ᐅ Single-family home designed by an architect, 150 m² – looking for improvement suggestions and ideas
Created on: 2 Oct 2019 10:32
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DimaNDS
Development Plan / Restrictions
Lot size: 528m² (5679 sq ft)
Slope: no
Site coverage ratio: 0.3
Floor area ratio: 0.45
Building window, building line and boundary: Roof ridge direction E/W
Edge development: Garage max 15m (49 ft)
Number of floors: 2
Roof type: Gable roof
Orientation: S/W
Maximum height / limits: 9m (30 ft) ridge height
Other: Sound insulation class IV
Client Requirements
Style, roof type, building type: Modern
Basement, floors: no basement, ground floor, upper floor, partial attic
Number of occupants, age: 4
Room requirements ground floor, upper floor: Ground floor living room, kitchen, guest room, office, guest WC, storage room; upper floor 2 children’s rooms, master bedroom, bathroom
Office: family use or home office: both
Overnight guests per year: 10
Open or closed architecture: open
Conservative or modern construction: modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island: yes
Number of dining seats: minimum 6
Fireplace: no
Music/stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: double steel garage with utility room, 6 x 9m (20 x 30 ft)
Vegetable garden, greenhouse: no (bed in front of kitchen)
House Design
Planning by: Architect
What do you particularly like? Why?: We love the openness of the house.
What do you not like? Why?: We really like the design, but we’re unsure if there might be issues with the technical installations in the attic. Also, access to the attic is via a door in the gable, which might look a bit odd. The architect designed a shelf/ladder construction here. Possibly there is too little storage space for items not used regularly, like Christmas decorations.
Price estimate by architect/planner: €330,000 (including exterior landscaping and kitchen)
Personal price limit for house, including fittings: €350,000
Preferred heating technology: Gas or heat pump, depending on whether sound insulation class leads to a KFW 55 house standard. We still need to get advice on this.
If you had to give up something, which details/extensions
-could you do without: walk-in closet
-could you not do without: the general openness of the house.
Why is the design the way it is now? e.g.
Which wishes were implemented by the architect? Bedroom facing east, living room facing west, evening sun in the kitchen.
What makes it especially good or bad in your eyes? Good: It is not a standard house you’ve seen 100 times in builder catalogs. Bad: Relatively high space wastage due to the openness.
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan in 130 characters?
What would you do differently or improve? Have we overlooked anything that could cause problems later?
Unfortunately, I cannot upload PDFs. The dimensions are there as well. For orientation: The living room is exactly 4m (13 ft) wide.
Lot size: 528m² (5679 sq ft)
Slope: no
Site coverage ratio: 0.3
Floor area ratio: 0.45
Building window, building line and boundary: Roof ridge direction E/W
Edge development: Garage max 15m (49 ft)
Number of floors: 2
Roof type: Gable roof
Orientation: S/W
Maximum height / limits: 9m (30 ft) ridge height
Other: Sound insulation class IV
Client Requirements
Style, roof type, building type: Modern
Basement, floors: no basement, ground floor, upper floor, partial attic
Number of occupants, age: 4
Room requirements ground floor, upper floor: Ground floor living room, kitchen, guest room, office, guest WC, storage room; upper floor 2 children’s rooms, master bedroom, bathroom
Office: family use or home office: both
Overnight guests per year: 10
Open or closed architecture: open
Conservative or modern construction: modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island: yes
Number of dining seats: minimum 6
Fireplace: no
Music/stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: double steel garage with utility room, 6 x 9m (20 x 30 ft)
Vegetable garden, greenhouse: no (bed in front of kitchen)
House Design
Planning by: Architect
What do you particularly like? Why?: We love the openness of the house.
What do you not like? Why?: We really like the design, but we’re unsure if there might be issues with the technical installations in the attic. Also, access to the attic is via a door in the gable, which might look a bit odd. The architect designed a shelf/ladder construction here. Possibly there is too little storage space for items not used regularly, like Christmas decorations.
