ᐅ Symmetrical hallway with 45-degree angled doors on the upper floor – Yay or Nay?

Hello everyone, we are planning to build a single-family home. We are 30 and 32 years old, have no children, and both work full-time in an office/home office. We have completed the questionnaire below and look forward to your expertise on our floor plan.

Development plan/restrictions

• Plot size – about 380 m² (4,086 sq ft), access and street to the south
• Slope – no
• Site coverage ratio – no development plan, based on §34, neighbors have between 0.3-0.4
• Floor area ratio – no development plan, based on §34
• Building envelope, building line, and boundaries – no development plan, based on §34
• Edge development – no, surrounded by other semi-detached and single-family houses
• Number of parking spaces – double garage plus one parking space next to the garage in the yard
• Number of floors – 2 full stories plus basement
• Roof type – gable roof
• Architectural style – modern
• Orientation – south
• Maximum height/limits
• Other requirements – development according to §34

Owners’ requirements

• Style, roof type, building type – gable roof with sufficient overhang
• Basement, floors – basement yes, ground floor, upper floor
• Number of occupants, age – 2, 30+ years
• Space requirements on ground and upper floors – ground floor: entrance, shower, toilet, kitchen, dining area, living room; upper floor: 2 offices, bathroom with bathtub, bedroom, walk-in closet
• Office use: family or home office? – home office
• Number of guests per year – 1
• Open or closed architecture – preferably closed
• Conservative or modern construction – solid construction, modern, no Poroton bricks
• Open kitchen, kitchen island – closed kitchen
• Number of dining seats – 4-6
• Fireplace – yes, eventually
• Music/stereo wall – yes, living room
• Balcony, roof terrace – no
• Garage, carport – yes and no
• Kitchen garden, greenhouse – no
• Other wishes/special features/daily routine, also reasons why certain things should or should not be included – ideally, when one person gets up, they leave the bedroom without having to return to it later to get clothes, so the other can continue sleeping. Also, we spend a lot of time working from home, so each needs their own office to avoid disturbing the other during calls, etc.

House design

• Designed by: architect and draftsman
• What do you especially like? Why? – We like the possible sight lines (some doors and windows can still be adjusted). A generous entrance area is important to us when entering the house, so there is space for groceries and not feeling lost.
• What do you dislike? Why? – We are unsure about the 45-degree angled walls in the hallway. What are the pros and cons? Are there alternatives?
• Price estimate according to architect/planner: €650,000
• Personal price limit for the house, including fittings: €700,000 (fittings? Kitchen on top, furniture also)
• Preferred heating technology: heat pump

If you have to skip some features/expansions

• Could do without: laundry chute, finished attic, exposed roof beams
• Cannot do without: separate offices, walk-in closet, separate kitchen, as straight a staircase as possible

Why is the design as it is now?

• Standard design from planner? – No, our design is based on an initial concept from the architect and later developed by the draftsman
• Which requests were implemented by the architect? – All our requests were implemented by the architect/draftsman
• What do you think makes it particularly good or bad? – We like that both our offices are the same size and separated by the closet. We also like that the closet is completely separate, so the bedroom does not have to be re-entered to get clothes once you are up (the partner can continue sleeping).

You already have a thread here, so why are you acting as if you are new?

https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/grundrissdiskussion-eines-mittelkleinen-einfamilienhaus-mit-satteldach-doppelgarage.t2j8j0/
The winding hallway, the bulky fireplace, and the other unchanged features that make the house quite distinctive reveal which house it is.

Regarding your question: the doors match the slanted stove in the corner, the angled table, the tilted bathtub, and the diagonal tiling. Some elements simply won’t fit into a “standard” layout, so you should accept these unique highlights in the designs if you are attached to the rest. There aren’t that many tight spots without these features. The planner has to rely on these compromises in such cases.

ypg schrieb:
You already have a thread here, so why are you acting as if you’re new?
https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/grundrissdiskussion-eines-mittelkleinen-einfamilienhaus-mit-satteldach-doppelgarage.t2j8j0/

... and in that one it said ...

GeraldG schrieb:
I have a provocative question. Looking at your basement, it seems to serve almost no practical purpose.

... as well as ...

11ant schrieb:
In my opinion, these folding screens in bathrooms are just the same pointless trend in reality as they are on paper. Dance floor partitions that create artificial bottlenecks in oversized bathrooms: anyone who spells “genial” with an “h” is just silly *LOL*

Why, first of all, start a thread "new" after nine pages, and secondly, why reset it so completely as if no “lessons” were learned from the previous discussion?

Besides, I not only notice the angled doorways but also another similarity in the graphical layout with the thread r9m3a1 "Style break due to children’s room access" https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/grundriss-einfamilienhaus-mit-2-offenen-punkten-stilbruch-durch-kinderzimmer-zugang.r9m3a1/ – coincidence or relation?

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