Critical feedback on the floor plan desired

Hello,

the floor plan is relatively difficult to assess since no measurements are included.

Should the kitchen be open to the hallway / dining and living areas? The black lines somehow look irritating there. Is the statics taken into account?

How wide are the doors?

The bathroom on the ground floor feels like a corridor – it probably wouldn’t be accessible for disabled people like that. Is the window in the shower actually planned?

What is the brown area between the hallway and the kitchen supposed to be? The staircase?

I also don’t find having no window in the immediate kitchen area very optimal...

The corner windows in the children's rooms cannot be opened at the same time because they block each other.

The whole floor plan seems very convoluted to me – with the intended size of 200 sqm you can definitely create much more spaciousness and usability.

Don’t take it the wrong way, but someone who knows about room layout and structural engineering should take a look – it can be done better...

Best regards,

Dirk

Hello,

what I notice:
- without a basement, I would find a straight staircase much nicer and easier to implement
- WC/bathroom on the ground floor takes up a lot of space, yet it is not nicely usable
- the children's rooms are very convoluted, at least the lower one, I find the slanted wall disturbing
- really 2 toilets next to each other in the master bathroom, or what does that represent? You don't sit next to each other, do you? :)

Regards

Maybe the second WC is supposed to be a bidet?

Doesn't matter, nothing fits there. A kitchen without a window is out of the question! Do you really want to have such a dark hole there?

The garage also seems very narrow. A site plan would be useful now: it's always practical not to slap the garage right up against the house, but maybe leave a corridor in between (well, depending on the plan).

Up to 12 people in the dining area? That only works in shifts...

All three bathrooms are crap. There's no other way to say it. None are really large and nice and all are anything but wheelchair accessible. No wheelchair fits into such a narrow corridor.

I think the furniture pushed into the stairs is supposed to mean that the stairs run above or below here and the furniture stands in the slant. But that doesn't quite work, at least not in the kitchen.

Before going to the PC, I still think it's much more sensible to take paper and pencil completely old-fashioned and first roughly distribute the individual living areas SENSIBLY on the floor plan, you already get a feeling for it and only then fine-tune.

With 200 sqm you can do much more and much better. Just look at standard floor plans from the big providers (all available online) and reconsider your own planning based on that.

Even better: Make a list of all the things that must be/have to be nice/maybe/under no circumstances be allowed and go to a good architect.

Very simple and fast: just enter "Stadtvilla Grundriss 200qm" on Google and take a look at the pictures.

Thank you for the first responses,
here first again the floor plan with dimensions

We have looked at standard floor plans and model houses enough, but it didn’t help much ;)

now to the first comments:

-all doors are 90 cm wide
-I am also not really satisfied with the bathrooms, but haven’t gotten much further yet. The guest bathroom on the ground floor is rarely used for showering, therefore it has no shower cabin, but only a walk-in tiled shower and a curtain if needed. Therefore just wheelchair accessible...

-Bathroom upstairs: the 2nd toilet is of course a bidet
-The bathtub only in the kids’ bathroom is intentional, because we hardly bathe, but the kids do

-In the kids’ room the wall is angled, because otherwise you lose a lot of space in the storage room in the kids’ room and gain it uselessly in the hallway, just so the door fits

But I am aware that much can and must still be optimized. That’s why I’m asking you ;)

Now there is a first draft that we are quite satisfied with

But that there is still a lot that can and must be optimized

So what now?

There is a lot to optimize. The bathroom on the ground floor will never be considered accessible for disabled people.
What else have you planned in the non-walkable area behind the sofa?
Is that supposed to be the fireplace on the exterior wall? Then it probably won’t really work to seat 12 people in the narrow corner.

I don’t understand why standard floor plans don’t help. After all, they provide ideas for a somewhat sensible room layout.
For example, the issue of the trapped dressing room. That negates any advantage.