Floor plan draft for a single-family house - Your opinion?

How do you like the floor plan?

It's just a first attempt.

What are absolute no-go’s from your point of view?

Quite a few. To make the whole thing coherent, please also upload the plot of land. The placement of the house is the first step. It is noticeable that having 2 garages in different locations is probably a mess. Especially if the entrance is only near one of them. You probably want to shield yourselves from the neighbor with this. But that can be achieved more cheaply with hedges or, if necessary, with privacy fences.

What have we not considered? (Also regarding children)

First of all, the dimensions seem suspicious to me. A door is usually planned with a width of about 90cm. Otherwise, it’s not the worst start – a planner sees an idea and adjusts it for you. Entrance directly into the living room – very American. What is the room behind the sofa and how do you get there?

Should there really be a door from the kitchen and from the living room to a garage? - that would detract from the coziness for me.

Garages do not have to observe boundary distances, but overall on a property only up to a length of 15m.

Ah, I was not aware of that yet. I had previously thought that it counts around corners but not all boundaries combined, i.e., with garages on opposite sides I would not have thought that they are summed up.

Where do you put advertising brochures, letters, sunglasses, keys, etc. when you enter the house? On the kitchen island? The cloakroom is also far too small for shoes and jackets of 3-4 people. What kind of room in the house can only be accessed from the garage? The room belongs to the building, so it is heated as well. I would plan again.

Best regards
Sabine

Hello and welcome!

What kind of room is behind the couch towards the 2nd garage? Wouldn't a double garage be more sensible?
The house has exterior dimensions of 10x13m?

The room behind the couch is intended to be a storage room for things not needed daily, like winter tires for the cars, Christmas decorations, etc.

Garage 2 is a double garage 7x7m. Yes, the house is 10x13m.

Gladly

Guest WC too big
Utility room too small

Yes, I also consider the layout of the guest WC and utility room not yet optimal.

Upper garage too narrow.

The interior width should be about 280cm. Isn’t that enough?

Hi,
well, having it so open in the entrance area wouldn’t be my preference.
This way you carry street dirt into the living area. The wardrobe has to be placed somewhere near the front door too. I don’t know if I’d always want to look at a pile of shoes and jackets from the dining table?

The living room will be very large, distances to the TV will be correspondingly large. Try placing the remaining furniture in the living room to see how that works out.

Is there a door from the living room to the garage?

I can imagine it might be hard to fit a shower, bathtub, double sink and toilet in the upstairs bathroom. Is it an option to use a study/office for the two of you? Make one a bit larger, but then have more space for the other rooms.

Or move an office to the ground floor, drop the small storage room behind the living room, make the living room a bit smaller/narrower, and then try to fit a study in that area.

The wardrobe should actually be in the recess between the WC and utility room. Possibly hidden behind a mirrored door?

What furniture should be in the living room besides that? Couch, coffee table, TV board and TV. Isn’t that enough?

Yes, next to the couch leads to the garage.

The bathroom upstairs has about 14 sqm. Would that be too small?

Two separate workrooms are very important to us. They should also serve as personal retreats.

Garages do not have to maintain a boundary distance, but overall on one property can only have a length of up to 15m. Since your garages are 9m + 3m + 7m = 19m long and stand closer than 3m to neighboring boundaries, a building encumbrance agreement from a neighbor would be necessary.

If I understood correctly, doesn’t that only apply to buildings on boundaries?

First of all, the dimensions seem suspicious to me. A door is usually planned with a width of about 90cm.

All doors have the construction standard width of 87.5cm

Should there really be a door to a garage from both the kitchen and from the living room? - to me that would reduce the coziness.

If the doors to the garage look like all the other room doors, wouldn’t that be unnoticeable?

The interior width should be about 280cm. Isn't that enough?

Yes, it is.

If I understood correctly, this only applies to boundary constructions, right?

You are correct. But in your drawing, it is unclear what is the drawing boundary and what is the property boundary.

The doors all have the construction standard size of 87.5cm

I consider that sufficient for room doors (bathroom possibly 75, broom closet / guest WC possibly also 62.5); regarding aging, 100 is often recommended for room doors. For front doors, I would recommend 112.5 (plus side panels). Possibly your wall thickness (shown probably about 50 cm) confuses the proportions here.

If the doors to the garage look like all the other room doors, it won't stand out, right?

Although the door does not say "to the garage," the door itself makes the seating area in a room feel more like a seating area in an entrance hall.

The only thing missing is the glass wall to the garage.

But seriously. Groceries are carried through the door, the stroller is pushed through, the crate of soda is parked – it's not very cozy.

A normal interior door won't do. Insulation, burglary protection, fire safety.

Why isn't the main entrance at the double garage?
What is the third garage for?
Do you have such a fleet?
3 garages, big yard – will there still be anything left for the garden?

Furnish the floor plan to scale.

Do you really want anyone who rings the doorbell to have a clear view into the cooking pot and onto the sofa?

Make the storage room accessible from the house.