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2020-11-13 18:02:26
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From the outside, I really like the house. I see a nice sequence of windows. Not too chaotic and not too boring. And I also like the upper floor, for example (although I actually dislike the staircase location – super long corridor...). However, I would swap the bed and the wardrobe in the bedroom so that the sleeping wall is door-free. Then I would move the bedroom door a bit toward the parents’ bathroom.
Ground floor:
There was already the bay window discussion. And there was the kitchen-pantry discussion. Unfortunately, you chose the trapped option, and with a fairly central pantry door at that. I often don’t like such a cut within a fitted kitchen. Well, it is what it is, and whoever sits on the kitchen countertop will also get a bit of the view.
What do you hope to achieve with that?
What do you expect from the entrance area? Basement separation can also be arranged differently, for example closer to the stairs. Here you separate the guest WC from the office, the people entering from the living + dining area.
Overall, throughout the whole ground floor, I see unnecessary separations: the entrance area: when you enter, you look at a half wall of the side-positioned wardrobe. I would plan that as a storage room and then place a mirror or something inviting on a free wall opposite the front door. That immediately looks much friendlier.
Then, after turning beside the basement stairs, a dark corridor opens up, which does not welcome me either. Yes, it is wide and large enough that it could have quality, but I see more disadvantages... it is dark, it cuts off, and it has too little use.
9 sqm to accommodate office and stairs...
Basically, the all-purpose room could start right after the office door. As it is now, the fireplace is squeezed in by the door. Is your door always closed? You make the kitchen entrance a mandatory entrance. That’s not the worst, but it should be pointed out: fireplace and door are opposed here and don’t go well together. I would therefore shift this wall about 2 meters toward the top of the plan. Overall, give up at least one of the two doors in the hallway.
Me neither. Everything is separated that belongs together.
I’ll take your components from your post as a source of ideas . Thanks :)
The staircase thus becomes a utility element. A highlight of the architecture, a nice accessory of the house or a stylistic device is completely taken away from the staircase here. And it is way too far away – my opinion.
I see it completely the other way around :cool: pleasantly private is a nice euphemism for the mentioned disadvantages.
None at all. Or glass!!!
But now I understand that you want something “opaque.” Something closed... That is also a separation, namely from the house to the garden. While standing in the all-purpose room, you should somehow be able to grasp the sky as well. Light! Light should shine into the house. Onto the terrace. I see too little of that. You look at a ceiling instead of the garden. In winter, the all-purpose room is pitch dark except for the kitchen. Then nothing happens in the hallway without LED lighting all day long.
Now it’s also clear to me why you absolutely want a bay window – so that you have any kind of exchange between outside and inside at all. And now you also want to roof it??? :eek:
Ground floor:
There was already the bay window discussion. And there was the kitchen-pantry discussion. Unfortunately, you chose the trapped option, and with a fairly central pantry door at that. I often don’t like such a cut within a fitted kitchen. Well, it is what it is, and whoever sits on the kitchen countertop will also get a bit of the view.
So the basement is also thermally separated from the living area by the entrance area with stairs to the upper floor.
What do you hope to achieve with that?
What do you expect from the entrance area? Basement separation can also be arranged differently, for example closer to the stairs. Here you separate the guest WC from the office, the people entering from the living + dining area.
Overall, throughout the whole ground floor, I see unnecessary separations: the entrance area: when you enter, you look at a half wall of the side-positioned wardrobe. I would plan that as a storage room and then place a mirror or something inviting on a free wall opposite the front door. That immediately looks much friendlier.
Then, after turning beside the basement stairs, a dark corridor opens up, which does not welcome me either. Yes, it is wide and large enough that it could have quality, but I see more disadvantages... it is dark, it cuts off, and it has too little use.
9 sqm to accommodate office and stairs...
Basically, the all-purpose room could start right after the office door. As it is now, the fireplace is squeezed in by the door. Is your door always closed? You make the kitchen entrance a mandatory entrance. That’s not the worst, but it should be pointed out: fireplace and door are opposed here and don’t go well together. I would therefore shift this wall about 2 meters toward the top of the plan. Overall, give up at least one of the two doors in the hallway.
I find the staircase position unfortunate and I don’t really like the kitchen either.
Me neither. Everything is separated that belongs together.
I’ll take your components from your post as a source of ideas . Thanks :)
that it is quite clever to place the basement access from the entrance area and the staircase to the upper floor from the inner hallway.
The staircase thus becomes a utility element. A highlight of the architecture, a nice accessory of the house or a stylistic device is completely taken away from the staircase here. And it is way too far away – my opinion.
Entrance and wardrobe: Surely that’s quite large – for a household that has an entire generation of children ahead of it, that’s extremely practical.
a pleasantly private life away from the entrance area.
I see it completely the other way around :cool: pleasantly private is a nice euphemism for the mentioned disadvantages.
How would you design the roof? I had also thought glassed. However, you have to find a nice solution to also cover the bay window. Maybe you could combine something.
None at all. Or glass!!!
But now I understand that you want something “opaque.” Something closed... That is also a separation, namely from the house to the garden. While standing in the all-purpose room, you should somehow be able to grasp the sky as well. Light! Light should shine into the house. Onto the terrace. I see too little of that. You look at a ceiling instead of the garden. In winter, the all-purpose room is pitch dark except for the kitchen. Then nothing happens in the hallway without LED lighting all day long.
Now it’s also clear to me why you absolutely want a bay window – so that you have any kind of exchange between outside and inside at all. And now you also want to roof it??? :eek: