Floor Plan Ideas Single-Family House 140 m²

Hello Wanderdüne,

You really dare ...

On the ground floor, in addition to the usual suspects, a guest/workroom must be accommodated. There are options to position the staircase run sideways, quarter-turn after the main entrance, as a straight run, or as recently shown, placed in the middle. Variants 1 + 2 are ruled out because the room program cannot be properly implemented; variant 2 additionally, because it cannot be led to the also desired attic. The straight run – regardless of the fact that it takes up space in the attic – would extend into the living room and block needed space there. So "only" the current variant remains, because the floor plan is basically designed around the guest/workroom.

That in itself is bad enough, but even more impolite I find that you complain about the presented floor plan but do not offer any alternative – no matter how it looks. Because hovering above everything is a tightly limited budget and for that, the architect, or for that matter, the draftsman or salesman, has delivered a good basis. With some small changes – the OP is currently collecting them here – it will remain affordable for him.

Regardless, the time factor of decision-makers should never be. Agreed so far.

Building expert, on the go

You are absolutely right about the time factor. Of course, we will not let ourselves be pressured, but we would like to make progress and simply use the weekend for that. You may partly know how difficult it can be during the week with three small children and two full-time jobs.

Thank you also for your feedback, ypg; these are all suggestions that we are happy to take on board. By the way, we have great interior light strips in our current house.

@ Wanderdüne, regarding the ideas from our architectural firm, which actually works together with the general contractors, I have mixed feelings. There are some good things there and they have already realized interesting projects, but there were also a few weak proposals. That is why I am especially looking forward to constructive suggestions here that I can then bring back there.

Regarding your fundamental doubts about the staircase position, I would like to immediately propose an alternative consideration for discussion; however, I prefer to start a second thread for this because it is important to me to continue gathering feedback on the last draft presented here and to keep it from becoming too confusing.

On the question of whether a 25 cm house widening is worthwhile, I would appreciate a few more opinions, since it costs around 5000 euros, and I am simply uncertain whether it is worth it.

Many thanks,

Kazazi

I'm not entirely sure about that and would need to follow up. The permanently inhabited shed next door has the roof ridge in the other direction, so I almost think it can't be strictly prescribed. However, I thought that the orientation as it is now makes sense, firstly because of the shape of the plot and secondly because of the south-facing roof? But I'm curious about your idea.

Due to the position of the stairs, I simply thought to myself that many terraced houses have the attic converted. So the stairs centrally on the gable side. Furthermore, I remembered that I had looked at end terraced houses before where they had an additional room of normal size on the ground floor. I also remembered that a friend of mine lives in an end terraced house where they also have the bedroom on the ground floor – without a basement, of course. I sketched it out, then changed the entrance according to your ideas – anyway: suitable rooms resulted upstairs (if you disregard the scribbles on the graph paper which show no dimensions). Unfortunately, I don’t have a scanner here, but I can scan it at work tomorrow. But you can also do it yourself: take your floor plan from page 12 with the shifted door and place a 2/4 quarter-turn staircase next to the door (so rotate your stairs 90 degrees clockwise). Then the room next to it (crosswise). The utility room becomes smaller and it becomes an L-shaped hallway. A built-in wardrobe can go opposite the stairs. Upstairs you then have a small right-angled hallway, and opposite the stairs there could be a storage/utility room between 2 rooms. You would then have windows upstairs facing south and north. The north room could also get a skylight facing west. You can try sketching it out. Maybe I have a flaw in my thinking and there’s a catch in my sofa scribble.

Hello Yvonne, thank you very much for the suggestion and the late-evening sofa effort

I haven’t quite understood the idea yet - so which wall is the front door supposed to be on? And with a rotated roof or without?

Best regards,

Kazazi

No, because I always find the alternative better, to get a new property later.

I have a cellphone pic here (really bad):



And since last week we have a new prefabricated house in our development area, which has a room downstairs, I’m also posting it right away - although it’s 10 x 10, it has potential for 9 x 10 and a closed staircase