Floor plan house with granny flat - improvement suggestions?

Cooking and eating should stay down in the garden. Just not living. It's not that much to carry. Usually there is nothing in the living room that is needed in the garden. You can take the bowl of snacks and glasses with you if you are leaving anyway.

The 2nd staircase takes up space. Try drawing 2 proper dining tables in the ground floor with the necessary movement space. They need space. You have a room depth of 2.64. The minimum measurements are 80 cm for sitting between the edge of the table and the wall on each side. That means one or two people will have their back to the door to the hallway, the passage to the kitchen will become very tight and difficult to walk through with a basket. Then the whole thing is still in front of the door to the terrace.

Would the parents feel comfortable there? Has this been honestly discussed or are they aware of what kind of cramped space they would be living in? Subtract the hallway since there is no living room, then you have a full 21m2 for an "all-purpose room"....and 11m2 bedroom plus 4m2 tiny bathroom. Do you have a sense of these areas? This is about a 36m2 apartment...wow. And then the "frequent" guests upstairs. Let that sink in.

In this context, I also doubt that the furniture is drawn to scale here. The dining table, for example, probably fits better for the children's dolls...

I don't mean this badly, don't get me wrong, I'm just questioning it. It looks very cramped, squeezed, confined. The granny flat would, in my opinion, barely be enough for a student, but for the parents?

Honestly: I am looking for the family bathroom. You can’t be serious that 5 of you share one shower bathroom, while the granny flat has 2 washrooms with 2 showers?? :eek: The hallway upstairs is very, very spacious… on the ground floor I would rather sketch in common furnishings than the prefabricated ones in the program. The kitchen is borderline small for 5 people… there is room for more or a lot of potential to improve. How old are the parents? Is it being built in an urban area or in the countryside?

Two parking spaces will probably not be sufficient. However, we can park additional cars at the house on the north side. The architect did not include these because the building authority might otherwise have objections.

How many parking spaces are required according to your development plan or parking space regulations? You must also indicate that many in your building application.

I think the 2 parking spaces are planned in the garage. Have you thought about how you will squeeze two cars in and out there, especially through the 4m small gate?

I am with the others on this. This is not a nice floor plan. I would also keep the granny flat on the ground floor. Remove the current bathroom there and move it to the utility room for apartment 2. Remove the stairs and then you have a nice 30m2 for a multipurpose room. Guests can also sleep there on a nice sofa bed, which only fits if the stairs and bathroom are removed. Then you can completely redesign the upper floor. With a really nice bathroom for you (<12m2) and more space as well. The garage is way too big for one car and just too small for two cars. Two cars can’t fit through the gate, and inside the garage there is too little space because of the triangular shape at the front. Normally, a comfortable garage is planned as 6x6m. You need that too. So either shift the house 1 meter to the right or take 1 meter from your living room at the bottom and achieve a nice spatial feeling with a small bay window. Since you don’t really need that much space upstairs anyway. You see, the floor plan should actually be completely redesigned. That your architect draws something like this should also make you think.

When I look at it calmly, the whole thing is a big sham. The architect simply does not draw in important things because they are not feasible. In my opinion, the terrace of the granny flat is also too close to the boundary and would only be allowed under a few exceptional zoning plans. The garage is too narrow for 2 cars, the furniture is much too small – it is all prettied up to get the contract. I would be very cautious here.

It would be nice to know the exact dimensions of the property. Then one could redraw it and experiment a bit.