Hello,
I find the floor plan very unfortunately designed. It simply has too many mistakes that won’t make daily life happy.
I think I’ve never said this before, but I would start completely from scratch. Sorry ops:
Ground floor
Stairs directly at the front door are not good. Dirt spreads throughout the whole house.
The stairs generally seem way too short to me. Are they really properly planned?
A storage room under the stairs is not feasible, otherwise you can no longer get to the office.
The cloakroom – presumably on the wall to the living room – is too far from the front door. This makes the entire hallway dirty from shoes.
How old are the children? Are they already there or still planned? Where will the stroller and car seat go?
No guest WC on the ground floor – an absolute no-go. All visitors must go upstairs to the bathroom. Even when the children are already sleeping. As a result, you don’t have any private area in the house.
The technical room will be too small or will probably just barely fit the washing machine, dryer, and technology. But zero storage space. I don’t know what technology you’ll get, but in our new build, we have a technical/utility room of a little more than 12sqm. With a bit of luck, there will still be room for a shelf for sports bags and a few shoes. The rest is taken up by technology and the washing machine, dryer, and the collected dirty laundry (don’t forget! That also needs space!). How about a drying rack? Where is the laundry supposed to be dried? Completely in the dryer or in the living room? Because there will be no space for it in the utility room.
Access to the kitchen from the hallway would be an advantage.
The bay window brings zero benefit but costs a lot of money because of all its corners. I would have placed a right-angled corner between dining and living here instead. It would be much more usable and, in my opinion, also look better.
Where is the couch supposed to stand? How do you then get to the outdoor seating?
Living/dining is much too large for the benefit it brings.
Upper floor
What about the 'dead' space next to the stairs?
Here you should cancel the WC and place a utility room along the full length up to the stairs.
The smaller children’s room is definitely the more attractive one for me. However, a roof window should be added here. But this room offers much more space (over 2m) than the larger room. The entrance area of the larger room is wasted space and can’t be used at all. So you should subtract at least 2sqm from the larger room.
The bedroom is okay, but the walk-in closet cannot be furnished.
I don’t find the entrance from the bedroom bad – we will have it like that too – but there is no space for furniture because of the window. I would cancel the window. Honestly, I would cancel the whole walk-in closet and rather enlarge the parents' and children's rooms and put the wardrobe in the bedroom. Because in your walk-in closet one can’t turn around.
But as I said, since there are simply too many defects, do yourselves a favor and start again from scratch.
