Floor plan classic single-family house 5 rooms south access

There are enough standard floor plans that can be divided into 6 virtual grids for an elongated house, for example 9x11. 3/6 are reserved for the kitchen, dining, and living room, 2/6 for one room and utility room, 1/6 for a 2/4-turn staircase plus hallway, and 1/6 for the entrance with WC and wardrobe. Usually, the last sixth can be remodeled so that the entrance is on the other side. Unfortunately, I don't have a floor plan on hand at the moment. And I understand if you want the entrance upfront. Therefore, I see no problem in finding a nice floor plan. I am attaching a quick sketch.

Regards, Yvonne

I'll attach a quick sketch.

This is the quality of a sketch with which one should actually go to the architect's consultation. Unfortunately, many clients lack the ability to abstractly formulate the score for the planner in this notation. And then they get lost in technical drawings, in which a house is less a living shell than a collection of minimum dimensions.

We were probably too focused on the idea of making extensive use of the south side with the kitchen/living room and at the same time wanting to place the front door there. The entrance area needs to be moved more toward the center to solve the mentioned problems.

Thank you, Yvonne. That makes sense. I will look for corresponding floor plans.

Here is a floor plan that we found suitable – except for the front door in the east. I only changed it in that we extended the long side by 0.5 in favor of the living room/kitchen. However, I do not want to put this floor plan up for discussion.

This is the quality of sketch with which one should actually go to the architect's meeting. Unfortunately, many clients lack the ability to abstract in this notation to formulate the score for the planner. And then they get lost in technical drawings,

Yes, a rough sketch would have been better, the exact dimensions were not helpful there. Thanks for the hint. With the post, I was only concerned with the general arrangement and position of the house, front door, and the rooms.

Yes, a rough sketch would have been better, the exact dimensioning was not helpful there.

Even more: counterproductive. As long as you are in the stage of "wild" experimenting, you should not work with media that automatically dimension every detail. Instead, use sketches to which you then—once the basic arrangement is satisfactory—successively add dimensions in the order of their importance. That means first the dimensions that matter to you (where the beloved inherited dresser has to fit) and dimensions that are dictatorial (from stair flights, for example), and lastly dimensions that result from the remaining sums.

I wanted to give some feedback. Especially 11ant and Yvonne, you helped us a lot with the open criticism. Our house is now finished, we moved in a few months ago.

In the end, we destroyed all our own drafts, including those from two general contractors. We went to the architect and let him do it without detailed specifications. Version 1 was not perfect, but basically worked and was a great working basis. The own attempt and failure with the floor plans was an important step, otherwise everything would have turned out very differently. The architect was then the partner we had been missing before.

If I had to build again, I would probably plan everything for a year. Much of the detail ended up being rather random and spontaneous the way it is. But you only manage that with the second house.

I don’t want to post the plan with all the details now, but this is how we live now – the front door back on the side, the storage room at the carport has moved behind the house (5m boundary distances for everything).