Draft single-family house (EFH), 2 full stories, gabled roof, no basement, double garage

  • Erstellt am 2025-03-28 14:34:57

roteweste

2025-03-28 19:09:34
  • #1
No. I also don't think you can plan much better upstairs with the current building structure and staircase position without messing around with the rooms. I consider all the rooms upstairs sufficiently sized, and I find the furnishing for the large bedroom well thought out. In my opinion, much better than trying to squeeze in a tiny walk-in closet there.
 

hanghaus2023

2025-03-28 19:27:07
  • #2
I noticed that the stairs and the hallway upstairs do not get any daylight. Something should be done about that.
 

roteweste

2025-03-28 19:36:42
  • #3
What I also notice: I would redesign the guest bathroom again so that you don’t stand directly in front of the toilet when you enter.
 

Arauki11

2025-03-28 19:43:18
  • #4
For me, such an entrance situation/driveway to the house would be a no-go in a free house planning. A house entrance does not necessarily have to look presidential, but here it seems rather forced to me and additionally directly on the driveway of the cars. never! 5.60m garage width with bicycles, screws, etc. for two cars is little. We have also raised children in the newly built house back then, but in your space requirements, in my opinion, the term "playing" appears extraordinarily often. Children will find their place and usually look for totally different places than the assigned ones anyway, and this kind of playing only takes place over a limited period. Whether I would create so much extra space for that at €3-3,500 per sqm... I don't know, especially if I might quickly run out of money elsewhere. In a really stylish house, you can easily hide €100-200,000 more permanently and sensibly at the same area. When the children become teenagers, they need exactly the opposite most of the time. As a multiple offender, I believe I read that you currently want to plan the jack of all trades, which is absolutely understandable for such a project. But you still have a while until "old age" and from my own experience and various others around me, I would rather discard the planning of a separable upper floor. No one wants to climb up such a chicken ladder at some point, and needs usually develop quite differently than you intend with it. I would find the idea more interesting to separate the children's area with its own shower/toilet from the rest of the house somewhat or possibly even the house entrance, for their own peace and privacy as well as for the young people. Currently, you do have a U, but it is pressed directly against the inside wall, an expensive, often unattractive sliding door solution without real sound reduction. First of all, (and I know this from some participants here) I would wish for a drawn sketch, especially with individual measurements, above all also with furniture dimensions of the then real! furniture. These floor plans from the PC look nice but are less suitable for deeper floor plan discussions. Floor plan: You have to walk around the front door to get to the stairs, which is not very comfortable. The start of the (why?) straight staircase is very close to the wall and does not create a nice room feeling and appears cramped. The ground floor shower is probably 140 cm and must then result in the disliked glass solution because the passage must already be about 70 cm; furthermore, the door almost hits the toilet that you approach directly... all this shows up when you draw in the real measurements. Apparently, the living room will mainly be a TV room, so I would consider whether it should even be there, especially since it should be acoustically separated as well. I once lived so that the living room was on the other side of the house, in a quiet room, and I found that nice for everyone. I don't mean a 1:1 exchange, but such an idea would give freedom in the dining/kitchen area and this living room could then be significantly smaller, while the all-purpose room without the living room would be larger. On the upper floor, I see that the drawn doors are probably not to scale either, so again, definitely draw precisely, also again furniture, TV wall, etc. The bathroom is huge with 13 sqm but not nicely designed; you don't need the bathtub to get a nice bathroom; the toilet there is far from the window and also cramped. The shower with 180 cm also does not suffice for the desired glass-free version. We have done it here with 140x90 plus passage width; you don't have that here. I would rather push the shower behind the toilet and move the toilet to the other side. The three children's rooms or extra rooms could be arranged differently so that each children's room has about 14 sqm. The middle one could perhaps also (in advance?) remain a nice, open area for old and young or then become the third room if needed; that could easily be prepared. This could become an exciting and constructive discussion here once again, which unfortunately is becoming less and less. I find it good that you also share your mental background because these are precisely necessary to be able to design a house really individually.
 

11ant

2025-03-28 19:55:37
  • #5
I would seriously take advantage here of the fact that the stair position is optimal to avoid having an additional acrobat’s ladder. Not everything that has to go up and back down there is just a symbolic load that you can easypeasy carry on your shoulder.
 

schrauberlouis

2025-03-28 20:15:10
  • #6
I am not keeping up at all here, many thanks to everyone!



Yes, unfortunately that is a big disadvantage of the design. I had once considered a flat roof on the garage and would have had a nice large window on the east side with light shining onto the stairs. But then the storage space above the garage was more important to me. So the compromise would be a glass insert door in the utility room to get some light from the north into the hallway.



Thank you. I had not yet found a really good solution for the guest bathroom and had not thought it through further either, as I focused on the rest of the layout and orientation. Because of the exterior view, I have planned a higher window in the south as a "light strip," but that has the disadvantage that the sink cannot be placed on the south side because no mirror would be possible.

If the design remains as is: Would you consider a small normal window in the east to be better? (Thus the toilet could be on the east wall and the washbasin would be the first thing visible upon entering)
 

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