City villa floor plan - Your opinion on it?

Hello everyone,

I needed your help with the architectural planning for our planned city villa. I will skip the completely filled-out list because the planning is already very far advanced, but I will leave in the relevant questions.

Hello,

what does far advanced mean? To what extent is there still the possibility to change something at all? A few doors, windows, moving walls?

Hm, I don't have time, but a comment: could it be that you told the architect or planner that you like large entrance halls? It dominates the whole house! Therefore, the rooms must of course be arranged around it, so that it adds up to 180+. Why don't you swap the office, dining, and living rooms? The dining area is narrow, you can guess that there isn't even any space below on the plan for the dining table, because a fireplace is going there.

See, I hadn’t really noticed the fireplace. Yes, it does restrict the dining area etc. a bit.
Work/dining area to living room, living area to cooking/dining area, and kitchen to office would also be conceivable. Then the current passage could be closed, and the fireplace moved further to the left as planned. That wouldn’t affect the upper floor. EDIT: Actually... it does affect it somewhat. That just needs to be checked. In any case, it should have a position that is not too close to the dining table.

: thanks for the tip. I took a look at the floor plans. It's not a bad idea, but I think, like with many sales drawings, the furniture and stairs are drawn too small. The straight stairs go even deeper into the living room and you would have to move to the right into the corner... I don't really like that.

: Exactly, for the walk-in closet we have 2x 2x1m Ikea Pax with sliding doors. But maybe we'll only put wardrobes on one side. These are just the bedroom wardrobes and maybe the winter clothes. The kids should keep their clothes nicely in their rooms.

I've furnished it attached. Actually doesn't look bad. The couches are the same as we currently have (3-seater 2.15 x 1.0 and 2-seater 1.80 x 0.9 m). TV wall as well. The dining table is 1.80 x 0.8 m. 1.0 m would be cooler but basically it should work.

The overlap at the stairs will fit well, says the architect.

: Stairs with landing means U-shaped stairs, right? Then the stairs will be shorter - which is good for the living room, but the stairs get wider and therefore take up more hallway space upstairs.

: True. But what can you do. I realized pretty quickly that with our requirements (we like town villas, big kitchen, study on the ground floor, no bungalow) and total living space, we can’t stack the ground floor with the upper floor because we need about 105 m² downstairs. That would be 210 m² when stacked. So only a floor plan with an extension is possible.

and kbt09: We had already considered and worked through swapping the living room with the study/dining area. Personally, I don't like it because the street runs by the study on the corner plot. That's why the right side for the living room is also "courtyard-like"/"more enclosed" to the outside world because of the bay window. Also, you can't place a TV anywhere without having a couch in front of the window. But to keep the option for living on the ground floor in old age open, the wall between study/dining area is not load-bearing.

For the staircase, 16 risers with 19.09 cm and 26 cm tread depth are specified.

Step measurement = 2x riser + 1x tread - IDEAL: 63 cm == 2x19.09 + 26 = 64.18

Comfort = tread - riser - IDEAL: 12 cm == 26 - 19.09 = 6.91

Safety = tread + riser - IDEAL: 46 cm == 26 + 19.09 = 45.09

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For the living room furniture .. is the large dashed square supposed to be the fireplace? Quite close to the dining table and note the slalom path from the kitchen to the terrace. Only 80 cm dining table is really quite shallow. With plates on both sides, there is little space left for bowls etc. on the table.
Sofa with its back to the fireplace?

By the way, in case I haven’t mentioned it yet – it will be a concrete staircase. My wife absolutely wants closed steps and we both don’t want any creaking.

Do you find the staircase too steep? The standard range for tread width is 25 to 29. However, I was also skeptical – everywhere in apartment buildings and office stairwells I measured 18/28.

I am actually considering a straight staircase on the left side. It would then protrude into the living room roughly up to 30cm above the chimney. Then the wardrobe would go into the current ground floor bathroom, where the shower is, and the kitchen door there. And to the right would be the ground floor bathroom. The entrance to the utility room would then be centrally located from the hallway.

The chimney is not yet finally planned, not even initially discussed. I still hope to move it closer to the wall. The orientation of the sofa to the chimney is not that important since it is supposed to be a masonry heater – light it once and heat for over 12 hours.