Floor plan: Ideas for the upper floor

I personally think that 12 sqm per child is optimal, and anyway, they don’t play in their room as long as they are little. They hang out, my children do that, always around me, namely in the living room. Toys are taken along, but not put away :confused:. My eldest son, 17 years old, (11sqm) would theoretically only need 5 sqm. He only sits at the PC and meets friends online. When the children get older, at the beginning of puberty, they will use their room or will always be out on the slopes anyway. And of course, it’s easy to say that the house will be sold once they get older. And "Speckgürtel" are popular anyway. :) And think: a vacuum cleaner for each floor.

I am less selfish in this regard and think children should have more than 10 sqm, at least 15. How can one's own children be so unimportant, while one takes 16 sqm for sleeping plus dressing room (already seen here). Especially when the children are a bit older, their domain... I used to have around 10 sqm and would have liked more, with friends who had bigger rooms you could really spend much more time there. Even though there was already internet and PCs (which were my hobby even back then), you still meet up with friends/girlfriend etc...

@ Saruss: The relations of the parents' bedroom (preferably with a dressing room), where no one stays during the day, to the size of the children's rooms must fit. I agree with you on that. But 12 sqm for a children's room is sufficient for the childhood and teenage years ;). Larger children's rooms usually also mean a larger ground floor/attic and thus higher costs. If the finances allow, one should consider it, but it's similar to optional extras. Nice to have, but you won't die if you don't have it. When I imagine that we should have planned 15-20 sqm for the children's rooms + parents' bedroom + two bathrooms ==> all on one floor, so that we are together with the little ones (three of them, still very young) at night, then we would have had to win the lottery :(. On the ground floor it would then have become a ballroom (or I would have gotten space for the home cinema :)).

The argument: "you don't die" is of course universal, I could also say about your planning that you don't die with one less bathroom, but the children's rooms are bigger, or with 2 power outlets per room you don't die. I used to have a small room and would have wished for a bigger one, even though I didn't die. With 10sqm, minus bed, desk, wardrobe, maybe media shelf and door opening area, there is really very little free space.

The argument: "you don't die" is of course universal, I could say the same about your plan, with one less bathroom you don't die, but the children's rooms are bigger, or with 2 sockets per room you don't die. I used to have a small room and would have wished for a bigger one, even though I didn't die. With 10 sqm, minus bed, desk, wardrobe, maybe a media shelf and door opening area, there is really very little free space.

Of course, that is universal - however, we couldn't afford to build such large children's rooms. That will apply to many families who have more than one child.
The pajama parties of our eldest (7 years old) also work with half a dozen children in the "battlefield" children's room of about 12 sqm. Of course, bigger would be nicer...

By the way, 10 sqm is really quite small, and if there are windows on two sides and the door on the third side, it becomes cramped with furniture.

P.S. I will come very close to death with one bathroom, since it may happen that four women block the bathroom...;)

Of course, the financial aspect is always involved in building a house. I just think that if you already "treat" yourself to children and a house, you should at least get "the best" out of it for the children. Therefore, I can understand the initial question of the thread starter, who criticized the inequality of the children's room sizes in the first draft. However, I believe that the total size of the children's rooms should not shrink just to make them the same size. With our children's rooms of about 16 sqm, there is currently (the children are very small) still a lot of free space, but that way you can also "play properly" and spread out. I would have wished for that as a child - I would have liked to have my Lego (later: Technik) and later other hobbies in my room, where I could also leave things spread out on the floor for a longer time (especially when you've sorted once). Especially as not an only child, your own room is more important because you always have to share the living room space etc. Or later I could have set up my music system/speakers more conveniently (my 11 sqm as a child was also long and narrow, which was not optimal). Or or. It's just my opinion. PS: You can also have a bathroom on the ground floor; you're probably there before you die... (and with a suitable layout of the ground floor, you can manage without stairs for several weeks with a broken leg or something similar).