Hello everyone,
This year we are planning to take on the adventure of building a house and are already hard at work with the planning. For this reason, I would like to share our floor plan draft with you, and perhaps you might have some tips or comments.
We want to build an urban villa of about 140 sqm (1507 sq ft) without a basement.
Note on the floor plan:
a) The room labeled as an office in the attic is intended to become a storage room. We have already planned to swap the locations of the bathroom and the storage room.
b) The partition walls between the kitchen and living room on the ground floor will likely be removed.
Many thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Ziva
This year we are planning to take on the adventure of building a house and are already hard at work with the planning. For this reason, I would like to share our floor plan draft with you, and perhaps you might have some tips or comments.
We want to build an urban villa of about 140 sqm (1507 sq ft) without a basement.
Note on the floor plan:
a) The room labeled as an office in the attic is intended to become a storage room. We have already planned to swap the locations of the bathroom and the storage room.
b) The partition walls between the kitchen and living room on the ground floor will likely be removed.
Many thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Ziva
Musketier schrieb:
Self-made?
If not, I strongly recommend changing the designer.
You open the front door and immediately step onto the stairs.
To get through the door into the living room, you have to squeeze past the built-in wall unit.
In the guest bathroom, you always have to leave the door open because there isn’t enough space to close it. With a shower, you’d need 1–1.5m² (11–16 sq ft) more.
In the kitchen, there is an inconvenient dead corner. Also, there are few options for wall cabinets.
Waste pipes from the upstairs bathroom probably run through the living room/office. Plus, the plumbing routes are long.
It’s generally better to plan the bathroom above the utility room/guest bathroom.
All the doors are poorly arranged.
Do you really need two offices?
And last but not least: The staircase doesn’t fit (only 12 steps), which causes the whole design to fall apart.Hello Musketier,
First of all, thank you for your list of points. We hadn’t considered some of these, while others don’t seem too problematic to us.
The furniture layout was added by our architect to better illustrate the rooms and their potential. We won’t adopt it as shown, especially not the kitchen. The room labeled as the office upstairs will actually become a storage room, as we are not planning a basement and want additional storage space. The bathroom and the “office” upstairs will be switched, so the pipes will run down one corner of the storage room.
We have already planned the kitchen extensively, and a large wall cabinet fits well. We don’t want more than that and are completely satisfied. We think it’s mostly a matter of personal taste.
You’re right about the doors, and we have been thinking about that for some time. But apart from the guest bathroom, we don’t see major issues. We will definitely make the sliding door to the living room much wider than shown in this plan.
The staircase issue didn’t stand out to us as non-experts, but we will definitely discuss it again with our architect! Many thanks for that!
Best regards,
Ziva
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