8x12m floor plan idea search

The idea of matte is expandable. For example, one could place the office behind the bedroom, definitely swap the children's room and the office first... But only as a starting point... Nevertheless, I just realized that the bathrooms should be placed on top of each other and then mixed again

Unfortunately, I cannot read the measurements, but what speaks against moving the staircase one meter towards the top of the plan so that the guest/technical room area as well as the upper floor can be planned more easily?

Well then... but you surely said beforehand where the bed should go, right?

Yes, he has the original plan, but that was a house with a basement. Our change was actually only that the space for the staircase was used for the utility room.

- Is the utility room also used for the technology? 6.xx m² for both seems a bit too small to me.

It’s probably agreed with the heating engineer what he needs for the heating.

- I would set back the upper floor again, that just doesn’t work.

1. No space for a bed
2. The office is barely enough for a small office. Behind the door a cabinet is supposed to fit, then an L-shaped desk on the left and top side of the plan. For the bottom side of the plan a shelf can be forgotten because the 1.80 m are already too small for it.
3. I can accept child 1. You can well use the niche for the bed or desk there. But child 2 doesn’t work at all. Even if you say that family planning is finished, I find the 12 m² completely wasted. It just can’t be furnished at all.
4. The path from bed to toilet is probably the longest possible path in the house.

The root of the evil for me is the placement of the staircase. It works through the bump-out on the ground floor, but the upper floor becomes almost completely unusable because of it.

Attached is a suggestion, in advance, I would reconsider the entire floor plan again, precisely because I find the staircase position unsuitable.
Disadvantage: You can only put two 1.5 m wardrobes in the dressing room. For that, you could push the wall in the bedroom at the top of the plan towards child 2, so that 3 m of wardrobes would fit there, as I marked. However, then the purpose of a dressing room is lost somewhere if you have the wardrobes back in the bedroom after all.

Advantage:
- The dressing room is not a trapped room, which is especially pleasant with different sleeping times.
- The bed has enough space.
- Child 2 is better usable.

As said, this should only serve as inspiration.

Regards

Thanks for the suggestion. At the beginning (see post 1) we had a different staircase position with a half-turned staircase. Although the upper floor was better in terms of layout, there was a lot of traffic area in the ground floor...

As said, we like the straight staircase in the ground floor very much, but we are also not really happy with the upper floor yet.

Unfortunately, I cannot read the measurements, but what speaks against moving the staircase one meter upwards on the plan, so that the guest/family room area as well as the upper floor can be planned more comfortably?

Upwards on the plan is towards the bay window? That would significantly narrow the living area.

I have attached the original floor plan, that's actually how we wanted it...

Is the top of the plan towards the bay window? That would significantly restrict the living area.

I've also attached the original floor plan; that's how we actually wanted it...

That's the dining area, you now have a generous bay window there. In that respect, 30-50 cm probably wouldn't make much difference.
The one with the open space is quite nice: slightly legalize the bedroom by 39 cm, and design the open space as a gallery room with media connections

Hey Yvonne,

thanks for asking. I am still waiting for the updated plans from the architect. But since the structural engineer is on vacation, he is not in a hurry...

But the changes are moving in the direction mentioned here

Basically:
- The stairs will be moved about 20cm towards the entrance and towards the north, which makes the office/hallway upstairs more relaxed.
- The bedroom entrance door will be moved into the hallway as shown in the example.
- The children's room niches will be at least 2.2m so that a bed can be placed there (meaning the furniture layout will have the wardrobe on the wall towards the office and the bed on the wall towards the bedroom).
- The children's room doors will each open towards the short side of the house.
- We will install a concrete staircase and enlarge the utility room about 60cm under the stairs, and in the dining area there will be a built-in cabinet for the remaining 40cm. I imagine a mix between a bookshelf and a wall cabinet for the vacuum cleaner.
- The utility room will be slightly enlarged towards the guest room.

Overall, we will not have more circulation space on the upper floor than in the proposal by matte1987.
Where our architect refuses is to build over the staircase. He says that something like that always catches the eye later because you immediately see that the first step does not start with the opening in the ceiling and that is annoying.

Your suggestion with the gallery room was also considered by our architect, but I don’t like the idea that paperwork would then be lying around openly. Like the payroll that hasn’t been filed yet, etc. Better to have a door and a clean finish.

Best regards
Andreas