Floor plan design for a hillside house with 5 children's rooms

BER somehow I want to be able to look at the garden from the sofa. Especially since you only sit there in the evenings.

And, for more than half the year, if not even more, it will already be dark before you calmly sit on the sofa. If it is summer, you might prefer to sit in the garden a bit longer and only go to the sofa when it gets dark. That’s why the suggestion is kitchen/dining area facing the garden and sofa facing the nice view. It will be more practical, especially since the children will certainly often and gladly play in the garden and then want to quickly grab something to drink or eat. And then always through the living room?

Why don’t you include the roof in the living area? The space needed for 7 people is already enormous. Ground floor: building services, spacious cloakroom, utility room, bathroom, 3 or 4 children’s rooms. Upper floor: living, dining, kitchen, decent pantry (just the drink crates needed in a week), study, storage room, guest toilet. Attic: parents’ area, the rest children’s rooms, storage space.

Keep in mind the division later as suggested by 11Ant.

The children’s rooms don’t have to be ballrooms, but it’s not given that the first child will have moved out at 18. You wouldn’t want to throw them out either. I would design them so that everyone stays in their rooms for now. I don’t know anyone who hasn’t kept their childhood room during their training or university.

You know your laundry piles. Honestly, I don’t want mine in the bathroom anymore. Here it’s only laundry for 2, occasionally 3 (my husband washes his stuff during the week in our second apartment). A sink to soak stains is also nice. Likewise a drying rack.

Sunlight and the view really are an argument for the dining area. Difficult decision. Both have pros and cons. Doesn’t it make sense to say goodbye to open living and dining?

I will bring up the idea with the roof, thanks, that sounds nice! I just don't know if the development plan and the budget will allow it. And then storage space would be lost. Yes, the children are welcome to continue living there. If necessary, the study room has to be swapped with the small children's room for a while. The question of the pantry is indeed important. And the laundry room too, that's true. The laundry would then be "only" downstairs in the children's shower bathroom, and they don't mind mess , but it's not ideal. Hmm. By the way, I didn't keep a room during my studies . But I would like to somehow make it possible for my children; that's why there are 5 children's rooms and not just 4, as some prefab house providers suggested to us.

Haydee, what advantages would there be in saying goodbye to open living and dining?

Oh, and thank you all very much so far for your suggestions. That helps us a lot to question things critically!

I would like to point out that we initially worked with an architect team well known in the city, eventually separated from them during the approval process, and completed the rest with the [GU] team. The team from [GU] had better ideas and, above all, more feasible and realistic ones. What I mean to say is: The [GU] does not have to have a bad architect/planner. That can also be a good option.

I agree with my predecessor. Architects often get tangled up in aesthetic ideas, while planners from the BU have little trouble building square, practical, and affordable. But that’s what you need. A practitioner. Also regarding costs, don’t be discouraged. Eastern European craftsmen can do their job too, plasterers and screeders all come from the Orient anyway. For 300k, they will build you a simple house. The windows will be white, the front door will be made of plastic, there will be no large tiles, no ventilation systems, few floor-to-ceiling terrace doors. Just one outdoor faucet, etc. It’s livable, and they will name and quantify the extras for you. You will see. Shoddy work also happens on expensive construction sites. The construction industry is booming and there is a shortage of skilled workers. Just get it done. They work on Saturdays too. No wonder sometimes things go awry. Motivate the men on the construction site. Put drinks out for them, bake a cake, give the crew a tip, they will like someone with five kids, they prefer to build for someone like that than for Mr. Snooty and his wife. Karsten