first of all, thank you very much for the doors in the plan. :)
About the plan:
Ground floor:
I assume that the room with the car and also the adjoining storage room will remain unheated. If so, the washing machine is in my opinion misplaced there because it could freeze in winter. In general, that space would be quite unsuitable if I imagine the walking routes.
The same applies to bottles and everything else that couldn’t be stored there if it was intended as a pantry.
Now you have laboriously torn down the walls, but the sofa at the top of the plan seems quite lost in the now open living room with 10m length and 4m width. Apart from the narrow feeling of the room, it quickly becomes a hall. That doesn’t create a cozy atmosphere. Especially not when guests constantly use the toilet right next door and the bathroom is not separated from the living room. There is only one door between them. That is not enough to feel comfortable.
The room at the bottom right of the plan, which belongs to the living room, shows no clear use, except for a galactic cabinet. Yeah yeah, three children will surely distribute their stuff there. I wouldn’t worry about that, but they have the same amount of space upstairs again. Plus the children’s rooms and the basement room. You have to have a lot of junk for that. Next to it, the generous dining table offers enough space for games at the table. So what to do with the hall? Apparently the architect had no idea either. In such cases, usually a grand piano is put in out of embarrassment – I'm still waiting for that.
Upper floor:
Yes, slanted walls are rubbish, especially when they are that long.
Besides that, the laundry room here is too tiny, the dressing room too cramped, the master bathroom a joke (you don’t want to “live” like that as a builder), the children’s room directly next to the bedroom uncomfortable for both parties.
The obligation to have all children look into the garden is nonsense. Basically, the corners of a house are the chocolate pieces of the house. You would expect child 1 there rather than stacked side by side and squeezed next to the bedroom. It only looks so nicely and German-ordered on the plan. In reality, it’s nonsense.
The bed in the bedroom has the foot end at the window? But the bedside tables are consistently placed at the feet? That is more than strange. Basically, a window behind the headboard is usually uncomfortable. From that point of view, I don’t see the bed placed like that.
Apparently, there is a knee wall at standing height or something similar. What exactly is that? How is it in the extension?
Conclusion
On the ground floor, I would:
- isolate the bathroom from the living room or better yet put up a partition wall at the height of the chimney again to zone the hall and banish the noise from the toilet and shower.
- declare the current sofa room as a guest room and the guest room as an office to ease the parents’ area upstairs.
On the upper floor, I would
straighten the wall – presumably to the advantage of the parents’ area. Rearrange the children’s rooms and decouple them from the bedroom. Move the office downstairs, redistribute the bathrooms – that also depends on the drainage. Maybe I’ll puzzle a bit, but only if a decision falls regarding the office and living room – whatever it looks like.
Thank you very much for your detailed feedback. I can already tell this is a lot of work to be able to provide feedback to everyone again. (Right now we hardly have that with small kids... but I’m doing my best).
It is planned to insulate the pantry and the current "garage" so that it doesn’t get too cold in winter. We are currently planning the washing machine in the small room upstairs between the bathroom and child 3, also because of the walking routes where the laundry arises. In summer, when things are dried outside, it can be taken out then.
About the living room: I had similar thoughts already. We plan to place the couch in line with the dining area and use the area towards the north as a second play area for the kids while they are still small. Later on, possibly to divide the area with a room divider to create a craft area. Currently, all "life" takes place in the living-dining area while the kids are still so small, hence the large space.
Would a sliding door between the hallway and living room maybe make sense? We had thought about that once but somehow the idea got lost again.
Your idea to ease the parents’ area and move the office downstairs was our initial plan. But then the upper floor would be too long and narrow to arrange the dressing room and bathroom properly. It looked very strange in the initial planning.
Upstairs: I now also see the point of straightening the wall.
The house is in a quiet 30km/h zone, but we ultimately wanted all bedrooms (parents + children) to face the garden. Do you think the children’s rooms lose spatial quality that way? From our point of view, they are still big enough?
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