Floor plan draft city villa feedback

Hello everyone,

we are currently planning our [project] and I would be happy to receive some feedback on it.

I have already looked at several hundred floor plans and numerous show homes, all of which I found somehow "impractical," until I saw the Viebrockhaus Jette Joop model house life L, and I found it great. (Unfortunately, it is a bit too big & too expensive for us)
Then I found the Citylife 148 from Favorit, which is very similar to the Jette house, somewhat smaller and also cheaper.

In the end, neither was perfect, so my own version was created, which we have already had calculated by Favorit.

Next week, we have an appointment with a building planner, so I would be very happy to receive some feedback on our current draft.

A few background details as to why we decided on certain things.
But maybe we are wrong here and it makes no sense at all???

Ground floor:
Wardrobe:
We definitely want to have the wardrobe as the very first thing when entering the house, because I don’t want everyone running across the hallway in their street shoes, or at best taking off their shoes at the door but then just putting them to the side.

Guest WC:
Should definitely have a shower without a tray (built-in/no glass cabin).

Kitchen:
Should be directly connected to the living/dining area but separable. We are not quite sure yet how this can be done. Currently, two options are under consideration:
a) with a glass sliding door over about 3m
b) built up to countertop height, above that a large fixed window, and as access a normal clear glass door.
--> It should appear open but be closable. I would be very grateful for better suggestions!!

Living/dining room:
In the dining area, we are currently considering changing the middle doors leading outside to a large fixed glass window. The dining area should be exactly where the middle door to the outside is, and I can well imagine that a large panorama window is nicer than a double-wing door, especially since this probably won’t be used as a door anyway but would more likely just be in the way, and I have also often seen people putting the couch in front of one of the patio doors in the living room. I find that somehow strange.

Hallway:
The stairs going up should be a closed concrete staircase. This way, a pantry can be created under the stairs.
Since the stairwell is completely inside, we want to install a Solatube to bring daylight into the stairwell without windows.

Upper floor:
We are a household of 4 people and have decided against a "large" bathroom upstairs and instead planned a kids’ bathroom and a master bathroom en suite. Since we are not the wellness type who need to relax on a lounger in the bathroom, bathrooms for us are primarily functional and not large.
We have designed the parents’ area as a small separate unit, so that it can later (when the children have moved out) be used as a somewhat more private guest area, or if grandma should move in.
Basically, we definitely wanted to have rooms other than bedrooms between our bedroom and the children’s rooms as noise buffer zones. No idea if that is really necessary, but if I think back to my own childhood/teenage years, my parents would definitely have had a fit if they had to sleep next to my room and endure my music.

(Garage with storage room is currently planned but not decided.)

Thanks in advance for your feedback
Best regards, Leini

Hello Leini,
Try drawing your furniture into the house - I’m curious whether the double bed has enough space or if it might become a gauntlet.

Then, of course, the children’s bathroom catches my eye, which will certainly be equipped with a toilet... it doesn’t necessarily have to make noise, but there will surely be a sewage outlet next to your fixed panoramic window.

Where is north, and what does the property look like?

Regards, Yvonne

Hello Yvonne,
yes, the bedroom is very tight - that's true.

We would position the bed so that the headboard is against the wall where the staircase is drawn.
On the left side there would be about 60 cm and on the right side about 1 m (the bedroom hallway) and at the foot end also about 60 cm.

We wanted to make the real "living spaces" like the study and children's room as large as possible in this rather small house.

The point about the wastewater had already been mentioned by the construction company as well. There should be a drywall ceiling suspension here so that the wastewater can go down in the storage room under the stairs and then be drained under the floor slab. No idea if that is a good solution?

We currently have 2 plots that are under consideration. The decision is to be made within the next 14 days.

For one of them (922 sqm), north would be where the kitchen is.
For the other (794 sqm), north would be exactly the corner of [Kinderzimmer 2].

Best regards
Leini

I see it the same way as Yvonne. Please also furnish the kitchen as presented. I am very skeptical about the bedroom. Please remember that all measurements are rough and that a bed with a 200 cm long mattress is gone. The frame/headboard is usually at least 210 cm long.

And why should there be a partition wall to the dining area? It's not very spacious there anyway.

Especially practical is an exit from the kitchen to the terrace. Situations like summer grilling, chilling on the terrace with access to drinks, children playing in the garden who quickly want to get a drink, etc., support this.

That doesn’t work with the bedroom. If I determine the depth measurement in relation, the room is max. 255 cm deep. Then you don't have 50 cm of passage width at the bottom of the plan.

EDIT .. and then check the dressing room and its door position. It literally steals 100 cm of wardrobe width from you.

Here, the providers discovered a centrally located, straight-running staircase and thought it was great ... then they somehow planned the floor plans around the staircase themselves. That’s how it was, right? Because of that, the upper floor is a mess ... totally convoluted. The drainage for the children's bathroom and dressing room has already been mentioned. The fact that the bedroom is bad too. As you want to place the bed, no nightstand can/may be placed on one side if I see that correctly.

I also find the idea of separating the kitchen strange. The dining area is too small, even though the dining and living rooms with the kitchen are actually very spacious. Just imagine putting a dining table with chairs there and mentally opening the windows. You can also see that this doesn’t work with the favorite.

Then the hallway is unnecessarily large and the living room is difficult to furnish.

With the "small" plot, you never have sunlight in the living area, if I understood that correctly.