Floor plan design --- please share your opinions

To what extent do you think the living room is being ruined by the small "reading room"? We once saw that as a small study in a show home and found it quite interesting.

Oh, Biolek also always described the dishes he never wanted to try again as interesting ;)
Seriously:
Instead of one, you now have two doors in the living area (without dining/kitchen).
If anything, I would maybe extend the wall (that limits the 2.30) and that's that. Shift the window a bit and put the desk in the niche. Then it would be a workspace. The current entrance situation in the living room is not BEAUTIFUL, but just a passage. Right now I somehow only see walls that confine.
But you want a library. Space for books you can't part with or space for reading? I could tell you now that you won’t have any time for that once you have a garden :) In any case, the time wouldn’t justify an extra room. But it’s also about fulfilling your little wishes. Only then you either have to build bigger or accept the rather small kitchen. If I were you, I would sit down again and list the pros and cons.

How do you want to arrange the living room there? Where will the sofa go if there is still a door?

I also noticed the small cloakroom. Will it otherwise be under the stairs?

asks Yvonne

Since children are only planned and the likelihood of multiple births is rather low, you could omit the reading room on the ground floor and instead set up one of the children's rooms as a reading room for a few years. If you have two children someday, reading times in the first years are very manageable anyway; but until then, you can come up with another solution. What else should go into the children's rooms? The hallway on the ground floor is, as already mentioned, very dark. The entrance hall to the living room looks, to put it mildly, unattractive. I don’t find the layout of the bathroom-bedroom-dressing room on the upper floor very practical. If one wants to sleep longer, the other always has to go back and forth from the bathroom to the dressing room. Storage spaces are rather sparse and the storage for the kitchen is supposed to be the utility room?

, thanks for the reply. A child's room is already definitely intended as a study room :), so we couldn't remove the reading room downstairs.

thanks everyone for the answers.

We will/must make the house wider now and are currently in the process of adjusting the floor plan. Since major changes are not planned, I am still skeptical about the technical room-bedroom situation. We are planning either a heat pump or gas heating, and I don’t know if it would be a good idea to place the bedroom above the technical room because of possible noise from all the equipment.

In addition, the electrical distribution board will be under the bedroom. Hopefully, all cables can then be routed along the wall and through the ceiling to the gallery. Would electrosmog be an issue? (I know it’s paranoid of me ;) and the question is more or less a matter of belief).

Hello @Bau 2016. I am just a layperson; our house is under construction.

We made sure in the floor plan that the utility room and bedroom are far apart. But whether this will really prove necessary in practice because of noise, I of course don’t know yet. We will have a heat pump and central ventilation. I want to sleep clearly away from all rotors & co. Better safe than sorry.

About the floor plan regarding the reading room: I don’t think such a small separate room is wrong instead of an even bigger (36 sqm is really something) and awkwardly shaped living room. But why on earth do you want to make the access from the living room??? o_O Passage rooms are always, for me, just a last resort, maybe except bedroom/dressing room/bathroom. You can make a door there from the hallway and then you won’t lose so much space in the living room to doors and traffic paths. It is much more pleasant in everyday life if one person in the reading room (in future also usable as a small computer room, ironing room, sewing room, jewelry studio, model car room, ...) doesn’t disturb others in the living room and vice versa.

P.S.: With as many TV and LAN cable connections as my husband had laid throughout the house, I can’t escape the electrosmog anywhere here anyway! :p:rolleyes::D

Seriously: Instead of one, you now have two doors in the living area (without dining/kitchen). If anything, I would possibly extend the wall (that borders the 2.30) and that would be it. Shift the window a bit and put the desk in the niche. Then it would be a workspace. The current entrance situation in the living room is not NICE, but just a corridor. At the moment, I somehow only see walls that confine. But you want a library. Space for books you can't part with or space to read? I could tell you now that there will be no time for that once you have a garden :) In any case, the time wouldn't justify an extra room. But it's also about fulfilling your little wishes. Only then you either have to build bigger or accept the rather small kitchen. If I were you, I would sit down again and list the pros and cons. How do you want to furnish the living room there? Where to put the sofa if there is still a door there? I also noticed the small wardrobe. Does it otherwise go under the stairs? asks Yvonne

Thanks ypg for the specific questions :) We will now try to place the furniture as well. The background of the reading room is as follows: we already have quite a lot of books and we need to find space for about 4 meters of bookshelves. It is difficult to place the shelves in the living room, as wall space is needed for windows and, for example, the TV.