Floor plan draft for a 220m² single-family house

The question is, do we really need these two floor-to-ceiling windows? I see little point in them. I think the hallway has enough light thanks to the large glazed front door system. You might not even need to plan for a 76 cm high window. And in the bathroom, it is definitely not a problem.... it does look funny in the interior visualization, the toilet right next to the floor-to-ceiling window.... and in the hallway the coat rack in front of the other floor-to-ceiling window....

I think the hallway has enough light thanks to the generous glazed front door unit. You might not even need to plan a 76-high window there.

It’s not necessary for lighting, but visually you have to die one of two deaths: it looks off from outside or from inside. Flip a coin whether the wardrobe window is necessary. Or let the redesign of the upper floor window front on the street side have a say in it.

The question is, do we really need these two floor-to-ceiling windows? I see little sense in that.....

Strange question: you don’t need many things that you plan

In this respect, the appearance plays a big role.

By the way, I find them good and okay. I know a bathroom with a floor window. It didn’t bother me because: there were pleated blinds anyway, as is often the case with plans made and foiled.

By the way, I find them good and okay. I know a toilet with a floor-level window. It didn’t bother me because: there were pleated blinds anyway, as is often planned or misplanned.

It still feels very unusual to tilt a floor-to-ceiling window after using the toilet. Somehow it doesn’t seem safe to me either.

The only really relevant thing for the building application that we still need to decide by Monday is whether the current partial basement remains or if a smaller partial basement will be used. See attachments.

That would save €23,500 and would still slightly boost our budget for sanitary, electrical, outdoor facilities, kitchen, etc. According to the current situation, €100,000 is still available (with the electrical work already budgeted at €36,000 in the figures) and that would be almost 25% more.

The question would be whether the small partial basement on the far right could replace the hobby room with a small home cinema. Or do you find the space for that already too marginal? The utility room would then be where the guest room is marked on the left. That is quite small for a guest room and since we only occasionally host the mother-in-law anyway, that could also be done upstairs in the large children's rooms. Either grandma sleeps with one of the children or the children sleep twice a year for two weeks in one room, for example – a fourth bathroom in the basement was not planned anyway for cost reasons.

It still feels very unusual to tilt a floor-to-ceiling window after going to the toilet.

Floor-to-ceiling here would also be fixed glazing; nothing tilts. You need a fan in the bathroom.

whether the current partial basement remains or whether a smaller partial basement will be used.

The large "partial" basement offers as much space as a full basement would usually require. You don't need two home cinemas. The mini partial basement is disproportionately expensive; I would rather extend the garage by 9 m and do without the basement altogether.

a fourth bathroom in the basement was not planned anyway for cost reasons.

Just the black water lifting system alone could empty its own little purse of ducats. For the current crawl space basement, I suspect reasons as I said – that could be one of them.

With the savings from omitting the basement balanced against the garage extension (and possibly a 20° steeper roof pitch for more attic space), you can accommodate grandma differently: if she comes twice for two weeks a year, the children can share a room for one stay, and for the other, she can certainly get a good rate at a nearby bed and breakfast. That’s definitely nicer than the mini-basement dungeon under the toilet (with a light shaft, a slope doesn’t apply at that point).