Floor plan design single-family house in L-shape

The floor with the garage is upstairs, the other one downstairs, right? The basement room downstairs - 33sqm... huge - will that be the craft workshop for your husband? Why doesn’t it have direct access to the house? At least the guest toilet downstairs now has a sink. And to also harp on the missing sink in the toilet upstairs - if you want children someday, please just install one. Even if you eventually teach your child how to get into the bathroom with messy fingers without touching the door handle... the child will have visitors too... and... no, I better stop here... Otherwise, I would swap the kitchen with the living room, there’s hardly any space in there when you have guests... I haven’t planned many layouts yet, but I’ve seen and compared several and somehow it all feels quite cramped and oppressive to me - but according to the square meter count it shouldn’t really be like that.

Yes, we have the 33sqm basement (cold) as a craft zone for my husband, storage space for garden furniture in winter, lawn mower, everything that needs to be stored because we don’t have a basement otherwise. Since the difference between having and not having the basement space was "only" 15k, we included it.

A small sink will definitely still fit in the upstairs bathroom.



For the wall bordering the stairs, I’m leaning either towards a glass railing or a 1-meter-high wall railing :) So it shouldn’t go all the way up to the ceiling. The architect’s goal for the stairs was to create the most impressive descent possible, optimize the light entry, and then directly "immerse" through the descent into the living basement via floor-to-ceiling windows into the garden. The stairs were deliberately designed as the main element in his plan.

13sqm for the bathroom seemed actually quite generous to me; at the moment we don’t even have half that available, but it could certainly be made a bit wider. In his first plan, it was only 2.2m wide, which was then widened at my request.

Unfortunately, I completely lack the spatial representation. Due to the different exterior shapes, etc., I currently can't really imagine it.

Regarding the WC, I can only agree with everyone else. However, the living room with 18 sqm is a generous space for just sofa and TV. And that is a matter of opinion... I also think that eating and cooking belong together; sofa/TV should be separated. When you have guests, you often stay around eating/cooking/terrace.

I find it rather unfortunate that everyone from their private rooms has to pass right by the main bathroom at the front door.

The utility room can only be reached with a huge walking distance from the private rooms, so the path with laundry is long ;).

Overall, I don't find it a coherent concept either.

13sqm for the bathroom actually seemed plenty to me,

...should actually be enough too... a 200sqm house should actually also be somewhat more generous. Actually 150 sqm are enough for what you fit in.

However, if you plan a shower of 1.50 on 3 meters width and a sink opposite (and unfortunately I also see the bathroom furnished as somewhat messed up), then you shouldn’t be surprised about the resulting bottleneck.
The same applies to the vestibule with the stairs.
If you also plan a sink in the toilet, then this toilet room will be far too tight, needs to be bigger, your bathroom smaller, but still poorly furnished.

It's a pity that you didn’t address the garage/children’s room situation.

And sorry, I don’t see the architect in this at all... if at least the basement was aligned under the garage. Those seem to be completely different dimensions?!?

Here you can see the whole thing overlapped, so at different height levels. It actually fits nicely on top of each other; the projection of the dining room/kitchen becomes the balcony for the bedroom above. The garage is not fully basemented (33 sqm of basement space is enough for us).


If you have another idea of how the bathroom should be furnished, then please feel free to share it. There should be enough space with an area of 3x4 meters. I don't really care how the individual parts are arranged, maybe one of the windows can still go.
Our toilet now has the same dimensions 1.50x1.20 and by the way we also have a washbasin :) It's small but sufficient?

I have redrawn the whole thing from the plan so that I can furnish it. The architect's plan had only a few pieces of furniture and these were relatively small (for example a 90x90 shower, 80x180 bathtub). I prefer to take larger dimensions (so shower 1.50x1, bathtub 2x1m, etc.) so that the planning is not too small.

For the children's room it was important to us that it had a view of the garden and was not directly next to the master bedroom. At first the architect had swapped the bathroom and children's room in the plan (and of course made the bathroom a bit smaller). But that was very disturbing for us. The child should not have a view of the street and a small room (previously 15 sqm). I can't judge the smell. In my parents' house there was also a direct access from the garage, but I can't remember if I ever noticed a bad smell in the entrance area?

How should the entrance situation be resolved? The rooms in the basement also have windows facing west, don't they?