ᐅ Single-family Home Without Basement – Floor Plan Discussion
Created on: 21 Apr 2018 10:46
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Saarländle21 Apr 2018 10:46Hello everyone,
we have already made significant progress with our floor plan. However, we would like to open it up for discussion to see if you notice any aspects we might have overlooked and that can still be changed at this stage.
Development plan/restrictions
Plot size: 534sqm (5748 sq ft)
Slope: no
Building envelope, building line, and boundary: see plan
Number of floors: 2
Roof type: gable
Orientation: as shown in the plan
Homeowners’ requirements
Style, roof type, building type: simple, open, practical
Basement, floors: no basement, 2 full floors
Number of people, ages: 2 adults around 40 and 2 children aged 3 and 6
Space needs on ground floor and upper floor: currently, most daily life happens on the ground floor
Office: family use or home office? Office and guest room or optional
Number of guest stays per year: 10
Open or closed layout: open
Open kitchen, kitchen island:
Number of dining seats: 6-8
Fireplace: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: yes
Utility garden, greenhouse: possibly
Other wishes/special features/daily routine, preferably with reasons why certain things should or should not be included
The idea behind the design was to have a large living-dining-kitchen area on the ground floor. At the same time, we definitely wanted a guest room/office on the ground floor as well.
The bathroom on the ground floor should serve not only as a guest bathroom but also help ease the morning routine by allowing simultaneous use of the bathrooms upstairs and downstairs.
House technology should take up as little space as possible on the ground floor and ideally be placed under the roof.
Upstairs, it was important that the children’s rooms are equally sized. The master bedroom should not have a walk-in closet.
The kitchen is currently just a placeholder. It will probably be designed as a U-shape.
Current open questions:
- Positioning and size of the windows
House design
Who created the plan:
- Architect
What do you particularly like? Why?
What do you dislike? Why?
Preferred heating system: air-to-water heat pump
If you had to give up, which details/extensions
- could you live without:
- could you absolutely not live without:
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan summarized in 130 characters?
we have already made significant progress with our floor plan. However, we would like to open it up for discussion to see if you notice any aspects we might have overlooked and that can still be changed at this stage.
Development plan/restrictions
Plot size: 534sqm (5748 sq ft)
Slope: no
Building envelope, building line, and boundary: see plan
Number of floors: 2
Roof type: gable
Orientation: as shown in the plan
Homeowners’ requirements
Style, roof type, building type: simple, open, practical
Basement, floors: no basement, 2 full floors
Number of people, ages: 2 adults around 40 and 2 children aged 3 and 6
Space needs on ground floor and upper floor: currently, most daily life happens on the ground floor
Office: family use or home office? Office and guest room or optional
Number of guest stays per year: 10
Open or closed layout: open
Open kitchen, kitchen island:
Number of dining seats: 6-8
Fireplace: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: yes
Utility garden, greenhouse: possibly
Other wishes/special features/daily routine, preferably with reasons why certain things should or should not be included
The idea behind the design was to have a large living-dining-kitchen area on the ground floor. At the same time, we definitely wanted a guest room/office on the ground floor as well.
The bathroom on the ground floor should serve not only as a guest bathroom but also help ease the morning routine by allowing simultaneous use of the bathrooms upstairs and downstairs.
House technology should take up as little space as possible on the ground floor and ideally be placed under the roof.
Upstairs, it was important that the children’s rooms are equally sized. The master bedroom should not have a walk-in closet.
The kitchen is currently just a placeholder. It will probably be designed as a U-shape.
Current open questions:
- Positioning and size of the windows
House design
Who created the plan:
- Architect
What do you particularly like? Why?
What do you dislike? Why?
Preferred heating system: air-to-water heat pump
If you had to give up, which details/extensions
- could you live without:
- could you absolutely not live without:
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan summarized in 130 characters?
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Saarländle21 Apr 2018 11:18Attached are the files. North is indicated by the arrow at the bottom right.
I would have mirrored the house.
Garage in the northeast, kitchen and dining area in the southwest by the terrace.
The main entrance between the garage and the house feels dark and narrow.
I would reconsider the floor-to-ceiling windows in the children's rooms, guest room, and bedroom. They make the rooms difficult to furnish, and desks with cables in front of the windows look messy.
A clear view of the bed is also not to everyone's taste.
Garage in the northeast, kitchen and dining area in the southwest by the terrace.
The main entrance between the garage and the house feels dark and narrow.
I would reconsider the floor-to-ceiling windows in the children's rooms, guest room, and bedroom. They make the rooms difficult to furnish, and desks with cables in front of the windows look messy.
A clear view of the bed is also not to everyone's taste.
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Saarländle21 Apr 2018 13:30Hello,
we also considered mirroring at the beginning but ultimately decided against it. We don’t know how the neighbor on the left side will build. If we had placed the garage on the right as in the original plan, we would be closer to the neighbor and possibly fully in the house’s shadow. That’s why we moved the garage to the left. This also conveniently creates a nice terrace corner in the south/west area (hopefully without shadow from the left). As a result, the kitchen and dining room are on the left side.
Yes, the floor-to-ceiling windows are really a tricky matter: I actually find them great because they let in significantly more light. My wife is more skeptical because of the cable clutter and so on. At the moment, I still think it’s better to choose floor-to-ceiling windows and cover the bottom part if needed rather than regret later if the desk is removed or repositioned.
In the bedroom, the window will probably be removed (then the sill height will be about 1m (3 ft)) and the window above the bed should also go. But then we have to decide which wall the bed will be on. What do you think about placing the bed on the front wall and having the window on the right side?
Currently, I see the couch in the living room as an L-shape with the longer side on the right. This way, the space will be a bit wider and the couch could also act somewhat like a room divider...
Thanks in advance and best regards
we also considered mirroring at the beginning but ultimately decided against it. We don’t know how the neighbor on the left side will build. If we had placed the garage on the right as in the original plan, we would be closer to the neighbor and possibly fully in the house’s shadow. That’s why we moved the garage to the left. This also conveniently creates a nice terrace corner in the south/west area (hopefully without shadow from the left). As a result, the kitchen and dining room are on the left side.
Yes, the floor-to-ceiling windows are really a tricky matter: I actually find them great because they let in significantly more light. My wife is more skeptical because of the cable clutter and so on. At the moment, I still think it’s better to choose floor-to-ceiling windows and cover the bottom part if needed rather than regret later if the desk is removed or repositioned.
In the bedroom, the window will probably be removed (then the sill height will be about 1m (3 ft)) and the window above the bed should also go. But then we have to decide which wall the bed will be on. What do you think about placing the bed on the front wall and having the window on the right side?
Currently, I see the couch in the living room as an L-shape with the longer side on the right. This way, the space will be a bit wider and the couch could also act somewhat like a room divider...
Thanks in advance and best regards
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