Floor plan classic single-family house 5 rooms south access

They would also fit into the storage room - we measured and also saw it live (Ikea) with 115 cm depth. That's how we came to about 120 cm for the storage room, because we liked the size.

What works in the furniture store doesn’t necessarily have to work in real life.

Corner sink. Although we are open about that and don’t want to pre-plan the bathrooms in detail ourselves.

That would be the only thing that makes sense to plan yourself.

Would like to have a sofa in the room + lots of shelves.

Fits easily in 10 sqm. However, if a large desk has to fit in, it will get tight.

Wardrobe/clothes hooks should be under and next to the stairs. We haven’t worked that out in detail yet.

So with the dirty shoes first through half the hallway. Not a very good idea.

I was shown refrigerator-sized devices for the gas heating including water storage. Otherwise, the controlled residential ventilation is also supposed to be in this room, as well as probably electricity and water meters. Some technology (network, telephone, etc.) should also be in the storage room.

There are safety distances that must be observed. If the electrician gets a shock, he must have room to fly freely backwards. In that room, he would break his back after 1 meter.

And as if the criticism were not enough: 1 meter as corridor width is too narrow, you would have to squeeze past each other when you meet. One meter is actually only 95cm by the way.

Best regards in short

There are safety distances that must be observed. If the electrician gets an electric shock, he must have the possibility to fly freely backwards. In that room, he would break his back after 1 meter.

We had this topic at our property yesterday. Someone from the waterworks and Entega were there. The "electric guy" told us that a safety distance of 1.20 m must be maintained from the electrical box so that one can fall freely backwards. I actually thought that was a joke....

I use the sink to clean dirty paint rollers, brushes, oil rags, and to pour out cleaning water.

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Sabine

We worked a lot on various standard floor plans but nothing really fit,

Standard floor plans are for the average Joe and Jane Doe and only in theory. In practice, every family zoning plan constellation is different. What you have excellently carried over from standard plans, however, is the result "that nothing fits."

We started with 4 small rooms upstairs, front door on the east side and about 8.2x11.8m floor area.

Then show this starting point here, maybe the other discussants see a more suitable basis in it (?) This design is catastrophic anyway: especially on the upper floor you will feel like you are not moving like a human being but like a pneumatic tube carrier.

Thank you for the feedback.

I take as the main criticism:
- Utility room is far too small
- Cloakroom is missing at the entrance
- Upstairs hallway failed

Then show this starting point here, maybe the other discussants will see a more suitable basis in it (?)

I will provide our previous ideas later. The front door was on the east side there and we had problems with the parking spaces directly at the front door.

Moving the entrance of a house always affects the entire system of internal access (door - hallway - staircase). The more "non-square" the floor plan is (or the narrower the short side), the more cumbersome this operation becomes when switching between the long and short sides, especially if a layperson carries out this operation. This effect was perfected particularly on the upper floor by using an effective and simple method, namely orienting passage dimensions to minimal requirements. This results—in at least for people who can make robotic 90° turns at corners—technically sufficient "transport routes," unfortunately at the expense of a claustrophobic spatial experience. One does not live in such rooms; one is put in a closet. On a technical level, this is hardly fixable, as more sensitivity to the spaces is needed.

I would park the cars where there is space. Giving them high priority in the floor plan is something one can afford if one is an "advanced" planner—otherwise, it will actually "tip over" otherwise usable designs.