I’m really sorry, but I have to join the general consensus.
On the ground floor, I see 6 passage rooms, which in my eyes represent the opposite of coziness.
1. Cloakroom
2. Storage room
3. Kitchen
4. Living room
5. Ominous storage room, where you pass through the junk room storage to get to the pantry
6. Hallway – OK, obviously, and just for completeness.
Actually, the whole ground floor is circulation space, and only the dining area is cozy in the classic sense, if it weren’t relatively cramped. Window radii have already been mentioned.
The design feels to me as if the clients went to the general contractor with a very precise idea and then filler spaces and additional corridors were added. The passage room from the garage to the pantry only came about when the workspace and household areas on the upper floor could no longer find space in the floor plan and were then gladly accepted as a solution, or did I misinterpret that?
It really helped me back then to clearly formulate the MUST requirements and put the CAN requirements up for debate and possibly only implement them suboptimally. Our floor plan was made increasingly complicated by the architect (= draftsman) of the general contractor – whose numerous clients are all satisfied – I can definitely see myself in that complexity.
We pulled the handbrake and started completely from scratch at the drawing board, breaking the mental block. In my floor plan thread, I didn’t even attach the botched general contractor floor plans, as we became more unhappy with each revision.
Questions, e.g.
Do you really need 3 bathrooms with showers and 2 of them on the upper floor?
Do you really need the energetically very unfavorable dining room?
Do you really need 2 offices?
Do you need the huge storage room, or can you use the crawl space under the roof? 90% of other clients manage with just the utility room?
Please clearly state which rooms you REALLY need.
The criticism addressed is understandable. But sometimes you might get stuck on things and no longer see the disadvantages.
Yes, you really have a good nose for this or speak from experience. It was indeed the case that we went to the architect with quite specific ideas… I’d be interested to hear how you proceeded? Did you simply start from scratch again with the same construction company?
After all the comments, we now feel very uncomfortable implementing this plan as is. And even though starting over would be a pretty drastic step, it might be better than stubbornly sticking to the plan and regretting it later when you live in it. Or we might refine the current floor plan again…
What is definitely important to us:
- 3 children’s rooms
- open or semi-open living/dining area
- passage from the garage to the house
- pantry next to the kitchen
- guest WC with shower
- a room on the ground floor that can be converted into a bedroom in old age
- room for bicycles, garden stuff, and storage options (we do not want a cellar)
Maybe someone has had similar criteria and found a different implementation? (At least for the ground floor area). They are very welcome to post their floor plan.
I’m really sorry, but I have to join the general consensus.
On the ground floor, I see 6 passage rooms, which in my eyes represent the opposite of coziness.
1. Cloakroom
2. Storage room
3. Kitchen
4. Living room
5. Ominous storage room, where you pass through the junk room storage to get to the pantry
6. Hallway – OK, obviously, and just for completeness.
Actually, the whole ground floor is circulation space, and only the dining area is cozy in the classic sense, if it weren’t relatively cramped. Window radii have already been mentioned.
The design feels to me as if the clients went to the general contractor with a very precise idea and then filler spaces and additional corridors were added. The passage room from the garage to the pantry only came about when the workspace and household areas on the upper floor could no longer find space in the floor plan and were then gladly accepted as a solution, or did I misinterpret that?
It really helped me back then to clearly formulate the MUST requirements and put the CAN requirements up for debate and possibly only implement them suboptimally. Our floor plan was made increasingly complicated by the architect (= draftsman) of the general contractor – whose numerous clients are all satisfied – I can definitely see myself in that complexity.
We pulled the handbrake and started completely from scratch at the drawing board, breaking the mental block. In my floor plan thread, I didn’t even attach the botched general contractor floor plans, as we became more unhappy with each revision.
Questions, e.g.
Do you really need 3 bathrooms with showers and 2 of them on the upper floor?
Do you really need the energetically very unfavorable dining room?
Do you really need 2 offices?
Do you need the huge storage room, or can you use the crawl space under the roof? 90% of other clients manage with just the utility room?
Please clearly state which rooms you REALLY need.