Floor plan design of a 145 sqm single-family house on a slope

Objection: Door widths: downstairs office easily fits a wider door slightly offset. Also doable upstairs. Bedroom: who says the bed has to be placed like that? The room itself is sufficient for a bedroom.

Karsten, I’m not saying that wider doors aren’t possible. I’m saying that the small doors drawn make the house appear larger than it actually is.

then a couch is simply draped somewhere, then it looks professional

That’s exactly what I’m criticizing: a common 4-seater does not fit there, even if the program spits out this piece of furniture.

There is enough wall to screw coat hooks onto.

Coat hooks for 4 people – the hallway will be the messiest room, but it’s the first one you enter.

And honestly, Karsten:

Bedroom: who says the bed has to be placed like that? The room itself is sufficient for a bedroom.

Kitchen wider. Table and 2 chairs in.

And what should a sofa be doing in the office, there belongs a filing cabinet and possibly a 2nd chair

I didn’t know you had turned into an interior designer. I find that more patronizing than just clearly naming the drawbacks first.

Overall, the draft is expandable. Or rather, an approach. I find the kitchen very nice - straightforward and large. Just as has arranged the access, I would also ensure a garden access directly opposite a kitchen door. All of this can be designed beautifully and elegantly if the WC drains are placed on the exterior wall as well as away from the living room.

Good evening,
thank you very much for your feedback. It’s really great how quickly one receives such excellent feedback on the planning here. I am already busy drawing changes. As soon as I have implemented them all, I will upload the adjusted plans again.

: Exterior view – you are right – we need to revise that again.
Hmm… the sauna is actually a utility room – so not that luxurious after all.
The hand washbasins in the toilets are exactly intended as such – small basins just to wash your hands.
We need to take another look at the furnishing in the guest room and the office. It is really not ideal at the moment. Regarding the kitchen – I’m not a fan of a table in the kitchen, especially since the dining table is right next to it… a wardrobe is more important to me here, or rather that we don’t have to give up more square meters from the office. I find it already very narrow, especially considering that we want to accommodate a “double bed” for guests here.
We have currently planned the TV as a fold-out version on the wall. We don’t have a TV at the moment and therefore don’t want it to stand out so prominently. The garden view is more important to us.

: Good idea with the two window formats. I will try to implement that.

: We will refurnish the bedroom and office.

: Thanks a lot for the tip about the door widths. I have now adjusted all of them. And I am currently checking that all our rooms still “function” as intended.
In the living room, I have traced our current sofa to get the proportions right. You are certainly right that you should do this to scale. I really wasn’t aware that the four-seater sofa turned out to be so “small”.
We will discuss the drainage with the builder at our appointment. We had planned to do it in the stairwell in the corner. Let’s see what the builder suggests.

: Views – yes, we need to go over that again.
We have already discussed the idea of a laundry chute and utility room in the basement. I don’t like the solution of hauling laundry through the whole house (because the laundry has to be carried back up after washing). Additionally, we would have to plan a lifting device for the wastewater just because of the washing machine. We don’t like that either. Alternatively, we looked at the variant with the washing machine in the bathroom. This is our current solution and I find it annoying that the laundry is hung in our bedroom and that after sorting the laundry in front of the washing machine (and thus in the middle of the bathroom) there are piles of dirty laundry. Hence the idea of a utility room.
I am also not yet sure about the bathroom furnishings (especially with the bathtub). I am still trying out some variants here. Maybe I will find a better one here.
I don’t like the idea of a shower in the guest toilet – the guest toilet is also for all guests who do not stay overnight. I want to keep it tidy and I don’t really think it’s necessary to clean the shower all the time just so that overnight guests have their own shower.

: Thanks for your comment about the kitchen. Do you think a door with a passage of 1m is enough? Between the wall and the door there would be 68.5 cm left. Or do I have to make the door smaller?
I also heard from an architect who looked at our project that you should always approach a door at the entrance. I don’t like that any stranger can look into my living room. Also, it is impractical because it significantly reduces the wall space in the living room. The window in the stairwell and the passage to the dining room let light in. I have planned to hang a nice picture at the end of the corridor so that there is a “target.”

The hand washbasins in the toilets are intended exactly like that – as small basins just for washing hands.

A toilet is about 35 cm wide. It’s hard to properly wash your hands in a 20 cm basin. I know from experience. It should also be mentioned that everywhere there is still a 15 cm stud wall construction. Possibly a supply line can be hidden in an interior wall, but a stairwell wall is needed for structural reasons. That doesn’t work there. In your drawing, the toilet and the mini washbasin almost touch without a stud wall. That won’t work like that. There are also minimum clearances that must be observed. You want to be able to use the toilet without being squished like a sardine.

We will discuss the drainage with the builder at our appointment. We had planned to do this in the corner of the stairwell. Let’s see what the builder suggests.

The drains should be routed on a short path to the outside or downward. The general contractor won’t care. He’ll just run pipes all over the interior rooms, then you end up with a shaft in a corner of the living room, maybe even two! Such a thing is to be avoided. So you should do a bit more than just “adjusting measurements.”

I know houses where you walk towards a wall. I find it unfriendly.

The kitchen door doesn’t have to be 1 meter wide.

Here is an example of how you can design the living space differently. A wide living room door, a wide window in the middle so you can also hang a TV.

At the bottom of the plan, the terrace window front with terrace door that opens outward or a sliding door.

here the kitchen and toilet differently.





The toilet door should open outwards, a transom window for the toilet could be planned above the wardrobe.

All kitchen windows starting from countertop height, same width, so no "basement windows". The countertop runs into the window sill.