Floor plan design single-family house 190 sqm foundation slab Saarland

Awesome thread. The floor plan, not so much...

This floor plan was revised by two independent architects with the statement "I would build like this too."

But not in detail... you have to be able to filter that too.

This very solution was described by the architects as particularly cozy.

Which one? The bathroom/bedroom solution?

Could you maybe (@ypg @kaho674 @11ant) simply refrain from commenting on my posts and give other users the opportunity to express themselves constructively here.

No. Why would you want to read someone here who doesn’t know anything about floor plans at all rather than some who have been doing this for years and have the appropriate eye for it? I could even get my husband to come here "yeah... nice."

I don’t know how much time you spend in the bedroom minus the time spent sleeping.

My husband brings me breakfast in bed every weekend. Also, ironing is done in the bedroom. There is also a reading chair there.

And every walk from the bedroom, as well as into the bedroom, initially goes to the bathroom or from the bathroom.

Nope, not if you want to take a sh*t in peace.

For me, that’s not even 5 minutes yet.

Bad lover!

Bad lover!

...exactly, because with Yvonne, indeed:

Additionally, ironing is done in the bedroom.

...ahem...

Now some of my comments:

Ground floor:
- How wide is the door to the guest WC? The WC will be pretty tight, I would plan it bigger. If not possible, then at least make the door open outwards.
- What is the garden WC supposed to be for? It won't be used for half the year and only maybe in nice weather during the rest of the time.
- This is also responsible for the workshop becoming more of a wider passageway. A workshop on 6m with 2 entrances is certainly not possible here. We don’t store anything either unless you don’t want to use one of the 2 doors.
- Garage with 5.10m was already mentioned.
Our carport with 6m depth already feels like 50cm too little to put something at the front and still comfortably get past the car.
- What is the 1m wide storage room for? Minus cleaning supplies, that leaves about 95cm. That really can’t be serious, can it?
- How deep is the kitchen island and the dining table? Something doesn’t fit there in relation. I suspect the island isn’t realistically deep enough. I hardly believe you want an island about 3.5x~0.7m. That looks ridiculous.
- I would move the door to the utility room upwards, then you can make a door from the hallway to the all-purpose room and the utility room would thus be accessible from the hallway. This has the advantage of a sound lock and also looks better than having another door on such a prominent wall.
- I think the living room is well done. Do you have a wish for a home cinema or something like that? Then I would inform myself about speaker positions. That makes the planned furnishing more difficult right away.
- Overall, I count 7 (!!!) rooms on the ground floor with a total of ~30m². So not even 5m²/room on average. Two of these are mini WCs.
What is the point of all that? You are making life (the floor plan) incredibly difficult for yourself. None of these rooms—apart from the pantry’s vestibule—will be properly usable in the future so that it lives up to its name.

Upper floor:
- With the gallery, reading nook, and hallway, an estimated 30m² is wasted. If you continue to the children's bathroom, you first hit your knee on the toilet as a welcome gift.
- Another storage room, this time 1.05m wide. Well, same game as on the ground floor---
- The children's bedroom with the "anterior hallway" is much smaller than the stated area suggests. The door in the middle of the vestibule means that with the rough construction width of 1.80m, proper wardrobes can't be placed on either side.
Consequently, the wardrobe has to be placed in the actual room.
- The bathroom as a pass-through room is the crowning finale. I don’t even want to say anything about that, I’m more disturbed by the furnishing:
For the WC, next to your sauna placeholder, there’s still a whopping 65cm rough construction width left (2.45m minus 1.80m sauna). That’s not just uncomfortable, it simply won’t work.
The 1.40m for the double washbasin will look quite cramped and is also in the traffic area.
I would expect the shower in such a bathroom to be without glass, but here it is absolutely necessary as a splash guard.
But you can dance in the middle of the room...
All this comes from the fact that the bathroom as an actually intimate area has 4 doors, including the balcony door.
- Dressing room and bedroom considered individually I find fitting. I would probably make the dressing room wider and the bedroom narrower so that you have 70cm space on both sides of the door in the dressing room to place a proper wardrobe.

By the way, how big are the doors? Especially the doors to the master bathroom seem unusually narrow to me.

Overall, so much is amiss here that I can hardly imagine this coming from an architect.
If they then tell you they would build exactly like this, either they meant it ironically and took the piss out of you or they failed at their job...

Overall, the design to me raises the thought "More seems than is." But it does not seem well thought out to me.

What’s the point of the garden toilet? It won’t be used for half the year and the rest of the time only maybe in good weather.

I've only seen something like that before at .

Overall, the design gives me the impression of "more appearance than substance."

That’s why I said it was built out of personal envy.

But it doesn’t seem well thought out to me.

Yes, but thought out in the sense of "I am the only one in the world who can think." Well, wrong-way drivers are oncoming.

What just occurred to me: there are even 4 toilets here and none of them fits.