Floor plan design of a 170m² passive house with garage

And the own clothes might not hang on the coat rack, but in the [TechnikRaum] or [Hauswirtschaftsraum], so that you don't have to go through all the rooms when you come home.

Thank you for the creative suggestions and improvement ideas. It was roughly intended that we would increasingly (also with children eventually) go through the garage and store shoes, jackets, etc. there. We will probably use the main entrance more for guests, family, and so on. That is why the usable area (garage/technical room) has become so generous. We see it with acquaintances: for some, a normal wardrobe is enough, while others need a special room for it. The more space there is, the more is stored... Well, everyone is different :-) We will probably work on the floor plan of the upper floor again, possibly reduce the size of the office and maybe eliminate one to give the children more space. However, we will stick to the size of the bathroom. Especially since I still don't have the ultimate idea on how to fit everything into 16m² :(

If you want to use the side entrance as the "main entrance" for yourselves, then you also need to think about it again. I have acquaintances who use their side entrance as the main entrance for themselves. It’s practical, that’s true, but they come directly from the street into it and for them it doesn’t matter whether they unlock the front door or the side entrance door. But I doubt that you will always take the long way through the garage with your floor plan. If you come home by car – yes, but what if you are just on foot? Or the children come home from school. They don’t unlock the garage first – which is probably full of cars, bicycles and other things – they go through the utility room (which, by the way, often seems spooky to children) into the laundry room and into the house. It’s also worth considering whether you really need such a large utility room. Our utility room (air heat pump, all connections) is just under 4m2, our laundry room is over 12m2 and we are supposed to store rubber boots and muddy things there. But we also come through the laundry room around the corner directly onto the street. And you give away about 2 m2 of the 8m2 due to the doors and windows. My idea would be to make another access to the laundry room, namely where the storage room under the stairs is. It would also make sense to close off the laundry room at the kitchen level with a wall and create a kind of corridor between the kitchen, laundry room, and utility room. I would make the access from the utility room to the garage at the back towards the garage (possibly even just an outside door), so you don’t have to awkwardly walk around the room when you come from the garden. Maybe you can also enlarge the laundry room towards the utility room.

Hello,

Passive house and east-facing window are not exclusion criteria, are they?! I will discuss this again with the architect and the energy consultant.

You should; also clarify the terms with both. Your drawing suggests more of a low-energy house (NEH) than a real passive house (PH) ;)

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What do you need your office for? Do you use it professionally or just privately?

So I mostly use my office privately/professionally only rarely but my wife can deduct it for tax purposes and spends most of her time in it as a teacher... so the office is definitely necessary and quite large. It is also intended to serve as a guest room. I might repaint mine and just make an open office corner, then the hallway would also get some direct daylight.

The layout on the ground floor is relatively safe for us despite the many suggestions that have come in. Although the suggestion with direct access from the garage to the utility room makes us think... We have already looked at that with the family and with our lifestyle that involves the fewest compromises.

If anyone has something creative regarding the bathroom layout, I would not be ungrateful because that is a real puzzle for us. Thanks!

If anyone has something creative on the subject of bathroom layout, I would not be ungrateful because this is a real puzzle for us. Thank you!

Shower with sauna & toilet & cabinets can also be swapped.

Rhenish greetings