Floor plan draft city villa feedback

Baseboards and plaster can account for 8cm, which makes the room smaller overall in length and width.

Regarding the orientations: not really suitable for the house. With both plots, the sun would be in the evening hours where the garage or entrance is located.
Perhaps the house could still be rotated, but honestly: that doesn’t fit the house.

I do think I’ve seen even worse copies of the villa here, but shrinking the Jette house even more makes furnishing almost impossible, since you always have the staircase as a room divider – with large areas that might work, but with smaller ones you create a living space shaped like a U-shaped room, which has a maximum width of roughly about 3.60 meters. That leaves about a meter missing at the dining table and sofa corner; instead, you end up having too much free space in the width of the house.
Upstairs I have so far always noticed a jumble of rooms; 1 to 2 rooms cannot be furnished (as can be seen now in the sleeping area).

So, go ahead and draw in your furniture.

It is always difficult to let go of the desired look of a house once a plot is found. With a standard house, it may not be so significant, but a symmetrical “villa” should also be well oriented – but then at the great disadvantage of room arrangements on the plot.
I have the feeling that the house is not particularly suitable for your plots.

Please upload the site plans of both properties, preferably with measurements and the building envelope. If the image (JPG) is hard to read, then better as a PDF.

Has everything already been said? I'll still say what comes to mind:

- Find the fall height of 2 m rather poor
- Furnishing the children's room with floor-to-ceiling windows is difficult
- Drainage of the children's bathroom is poor... so at least you will have a shaft in the living room.
- What's that supposed to be for the bedroom... that doesn't fit - you might have only about 50 cm at the head of the bed
- Lots of wasted space, e.g. in the guest room due to questionable access
- I think some railing height specifications got lost... kitchen says 3.5... I assume that should mean 113.5, right?
- Furnishing the living-dining area will be challenging (to say the least)

Overall, it's somehow not so great... do less "fancy" and more functional.

I had explicitly described it as a first draft, but I did not expect it to be torn apart like that.

Thank you very much in any case for your feedback!

Maybe we really need to go back to square one.

Basically, I don’t consider 800-900 sqm to be small for a plot of land.

Regarding the "reduction" of the villa, it should be said that compared to one floor plan it is 20 sqm less overall, but compared to the other it is 10 sqm more.

If I had to furnish the house, it would presumably be very simple by general standards. For example, living room: yes, we have a couch and a table, the TV is mounted on the wall and otherwise there is only a shelf (about 80 cm wide). We have and do not want very many cabinets. We planned the storage/pantry room under the stairs because we do not want many kitchen cabinets.

In order to place a dining table, the idea of the panoramic window came up. We don’t need three exits to the garden on one wall.

We haven’t addressed the topic of windows and the positions of the interior doors at all yet.

What is so strange about the idea of the kitchen partition? We don’t want to build it completely up because then the kitchen would be very small and cramped.

As I said, it was a first draft.

There are many points that I/we haven’t considered so far and just for that I am very, very grateful for your responses.

Best regards LeiNi

Why are you building an almost square house on such a large plot? I would go for a more elongated design...

It really helps when you draw the furniture to scale in such a floor plan. You will notice that your kitchen/dining setup already becomes quite tight, and you also want to put a sliding wall in between.

If the plot is that large, a site plan would be good. Is the external shape of 10x10 m already set in stone? Upstairs you also have quite a nice room program with 2x children's rooms, bedroom, closet, guest/workroom, and 2 small bathrooms.

Guest/workroom could perhaps also be accommodated in the attic itself, even with a low roof pitch. At least give it a try.