Floor plan detached house 170 sqm tips and opinions

Development plan/restrictions
Size of the plot: 600sqm
Slope: no
Floor area ratio: 0.4
Floor space index: -
Building window, building line and boundary
Edge development: east carport
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of floors: 2
Roof shape: none
Style: modern
Orientation: north
Maximum heights/limits: 6.0m
Further specifications

Client requirements: 1
Style, roof shape, building type: gable roof
Basement, floors: upper floor knee wall height 1.0m
Number of people, age: 2 adults
Room needs on ground floor, upper floor Ground floor: living/dining, utility room, guest WC, kitchen Upper floor: sleeping, office, dressing room, bathroom
Office: family use or home office? family use
Overnight guests per year: 3
Open or closed architecture: open
Conservative or modern construction: modern
Open kitchen, cooking island: open kitchen with cooking island
Number of dining places living room 8, kitchen 2
Fireplace: yes
Music/stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: double carport
Utility garden, greenhouse: no
Further wishes/special features/daily routine, also reasons why this or that should or should not be

House design
Who designed it:
- Planner from a construction company: yes
- Architect: no
- Do-it-yourself: yes
What do you like most? Why?
What do you not like? Why?
Price estimate according to architect/planner: [eek:ffen]
Personal price limit for the house, including equipment: 350k
Preferred heating technology: underfloor heating

If you have to do without, which details/extensions
- can you do without: office, shower guest WC
- can you not do without: stove

Why is the design the way it is now? For example
Standard design from the planner? from own wishes and from the planner

What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan summarized in 130 characters?

How do you like the floor plan? Do you have improvements or suggestions on what could be done differently? We are unsure if the hallway is okay as it is and the main bathroom upstairs is not yet satisfactory in terms of layout.

Opinions wanted :)

Hello Nils,

did I overlook it? Where is north?

what I noticed...

The hallway downstairs I find horrible. To the living room once around the stairs? Where is the wardrobe? In the utility room? I would never do that. Why not separate it?

Kitchen and living/dining room very spacious. The kitchen almost looks like they had to fit in the square meters, but still only enough for a small island. Was that your wish?

Upstairs the generous square meter distribution continues. 26 sqm for sleeping and dressing but no window in the hallway. Honestly?

Bathroom upstairs not above the ground floor bathroom either, not elegant.

Somehow the floor plan doesn't excite me. I almost find it a bit of a shame to decorate 170 sqm so sparingly.

Change ideas? Would rather totally change the floor plan. Kitchen further towards the bottom of the plan? Above that space for wardrobe and guest bathroom? Move the stairs? To the other side to resolve the hallway’s winding? Maybe office on the ground floor and then a window in the hallway upstairs?

But all of this is not just a small change.

Sorry, I don’t like it at all like this.

I quite like the overall floor plan. Yes, the hallway downstairs is a bit unusual/strange and it will probably be used little, with people rather going through the kitchen, but that doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing. Upstairs in the bathroom, I wonder what purpose this wall section serves that forms the "corridor" into the shower (where a shelf/cabinet is also drawn). The shelf could just as well be placed against the wall to the toilet, simply turned 90 degrees, and then this wall section wouldn’t be needed at all?

Hm. What’s that supposed to be – a corner window Frisian house? – show some views of it. Are the floor plans oriented to true north like that, or why do you have to read them upside down?

The hallway on the ground floor, which leads into darkness, would be a reason for me to look for something else. Bathroom pipes are routed through the kitchen, regarding the kitchen: your better half should arrange that with the dream kitchen. Are there enough cabinets? Where should additional ones go? The passage to the utility room is well done. Nevertheless, I wonder who wants to use the wardrobe there in the dark and cramped space! If there is a proper closet there, the storage room door can no longer be opened. A trapped dressing room doesn’t appeal to me personally and is objectively impractical.

Just as a suggestion for the hallway/laundry room situation on the ground floor. With a small wardrobe at the entrance door for everyday items and guests, and a large one in the laundry room for the shoe and jacket collection. The glass door to the living room would prevent the hallway from being a "dark cave." A short path to the kitchen is already provided by the additional door at the entrance.