ᐅ Floor Plan for a Single-Family Home, 175 m² – Suggestions for Improvement?
Created on: 28 Jun 2022 23:26
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Dizzy05
Hello,
We are currently working on the floor plan design. Attached is the architect’s proposal. Overall, we like the layout very much, but I feel there is unnecessarily large living space lost to the hallway/entrance area/staircase. Does anyone have suggestions for improvement?
Development Plan / Restrictions
Plot size: 2,200 m2 (0.54 acres)
No slope
Location: Saxony-Anhalt
Number of stories: 2 floors
There is no formal development plan; the building should just fit the character of the street (residential area only)
Client Requirements
Style, roof type, building type: simple design, mono-pitched roof
No basement
Number of occupants, ages: four people, including two children of preschool age
Space needs on ground floor: living room, large kitchen, pantry, WC with shower, guest room, utility room
Space needs on upper floor: master bedroom, walk-in closet, three children’s rooms, bathroom, additional toilet
Overnight guests per year: once per month
Closed architecture
Conservative construction style
Kitchen: preferably with an island
Number of dining seats: 6
No balcony or roof terrace
No garage or carport
House Design
Planner: architect
What do you particularly like and why? Flexible and adaptable floor plan; it could be converted into two separate units later on
What do you dislike and why? Too much living space wasted on the hallway/entrance/staircase
Preferred heating system: heat pump, underfloor heating
If you had to give up something, which details or extras?
Can be omitted: open gallery on the upper floor, additional toilet on the upper floor
Cannot be omitted: floor plan must remain adaptable
Why was the design made the way it is now?
It is important to us that the single-family house can be divided into two separate living units
What is the most important/fundamental question about the floor plan, summarized in 130 characters?
Can the hallway/entrance/staircase be made smaller?
We are currently working on the floor plan design. Attached is the architect’s proposal. Overall, we like the layout very much, but I feel there is unnecessarily large living space lost to the hallway/entrance area/staircase. Does anyone have suggestions for improvement?
Development Plan / Restrictions
Plot size: 2,200 m2 (0.54 acres)
No slope
Location: Saxony-Anhalt
Number of stories: 2 floors
There is no formal development plan; the building should just fit the character of the street (residential area only)
Client Requirements
Style, roof type, building type: simple design, mono-pitched roof
No basement
Number of occupants, ages: four people, including two children of preschool age
Space needs on ground floor: living room, large kitchen, pantry, WC with shower, guest room, utility room
Space needs on upper floor: master bedroom, walk-in closet, three children’s rooms, bathroom, additional toilet
Overnight guests per year: once per month
Closed architecture
Conservative construction style
Kitchen: preferably with an island
Number of dining seats: 6
No balcony or roof terrace
No garage or carport
House Design
Planner: architect
What do you particularly like and why? Flexible and adaptable floor plan; it could be converted into two separate units later on
What do you dislike and why? Too much living space wasted on the hallway/entrance/staircase
Preferred heating system: heat pump, underfloor heating
If you had to give up something, which details or extras?
Can be omitted: open gallery on the upper floor, additional toilet on the upper floor
Cannot be omitted: floor plan must remain adaptable
Why was the design made the way it is now?
It is important to us that the single-family house can be divided into two separate living units
What is the most important/fundamental question about the floor plan, summarized in 130 characters?
Can the hallway/entrance/staircase be made smaller?
Myrna_Loy schrieb:
but later in life not to end up with empty rooms. Those can be well used for new hobbies during retirement and as guest rooms for grandchildren. With three children, there will be quite a lot of grandchildren, and then the rooms can be used.
To me, this all seems too narrow-minded and lacking a broader perspective… but I also find the discussion somewhat one-sided.
Regarding the floor plans:
Hallways are too dark without natural daylight. No cloakroom or place to put a dresser or wardrobe for jackets or shoes. The living room is relatively large compared to the rest. The bedroom is hardly furnishable with a double bed and wardrobe. The dressing room on the upper floor offers no real advantage beyond its 3 meters (10 feet). Just noticed: RBM 3.00… so not even a 3-meter (10 feet) wardrobe is possible. The upper floor apartment has no balcony or terrace.
No utility room on the upper floor. Where will laundry be done? The window seat is also not a quiet zone, which it is supposed to be.
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felicitias_11 Jul 2022 15:53Why such a negative view – I’ve been thinking the same thing all along.
We built something similar, although with a few more square meters. We have two tall, narrow windows in the stairwell and a wall opening between the stairs and the hallway on the upper floor. This opening can be permanently glazed if the floors ever need to be separated.
Space for a coat rack is indeed limited with this floor plan. That would require some further consideration.
And when people always say: build for now, and if you can’t manage the stairs later, you can’t live in the house anymore – that simply isn’t true. I think that’s a very narrow way of thinking. My father-in-law can no longer manage the stairs. He lives alone quite comfortably. In the mornings, a home care service comes for showers and so on. He moves around the house with a cane or rollator. In the afternoons, my sister-in-law visits and keeps him company over coffee and cake. A cleaning service has been coming for 20 years already (back then, he and his wife were still doing very well). If he didn’t have a (former) guest room on the ground floor, he really wouldn’t be able to stay in the house anymore, but with it, he manages very well.
We built something similar, although with a few more square meters. We have two tall, narrow windows in the stairwell and a wall opening between the stairs and the hallway on the upper floor. This opening can be permanently glazed if the floors ever need to be separated.
Space for a coat rack is indeed limited with this floor plan. That would require some further consideration.
And when people always say: build for now, and if you can’t manage the stairs later, you can’t live in the house anymore – that simply isn’t true. I think that’s a very narrow way of thinking. My father-in-law can no longer manage the stairs. He lives alone quite comfortably. In the mornings, a home care service comes for showers and so on. He moves around the house with a cane or rollator. In the afternoons, my sister-in-law visits and keeps him company over coffee and cake. A cleaning service has been coming for 20 years already (back then, he and his wife were still doing very well). If he didn’t have a (former) guest room on the ground floor, he really wouldn’t be able to stay in the house anymore, but with it, he manages very well.
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