Thank you all very much for your (sometimes really funny) opinions. Many things align with how I assess it myself. But here’s a brief feedback on your comments:
You don’t know the instruction manual of your plot? But you do know the plot? Hopefully, you have already seen it?
Sometimes there are background details you can’t recognize at first glance: Until recently, we were planning with a completely different plot (750 sqm, city villa possible, etc.), we already had the draft of the notary contract, were about to sign, financing was secured, etc. End of story: the seller backed out. Now we’re glad to have found another plot so quickly. Everything here is still fresh… but we already like it very much, especially because of the location, even if the building regulations now force us to rethink everything. Basically, everything is really a bit chaotic at the moment (and the development plan for the area really isn’t available online, but I will provide it later).
Have you ever scaled the floor plan with real furniture? For example, I miss bookcases in all the floor plans
We haven’t done that yet with the architect’s plot. In my paintings, partly yes. Of course, doors etc. don’t fit here, I still have to deal with that… more on that in detail below.
I would take a normal floor plan on the upper floor with a bedroom and 2 children’s rooms. One children’s room would be a spacious dressing room without a child, and the other an office. If a child comes, one wardrobe moves into the bedroom and the office moves into the former dressing room.
That had occurred to me before, and you’re right, that is basically the best option and I will do it that way. Thanks for the hint.
I would make bigger windows on the west side on the planner’s ground floor plan – the two small 1m-wide windows are a bit too little. Ideally 2 x 2m French doors or even larger sliding doors… it would all look a bit airier and more open. Otherwise, it looks like a standard floor plan to me, maybe there is something more clever?
That would be nice if there is something more clever. Since the architect has at least received our wishes/ideas in writing so far, I had hoped that something else would come across. But I hope it will still improve in conversation.
@ Floor plan: Personally, I find the kitchen unreasonable. You have enough sqm on the ground floor to make something of it. Putting a dressing room in despite the sloping ceilings is more than questionable. Placing the tub seemingly in the middle of the bathroom due to the slope isn’t exactly ideal either.
You speak for me: Why does the bathtub have to be in the middle of the bathroom? Is it really like that? I will completely leave out the dressing room as haydee suggested. Unfortunately, I don’t like the kitchen either...
My room at the back has a fairly wide dormer, so I only have a small sloped part. Knee wall is about 108 cm. Piano is no problem, I have an organ here.
I haven’t thought about dormers yet. I would have to check what additional costs that would entail. But of course, it would be an option.
1000 books – that’s quite a number, you would sensibly have to have something made by a carpenter.
1000 books would require about 6 m of shelving with ceiling height. If I add up my books
Currently, we actually have a carpenter-built shelf. However, we live in an old building and were able to build it quite high there (3.70 wide, 2.80 high… and several books are still scattered everywhere), that will no longer be usable in the house.
The ‘architect’s’ design strikes me as a Flair 113 tinkered into a 131 with a pinch of Horst van Hümpel
Since it has been pointed out several times that the scales in my own “painting” are not correct, I want to address that briefly again:
- Stairs were clear, I simply had no idea how long such things have to be
- Sofa was 3.43 m wide – in fact, our last sofa was exactly that size. We now have a new one that is only three meters wide
- Kitchen is drawn at 60 cm depth, fridge at 70 cm depth, which corresponds to what we currently have in reality.
I have now slightly adjusted this for the ground floor version again:
- Stairs at 3.10 m
- Sofa to current dimensions 3.00 x 2.00 m
- Left the kitchen line as is
- Kitchen counter at 75 cm depth
- Doors in utility room and guest WC kept at 80 cm wide
- Entrance and living area doors over 1 m
… etc.
What I want here: I would really like a kitchen integrated into the living area. I definitely don’t want to constantly run through the hallway when I want to go upstairs to the bathroom etc. I don’t want a narrow floor plan in the living area and want to keep the space as good/open as possible. I think/hope that my visualization illustrates that quite well and that kind of layout would basically suit us quite well.
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Important: I am not an architect – I only use a fiddly smartphone app here with which I try out possible floor plans/arrangements. I still have to make sure to set window sizes and doors correctly for me etc.)
The staircase is obviously now a problem with the length because I have no idea where to sensibly install it… especially if it shouldn’t be in the dirty area. Are there other staircase variants that can save space? Although I rather feel that all other variants take even more space, right?
Where/what I do with the bookcases, unfortunately, I don’t know yet either. I have to think about that for another night…
