Floor plan design for a gable roof house (knee wall 2.20m) approximately 170 sqm

Hello everyone,

we would like to receive suggestions and ideas from you regarding our first floor plan draft.
Please excuse the unprofessional sketches but we are just at the beginning and have the first meeting with a potential construction company next week.

Development plan/restrictions
Plot size 550
Slope no
Floor area ratio 0.3
Floor space index 0.6
Building window, building line and boundary 3m
Edge development
Number of parking spaces 2
Number of floors 2
Roof shape gable roof
Style modern
Orientation see pictures (almost perfect N-S orientation)
Maximum heights/limits ridge height 10m eaves height at least 1.50m less than ridge height

Requirements of the builders
Style, roof shape, building type: gable roof house with a high knee wall 2.20m
Basement, floors no
Number of people, age planned 2 adults and 1 child
Space requirements on ground and upper floor
Office: family use or home office? home office both
Overnight guests per year negligible
Open or closed architecture
Conservative or modern construction
Open kitchen, cooking island
Number of dining seats 6
Fireplace yes
Music/stereo wall no
Balcony, roof terrace no
Garage, carport yes garage
Utility garden, greenhouse no
Further wishes/special features/daily routine, gladly also reasons why this or that should or should not be
- Passage from garage to utility room to bring food/drink crates dry into the house
- 2 office possibilities as both are home office
- Passage in front of the bed is sufficient for us, we currently only have 40cm in front of a dresser with TV
- Cloakroom should be under the stairs (possibly closed)
- Child 2 should be used as office/sports room
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House design
Who designed it:
- Do-it-Yourself
What do you particularly like? Why?
What do you not like? Why? preferably still a storage room
Price estimate according to architect/planner: 395,000 €
Personal price limit for the house, including equipment: 500,000 €
Preferred heating technology: heat pump

If you have to do without, on which details/expansions
- you can do without: fireplace
- you cannot do without: dressing room (storage of bedding/towels for the house)

Welcome first of all!

I am not one of the designated floor plan experts here and admit that I haven’t read everything exactly. Some points quickly stood out to me. The question is whether it’s “already” worth dealing with them, because:

- What is the sketch based on? Is there a template? You have to be aware that if you take this thing to the main contractor, who in many cases will only try to copy it... whether that makes sense or not?

- How long is the staircase supposed to be? What is the story height? It looks about one meter too short, which would in turn disrupt the entire floor plan.

- How do you come up with a knee wall of 2.2m? Is that just a guess? Seen somewhere?

Hi and thank you,

- How did you come up with knee wall 2.2m? Is that just a guess? Seen somewhere?

We were actually inspired by many pictures from prefab house manufacturers, but have also seen it live in solid construction with a knee wall height of 2.20m. It is a bit cozier due to a small roof pitch, but you can still place furniture properly, etc.

- How long is the staircase supposed to be? What is the floor height? It looks about one meter too short, which would mess up the entire floor plan.

I also have doubts about the staircase and have so far only taken what was given from the planning software with 3m and 12 steps.

- What is the sketch based on? Is there a template? You have to be aware that if you take this thing to the general contractor, who in many cases will just try to copy it... whether that makes sense or not?

These are our first attempts to combine our needs based on sample floor plans, but you are of course right, one has to deal with the floor plan more thoroughly to determine if it makes sense. For this, we will try to tape the measurements room by room in a small hall and then test how it would feel in each room (similar to full-scale floor plans, only room by room since the hall can't accommodate more).

The staircase is at least 1 meter too short, so the floor plan no longer fits.
Wardrobe is missing
Be sure to draw correct furniture to scale with clearance space. The dining area is not actually that spacious.
The passage between bedroom wall and bed is too narrow. You are not getting any younger

The upper floor is a mixture of wasted space and cramped conditions. The bedroom would be my nightmare. First through a long, narrow, dark corridor and then a sharp right turn into a kind of cubicle without any room to move. But with a display window in front of the bed. And then such a slalom course to the bathroom... The chance that a pregnant woman or children/parents with a stomach flu will puke all over the walk-through closet is very high. :D

Be sure to draw correct furniture to scale with clearance space. The dining area is not actually that spacious.

The drawn-in furniture is indeed already adapted in size to our existing furniture.

The passage between bedroom wall and bed is too narrow. You won’t get any younger.

Currently, we only have a 40 cm passage between the dresser and the bed, and 70 cm is planned here now. But the bed is also planned at 2x2.20 m to allow for beds with upholstered headboards.