ᐅ Single-family home floor plan with a gable roof – Requesting your tips

Hello everyone,

We are very happy to have discovered this forum and are now hoping for your help. We look forward to giving back some of the knowledge we gain here during the course of our building project.

In the coming months, we will begin building our single-family house of about 170m² (1,830 sq ft). No basement is planned. The house will have a gable roof with a 45° pitch and a knee wall taller than 1m (3.3 ft). The technical installations (heating, etc.) will be located in one corner of the attic. The remaining attic space will be developed later. The south side faces the garden, oriented towards the kitchen, dining room, and living room. Although a straight staircase takes up floor space, it is indispensable for us.

We have attached the current floor plan that we developed together with the architect.

We would appreciate your feedback and tips to further optimize this layout. Especially regarding the kitchen, dining room, and living room being adjacent, we are concerned it might become too cramped.

Thank you very much in advance!

Hi,
unfortunately, I can’t open the files. Would it be possible to use jpg instead?
Good luck!

Hi kaho674,
I have attached the floor plans again in jpg format.
I hope the quality is sufficient to read the measurements.
Good luck

Hi, wow thanks for the jpg service.
Solid standard floor plan with minor adjustments. I generally think it’s very good. The only thing I really don’t like: when you enter the bedroom, you first run into the wall.

kaho674 schrieb:
... When you enter the bedroom, you first run into the wall.

I don’t find that a problem here at all: just put a mirror on the wall and that’s it.
What would bother me is the fireplace. You always have to walk around it, and there really isn’t much space.
Is that a window between the hallway and the living room? A stylish feature, but it would be very inconvenient if the sofa is ever placed against the free wall. Do you have two armchairs as shown, or are those placeholders? I would suggest you draw in your actual furniture.
Are those floor-level windows in the cloakroom and the bathroom?

Regards, Yvonne

Do you have to build a single-story house, or is the plan considered single-story?
I am also planning with a gable roof at a 45-degree angle and must keep it single-story, so I am calculating a knee wall of about 1 meter (3 feet 3 inches).