The rooms don’t have to be bigger, the hoses have to go. Different staircase position, different hallway, not through the middle. Everything reshuffled. Office, WC, cloakroom no hoses, kitchen closer to dining or terrace. Upstairs you can swap bathroom and bedroom.
Where to put the staircase? In the middle of the house? Your idea was into the corner, you didn’t respond to the triangular landing. Or how do you fit a staircase into the corner? And as said, only one skylight in the bedroom? The hallway has to be in the middle if the main entrance is in the middle. Main entrance from the north? That was also an idea, then you gain a west room, but with the utility room in the north, the kitchen loses a window side.
Everything reshuffled -> without changing the sensible placements of the cardinal directions? THAT is exactly our problem. That’s why we're participating here. We see ourselves that the hoses are unfortunate. That has to change, but we don’t know how!
Upper floor: bathroom and bedroom are now as desired. We swapped them according to the house company drawing.
We have the slants in our second apartment – should be similar to yours – I have hit my head so often in the bedroom and the toilet bowl hangs a bit lower in the bathroom,
I’m sorry for you and your head As said, no problems here for 6 years.
Kitchen completely separated from dining and living is suboptimal with children. You cannot split yourself. Cooking and eating together and you can combine housework with homework supervision or watching the kids. Large sliding door to living and you can connect and separate the rooms as needed. The open-plan trend has its reason.
With children: That’s definitely a thought we have. But open kitchen, although not desired, only for the 4-5 years when you have toddlers?
Trends? Are a matter of taste ... city villas? Anthracite window frames? Concrete-look tiles? Black floor tiles in the bathroom? Open tiled shower? Handleless black kitchens? All white walls? ... I could go on forever ... all trends, but none for us.
I am not saying the open-plan trend has no reasons. Only for us, there are other priorities.
Kitchen to the terrace is not only good for quick breakfast in the garden, it enormously reduces the sand dunes to the candy cupboard, coffee machine and drink station. Children, if you let them, live outside. In open winters, like these, the outdoor season never ends.
Quick garden breakfasts we don’t really have. The point about dirt is justified! Speaks again for a terrace door at the kitchen.
You could place the terrace entirely in the east. But again, the much-discussed topic where the “optimal terrace” is. Ideally once around the whole house, depending on season and weather/temperature. What do you think? Terrace only in the east and thus better connected to dining/kitchen or east-south terrace for more flexible reaction to sun/temperatures?
I thank you again at this point for your contributions It is generally only helpful if you have alternative proposals. A (I exaggerate) “put all rooms in the south” just doesn’t work … so for example, staircase is stupid there: where then? Do you think another staircase shape (that would break our hearts) brings the ultimate solution? ....