Floor Plan Ideas Single-Family House 140 m²

Personally, I don't like the double doors on the terrace / hallway. If you want to go to the kitchen, you have to open the door completely to get past the dining table. With the terrace doors, you have to check - ours can open a maximum of 100 degrees. Because of that, you can't open them very wide at all. If the dining table is positioned like that, it will be very tight there. In other words: I would plan the exit to the terrace further east and rather enlarge the gable / bay window and integrate the dining table there. Maybe a sliding door between the hallway and the living room that runs into the wall?

I am already outside with a door, but what surprises me in the living room: just under 38 sqm for the living room, kitchen, and dining room for 5 (or more) people? That is definitely way too small. You need a 6-person table where everyone can comfortably eat 3 times a day and where sometimes guests can also join (so extendable or similar for 7-8 people). The dining table in the marked spot will probably not fit, even though a floor plan with measurements would be better. Then you need a sofa where at least 5 people can sit/relax comfortably. And a living room wall/furniture, TV, etc. The kitchen must be designed for 5 people, also in terms of cabinets. The counter drawn in the kitchen is pointless, as its chairs take up even more space and would not be used; you need that space elsewhere. Maybe turn the kitchen a bit so that a door leads outside and you can go out there. But either way, I am of the opinion that with an open kitchen 38 sqm is too little space for actually 3 rooms.

Thank you very much for your feedback!

@ Wastl: I see it the same way regarding the dining area and the doors there. They should both preferably face east and not be so bulky. A sliding door is an interesting idea; we will consider it. Actually, we didn't want the gable/bay window below at all, or rather, the floor plan should also work without it.

@ Bau-Bau: Your comments mostly convince me as well. The kitchen, as currently drawn, wastes space; we don’t want it exactly like that. I was rather thinking of more kitchen units along the north wall plus an island or a shorter counter, which perhaps rather connects on the north side? In any case, the south side should be freer, the door there moved further east, and the dining area should flow more smoothly into the kitchen – ideas welcome!

Overall, I still don’t like the proportions of the living room – too narrow and corridor-like. I just don’t quite know how best to solve it. We were inspired by the floor plan of the "Klassiker 140" from Richter Haus (Aunt Google) with the living room slightly around the corner, but we wanted to swap the kitchen and the extra room.

I think the hallway/utility room/toilet area has simply become too large for us now. Do you think a smaller utility room would suffice if a drying rack is also to fit in there? Other ideas to sensibly shrink this area?

Overall, our house should not be much bigger (costs), and actually, I also think, based on my parents’ house, that 30 sqm for the living and dining area should be enough.

Many thanks,

Kazazi

You can live with 5 people in 80 square meters: it’s all possible, and many live like that and are happy.

I personally love SPACE and ROOM, but of course that’s a matter of taste.

To understand one thing: With the current floor plan, you parents would sleep downstairs and all 3 children upstairs with their own rooms.
Or parents with 2 children upstairs and one child alone downstairs?
Each of the 3 children gets their own room, right?

Depending on the house technology, 10 sqm utility room is already the minimum, because what is not marked in your plan are:
- washing machine / dryer
- cabinets for cleaning supplies, vacuum cleaner, etc.
- yellow sack, intermediate storage for waste paper, beverage crates, empties, etc.

There is currently no space for a cloakroom. For that, the living room door would have to move more towards the kitchen.
My idea: A single-leaf door (glass door? For more light) is enough and possibly even as a sliding door, so you also have more space in the living room.
Do you usually keep your living room door open or closed?

Will there be an attic built out? There is another spiral staircase leading upwards.

Of course we also like space and room, but I currently estimate that our budget will not allow for more than 130-140 sqm according to the Wohnflächenverordnung. That is why it is important to us to get the most out of the space with well-designed rooms.

We are currently planning Child 1 on the ground floor, parents & Child 2 & 3 in the attic (they are currently 9, 7 & 2, so we definitely want to sleep on the same floor with the little one). We want to keep the attic expansion at least open; we are still considering whether to include the staircase right away, but the space for it should be there in the attic hallway. We would have liked to have a sixth room directly because we often have visitors from outside (grandparents, friends from abroad), but that would have been too cramped. As long as Child 3 is still small, we can easily share a room with her when visitors are around. In the longer term, when we have the attic ready, the downstairs room could be for guests/work, with a child in the attic, or the parents' bedroom with guest/work in the attic. Or something like that...

I like all your living room ideas. I don’t yet know whether the door will be more open or closed. Does anything come to your (or others’) mind about how to make the utility room/hallway/bath corner smaller compared to the rest of the ground floor without losing functionality? Are there maybe possibilities to move some of the utility room functions into the bathroom or otherwise trick the storage? It’s only important to me that I never have to see a drying rack in my living area again; they annoy me to death right now!

Ask first about the allowed knee wall and maximum heights. Maybe Jaydee's floor plan is a good option for you: I like it, for example. So before we start worrying, just quickly call the architect about what is allowed and the costs.