Do you find the floor plan of our city villa okay?

Hello everyone,

I would like to hear/read your opinion about our floor plan!

After long consideration and planning, our floor plan currently looks like this. It is supposed to be a city villa (10.50m x 10.50m, KFW 55).

The entrance area faces the street (private road).

To the right of the house (street view) runs a small play street.

We have already decided after finalizing this floor plan that we will swap the bathroom and the bedroom on the upper floor. This makes more sense because of the kitchen on the ground floor (shorter supply lines).

The heating system (probably a heat pump) will be placed in the garage (technical room).

The power supply including home automation will go into the utility room, as well as the ventilation system.

The shower (approx. 90x90) on the ground floor is not yet definitively positioned! It probably makes the most sense to enlarge the wall towards the utility room a bit (like a kind of niche).

A kitchen island is planned for the kitchen.

Hopefully, you can make some sense of the information so far.

I would be very happy if one or the other would take a look at everything.

Best regards

Hello.

That’s quite a lot of windows you have there. Do you have the costs under control or the necessary cash? I do like many windows, but somehow it seems overloaded to me.

Otherwise, I would first paint the coatroom and enlarge the shower/WC. The entrance area is large enough to carve out more space for a coatroom there, for example in the form of a niche in the utility room wall.

I am also a fan of pantries, but this one is very cramped and the sliding door alone is very expensive, so it might make more sense to calculate two additional tall cabinets and store beverage crates in the utility room. On the other hand, you can also move the utility room door so that a coatroom niche can be created. For kitchen planning, I can recommend the website of the kitchen forum to you. (You can never plan a kitchen early enough!)

The living room corner seems very tight to me. How is it supposed to be furnished?

Upstairs, I wonder why the children get the north-facing rooms. Both as children and as teenagers, they spend most of their time in their rooms and should also get the sunlight (especially in winter). That means I would move the bedroom and bathroom to the back and the two children's rooms to the front. The drainage from the bathroom via WC and utility room should be easier.

The dressing room would probably have to be placed in front of or behind the bedroom and one child’s room across the front. But the current dressing room doesn’t work anyway. It consists only of traffic areas and windows. No cabinets fit in there!

To me, the hallway on the ground floor would be too much wasted space and the cloakroom too small for 4 people. If the ventilation system is in the utility room, I don’t know if there is much space left for anything else, especially if you also want to make a niche for the shower. Most of the utility room is traffic area so you can walk through it.

I like the many windows, but why are you putting in such narrow windows everywhere (dressing room, gallery, living, dining, on the upper floor at the corners)? Leave out the built "supports" and use continuous window surfaces. Where the structure requires it, e.g. in the living room southeast corner, an unobtrusive, round steel support can be placed in the corner.

The dressing room basically has no standing space. Either a door is in the way or a window is in the way. You will regret the second door in the bathroom because it will probably just be annoying. The hallway upstairs is huge. I think there is still a lot of potential for optimization there. Do you really want to have it completely open downstairs?

I would realize access to the dressing room (only) through the hallway. These two doors do take up space and of course also cost something (material + installation). Whether you need a "real" interior door for the dressing room is a matter of taste anyway; a decorative sliding curtain or something similar is basically sufficient.

If the doors are removed, you have space in the bedroom for a chest of drawers (e.g., for underwear). And space in the bathroom for a bathroom cabinet (for towels, cleaning supplies, etc.).