First drafts/floor plans for semi-detached house 6x12m

Hello everyone,

we are planning to build a semi-detached house. The building envelope is 6x12m and it may be built with two full floors. We want to fully develop the attic to create three children's rooms. We do not want a basement (due to the proximity to the Rhine). The ridge height is 11m. The eaves height is 6.5m.
We want to place a garage sized 3x9m on the boundary. The garden faces south.

Our initial ideas have led us to the attached floor plans - what do you think about them?

Note:
On the ground floor, a pure utility room - washing machine and dryer should be in the attic (utility room)
In addition, we want a pantry (separated from the open kitchen by a sliding door) and a closed concrete staircase under which we want to create additional storage space on the ground floor.
Upper floor with three children's rooms and bathroom
Attic: master bedroom, utility room and studio - studio with dormer (north side) - and bedroom south side
-> I think it looks better from the street with the dormer, even if otherwise the rooms would have been better swapped

...and now I am curious - everything is still changeable

THANK YOU VERY MUCH

Good evening,

DG: studio with dormer (north side)

Are you sure that you will get approval for a dormer on the 3rd floor?

Rhenish regards

Here are a few tips:

A sliding door needs space in the wall, so draw a double wall for it. Also, always leave about 20 cm of space next to a door for light switches. I’m talking about a SKETCH... so it's better to plan a little more space in DIY designs, otherwise the furniture won't fit if you transfer these dimensions to the final version. -> Bedroom: a wardrobe that is 285 cm wide probably won’t exist, it doesn’t fit either, because the light switches will be installed by the door. The consequence: at some point, you’ll be looking for a wardrobe that is 250 cm wide. Probably the planned space will then be insufficient. Kitchen passage between work areas with one meter is too narrow! The same applies to hallways of one meter. Behind doors, plan a real storage depth of 60 cm (for cupboards, see utility room). At the moment, you have 3! toilet drainage connections... that can get expensive... Toilets need cisterns, which are built into pre-wall installations; this is only realized on the ground floor in your case. In the utility room in the attic, you can’t move, it’s that small... You should plan the slanted or windowless wall in the bedroom as a deep built-in wardrobe of about 120 cm depth so that you really have space there for the bed. But don’t forget to enlarge the utility room. I am an advocate for washing on the level where the laundry occurs. But washing in the attic means carrying laundry baskets up and down two flights of stairs in summer if you want to dry the laundry in the garden. I would therefore plan the washing room on the upper floor and relocate the stairs for that. The attic and living room can handle this, in the ground floor there is too much wasted space anyway, in my opinion.

Regards Yvonne

a sliding door needs space in the wall, so draw a double wall for it.

Not necessarily. We are getting a sliding door between the kitchen and dining room. It is basically a large element that is installed in a correspondingly large rough opening. Properly planned, the elements do not necessarily have to be in front of the wall.

If planned correctly, the elements do not necessarily have to be placed in front of the wall.

That is correct. Either in front of the wall (surface-mounted) or inside the wall – but then the wall has to be doubled.

Our wall between the hallway and the pantry is for exactly this reason also almost twice as thick as all the other (non-load-bearing) interior walls.

Regards,

Dirk

then the wall must be doubled.

I cannot confirm that. With us, the element is installed in a 17.5 cm thick load-bearing interior wall. Nothing is doubled there.



Edit:
With non-load-bearing walls, however, it could be that the wall thickness is not sufficient to install the system and therefore must be doubled.