Floor plan design single-family house solid wood construction 140 sqm in Lower Saxony

The shape of the kitchen or the furnishing is not fixed yet. There are ideas with an L-shape and a work island - we are still unsure about how to solve that best. Without moving the dining area, we can't get the terrace door any closer to the kitchen - if we did, the gable would also be inside a children's room. Leaving the gable centered above the dining area is not possible due to the construction; we originally planned that, but then discarded it because it would hardly be useful for the children's rooms. Do you perhaps have a brilliant idea?

With this house size, there is hardly any room for major changes without changing the entire floor plan. The tighter the space, the more precise you have to be. Here is a suggestion with a cooking island and a captain's gable in the children's room. The seating corner is removed, see the remarks from in . Instead, a seating window is added - those are totally trendy (or is there something new already? :)).




But, as said, these are amateur sketches that might not work with log walls. Unfortunately, I am not familiar with that. Knee wall assumed at 1m - I don't see anything speaking against it.

I still don't read anything about the desire for an island.

I still don't read anything about the desire for an island.

See the 2nd sentence in the above quote from #43.

See second sentence in the above quote from #43.

hmm… so now desperately an island desired to be conservative and old-fashioned… I wouldn’t know if one is doing Lotte a favor by stamping your or my or Mister DX’s taste on her :confused:

Getting the conditions of the plot together with the development plan and our building body plan now seems to be our very first and most important homework assignment – am I seeing that correctly?

correct / see sketch: you need to find out this finished height.

Then I read somewhere that the planning must absolutely start in the upper floor, i.e. I recommend throwing everything overboard and first questioning and writing down the room program very precisely.

yes, @11ant once suggested that. I now also do it for row/semi-detached houses and in cases of stair problems with sloping ceilings – a very helpful tip!

I explained the principle in a post called "The Upper Floor Takes Priority," whereby the headline is of course only a shortened representation of the principle. It must be reinterpreted accordingly for sloping plots as well as for "city villas" with truss roofs. It applies absolutely as the title suggests, especially for such single-family homes with the classic layout of living and entrance floor on the ground floor, even if the upper floor contains load-bearing walls – otherwise in a milder form (see bauen-jetzt). The planning sequence is: 1. Create the room program; 2. Qualify the room program (= weight roughly in square meters); 3. Divide the upper floor; 4. Derive the ground floor layout from it (coordination of stairs / ceiling openings / downpipes). At the end of step 2, the "axial load" of the areas from upper and ground floor distributes proportionally in the target ratio 50:50 ("city villa") or about 35:65 ("one and a half floors" with reasonable knee wall, see further post ibid.). Thus, one recognizes the importance of sufficiently precise clarification of the specific knee wall potential for further procedure before the "end" of step 2. Single-story bay windows as well as voids influence the "calculation" accordingly.

hm... that's why now desperately an island with desired conservative and old-fashioned... I wouldn't know if you're doing Lotte a favor by stamping your or my or Mister DX taste on her :confused:

I wouldn't describe it as desperate. OP asks - OP gets an answer, nothing more. I rather have the feeling here that the connection between the floor plan and possible furnishing is not yet quite clear. Whoever wants old-fashioned gets old-fashioned. That doesn't have to be bad, but one shouldn't be surprised later if none of the kitchen studio's displayed island solutions are suitable for this house.