Comments on floor plan design welcome

We are currently rethinking the concept of bedroom downstairs, living room upstairs.

It's not that spectacular, my parents also built that in 1995 because there were 3 children's rooms upstairs. Still, there was a kitchen with a dining table downstairs and 8 couch seats in the living room in front of the TV, and another extendable dining table for guests. In addition, a bathroom with a bathtub and the utility room. Didn't someone here also move the bedroom downstairs and the utility room upstairs for that?

And in "my" version it is criticized that you have to go upstairs to watch TV and then back down again.

In the thread opening you write "We are planning for old age." So: when you are old, you can no longer watch TV?

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

That is basically a good thing, but in most cases you yourself are not as clever as Galileo to come up with a world-changing insight. There are reasons why various things have established themselves, for example that the bathroom should not be a walk-through room.

I don't know what the property actually looks like, but I would probably try to use the 13m depth of the building window and make the house narrower for that. So instead of your previous 13x10, it would be 10x13. This would give you the opportunity to use the garden and the entire west side for lighting and at the same time have more privacy with a terrace on the west side, not the terrace directly next to the entrance and by the street.

Are you absolutely attached to the straight staircase?

Regarding the dressing room: a door in the dressing room with wardrobes on both sides shouldn't take up any space since you need space between the wardrobes anyway and most likely there is nothing against the wall either. Corner solutions often do not offer "that much more" space as one might wish.

Is there anything against designing the TV room upstairs almost as an open foyer or lounge or similar? It is sufficiently shielded from the ground floor by the door and stairs and you could use the entire room including the corridor. Ergo, more living space, less unused traffic area.

The living room downstairs (we call it the living corner) is really only meant for sitting down, watching the Tagesschau or similar. That’s why it’s so small.

A Tagesschau-watching room can of course be small – but "small" in my opinion clashes with having an open space above. I am grateful for nothing more than not having to understand everything

Hi, I have drawn again myself and moved the bedroom upstairs.... more classic. I am bothered by the long corridors in the center of the house.

Now I am looking forward to your comments I have not planned the windows yet, so don’t pay attention to that .....

Thought you were planning a house for 2 people. Can't find the questionnaire. Does it have to be 2 VG? You need more space below than above. If you can no longer or do not want to use the stairs, do you want to restrict yourself then? I would plan something along these lines Schwörerhaus Bungalow Plan E 15-263.2

I haven't read 26 pages, so just a quick question: Do I understand correctly that you want to squeeze your children into 12sqm, but next to it there are 17sqm of unused air in the room?

If "yes": My suggestion would be to remove the free space, make the hallway a bit wider (you currently have only 1m passage width?), and enlarge the children's rooms by about 5sqm each. Put a wardrobe, a bed, and a desk into a 12sqm room and be surprised how little space is left. If it's not possible to do otherwise due to finances or local conditions, then so be it, but if possible, you should offer your kids some free space. After all, you have 18sqm just for sleeping and the kids only 12sqm for "living."

If "no": Forget what I said, except I would still make the hallway wider.

The bedroom with the corridor/wardrobe next to the door doesn't seem coherent to me. Have you ever tried to use an "L" staircase? Then you could possibly plan the bedroom rectangularly and have more space on this entire floor side (possibly for a storage room or similar).