ᐅ Single-family Home Without Basement – Floor Plan Discussion
Created on: 21 Apr 2018 10:46
S
Saarländle
Hello 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?
S
Saarländle6 May 2018 11:40Thanks for the hint. It could actually be possible. I will clarify the details next week.
But assuming it would be allowed:
Your idea would be to take the original house design and mirror the floor plan? Then you would place the garage in the lower right. Parking spaces would then be eliminated or could be placed next to it.
The entrance on the right would no longer work, though, or how would you solve that?
But assuming it would be allowed:
Your idea would be to take the original house design and mirror the floor plan? Then you would place the garage in the lower right. Parking spaces would then be eliminated or could be placed next to it.
The entrance on the right would no longer work, though, or how would you solve that?
You need to see how it fits. It’s not about mirroring exactly, but about the placement of the stairs and living areas.
The stairs might need to be rotated, but not necessarily.
For once, I see the entrance on the shorter side here. However, because you are open to having the kitchen integrated, the hallway won’t have to be as long as in cases where everything is closed off.
Just sketch it out on graph paper and experiment with the stairs, utility room, and cloakroom.
Let sunlight into the house!
The stairs might need to be rotated, but not necessarily.
For once, I see the entrance on the shorter side here. However, because you are open to having the kitchen integrated, the hallway won’t have to be as long as in cases where everything is closed off.
Just sketch it out on graph paper and experiment with the stairs, utility room, and cloakroom.
Let sunlight into the house!
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