City villa 180 sqm without basement + double garage

Hello 11ant,

First of all, thank you. I started with boxes and paper. For your information: I am still a graduate engineer in mechanical engineering and have learned SolidWorks, Catia, etc. Therefore, drawing and dimensioning are not a problem. However, I am a layman in house construction and architecture. Everyone has their strength.

The ideas are of course a mix of Favorit, Baumeister, Kern, etc. inspirations. I consider the design at most solution-oriented and ordinary but by no means innovative.

Please let us get back to the topic. I am looking for constructive criticism and suggestions for improvement and know that you have seen sense and nonsense here over the years.

Thank you

If you both work from home, is a single office that is also a guest room enough for you?

If you really like a lot of light, think bigger windows and don’t let floor boundaries and the symmetry of the exterior view limit you. Extend the large windows facing the garden all the way up. No half measures.
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Enlarge the air space behind and also give the children's rooms some light.
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Just leave out the partition wall between the kitchen and the stairs.
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I’m still not happy with the pantry and the positioning of the guest WC and utility room, but I don’t have a good idea for that yet. The bathroom upstairs neither.
A square floor plan is not so great for efficiency in the middle, but it is fixed.
Pantry too narrow, kitchen layout impractical, I would work on that again as well.

With the large windows, you should definitely consider shading. Otherwise, I would set the garage flush at the back, so you will also have a parking space in front of the gate.

I would also eliminate the pantry and add it to the kitchen. But consider a door to the living area.

I like the idea from . I would shorten the bedroom windows at the same time, otherwise it gets too warm and visually it is more pleasing. Leave out the pantry entirely. However, the bathroom is quite awkwardly shaped. It is a leftover piece and you can see it.

Hello everyone,

Thanks for the feedback.

If you both work from home, is a single office, which is also a guest room at the same time, enough for you?

The corona trial run clearly says yes.

If you really like a lot of light, think bigger windows and don’t let floor boundaries and symmetry of the exterior limit you. Extend the large windows to the garden all the way up. No half measures.

My wife thinks so too
I myself had such a "play area" on the gallery as a child, so for me it’s not just a hallway to look down from, but usable space.
Thanks for the adjustment to the visualization for us.

I’m currently thinking about how to combine the wide window front with a gallery area behind it. A ceiling would separate the windows. Maybe something with wooden beams as a "balcony" inside the house?

Why didn’t we plan a steel-glass corner front? Next door the neighbor is building at the same level and the view for us would be of a house wall after about 10m. At the same time, they could look in on us too much.

Shading is definitely planned. It’s the absolute south side.
Otherwise you’ll be grilled.

Otherwise, I would set the garage flush at the back so you still have a parking space in front of the gate.

The garage will not be on the same front as the house. This was already suggested to also break up the front at the front.
We were more thinking about pulling it forward in order to possibly install a side door. Access from the street without going through the gate.

The half wall in the garage is by the way so that you can park offset to be able to open the door and also drive a car through far enough to have space behind it at the trunk in the dry.

All comments regarding kitchen, pantry, bathroom:

The pantry will be roofed. Without that we would also have more tall cabinets (where the door to the pantry is).

Question to the group: How to use the space under the spiral staircase sensibly? To the back for the technical room or to the front maybe as pantry/wardrobe?


Regarding the bathroom upstairs – exactly right.
We wanted 3m of dressing space. That’s why we end up with about 3.12m as rough construction measure. This creates the corner in the bathroom. Due to that, we have this space next to the door to the hallway for a cabinet in the bathroom?
Of course, I can create the corner the same way in the bedroom and gain a straight wall in the bathroom. That way, I have a built-in corner behind the door in the bedroom for bed linen, etc.
Maybe plan from bathroom towards bedroom. You have a good eye; we planned it the other way round.

Additionally, I think the idea came from a Kern Centro? There the master bathroom is trapped. That’s not liked because of the path through the bedroom and the usability of, for example, the bathtub for other family members.