Comments on floor plan design welcome

Why don’t you make the entrance to the parents’ area through the dressing room? That way you only have one door to the bathroom and no one has to wait in front of the bathroom (because someone is showering, for example) to get to the dressing room or the bedroom. Your living room corner is smaller than a small kitchen, have you actually measured it in real life?

Best regards
Sabine

So I find the bathroom in your redesign #144 better, because here at least the WC could now be separated with a sliding door. Then I still find the variant "access to the bedroom through the bathroom" unusual, but it is more imaginable. In my eyes still impractical, but you have analyzed your routines (does doing laundry ironing and putting it away, forgetting things in the closet, tidying up the bedroom, etc. really only make up 5% of your trips?)

I also find the TV room on the upper floor impractical. Well, it keeps you fit, because for every bowl of popcorn, for every drink, you have to go down to the kitchen, walk back up, and then walk down again to bring the things back to the kitchen. Since you have teenagers, I can already see lots of dirty dishes gathered in the corner upstairs.

Now there is more hallway space, but the guests no longer have to go through the kitchen.

That I don't understand at all. The open kitchen-living area is so important to you, and the guests still sit right next to the kitchen. So why complicate things by guiding them around the corner first? The hallway ends openly in the open kitchen-living area, yet the kitchen still has a door... somehow strange. Or do the guests only go upstairs!?

As inspiration, I would recommend jagras home on Instagram. She has, in my opinion, a really great house that is also somewhat unusual (TV corner spatially separated from the living/dining room, dressing room in the bathroom...). Your design still feels anything but cohesive.

I can fully agree with the post from borxx. The TV room feels very uncomfortable and narrow.

I would place the kitchen differently. It somehow gets in the way, making the hallway look like a maze. I can't imagine anyone using the bypass around the outside if they want to go to the living room.

I'm wondering if the parents' bedrooms with different depths really appear as chaotic in reality as they do in the top view. I would also choose the entrance through the dressing room.

I'm not really happy with it. Was that a suggestion from an architect or from you?

Hello everyone, this is the draft of the planner from the house manufacturer. We are currently rethinking the concept of the bedroom downstairs, living room upstairs. Nevertheless, I want to share my thoughts on this here, as it confuses many (yes, it is unusual). In the standard layout, all bedrooms are upstairs, the living/dining room/kitchen downstairs. This means the stairs are used multiple times daily: getting up, showering in between (possibly there is a shower downstairs, but clothes are upstairs), changing clothes, bringing laundry up after drying, going to bed. A nap would also be added. And in "my" version it is criticized that one has to go upstairs to watch TV and then back down again. All other trips are eliminated, as laundry is done completely downstairs. The living room downstairs (we call it the living corner) is really only there to sit down, watch the evening news or similar. That’s why it’s so small. Is that understandable? As mentioned, we are rethinking it as well..... My basic principle in life: don’t accept anything just because everyone else does. I question everything. It doesn’t have to be right just because it’s always been done that way (if that were always true, we would all still be riding horses through the prairie today...)

We also don’t like the routes downstairs with the kitchen. I am looking forward to suggestions for improvement here.

We also asked ourselves the question whether the door should be in the bathroom or in the dressing room. Ultimately, the decision was made for the bathroom so that space remains in the dressing room and one can still place a cabinet in the hallway by the kitchen.

Best regards, Andreas

My basic principle in life: I don’t accept anything just because everyone else does it. I question everything. It doesn’t have to be right just because everyone has always done it that way (if that were always the case, we would all still be riding horses across the prairie today...)

I absolutely agree with you, but one should also be critical of oneself as to whether one is only doing something differently just to be different or not mainstream or conformist. I have caught myself doing that often, so I am always grateful for food for thought, even if it sometimes doesn’t suit me because it goes against my latest idea. I question many of these nowadays often mentioned must-haves because I have always gotten used to them, i.e. have adapted myself. Therefore, I am often surprised that despite the now most diverse possibilities, at the same time more and more uniformity occurs, i.e., precisely the opposite of diversity. Nevertheless, there are also sensible insights and guidelines for certain things that should definitely be observed in order not to end up with a bizarre-looking house that ultimately doesn’t please you anymore. What kind of house is it going to be now, are you back with Stommel Haus? Why don’t you post the drawn plan then? From what I see and read from the previous "critiques," I get the impression again that YOU basically made/prescribed the plan and the architect just drew it so as not to contradict you. But I think an architect should take a different stance and you should definitely allow that.

I absolutely agree with you, but one should also be critical of oneself, whether one does something differently just to do it differently or to not be mainstream or conforming. I have caught myself doing that several times, so I am always grateful for food for thought, even if sometimes it doesn’t suit me, because it goes against my latest idea. I question many of the nowadays often-mentioned must-haves because I have always been used to conforming myself as well. Therefore, I am often surprised that despite the increasingly diverse possibilities there is still more and more standardization occurring, which is exactly the opposite of diversity. Nevertheless, there are also sensible insights and guidelines for certain things that one absolutely should consider, so as not to end up with an eccentric-looking house that one himself eventually doesn’t like. What kind of house will it be now, are you back with Stommel Haus? Please post the drawn plan. From what I see and read from the previous “criticisms,” I get the impression again that YOU basically made/gave the plan and the architect only traced it so as not to contradict you. But I think an architect should take a different position and you should definitely allow that.

Hello, yes, I am here to get food for thought and question myself....... Attached are the plans from the Stommel Haus planner (not an architect yet, but he only does the statics and building application, no layout, as far as I understand). We gave a few specifications, and he drew it. Ground floor Upper floor