Floor plan bungalow with granny flat - floor plan feedback

God, please stop whining now. You sign up in a forum asking for opinions. Then the desired opinions come in, but they don't match your own ideas, and suddenly there's talk of bullying and that posting further suggestions is not wanted... :|

Be glad that people are trying to help you here?! It wasn't easy for me either during our construction project, yet my eyes were opened. If the unanimous opinion is that something is rubbish, even though you think it's great, you should take a moment to consider whether there might actually be some truth to it.

So, that had to be said.

Now to your floor plan from your architect friend:

- I absolutely don't like the bottleneck in the main apartment kitchen/dining area. The kitchen + dining table is usually THE central point in a house/apartment. That's where people spend time, sit together comfortably, etc. This somehow doesn't invite that at all. To me, it feels more like a pass-through room.

- I would solve the parents' area with a door to the dressing room. From there then into the bathroom or bedroom. That can be done without any problem. If you move the wall between the dressing room and bedroom further to the right, you have enough space in the dressing room for 2 wardrobes and so create more storage space.

- The guest bathroom in the main apartment won't work, the shower is directly in front of the window.

- Why does the second apartment need 2 shower bathrooms?

- I would make the first bathroom public; that way you also have space for a larger kitchen, the one drawn in is just suitable for a holiday apartment.

- The pantry as drawn is completely useless. I can store more stuff in a single kitchen cabinet with internal drawers.

- Likewise the storage room in the main apartment. Better to use a kitchen cabinet for that. You can't expect cooler temperatures in the pantry nowadays because of the well-insulated construction methods, especially with an internal pantry. For brooms, vacuum cleaners, etc. you have the utility room anyway.

- In this context, one could also consider swapping the utility room of the main apartment with the bathroom of the second apartment. That would solve the dilemma of the windowless bathroom, and also reduce the long corridor to a minimum, so you don't give up space for traffic areas.

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His comment: Hallway too long and bedroom hardly any privacy next to the living room. He liked the rest.
There was also an immediate suggestion for improvement.


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I already wrote in the first posts that with a few changes you can eliminate the biggest mistakes.
However, it’s not worth the effort if you stubbornly insist on the errors in the plan.
Since the architect certainly only made rough "quick" improvements, you can see from the missing bedroom window and the stairs that lead to an area upstairs where you can’t stand..., ...with more brainpower you would ultimately be looking at a good design.

By the way, I wanted to mention again that your open gables without windows won’t really come into their own because they remain dark. It will probably look more like the ceiling was "forgotten for cost reasons." Triangular windows belong there visually, at least one asymmetrical one per gable, since the roof pitch is quite steep.
We have 26 degrees roof pitch with one window, and I would definitely not build an open roof with more roof pitch.

Ypg, thank you for your comment.

Hello Matte,

So we do not want to change the house shape and the location of the utility room as well as the central front door.

The rest is variable.

I do not want to deny that this is entrenched.

I find some comments here going overboard, but I will just accept that now. After all, I am also getting free input here.

Best regards

I am currently having a pretty intense déjà vu with Schustrik's project, see (symmetry fixation, granny flat, resistance to advice).

I just happened to see that