So you don’t like that the parents' bedroom is immediately to the left at the Rensch house. The child’s room is a bit set back. At Gussek, the bedrooms are accessed via a hallway. There, the child would be next to the parents until someone moves upstairs. What’s bothering you about that?
We just can’t come to terms with it, also because it doesn’t fit the building plot we have. As I said, we hate it when you can enter somewhere right away (child/parents), which is why in one design there is that small wall right at the entrance to separate it. Back then, we thought we had found our dream house when we saw the bungalow from Scanhaus Marlow Bungalow SH 136 WB VARIANTE D1 life; it was exactly what we had imagined except for the children’s room and the missing guest room. We thought that wouldn’t be a problem to add later. But quickly we realized it’s not that easy to change, and what’s even worse is that no matter how I turn, twist, or flip it, it doesn’t fit the plot because of the location and the fixed driveway. We found the Fjorborg Lillehammer’s outside so great that we immediately fell in love with the angled entrance, but the floor plan inside did not allow us to separate the areas as we wanted; so I would always have a door to an area right next to the kitchen or living room, which we didn’t want.
We actually see this quite often here: that a design is not “bad” because of lack of consideration but “unfortunately still not the solution” despite the thoughts put in. Still, I am confused about the recommendation: I find the design of the fan (with the central segment “whole family,” flanked by the parents’ wing on the left and the children’s wing on the right) already “developed from the inside out” in this sense. My recommendation would be rather to do this even more consistently, i.e., to first represent the floor plan purely as a diagram of room relationships without (interior) walls.
Here I am totally confused about what you mean.
Hm… well, I think the principle of separate wings is pretty good. Letting a few baby years change that seems short-sighted. In my opinion, a child, no matter how small, has no business in the parents’ bed—occasional morning cuddles or when sick excepted. Guests can just walk past the children’s room; that’s no problem. The child will love having a retreat and their own bathroom by teenage years at the latest, and you will love it too, in return. The walk-in closet is nonsense in my opinion; I would integrate a big wardrobe into the bedroom and instead make the utility room a bit bigger. Clearly, the living room should have windows on the east side. I don’t see the floor plan as hopeless; on the contrary, I find it basically quite successful.
Hello Apokolok, that’s exactly how we see it too. We definitely want to stick with the separate areas; clearly, it’s not very economical, etc., but we’re happy to overlook that. The little one will be almost 3 soon, and we’re pretty relaxed about illness or such; he doesn’t sleep in our bed anyway. As you rightly say, he will love the area later, especially if he can even claim the guest room for himself; then it doesn’t matter if he plays music a bit louder sometimes. We will consider the suggestion to put the wardrobe in the bedroom and make the utility room bigger. Windows in the living room are of course a given; we haven’t gone into all the details yet, as I want to finalize that last. We do like the floor plan, but you know how it is when something is good but somehow not quite the best. I think we have reached a point where our considerations/changes actually make things worse instead of better. That’s why I have waited until now to hear your opinion. Sometimes you get stuck so badly you can’t move forward even though the goal is so close.