City villa floor plan 160 sqm - Please provide tips!

2019-01-28 22:16:32

So, we recap the points mentioned by various users:

Garage placement difficult - must stay as is

Carport instead of double garage - husband insists on double garage

Bedroom/dressing room difficult - we don't need more

Lost square meters - when we furnish everything is full

Hallway large/stairs unfavorably placed - stairs should not be moved

Wardrobe too small/unfavorably placed see previous point

Architect could make sense - we are definitely building with the general contractor

Floor plan is not good - but also not bad

Basically reconsider floor plan - we all have, others don't fit

No offense, but this will be difficult here. What bothers you is, in my opinion, almost impossible to change without willingness to fundamentally shake up the existing design.
I currently don't see that willingness. You seem very stubborn.

But maybe will actually come up with something in a feverish state

2019-01-28 22:45:14

I would like to address a few points

Bedroom/dressing room difficult - we don’t need more

We actually don’t need more space in the bedroom. In our current apartment, we have 56 cm to walk around the bed. That might bother some people, but not us at all. Therefore, I find a "large" bedroom of 11 or 12 sqm completely sufficient for us. The dressing room is difficult, I agree with you there.

Lost square meters - if we furnish, everything is full

After measuring all our furniture and drawing it into the floor plan, I can say that everything finds its place. It’s not "fully furnished," the furniture in the floor plan is shown much too small. Therefore, I don’t consider it lost square meters.

Hallway large/stairs unfavorably placed - stairs should not be moved

The stairs can be moved, I never said otherwise, only that the living room would then become narrower.

Wardrobe too small/unfavorably placed see previous point

I agree it looks awful. How about turning the toilet once? The toilet would then be between the exterior wall and the stairs. The wardrobe would then be in front of the toilet. Minus the toilet door, you could put a wardrobe about 1.60 m wide here. Opinions on that?

No offense, but this will be difficult here. What bothers you is, in my opinion, almost impossible to change without a willingness to fundamentally shake the existing design. I don’t see that willingness at the moment. You seem very stubborn.

I don’t take the criticism negatively. Surely, I would change the existing design, but I can’t make use of all tips, garage in the east, utility room on the upper floor, etc.

What I have tried so far is to change the external dimensions of the house (11*9). But it takes longer than expected. I’m trying to get it right to scale with Sweet Home 3D, with furniture. Also with the existing external dimensions, but a different room arrangement. It takes time.

2019-01-28 23:03:48

In our current apartment, we have 56 cm of walking space all around the bed

But you also get older and somehow need the side of the bed to sit on. And then more space there.
You don’t have to be senile for that.
You currently have the square meters of the bedroom exactly where they don’t need to be.
A bedroom of 4 x 3 is not the same as 3 x 4.
If anything, the bed would have to be turned, and the window moved to the other exterior wall...

That’s why I find an 11 or 12 sqm "large" bedroom completely sufficient for us. The walk-in closet is difficult, I agree with you on that.

That means: plan differently.

What I have tried so far is changing the exterior dimensions of the house (11*9). But it’s taking longer than expected. I’m trying it with Sweet Home 3D to scale

Take pencil and graph paper, that’s enough for the first impression.

We recently had a 10 x 9.5 house here, where the utility room and office still had to fit into the ground floor... somehow that also worked out in the end. But it was also weeks of work and very sweat-inducing for the OP.

2019-01-28 23:17:00

Do not omit the note about the lifting station! Because you want to have a toilet in the basement, you will need a fecal pump with a macerator, so a lifting station is necessary. Therefore, this small room will now cost you not 3k€ as initially assumed, but already 6k€. The amount is really not worth it for a toilet used 1 to 5 times a year.

2019-01-28 23:17:36

I would like to address some points

We really don’t need more space in the bedroom. In our current apartment, we have 56 cm to walk around the bed all around. That might bother some, but not us at all. Therefore, I find an 11 or 12 sqm "large" bedroom completely sufficient for us. The dressing room is difficult, I agree with you there.

After measuring all our furniture and drawing it into the floor plan, I can say that everything has its place. There is nothing "fully furnished," the furniture in the floor plan is shown much too small. Therefore, I don’t consider it wasted square meters.

The stairs can certainly be moved, I did not say otherwise, only that the living room would then become narrower.

It looks awful, I agree. How about "turning" the WC once? The WC would then be between the exterior wall and the stairs. The wardrobe would then be in front of the WC. Minus the WC door, you could put a wardrobe about 1.60 m wide here. Opinions on that?

I don’t take the criticism negatively.
Sure, I would change the existing design, but I can’t make use of all tips, like the garage in the east, utility room on the upper floor, etc.

What I have tried so far is to change the external dimensions of the house (11*9). But it takes longer than expected. I’m trying to do it to scale with Sweet Home 3D, with furniture. Also with the current external dimensions but a different arrangement of the rooms. It takes a while.

Well, maybe it sounded different... I’m curious and will wait to see what comes up. In my opinion, moving the stairs could be a good start.

2019-01-28 23:38:23

But maybe is actually pulling something off in a feverish delirium

I’m throwing out an idea, mostly just to make the OP think a little outside the box. However, my head is pounding, my eyes are watering, my throat is scratching – you probably know the feeling. No idea if this makes any sense.

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