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

For the upper floor layout, this idea came to mind spontaneously. The children to the south, the parents to the back.

You have several options:
• keep the staircase direction as it is and you could enter the bedroom from the front and exit to the dressing room at the back (opposite the bathroom). That means the person sleeping is not disturbed and there are no two doors in the bathroom.
• or you change the staircase direction and can still play a bit with the size of the children's rooms, thus reducing the hallway area.

Maybe there is something in there.




milkie

... then you partially place the sofa in front of the symmetrically arranged window, which will somehow look random.
Besides, I can read the width of the living room as 3.38, after deducting plaster it will be 3.30.
Do you have a mini-TV? But if you do have a "normal" one, then it will be a tight fit and really not good for the eyes.
The width of the hallway allows for possibly creating more width for the living room, but overall the living/cooking area is more than generous... maybe move the stairs to the other side, utility room accessible only from the kitchen (without pantry).
Whether you need a pantry is up to you... the utility room is close anyway.
Controlled residential ventilation can nowadays also be mounted (on the wall or ceiling) :)

On second thought, I see that you don’t have a window in the kitchen (patio door doesn't count). Don’t you have any herbs on the windowsill? I would miss that, also the natural light at the sink...

Basically, I don’t think the design is bad at all, but still it needs revision.
You have to like the windows... and somehow I don’t understand your argument about the roller shutters.

You have to like the windows... and somehow I don't understand your argument about the roller shutters.

I agree. Roller shutters can be installed in so many different ways that they do not become the defining factor.

The plan section shows our living/dining area. Large, floor-to-ceiling windows, supports in the corner. Darkening is done with external venetian blinds. The venetian blind boxes are completely plastered in, i.e. when the blinds are raised, you can see neither the blinds nor the box. But everything also works with roller shutters.

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... then you partially place the sofa in front of the symmetrically arranged window, which will somehow look aimless.
Also, I can read the width of the living room as 3.38, after deducting plaster it will be 3.30.
Do you have a mini TV? But if you have a "normal" one, it will be tight and really not good for the eyes.
The width of the corridor allows for potentially creating more width for the living room, but overall the living/cooking area is more than generous... maybe put the stairs on the other side, utility room accessible only from the kitchen (without pantry).
Whether you need a pantry is up to you... the utility room is nearby.
Controlled residential ventilation can nowadays also be installed (on wall or ceiling) :)

On second glance, I see that you have no window in the kitchen (the patio door does not count). Don’t you have herbs on the windowsill? I would miss that, also the natural light at the sink...

Basically, I don’t think the design is bad at all, though it needs some revision.
You have to like the windows... and somehow I don’t understand your argument about the roller shutters.

We will certainly have to think a bit more about the width of the living room! We were aware that it is still very tight according to this floor plan.
The idea with the stairs and the utility room through the kitchen is also quite good, maybe we should reconsider whether the pantry is necessary!

The orientation of the kitchen does not allow for an additional window, as it faces the garage. We assume that the kitchen will get enough daylight!

I will have to look at a few examples regarding the roller shutters. I assumed that for corner windows the roller shutter boxes cannot be installed recessed due to their size, since they would overlap in the corner!

Best regards

I agree. You can install roller shutters in so many different ways that they do not become the determining factor.

The plan section shows our living/dining area. Large, floor-to-ceiling windows, supports in the corner. Darkening is done with external venetian blinds. The venetian blind boxes are completely flush-mounted, i.e. when the venetian blinds are raised, you can see neither the venetian blinds nor the box. But it all works with roller shutters as well.

Thanks for the example. Looks interesting. Is there perhaps an exterior view and how the supports were realized? I really can’t picture it right now.

Best regards

Maybe we should reconsider placing the dressing room in the bedroom (then you could also do without a "proper" interior door!

Should it be a "dressing room" with a wardrobe or a walk-in closet with open shelves/clothes rails? You can also place a wardrobe like that in the bedroom. A walk-in closet, on the other hand, offers many more design possibilities (you can get ideas from the big Swedish furniture store, but you can also get custom-cut shelves from the hardware store) and you can basically store twice as many clothes and laundry there as in a "classic" wardrobe (measured by the length of the wall). And if it is important to you to change/get dressed quietly without waking the sleeping husband/partner/bedroom roommate, then you should seriously consider access through the hallway.
Not everything that is beautiful is practical. Not everything that is practical is beautiful. That reminds me of shoes, but it is no different when planning a house. :)