Ok, let’s start from the beginning :)
I don’t want an open basement hole in the house. The idea with the door and the cellar stairs behind it is still being reviewed. The bedroom was decided on; that wasn’t my wish, but I don’t find it particularly bad either. ALL items currently shown on the floor plan are just placeholders. They were never discussed with me and are purely for illustrative purposes. That’s why neither the bedroom, kitchen, nor living room fit. In the utility room, there will be a washing machine, dryer, and supplies. Cleaning stuff, vacuum cleaner, etc. Furthermore, it serves as a passage to the garage and the garden.
I think there is way too much wasted space.
Two adjacent staircases? Why?
There is still room to do the polka in the bedroom. 27 sqm just for a bed and 2 nightstands? You could save the walk-in closet.
The kitchen with 14 sqm and an island? Without knowing the exact dimensions, I suspect it won’t fit. At least not if you want to open the doors of the cabinets next to it.
I think: built big, actually a lot of space, badly distributed. It could be much more creative.
You have a basement and then such a big utility room?
You can build it that way – if you don’t have to watch the money. Otherwise, the rooms are already on the wrong floors. My opinion.
We also once had the idea of having guest/office on the ground floor. But then upstairs gets incredibly big. So big that you still don’t know what to do with the space. And that’s how it looks right now.
The stairs are already there, in progress. The guest WC will be moved towards the utility room so that it will end up being about 4.5 sqm. We had the kitchen. We will have a cleaning service, yes. But the house will cost about €500,000. Entrance canopy, light well for the office, laundry chute, door to the living room – all that is planned but not yet shown on the plan.
I don’t understand the explanation. Staircases on top of each other (with a door to the basement stairs) still create separation... You are now moving the staircase to the basement further into the house: is that now a better separation from everything?
How does one crawl into the guest WC? Am I wrong or do you others overlook it: the stairs there are way too low to put a door underneath????!!!! :confused: How wide are the passages past the kitchen island? They seem very narrow to me, especially since cabinets still need to be accessible there. I roughly estimate about 100 sqm living space on the ground floor; the upper floor still needs to have the slants deducted... 180 sqm + basement. If the total is supposed to be over 200/300, then I would say: wasted money on a house that could be smaller. The bedroom won’t be cozy. Sure, space for yoga or the Wii games for the parents is there, but you still have a basement, so somehow the size isn’t justified by the rather little house. That’s my opinion. Everything still has to be maintained :eek: Do you have a cleaning lady then???
How much money do you have available for the house? Probably quite a lot – with that extra you should install little highlights like an integrated entrance canopy (symbiosis of garage and house), large light wells for the basement and so on.
The cloakroom is currently under the stairs going up. So it’s graphically difficult to show. At that spot, a possible staircase or door down to the basement could be placed instead. The stairs are deliberately positioned so that I don’t walk upstairs immediately when entering the door but rather come from the living room/kitchen and end the day. Or vice versa, when coming down from upstairs, I don’t go out through the front door but have a coffee first, put on my shoes, and then leave. Also, I wanted a more spacious entrance area where you don’t immediately stand on a stairway.
At the upper end of the living room, 60 cm depth is planned for a media wall. Not very wide but enough for a TV :) Please disregard the furniture in the living room.
In the parents’ bedroom, there is a sliding door to the walk-in closet, so nobody has to walk naked through the hallway :D And having a master bath adjoining the bedroom is standard nowadays, right?
A functioning design and lifelong comfortable living are more important than meeting a set date.
About the floor plans: They are really incredibly inefficient and poorly designed. There is no cloakroom on the ground floor! You have a living room that doesn’t offer space for cabinets, also not suitable for TV. And your staircase ideas are poorly implemented. The stairs to the upper floor look rather like an emergency solution, and even if you want the basement stairs separate, it would make more sense to place them in the public entrance area. The upper floor isn’t better. If one parent wants to go to the bathroom, the other is disturbed, and then you have to walk through the hallway in your birthday suit to the closet – brilliantly planned...
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I will forward this to my architect; I can’t really do much with it myself right now.
To me, it looks more like planned by a freshman… definitely quite a bit of tutoring needed… please start over once more…
So, this now sounds as if I want to defend “my” house. No, I just want to share my thoughts with you and make it clear why we did things the way we did. Of course, the house is big, but that’s exactly how I want it except the bedroom, but what’s the alternative? Start a completely new floor plan? No, I’d rather live with that luxury problem. :)
A big thank you for all your answers so far!