Floor plan 120 m², single-family house 1.5, carport. Opinions, ideas, suggestions

Hello dear house building community,

we are planning to build our single-family house next year and discovered this forum in the process. We would therefore like to no longer withhold our floor plans from you and look forward to your feedback or possible suggestions for improvement:

Development plan / restrictions
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- Plot size: 610 m²
- Slope: slight south-facing slope
- Floor area ratio: 0.4
- Site occupancy index: 0.8
- Maximum eaves height: 6.0 m
- Maximum ridge height: 12.0 m
- Building boundaries: minimum distance of 4 m from the street edge
- Building boundary garage/carport: within the building boundaries, minimum distance of 6 m from the street edge

Requirements of the builders
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- Number of parking spaces needed: 2
- Number of floors: 1.5
- Roof shape: gable roof, 35° roof pitch
- Style: classic single-family house
- Orientation: living & dining area to the southwest

- Basement, floors: no basement required
- Number of people, age: 2 adults, 2 children
- Space requirements on ground and upper floor: 3 bedrooms on the upper floor
- Office: no office required
- Overnight guests per year: no guest room required
- Open or closed architecture: open architecture towards the garden
- Conservative or modern construction: modern construction, open kitchen with kitchen island
- Number of dining seats: 6
- Fireplace: yes
- Balcony, roof terrace: no balcony, terrace
- Garage, carport: possibly carport, plus 2 parking spaces in front

House design
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- Planned by: planner of the general contractor

- What do you particularly like? Why?:
We initially like the floor plans because all wishes have been implemented functionally. We especially like the external appearance with the large window surfaces.
We also like the floor-to-ceiling window between the kitchen backsplash and the kitchen island.

- What do you not like? Why?
We are unsure about the stairs (stair shape, position, daylight) and the hallway leading to them.
Is the corridor from the front door to the stairs maybe a bit long?

The hallway on the upper floor is very wide and does not receive daylight. Another window on the east side would spoil the exterior look, however.

The niche for the kitchen has only a planned clear dimension of 2.70 m. After deducting plaster and construction tolerances, there will probably only be space for 4 pieces of 60 cm kitchen cabinets.

The position of the house on the plot is also not yet fixed. The plot measures about 28 m length from northwest to southeast and about 23 m width. A minimum distance of 4 meters from the street edge on the northwest and northeast sides applies. The carport must have a minimum distance of 6 m from the street edge. Currently, there are three options for placing the house for us:

a) At the northwestern boundary with a distance of 4 m from the street edge (advantage: maximum extension of the garden to the south, disadvantage: proximity to the neighbor to the west)
b) At the northeastern boundary with a distance of 4 m from the street edge (advantage: maximum distance to the neighbor to the west, plenty of space for garage to the west, disadvantage: 8 m wide green strip north of the house >> a lot of garden space wasted)
c) Centrally in the northern curve with a distance of 6 m to both above-mentioned street edges (compromise between the two above-mentioned options. Equal distance from both street sides.)

Which variant would you prefer considering the position of the carport?

- Preferred heating technology: air-to-water heat pump

- What makes it particularly good or bad in your eyes?:
Very good implementation of our ideas and budget

What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan summarized in 130 characters?
see section "What do you not like? Why?"

Thank you in advance for your feedback!

Hello, you are wasting a lot of living space upstairs and downstairs with hallway/entrance area. Especially in relation to your modest total living area. That already takes up almost 19 sqm, and there isn’t even a proper wardrobe planned. Additionally, there is a too large second bathroom on the ground floor. This is at the expense of only 36 sqm for living, dining, and cooking. The drawn-in furniture is not to scale. You should also consider foregoing a walk-in closet with only 120 sqm. There are much better laid-out floor plans for 120 sqm available online. Just google it. What is the budget and what should the house cost?

I agree with @pitizu.
additionally: You will be able to use the hallway upstairs as a darkroom...

Wardrobe at the entrance is missing or should all of that be in the utility room?

If a table for 6 people is added, then all the floor-to-ceiling windows will be blocked.

A bathroom with a floor-to-ceiling window on the ground floor would be too exposed for me, or you will always quickly do something about it.

Besides the window at the stairs, I would also miss a window in the dressing room.

I hope you are slim, because the passage at the head end from the bed to the wall to the dressing room will only be about 50 cm wide in the end, as most bed frames are 2.1 - 2.15 m long.

Just to show how important a stair window is...

Hello, nice that you found your way here.

Is the hallway from the front door to the stairs possibly a bit long?

Personally, I find it too long, yes. On top of that, very narrow. "Coming home" is not made easy here. The mentioned coat rack is missing.

Another window on the east side would, however, disturb the exterior appearance.

:eek: The exterior appearance on the east side with the two lonely windows is currently faceless. If you give the stairs a window there, it will be a friendly facade.
But:

We are unsure regarding the stairs (stair shape, position,

Me too! You are wasting valuable living space by placing it on the gable side.

There are much better designed floor plans for 120sqm on the net. Just google.

I think so too. The kitchen here is too small, the WC too big. The hallway eats up living comfort space.