Price estimate by architect/planner: €330,000 (including exterior landscaping and kitchen)
Personal price limit for house, including fittings: €350,000
Preferred heating technology: Gas or heat pump, depending on whether sound insulation class leads to a KFW 55 house standard. We still need to get advice on this.
If you had to give up something, which details/extensions
-could you do without: walk-in closet
-could you not do without: the general openness of the house.
Why is the design the way it is now? e.g.
Which wishes were implemented by the architect? Bedroom facing east, living room facing west, evening sun in the kitchen.
What makes it especially good or bad in your eyes? Good: It is not a standard house you’ve seen 100 times in builder catalogs. Bad: Relatively high space wastage due to the openness.
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan in 130 characters?
What would you do differently or improve? Have we overlooked anything that could cause problems later?
Unfortunately, I cannot upload PDFs. The dimensions are there as well. For orientation: The living room is exactly 4m (13 ft) wide.
DimaNDS schrieb:
For us personally, the hallway would need to be more spacious. I like to enter a house and have some room to move. The corridor is 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) wide. Without making the house bigger, I don’t see many options to increase the hallway width here.
DimaNDS schrieb:
How big is the room with the washing machine? Can you also hang laundry there? It’s 2.75 x 2.15 m (9 ft x 7 ft). There’s definitely enough space for a drying rack as well.
DimaNDS schrieb:
Darn. I calculated it with an online tool, it was all green. I assumed it would fit. Well, it’s not quite that simple. A tread depth of 23.2 cm (9.1 in) might still meet the standard (DIN), but in everyday use that only works up to about a European shoe size 35 or so. What shoe size do you wear?
This is something best measured and tested in a show home or model house.
DimaNDS schrieb:
Is 30 cm enough for the ceiling? Yes, that's what I always use. There are thicker ones, but usually only by about 2 cm (0.8 in), which doesn’t make much of a difference.
kaho674 schrieb:
Well, it’s not quite that simple. A tread width of 23.2cm (9 inches) might still meet DIN standards, but in everyday use, it only works up to about a shoe size 35 or so. What shoe size do you wear?
This is exactly the kind of thing you should measure and test well in a show home.I adjusted it to 370. That should work, right?
You want air at the entrance, but you start the staircase right next to the door. I actually prefer Katja’s layout by far.
Regarding staircases, the pinned post in this forum section includes the following drawing:
This is for examples with a floor-to-ceiling height of 280 cm (110 inches), but you want more. At the bottom, for the quarter-turn staircase, you need about 130 cm (51 inches), which would be directly next to your entrance door.
About your design ... the kitchen peninsula mainly serves as a work surface and, with a depth of only 60 cm (24 inches), is generally quite impractical, especially with a 135 cm (53 inches) distance to the cooking and sink area. Anyone who wants to access the refrigerator always has to go all the way into the kitchen.
What is the small room on the upper floor supposed to be ... another office?
Regarding staircases, the pinned post in this forum section includes the following drawing:
This is for examples with a floor-to-ceiling height of 280 cm (110 inches), but you want more. At the bottom, for the quarter-turn staircase, you need about 130 cm (51 inches), which would be directly next to your entrance door.
About your design ... the kitchen peninsula mainly serves as a work surface and, with a depth of only 60 cm (24 inches), is generally quite impractical, especially with a 135 cm (53 inches) distance to the cooking and sink area. Anyone who wants to access the refrigerator always has to go all the way into the kitchen.
What is the small room on the upper floor supposed to be ... another office?
DimaNDS schrieb:
I adjusted it to 370. That should work, right?
Strange, I get a different result with the same initial values:
That’s funny. Sorry, I’m not sure who’s mistaken here.
But when in doubt, it’s better to allow more space.
This will be a gable roof house with two full stories. Do you really need that bay window for the kitchen? It’s nice, but it forces you to keep the house width symmetrical. Without it, you have more flexibility.
There’s also no question of having extra space in the entrance with your design. You have a narrow hallway next to the stairs. The room feels more open, but don’t underestimate the bulk of the staircase! People always think it’s empty space and you could fit a whole living room underneath.
When it comes to the kitchen, it’s best to follow Kerstin (kbt09). But if you ask me, it’s terrible, sorry.
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