R.Hotzenplotz
2017-08-27 22:34:18
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Hallway .. huge, together with the wardrobe 27 sqm. Nevertheless, you first have to go through the area from the door, where you also enter the private rooms (staircase), to somehow get to the house slippers etc.
Mmh, I don’t see the problem there. You can either put the house slippers/shoes next to the front door, where there is space in front of the first floor-to-ceiling window, or this can be done in the wardrobe. The house slippers won’t make the design fail.
Passage to the living area (where in my opinion the drawn-in furnishing with the couch on the right side of the plan is wrong) is narrow.
The couch is indeed drawn in incorrectly.
The passage to the living room is intended that way. We do not want an open access but a room that can be closed by a door. No direct passage from the front door to the living room ... except for the large living and dining area, a rather closed floor plan was realized here and that was our explicit wish. And if that is the requirement, you can’t make the access wider. Why would you? We don’t need a double-leaf door there.
What happens with garden furniture etc. in winter? In the basement?
No, there is a garden shed outside for such things. Likewise, the large garage can possibly be used for some of it. We don’t need to lug basement furniture etc. down into the cellar.
Shower in the kids’ bathroom with an entrance directly opposite the bathroom door I find very unfortunately planned.
I have already explained that a few times. The architect is finalizing the floor plan first, and the bathroom design will only be included at the end, as well as the furnishings, e.g. in the office. There the desk won’t stand in the middle of the room but at the right wall. The shower will not remain in the drawn-in place.
Floor-to-ceiling windows in the hallway and guest bathroom ... why, for what reason? In the guest bathroom there will always be something inside in front of it anyway so that the guest can’t be seen sitting on the toilet.
I also addressed that in the last working meeting with the architect. The only reason is the look. That way it matches the front door. If you make small square or rectangular windows, then you have no relation to the other glass surfaces on the front. I was initially firmly convinced to change that but the visualizations shown to me as an option really ruined the front look.
I also see no reason to put anything in front of the window. They are satin-finished just like the glass surfaces of the entrance door and next to it. Therefore, I am ticking that off.
Personally, I’m wavering between finding the thread still "exciting" and being happy about “progress” in the OP’s process of insight, and on the other hand finding it tiring that moving a wall by 30 cm is already the maximum that doesn’t even have to be "visualized".
I’m sorry; but unfortunately that can’t be changed.
To be honest, I also couldn’t imagine your last approach. However, I think that is not necessary, because we will not give up the kitchen bay window with corner window and will first look for a solution elsewhere. The idea of a finished basement, for example, appeals to us. We like the current floor plan very much and if there is no need to tinker with it further, then we won’t do it. I will raise the thought of roof terrace vs. balcony + adjustment of ground floor/upper floor walls again. But if it stays as it is now, that’s okay as well.
At least I have the impression this is heading towards a solution
And I am quite sure R. Hotzenplotz will get things done long before Schustrik
You can count on that. Not everything is questioned anymore here and I also see no serious issues that could cause the whole thing to fall apart. FOR US, the current room program and the exterior look fit as they are. Whether part will be faced with bricks later, etc., those are detail questions that can be decided later. But the feeling that we have "our house" in front of us when we look at the plans has now set in.
In combination with the covered passage between the gate and the front door, it is especially redundant / double.
At the beginning, the idea was quite good, when there was still a unit of the airlock with the kitchen. Now the big appeal is indeed gone. However, the access also does no harm and it doesn’t gain us much to eliminate it. What is occasionally too generous on the ground floor can’t be done otherwise with the room program – especially in relation to the upper floor. The area ratios on the upper floor are right. Only the children’s rooms are a bit larger than they would have to be – resulting from the constructive simplifications we worked out here.
I believe there was no plan – only photos/Google Earth aerial images. New development from the 60s/70s, little slope, with a tree in front of the planned garage door, still built with a bungalow.
I actually have to look that up and upload it (although unfortunately no one will find it anymore after a week).
We feel very good about the current state. We would have to get a real blow – something that we completely overlooked – for us to change everything or major things again now. We want the building application to go out soon.....