ᐅ Single-family house with approximately 150 sqm floor area – how to plan the staircase?
Created on: 15 Oct 2017 20:12
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manyyuu
We are currently in the middle of planning our dream house and have now finished the initial drafts. We would greatly appreciate any suggestions, critiques, or improvement ideas. Our main priorities were a large, bright, and open living/dining area, a home office on the ground floor that can also accommodate a pull-out sofa bed, two showers—one being a walk-in shower upstairs alongside a bathtub—and two children's bedrooms of approximately equal size.
We are still uncertain about the following: a separate dressing room (advantages: my husband leaves for work earlier in the morning and can get dressed in a separate room, plus more sound insulation to the children’s room, which will later be a teenager’s room), a small pantry behind the kitchen and whether it should be open or have a narrow sliding door, and whether the staircase should be open or closed with space for a wardrobe underneath. We are also open to general advice on other aspects.
The house will have a gable roof with a 44° pitch and a slightly projecting captain’s gable. The knee wall (kniestock) will be about 1 meter (3 feet) high. Attached are the floor plans for the ground floor and upper floor, as well as the ground floor with the dimensions and outlines of the plot, terrace, and carport. Thank you very much!
Development plan/restrictions
Plot size: 600 m² (90 m² of which is driveway, due to rear development)
Slope: none
Site coverage ratio: 0.3
Floor area ratio: no specification
Building line and boundary: building line on the north side is 5 meters (16 feet) from the property boundary
Boundary setback: 3 meters (10 feet)
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of floors: 1 full floor
Roof type: gable roof
Architectural style
Orientation
Maximum height/limits: 8.50 meters (28 feet)
Other specifications: none
Owner requirements
Architectural style, roof type, building type: captain’s house
Basement, floors: no basement, 1.5 floors
Number of residents, ages: 4 people, two adults, 2 children aged 3 years each
Space requirements on ground floor and upper floor
Office: family use or home office: home office once per week
Guest sleepers per year: 3
Open or closed architecture
Conservative or modern design
Open kitchen, kitchen island: open living-dining area with kitchen island
Fireplace: no
Carport
Additional wishes/special features/daily routine, including reasons why certain features are included or excluded
House design
Planner: Do-it-Yourself
What do you especially like? Why? The open and bright living area.
What do you not like? Why? The hallway, not enough space for the wardrobe, floor plan not optimal
Personal budget limit for the house including fittings: 300,000 euros (including development but excluding other additional construction costs and land), building in Schleswig-Holstein.
Preferred heating technology: gas boiler with solar thermal for hot water
If you have to do without, which details/features could you forego: pantry, separate dressing room
Why has the design developed the way it is now?
A mix of many examples from various sources.
We are still uncertain about the following: a separate dressing room (advantages: my husband leaves for work earlier in the morning and can get dressed in a separate room, plus more sound insulation to the children’s room, which will later be a teenager’s room), a small pantry behind the kitchen and whether it should be open or have a narrow sliding door, and whether the staircase should be open or closed with space for a wardrobe underneath. We are also open to general advice on other aspects.
The house will have a gable roof with a 44° pitch and a slightly projecting captain’s gable. The knee wall (kniestock) will be about 1 meter (3 feet) high. Attached are the floor plans for the ground floor and upper floor, as well as the ground floor with the dimensions and outlines of the plot, terrace, and carport. Thank you very much!
Development plan/restrictions
Plot size: 600 m² (90 m² of which is driveway, due to rear development)
Slope: none
Site coverage ratio: 0.3
Floor area ratio: no specification
Building line and boundary: building line on the north side is 5 meters (16 feet) from the property boundary
Boundary setback: 3 meters (10 feet)
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of floors: 1 full floor
Roof type: gable roof
Architectural style
Orientation
Maximum height/limits: 8.50 meters (28 feet)
Other specifications: none
Owner requirements
Architectural style, roof type, building type: captain’s house
Basement, floors: no basement, 1.5 floors
Number of residents, ages: 4 people, two adults, 2 children aged 3 years each
Space requirements on ground floor and upper floor
Office: family use or home office: home office once per week
Guest sleepers per year: 3
Open or closed architecture
Conservative or modern design
Open kitchen, kitchen island: open living-dining area with kitchen island
Fireplace: no
Carport
Additional wishes/special features/daily routine, including reasons why certain features are included or excluded
House design
Planner: Do-it-Yourself
What do you especially like? Why? The open and bright living area.
What do you not like? Why? The hallway, not enough space for the wardrobe, floor plan not optimal
Personal budget limit for the house including fittings: 300,000 euros (including development but excluding other additional construction costs and land), building in Schleswig-Holstein.
Preferred heating technology: gas boiler with solar thermal for hot water
If you have to do without, which details/features could you forego: pantry, separate dressing room
Why has the design developed the way it is now?
A mix of many examples from various sources.
We only have a small side panel and a total of 1.65m (5.4 feet) for the door plus the side panel. The door is 1m (3.3 feet) and the side panel 0.65m (2.1 feet). However, I’m not sure about the frame in between. I’ll have to check that tonight.
If I were to build it again, I would have no problem extending the window completely over the staircase. But first, I would ask the stair builder what is possible.
If I were to build it again, I would have no problem extending the window completely over the staircase. But first, I would ask the stair builder what is possible.
manyyuu schrieb:
common width of a front door with a narrow side panel +/- 1.6 m (width of the opening in the wall) (5.25 ft)
manyyuu schrieb:
I had read that most construction companies use 15cm (6 inches) for load-bearing walls and 12cm (5 inches) for partition walls. That must have been a very unreliable source.
manyyuu schrieb:
We had considered using calcium silicate blocks for the interior walls because they are supposed to provide better sound insulation. I always have to smile when I read that. Which of you actually gives both children an electric guitar or a drum set? Normal household noises are manageable with other wall types as well. Expecting to block sound completely with a solid wall is, anyway, a rather naive idea.
Builders roughly split their preference 50/50 between the two most common options: either calcium silicate blocks or the same type of blocks used for exterior walls.
manyyuu schrieb:
Can someone tell me the common width of a front door with a narrow sidelight? A front door is typically planned with a width of 1.01 m or 1.135 m (40 inches or 45 inches). Sidelights narrower than half a meter (20 inches) usually look too slim in my opinion. So overall, with a single sidelight, the total width is generally between 1.51 m and 1.885 m (60 inches and 74 inches).
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11ant schrieb:
Who here really gives each of their children an electric guitar or a drum set right away? Well, we have both. Isn’t that normal?
11ant schrieb:
- other walls can handle normal household noises too. Expecting to block sound with a solid barrier is generally unrealistic. I don’t know. The walls we have now are really poorly sound-insulated. Since it’s just the two of us, it wasn’t an issue. In my father’s old building, the interior walls are all over 20cm (8 inches) thick. The whole house is much quieter. The doors are all fairly inexpensive and new — so it can’t be those. It must be the walls then.
manyyuu schrieb:
I have two younger siblings who are teenagers, and when I visit my parents’ house and hear nonstop, full-volume heartache songs from a boy band playing throughout the house, it definitely makes you think more about soundproofing [emoji23]
Aren’t there headphones for that? [emoji33]
Or perhaps a different approach to upbringing, focusing on consideration for others [emoji848]
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