor near the children’s bedroom. Otherwise, the teenager always has to walk through the dirty area.

In the kitchen, dining, and living areas, mark all the furniture you have or want in scale including space to move around. Also check the other rooms to see if the layout fits.

A children’s bedroom 10 m (33 ft) from the neighbor is fine. It’s more than most people have.

4kidssun schrieb:
Modern style – lots of glass with a pitched roof

Is this modern or just unusual? Looking at the 3D shape, it reminds me of 1980s modernism. But taste is subjective. If you like it, that’s what counts.
However, I want to note that the terrace side doesn’t look very inviting. Sitting on such facades, spending time on the terrace, really depends on personal preference.

I scaled the floor plan using a tool and noticed—looking at the angled extension on the west side where you have to wonder about the reason for the angled layout—that the main building body with the entrance, dining area, and so on doesn’t have any 90-degree angles on the exterior walls. It’s not a rectangular footprint but an irregular trapezoid, as is the “extension,” which is also an irregular trapezoid.
An angled extension can add visual interest to the facade, but I wonder how you plan to manage a neat roof here. The mason won’t have it easy, nor the roofer and carpenter. The complicated shape increases the risk of construction errors.

I then rotated the floor plan about 0.9 degrees with a program. This makes the lines and 90-degree angles in the kitchen and dining area fit, though the wall to the garage is no longer at 90 degrees. Well.

Also noticeable are niches that might make sense for one room but are disadvantageous for another. What about the corner between the room and the entrance door?
The kitchen wall is offset from the outer wall corner—how do you plan to neatly separate that with furniture?
What about the partition walls between the two bathrooms? In my opinion, the architect’s pencil slipped here more than once. There are too many placeholder boxes on the plan. Whether the floor plan is sensible or not. Also, there are too many “wall noses” (small wall protrusions) that could be eliminated.

4kidssun schrieb:
Number of floors: ground floor + upper floor + basement (which already fits)

Since the basement foundation provides structural support for the additional floors, it is indeed important. I assume there is only a partial basement, under the “main house”?
This is not an attic floor but a two-story house plus roof.

Regarding the floor plan:
For four children, about 10sqm (about 108 sq ft) for the entrance area (excluding the hallway before the garage and bathroom doors) is, in my opinion, not oversized.
If you don’t need the garage passage, just leave it out.
The coatroom should be more accessible from the entrance door. 3sqm (about 32 sq ft) for a shower/WC is not ideal. There’s hardly room for changing or drying off.
Assuming that the room in the upper left of the plan is a child’s bedroom, where the shower is supposed to be important, I don’t see a smooth daily routine for this child.
Off the top of my head, I’d immediately suggest creating a sightline to the outside terrace from the entrance area—that is, swap door and window and remove the partition wall at the fireplace.
However, the coatroom area already feels too awkward. Moving the staircase would be beneficial, also to resolve the “slalom” upstairs with the bathrooms, but after several attempts, I can’t say where it would fit best.
It should also be mentioned that the staircase can’t simply be moved around freely; it should be fixed in the initial planning.

Moving on roughly: the kitchen size is a joke. It’s smaller than in my two-person house, which barely suffices. I have no explanation for this asymmetry. Our table and island are also angled but harmoniously arranged with intention, with the rest aligned. Here, it just looks arbitrary. The dining area offers no space for additional family guests.
The seating window in the west of the dining area obstructs access to the terrace. A step down to the living area—you either like it or not. It looks elegant but creates a barrier.

Upstairs feels too compartmentalized: many small sections that don’t effectively serve each room. Why is there a separate toilet in the master bathroom? Meanwhile, the shower is rather small, and the bathtub faces the neighbors. Children have to go through the dressing room to reach the bathtub. Again, I miss a practical daily flow.
There is no laundry chute on the ground floor, only the chimney shaft.

Smooth transitions and straightforward lines often look more stylish (like in the parents’ area). Rather than adding options for more doors through these wall protrusions, I would plan them intentionally and omit other doors.
The children’s bathroom, with 7.5sqm (about 81 sq ft) and better design, could also accommodate a bathtub. A sauna can be rectangular. The “projection” in the bedroom makes no sense to me. Is it due to the south side? For the room’s feel, a 180-degree rotation of the bed would be better.

Back to the south facade: a chill-out area where you mostly sit in the evening and a dining area where you want daylight are planned opposite each other with a facade overhang. This doesn’t make sense.

The more I look at it, the more I wonder if the architect overreached a bit with the design and development of the house. I get the feeling he usually works in a more standard range but here wanted to break out with the facade look and floor plan, unleashing what he suppressed for 40 years.

A children’s room 10 meters (33 feet) from the neighbor’s building is no issue.

Quick & Dirty with the available space:
By the way, the sofa is 3 meters wide (10 feet), which is not unusual for a household of six people. There would probably still be room for two ottomans, but no piano.
By the way: For one step, the area is probably too small.

The wardrobe can certainly be made more compact and the kitchen more spacious. This is just Quick & Dirty.

I see two building volumes with staggered shed roofs, parallel to the property boundary on the east side. I don’t like the architect’s design idea at all.

The most interesting view is missing in post #6, while one of the others is shown twice.

---

https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/

There's nothing more coming here, right? @4kidssun
Thanks for the exchange! 🙁