Floor plan design townhouse with a gable roof

Hello,

I don’t think you have to start completely from scratch, but the ground floor doesn’t fit.

Apart from the lack of space in the kitchen, there is no access to the hallway. That will bother you later.

Basically, I would arrange the ground floor as follows:

[*]Utility room and technical room in the northeast
[*]Kitchen in the east
[*]Dining in the southeast
[*]Living in the southwest
[*]Office in the west
[*]Guest WC in the northwest

On the upper floor, I would combine the dressing room (which is not really a dressing room but only a walk-in closet, you can’t even sit there) and the bedroom. Then the storage room can remain. Even better in my opinion would be a children's bathroom instead of the storage room.

In the exterior view, the western extension and the dormer then move a bit north because of the living room on the ground floor. But that fits well on the upper floor because the children's rooms become more balanced. Both should have the same width.

Individual awarding without detailed planning (Phase 5) will not work. You need the detailed planning and a detailed cost estimate based on it to ensure that nothing is forgotten and for awarding.

Best regards

On the topic of 3D/2D and possibly lacking spatial imagination or "ah, it’ll be fine" hopes, I would recommend the floor plan at life size. It costs about 500 euros, but that seems to me a good investment before building poorly functioning crap for 500k. We actually did that and were more than surprised how contrary the perception was to what we had expected...

What I don’t understand is the ignorance of one’s own ignorance. I often seek help because I think about what I am not good at. And I can do everything else myself.

That’s exactly right. I have often thought it was solely a generational problem, but it seems to be deeper and independent of age. I am always happy and feel more secure when I can ask someone (like here), because once again I have no idea or at least am unsure (ideas, alternatives, taxes, technical matters, and other things). Brainstorming also scares many people. Despite our age- and probably stubbornness-related, by now less active lifestyle, we repeatedly encounter people even in our close environment who would never ask anyone or, if at all, only Mr. Google or some stranger. I believe that often there is a fear (also here) that one’s own made sandwich would be stolen instead of being able to see the great opportunity of the added value of honest experience.

I would try to recreate these cramped corners with moving boxes and see how it feels.

Exactly. I believe children would be really helpful and inventive in this, because they are free from such constraints.

I think you don’t have to start completely from scratch, but the ground floor doesn’t fit.

Yes, absolutely. Namely, because the upper floor here was derived from a ground floor that is itself a shot in the foot, for example, its kitchen, even by the poster’s own admission, doesn’t work without a "bay window". Deriving a better ground floor from this upper floor would logically hardly succeed. Therefore: back to the beginning! When there’s no worm left inside, the difficulties with the facade articulation will automatically be resolved as well.

Individual awarding without detailed design (Phase 5) will not work. You need the detailed design and a detailed cost estimate based on it to ensure nothing is forgotten and for awarding.

Oops, did someone consider service phase 5 obsolete? – service phase 5 is the kickoff for the second half!

I would recommend doing the floor plan in real scale. [...] We actually did that and were more than surprised how contrary the feeling was compared to what we had expected...

Do you have examples of your “aha” moments?

Do you have any examples of your "aha" moments?

Above all, corners and pathways that worried me on paper were not a problem; on the other hand, completely surprising other areas that we then reassessed after playing around on site with the furniture and walls (you can see the effects live right away and walk through). We had a motivated, recently graduated architect as project manager on site, that was great. But we were also very well prepared and helped out with building/setting up, so we could run through several scenes. So far, I don’t have any spot in the house where I say "Damn, we should have done that differently," and many visitors are amazed at how well the floor plan fits us and our workflows. We really spent a lot of time on it, erased ourselves with pencil on millimeter paper, cut out furniture snippets, and learned to understand two-meter lines the hard way.

We put a lot of thought into whether what we imagined would actually work in the end. The experience on site was really good and helpful, especially since we don’t have a catalog floor plan.