Floor plan city villa 150 m² Opinions and criticism

Hello forum community,

we have now received the second draft of our house and would like to have it evaluated.

Development plan/restrictions

Size of the plot: 660 m²
Slope
Floor area ratio: 0.4
Building window, building line and boundary: see development plan
Edge development: see development plan
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of floors: 2
Roof shape: hip roof

Requirements of the builders
Style, roof shape, building type: hip roof, townhouse
Basement, floors: 0, 2 full floors
Number of people, age: 2 adults and 2 children
Space requirements on ground floor and upper floor: approx. 150 sqm
Office: home office
Open or closed architecture: closed
Open kitchen, kitchen island: no, yes
Number of dining seats: 4-6
Fireplace: no
Balcony, roof terrace: terrace
Garage, carport: garage (6x7m)

House design
Who designed it: planner of a construction company
What do you particularly like? Why?: the room layout and size on the upper floor
What do you not like? Why?: ground floor size of living/dining room and kitchen
Preferred heating technology: gas with solar thermal

Hello!

I'll give my two cents ;)

Upper floor:

- Kitchen is difficult to furnish, I think.

- For the door to the living room, I would change the opening direction so that you enter the room instead of facing the left wall of the plan.
- In general, I would be interested in the furnishing of the living/dining area.
- Where does the wardrobe go? Under the stairs?

Lower floor:

- Do you really want no shower in the main bathroom on the upper floor?

- According to the plan, there is no roller shutter box at the window for the dressing room, is that correct? How do you darken the bedroom then, since it is connected to the dressing room without a door?

- The dressing room itself will be very tight, with an estimated width of 1.3m.

- Same goes for the storage room.

Regards

I agree with Matte. No shower in the main bathroom, always have to go downstairs to shower? The walk-in closet is definitely too small. Regarding the space on the ground floor: the office is huge! 14 sqm is impressive. If there is also a HAR/utility room and a shower bath, then there isn't much space left for dining and living.

we have now received the 2nd draft of our house

That makes me more curious about the first one.

Who is responsible for the planning: planner from a construction company

To be honest: that’s exactly how it looks. Neatly washed and combed, but otherwise: planned without any love for the inhabitants.

I’ll add my two cents ;)

I fully put my stamp on that.

What else caught my eye:

The planner seems to be a symmetry fan when it comes to the position of the windows. In the living room, the window hinge on the "wardrobe wall" looks at least visually stingy. Both adjacent patio doors (living room / kitchen) open into potential dining table areas. The staircase seems cramped and would be a bit too steep for me. A shower on the ground floor almost on another continent compared to the dressing room cancels out the plus point I would have given for the drain in the utility room.

Remove this shower, access the utility room through the bathroom, and you can move the staircase. Then the joke of a storage room upstairs disappears, and the dressing room can become bigger.

The dressing room is basically worthless. You stand in front of the closet like you’re about to be executed, with your back to the wall, and you pinch your fingers when opening the doors. The closet space is only enough for one (single) man anyway. You snake past the bed to get to the dressing room like on an overcrowded train. Whether the bed is on the right side or the bottom side of the plan doesn’t matter: in any case, you have a window above the headboard. I don’t even want to imagine the acrobatics needed to use the pull-down staircase.

Nice enough practice drawings for vocational draftsmen school, but I wouldn’t want to build like that.

Through the guest toilet into the utility room? Sure, and next year world champion in slalom in Kitzbühel or what?

Through the guest toilet into the utility room? Sure, and next year world champion in slalom in Kitzbühel or what?

What kind of floor plan do you see?!