Floor plan draft for a 220m² single-family house

Hello!

We have already gone through several plans with our architect and I think we are almost at the goal and about to start the detailed planning. Before that, I am happy to receive feedback from other users.

Development plan/restrictions: §34 - two full floors

Size of the property: 1,085m²

Basement, floors - 2 full floors plus partial basement

Number of people, age - 3 people (37, 34, 1, second desired child)

Room requirements on the ground floor, upper floor - requirement was that the bedroom and study should each be about 17m², the entire house should be about 220m²

Office: family use

Guests per year: 1

Open or closed architecture: closed

Conservative or modern construction: modern

Open kitchen, cooking island - no open kitchen, cooking island yes

Number of dining seats - 6

Fireplace - yes

Music/stereo wall - TV wall

Balcony, roof terrace - balcony

Garage, carport - large garage

Additional wishes/particularities/daily routine, also reasons why this or that should or should not be - everyone should be able to sleep as quietly as possible in their bedroom even if other family members are awake. Husband sometimes up as early as 4 a.m.; otherwise, TV should be watchable in the evening without disturbing residents sleeping on the upper floor.

House design
Whose planning:
-Architect (freelancer of a general contractor)

What do you particularly like? Why?
The upper floor with well-dimensioned rooms and the location of the rooms exactly where they should be (only the washing area we probably still want to move to the outer right corner so that you don’t have to pass it every time you go to the toilet), on the ground floor we particularly like the access through an airlock, the kitchen and the dining area with study next to it.
Also, we like that after corrections the study now faces the garden and no longer toward the street.

What do you not like? Why?
We actually wanted the distance from wall to wall where the couch or the TV is, to be about 6.40m (large screen & surround system), but so far only 5.69m has been realized.

Laundry room as described.

Kitchen larger in m² than needed; about 3m² could theoretically be used well in the living area.

Price estimate according to architect/planner:
720 TEUR (including ancillary construction costs)

Personal price limit for the house, including equipment:
800 TEUR

Preferred heating technology:
Gas

If you have to do without, what details/extensions

-can you do without:
technical things like controlled residential ventilation

-can you not do without:
spaces (except the kitchen)

Why has the design turned out as it is now? For example
Standard design from the planner?

Which corresponding wishes were implemented by the architect?
largely yes, what bothers us is the situation with the living room

What makes it particularly good or bad in your eyes?
patient, quick in implementation, has gotten to know us well already
nothing negative

Do you notice any other points that do not fit or that one should consider, which we might not notice?

In the basement, the room labeled as home cinema might possibly be used as such in the medium to long term. For the foreseeable future, it is a storage room.

Hello,
this is something completely different from what is usually done here.

I am missing a few dimensions and I also haven’t found a north arrow – the latter would interest me a lot to assess the positioning of the balcony and the children’s room.

Otherwise, a few points come to mind right away that would bother me given the size of the house:

When you arrive at the house, the first thing you see is a staircase. That can be interesting, but it can also make the entrance area feel "uncozy." Especially since, due to the many doors/hallway branches, you probably can’t furnish the area very well.

I strongly suspect that the pantry will become the wardrobe (even though a door to the house is still missing there). The room labeled as wardrobe is too far from the garage and also too narrow to move around comfortably.

I can hardly imagine the kitchen, especially where your paths to the terrace are supposed to be.

The terrace in front of the dining table probably doesn’t exist, because I interpret the window below it in the guest room as if there’d have to be an excavation there.

The distance to the TV could be solved by an even deeper recess in the wall. Whether that would look good on the facade – no idea. But right now I really can’t imagine the many different recesses either, lacking imagination...

Upstairs, an absolute minor detail catches my attention very negatively: the door to the walk-in closet is positioned so that you would bump into a cabinet. That can be easily fixed.

What might not be so easy anymore: how will the bathrooms be furnished? Definitely have furniture drawn in! And also ask how everything can be drained.

Otherwise, I’m not a big fan of the narrow, long hallways. It somehow works, but in relation to the overall size, both the basement and upstairs hallways already look very narrow – I sometimes brush the wall with the laundry basket/ back of the hand even in wider hallways. :-(

Yeah, and if my suspicion is confirmed that either a child’s room or the balcony is oriented to the north, I would be interested in the reasons for that?

Maybe I’ll notice more tomorrow when I’m well rested. I actually don’t think some of the approaches are bad at all!

I just wanted to praise the fireplace as an example, and now I notice that the chimney must be missing in the other floors?!

So there might still be more changes after all :-(

What is supposed to cost 720k for the house? Or what is included in that?

House design
Who is the planner:
-Architect (freelancer of a general contractor)

Could it be that he is reading along here?
This design strikes me as oddly inspired by this one:

Can you upload the plans in Jpg here? I was able to look at the [EG], but it’s useless to me without dimensions... so you can’t assess the wardrobe at all. Without a site plan everything is also very difficult. Thank you. Regards, Yvonne P.s. The orientation is also missing... child on the street? In the south or north?

Could it be that he is reading along here? This draft strikes me as oddly inspired by this one here:

No!

Regards, Yvonne