willWohnen
2015-07-08 18:03:26
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Hello.
Ok Olli, no hard feelings! :) But look, if Bau_2016 were convinced they could do everything themselves, they wouldn’t be here. I thought the forum was supposed to enable someone with support to plan/decide things themselves and not to unsettle someone and push them into the hands of professionals to make money. ;););)
: Your sightline comments are of course correct. For me personally, that’s not important at all, so for example a gallery was no topic for us. I grew up with two sisters and from a certain age, having a retreat space and not being constantly annoyed in a family of five is quite important. :D (The five of us were all very different in terms of hobbies, daily rhythm and age.) For me personally, in most modern floor plans, the living area is already too large in proportion anyway. Sometimes it’s over 40 sqm (without kitchen) and all the other rooms are squeezed together to the bare essentials. Then I’d rather have a computer room accessible from the hallway. :D (We planned it like that.) But I think pushing the "high" end of the straight staircase into a living space is a very good option; that can be integrated in various ways.
By the way, I find the straight staircase desirable for ergonomics, even if it doesn’t visually “work.” I wouldn’t dismiss storage space underneath. Yes, I own a lot of books which I love and yes, I really do read them again years later. :)
And the kitchen size was your main criticism at first? That’s over 12 sqm, that would be more than enough for me. Although I wouldn’t need a seating area there if I only have to open the sliding door and can sit directly at the large dining table and talk with those left in the kitchen? o_O (I see it similarly to kbt09) Maybe instead a wider sliding door?
But the upper floor, I personally wouldn’t want it like that, the parent bathroom is too small for me, the entrance/passage situation would annoy us as two people. Do you hang the shower towels next to the toilet..? :confused: And if you come in dirty from gardening, do you walk through the bedroom? The guest bathroom downstairs has no shower. You could swap the dressing room and bathroom, then the bathroom would have a better shape, but then you might wake the child when using the bathroom. If you swapped the straight staircase for a space-saving one, the bathroom upstairs probably wouldn’t have such a kinked bottleneck.
By the way, why not give the children’s rooms one more window each? Daylight from two different cardinal directions enhances a room greatly in my opinion.
If you still want suggestions here (also from more capable people, the powerful floor plan software users :D), you might want to post the site plan so people can see the streets? I wouldn’t put the bedroom on the street side and not above the technical/laundry room. (Heat pump: For noise in the house, it makes a difference whether the rotor is outside or inside, keyword split unit.)
Regards
Ok Olli, no hard feelings! :) But look, if Bau_2016 were convinced they could do everything themselves, they wouldn’t be here. I thought the forum was supposed to enable someone with support to plan/decide things themselves and not to unsettle someone and push them into the hands of professionals to make money. ;););)
: Your sightline comments are of course correct. For me personally, that’s not important at all, so for example a gallery was no topic for us. I grew up with two sisters and from a certain age, having a retreat space and not being constantly annoyed in a family of five is quite important. :D (The five of us were all very different in terms of hobbies, daily rhythm and age.) For me personally, in most modern floor plans, the living area is already too large in proportion anyway. Sometimes it’s over 40 sqm (without kitchen) and all the other rooms are squeezed together to the bare essentials. Then I’d rather have a computer room accessible from the hallway. :D (We planned it like that.) But I think pushing the "high" end of the straight staircase into a living space is a very good option; that can be integrated in various ways.
By the way, I find the straight staircase desirable for ergonomics, even if it doesn’t visually “work.” I wouldn’t dismiss storage space underneath. Yes, I own a lot of books which I love and yes, I really do read them again years later. :)
And the kitchen size was your main criticism at first? That’s over 12 sqm, that would be more than enough for me. Although I wouldn’t need a seating area there if I only have to open the sliding door and can sit directly at the large dining table and talk with those left in the kitchen? o_O (I see it similarly to kbt09) Maybe instead a wider sliding door?
But the upper floor, I personally wouldn’t want it like that, the parent bathroom is too small for me, the entrance/passage situation would annoy us as two people. Do you hang the shower towels next to the toilet..? :confused: And if you come in dirty from gardening, do you walk through the bedroom? The guest bathroom downstairs has no shower. You could swap the dressing room and bathroom, then the bathroom would have a better shape, but then you might wake the child when using the bathroom. If you swapped the straight staircase for a space-saving one, the bathroom upstairs probably wouldn’t have such a kinked bottleneck.
By the way, why not give the children’s rooms one more window each? Daylight from two different cardinal directions enhances a room greatly in my opinion.
If you still want suggestions here (also from more capable people, the powerful floor plan software users :D), you might want to post the site plan so people can see the streets? I wouldn’t put the bedroom on the street side and not above the technical/laundry room. (Heat pump: For noise in the house, it makes a difference whether the rotor is outside or inside, keyword split unit.)
Regards