we wish for a house for our future family with lots of storage space and practicality, of course it should also be visually pleasing inside and out, but it is meant to be useful and not a design object
Take a standard house with a third gable from the model house BU type, and you have exactly what you want.
The walking distances from the living room to the toilet, from the living room to the stairs, but also from the stairs to the toilet as well as entrance and cloakroom we find good.
You have to go through the entrance area to get to the office, but that doesn't bother us
Front door should preferably open to the left,
If my husband still has time to play a round of gaming on the PC with the kids in the future, he’s happy to sit somewhat out of the way ( ) and filing letters, documents etc. is not done all the time.
And from the mailbox to the hall cabinet and into the office there is also actually a good short walking distance!
I cannot follow you on any of the points mentioned.
The only walking distance that counts is from the kitchen to the dining area and back. And that is really awful with this floor plan because it is way too long, and if you call your children "Come eat" and you are still getting something from the kitchen, they will run you over in that area.
We will measure that again today at friends who also have their throne under the sloping roof (and the husband is almost 2 meters tall, so what fits there fits us by far )
A toilet is built according to DIN or standards. Then even a 2-meter person can use the toilet.
Whether there is a garage or a utility room next to their tall fence won’t really matter?! The house is far enough away then.
Toilet then placed next to the kitchen because of connections
You plan the heart of the house outside the house with long pipeline routes and worry that a toilet drain is close to a kitchen water tap? ...
Only we have different priorities.
Yes, the stairs... isn’t that also trendy? Your trend?
Do you think a different staircase shape (that would break our hearts) brings the ultimate solution?
With the house in front of the street and some clever landscaping in the southwest, our garden will not be very visible to anyone!
The garden will be surrounded by a hedge and thus landscaped, yes. So the view from others is quite poor, yes. Then why worry about the house location regarding this point when the positioning of rooms for sun orientation has much higher priority?
With the house in the north we only have a south garden. With an east-south garden we hope for a nice spot for different temperatures and sun conditions.
No. You have a nice plot that gives you a garden in
every direction.
What do you think? Terrace solely in the east and thus better connection to dining room/kitchen or east-south terrace for more flexible responses to sun/temperatures?
A terrace should be next to the kitchen if possible so it can also be used for eating. You can create other seating areas later wherever you want.
That really was our consideration already, but these are just extra costs that could be saved if we find a nice solution with DIY and the house company.
I missed that you have a house building company. Why don’t you take a model house from them? You want a captain’s gable or Frisian house... and that fits wonderfully with the orientation on the plot!
I would rotate the house at an angle position. There are several options. In any case, I would place the third gable so that it is visible when approaching. Most standard floor plans should fit quite well. You just have to see how the building systems (inside the house) should be arranged.
Overall, from my point of view, you would have great garden options whether the carport is now in the SE corner or in the NW.
You totally confuse yourself in your considerations by prioritizing every little thing that really wouldn’t matter (office location; path to the toilet and so on).
In your current plan, you have a narrow hallway that leads to a bottleneck. At the end, the staircase threatens with only one meter of visible width. Your dream of a landing staircase can’t be seen at all. That theme is totally missed.
Your pantry is at the start of the stairs, so it’s useless except for the cheese in the mouse hole. The utility room with the technology is mega far from the rooms, it couldn’t be worse. The kitchen with its 14 sqm is too small for a middle table.
The children’s rooms are not really habitable rooms, as the roof slope takes away quite a bit from the already too narrow room. Two windows cannot be installed due to the roof. Behind the bathtub, you would need a boxed-in area ... so with your unnecessary walls, you only have half as much bathroom left...
Please show the draft from the house builder.