Attached is the revised floor plan.
- Where should the possible 3rd child go? Into the small study?
- The hallway area is definitely too small (stroller, baby car seat, tons of children's shoes, bags, jackets)
- I would also miss a guest toilet. As the floor plan is, everyone will walk through the master bathroom and I didn’t want that.
- Access to the dressing room is awkward. I would place the bedroom at the back and the dressing room at the front. That way you gain space for bedside tables and don’t always have to walk through the bedroom.
- I think it would also look nicer if you omitted that wall recess at the entrance.
The 3rd child will go into the study. That is correct. From our point of view, a family cannot be precisely planned. We neither know how many children there will be, nor when and at what intervals they will come. You can see from the size of the children's rooms that our children are mainly supposed to sleep in their rooms. The rest of the time, they are mostly to spend in the living room, garden, outside, school, at friends’ or at sports.
The size of the hallway area is very flexibly adjustable (see removal of the wall recess) and so we will still play around a bit with the centimeters.
I can understand the guest toilet demand and it was also discussed, but it is not that important to us. It may be that we will impose the children's bathroom on guests until it eventually becomes unacceptable because the children constantly leave a mess.
We have already swapped dressing room and bedroom several times. Ultimately, in the current configuration, the morning sun shines in our faces and we can enjoy our garden from the bed. The bedside tables now have space.
This won’t work with your intended bungalow: the development plan requires two full stories?
Then let’s say 1-2 stories. There are both bungalows and two-story houses on the street.
On one hand, the chimney limits the entrance to the living room (something is in the way), on the other: what use is a fancy chimney if you clutter it with a TV?
A tunnel fireplace must make an impression on its own: if it stands alone, meaning in the room, it needs a clear backdrop. Or it stands against the wall, then please do not place anything directly to the left, right or above. There are exceptions, and TV is not one of them.
I perceive the limitation of the entrance to the living room differently. You can already see when you approach this "chimney wall" from the front door that the living room opens next to it. On one hand through the wide opening and on the other through the light incidence. We will still ensure a proper effect of the fireplace from the living room perspective and a reasonable TV solution.
It’s probably more romantic in your imagination than it is.
No, it will be really beautiful. Turning would still be possible (depending on bed width).
...I also find that strange. With us, only the guest toilet is so narrow for space-saving reasons...
Adjusted.
Windbreak is overrated, but with more than 2 people the cold draft from opening the front door can get annoying
Windbreak has now also been cancelled.
I was just on the homepage of a prefabricated house provider whose name starts with the letters B and Z. There is – in my opinion – a nice southeast floor plan shown.
If you mean the one that sounds similar to Bienen, I cannot find the mentioned floor plan there. We have a 15m building envelope. The house must also fit into that.