City villa

Hello everyone,

we are currently planning a townhouse.

Development plan/restrictions
The whole thing will be built on my parents' property. There is enough space.
Number of floors - 2 full floors

We have been to the municipality and county - there is no development plan for our locality, but we have already been given the green light.

Requirements of the builders
No basement, no sloping ceilings on the upper floor. Spacious rooms
Number of people, age: 2 adults (28 and 26) 3 children are planned
Kitchen with dining room including separation from the living room.

Heating technology:
Still being clarified

This is the 2nd draft from our architect. What could be done differently?
We have already noticed a few things:
- A few fewer windows would also do ;)
- Upstairs the distance from the stairs to the wall is quite small.
- We still don't know how to design the facade... Therefore, different variants can be seen in the pictures.

We are very grateful for tips and ideas! If anything is still unclear, please get in touch. Thank you

If there really will be three children, I would install a second shower somewhere in the house (especially if the ladies take over). There are many comparative floor plans for 3 children's rooms on the upper floor on the internet – you should check if you might like something else better.

Unclear... the whole thing is very spacious. I wouldn’t make the dressing room a confined space. We have 35 m² less and somehow one more room. The rooms are all very convoluted somehow - or have small little corners etc. I would straighten that out.

If there really are going to be three kids, I would install a second shower somewhere in the house (especially if the ladies take over). There are many comparative floor plans for 3 children's rooms upstairs on the internet - you should take a look to see if you perhaps like something else better.

Definitely reduces the size of the (children's) rooms and include a children's bathroom. I have three girls here and would probably never get into the bathroom later if we only had one bathroom.

hm, we have the same room program, but ours is not so convoluted (especially the upper floor) and we also have a children's bathroom on the upper floor (but no dressing room, only a walk-in closet).

I actually quite like the kitchen-dining-living area. Only the way to the utility room would be too far for me from the kitchen.

The hallway is big, but still somehow no/almost no space for a proper cloakroom for 5 people + visitors.
Access to the living room is too convoluted. Access to the dining area is only possible through the kitchen or living room. I don’t like it that way.

On the upper floor, bedrooms 2 and 3 are too convoluted. Overall, there are far too many angles and projections on the upper floor.

I would try to plan the stairs differently. Somehow the stairs, as they are now, mess up the entire floor plan for you. And that means: starting over for the third time.

Somehow big and expensive, but few details that make the house valuable. The WC is reduced to a minimum amount of space, the sanitary furniture is squeezed into one square meter. The kitchen doesn’t really have an advantageous status, there is barely room for two tall cabinets and the distance between the work surfaces is too large at over 2 meters. Personally, I find the living room uncomfortable. The entire kitchen-dining area is too long. For 5 people, the second shower is missing (mind you, I’m not a fan of children’s bathrooms), but it probably makes sense for three. Cloakroom? Where? Cramped stairs? The house presents itself from the outside, but not consistently: where is the visual symmetry, at least on the entrance side? Fact: too much house cost for little quality. If I could spend that much money, I wouldn’t just slap together an almost square house on a slope, but at least build an angle that provides shelter on the terrace, possibly build a useful shelter and a cozy living room with a partition wall for the sofa and appropriate access, which is not directly opposite the utility room. Apart from that, I like the area of the utility room and the hallway, but not as a whole. Upstairs also offers much room for improvement, which was already mentioned above.