ᐅ Single-family home floor plan with a gable roof – Requesting your tips
Created on: 4 Jan 2015 12:50
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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!
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!
Thanks for your initial feedback.
The fireplace will be removed. I forgot to mention that.
We are building a one-and-a-half-story house. However, the building plan allows considerable flexibility with the eaves height, so our knee wall should be a bit over 1m (3.3 feet).
The windows in the guest bathroom and the wardrobe are currently planned as floor-to-ceiling windows, but we want to find a way to make them opaque...
Yes, the small window between the hallway and the living room is meant to be a little highlight.
We will place an L-shaped sofa at the corner window. The dimensions of the currently drawn furniture fit this arrangement. The TV wall will be located as shown, recessed toward the office area.
Our main concern is that the kitchen, dining area, and living room will be side by side within an external width of 11.36m (internal width approximately 10.40m or 34 feet). Do you think this might feel too cramped? The house has over 160m² (1,722 sq ft), but the living space area is then only about 50m² (538 sq ft). Could someone warn us or reassure us regarding this?
The fireplace will be removed. I forgot to mention that.
We are building a one-and-a-half-story house. However, the building plan allows considerable flexibility with the eaves height, so our knee wall should be a bit over 1m (3.3 feet).
The windows in the guest bathroom and the wardrobe are currently planned as floor-to-ceiling windows, but we want to find a way to make them opaque...
Yes, the small window between the hallway and the living room is meant to be a little highlight.
We will place an L-shaped sofa at the corner window. The dimensions of the currently drawn furniture fit this arrangement. The TV wall will be located as shown, recessed toward the office area.
Our main concern is that the kitchen, dining area, and living room will be side by side within an external width of 11.36m (internal width approximately 10.40m or 34 feet). Do you think this might feel too cramped? The house has over 160m² (1,722 sq ft), but the living space area is then only about 50m² (538 sq ft). Could someone warn us or reassure us regarding this?
blockhauspower5 Jan 2015 19:56Hello, our kitchen, dining area, and living room are arranged in a straight line, just like yours. We have an internal dimension of about 10.60m x 4.20m (35 ft x 14 ft), which is more than sufficient for us.
Best regards
Best regards
What would bother me now is that you always have to go through the kitchen from the garage to enter the house. I would therefore add the unused corner in the kitchen to the hallway.
And upstairs, the entrance to the bedroom/dressing room would bother me. To get into the dressing room, you first have to close the door from inside before you can enter. Not very convenient when carrying a laundry basket. I would also move the door to the office a bit away from the wall so that there is still space for a wardrobe behind the door.
Other than that, I quite like the floor plan.
Regarding your question: Our future living/dining area is only 36m2 (387 sq ft), and we find that sufficient.
And upstairs, the entrance to the bedroom/dressing room would bother me. To get into the dressing room, you first have to close the door from inside before you can enter. Not very convenient when carrying a laundry basket. I would also move the door to the office a bit away from the wall so that there is still space for a wardrobe behind the door.
Other than that, I quite like the floor plan.
Regarding your question: Our future living/dining area is only 36m2 (387 sq ft), and we find that sufficient.
One thing I’ve also noticed is the kitchen door and utility room entrance layout. Usually, the kitchen door is probably left open most of the time, except when frying onions. Then a person comes energetically through the utility room door: “bam” – head hits the door. We had a similar issue and decided to have the kitchen door open into the hallway instead.
If the fireplace is removed, the door there will need to be reconsidered as well. This will likely reduce usable space in the living room.
If the chimney is removed, you could relocate the bedroom door – this way you won’t walk into the wall anymore, which is a good decision.
If the fireplace is removed, the door there will need to be reconsidered as well. This will likely reduce usable space in the living room.
If the chimney is removed, you could relocate the bedroom door – this way you won’t walk into the wall anymore, which is a good decision.
Okay, single-story and one-and-a-half-story should be the same, unless I’m completely mistaken.
The number of stories needs to be calculated (proportion of floor area with under 2m (6.5 feet) ceiling height), and as a non-expert, I think this mainly depends on the knee wall height and roof pitch in a gable roof. I’m curious how you determine that you still count as one-and-a-half-story, because right now I can only estimate this roughly.
Thanks and regards
The number of stories needs to be calculated (proportion of floor area with under 2m (6.5 feet) ceiling height), and as a non-expert, I think this mainly depends on the knee wall height and roof pitch in a gable roof. I’m curious how you determine that you still count as one-and-a-half-story, because right now I can only estimate this roughly.
Thanks and regards
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