Floor plan design single-family house approx. 170 m² + attic as a modern clinker house

We agree in terms of optics that we find the front entrance nicer; you can design a small nice path with a front garden to the door. The side entrance, in the worst case still under a carport roof, always looks like a delivery entrance.

My opinion is the same. I like entrances that position themselves towards the resident or visitor ;)

And one topic that keeps bothering us: most floor plans have the entrance on the eaves side, with the advantage that you enter the house in the middle.

Yes. It does make sense to have the staircase run along with the roof. And a staircase next to/in front of the entrance is well thought out in terms of space. Everything else usually requires more square meters, which not everyone can or wants to afford. The typical houses are mostly like that (staircase start then at the entrance)… only the substitute villas or “being able to afford” a bigger house offer the possibility to have the staircase run straight with some distance to the door. We will come back to that, to minimize house size, when building has to be more considered because of construction costs and the energy crisis.

What we often notice: landing staircases exist nowhere. Everywhere spiral or straight.

Because these are also very expensive and require even more space. I bet many who plan for a landing won’t implement it. My personal opinion here: it often (not always) has the charm of staircases in apartment buildings.

A heartfelt wish of some builders that is then implemented at all costs.

or not… when it comes to the landing… what the straight staircase can do: walk through smoothly without interruption, but fall the full length. as opposed to the landing: with interruption in walking flow, but then you fall only half as far. A normal spiral staircase, also double, has a normal walking flow… falling almost impossible.

For the average builder, I would always recommend to first create the floor plan and adapt the entrance to it.

I would not say that in general. The average person often wants Pinterest, i.e., mainstream, at least relates to it and makes many mistakes. But many average people can not only look but also think and implement spatially. And that is where the planning wisely starts with the plot.

By now, regarding the staircase, we are more on the mindset that the type and shape don’t really matter. We have now seen versions of every staircase shape that we like. For us, the current stair type due to access to the attic is the landing staircase, but hopefully there will be a more compact solution.

Sunhsine from Weberhaus (which was mentioned here relatively early in the thread) has an entrance on the ridge side, but the living rooms are arranged incorrectly for us there. We want to enter the house from the west, but have all living rooms as much as possible on the south side.

PS: The study would be a candidate to remove from the ground floor and relocate to the attic. The study on the ground floor currently only fits 2 desks for home office, hobby stuff wouldn’t have any space there and would be in the attic anyway. So it would be worthwhile to make a "dual use" room in the attic.

So, we were at the architect. He didn’t think it was a good idea to reduce the current floor plan, so he’s starting again from a bit further back. The issue of the entrance on the eaves side is somehow still a topic for us, as we become increasingly aware of the limitations of the floor plan. Also, an entrance on our north side would mean that our garden on the west would be much better usable.

Attached again is a floor plan (Baufritz house "Schneider") of a ground floor, where we really like the room layout (it would only need to be mirrored along the longitudinal axis and of course the garage is different for us), especially the ratio between utility and living space is good here. And with external dimensions of 10.7x8.2m. Considering that we have had 13x9m so far (+0.5m bay window)...

Oh, is it possible for you to realize the access from plan top?

Well, we have the driveway at the top of the plan anyway. The entrance would then be at the top of the plan, but access to the house is via the driveway.

Or what do you mean by that?

Well, we have the entrance at the top anyway.

Oh…

Or what do you mean?

The question is, what do you mean that? The entrance is on the left! [ATTACH alt="5D548578-E252-4597-BB85-AA49D619326D.jpeg" type="full"]75914[/ATTACH]