Floor Plan Ideas Single-Family House 140 m²

We have a 5 sqm utility room, but there are no HAS or heating or anything like that in it.
We filled it up with Ikea kitchen furniture (tall cabinets) so that it is always tidy. And we only live as a couple, whereas many rarely used cooking utensils are in the utility room.

Have you ever had the architect calculate how much more expensive a house would be with, for example, 10 sqm more floor space (so 20 sqm more living area)?
Maybe with straighter walls (usually cheaper to build) the additional costs could be somewhat offset.

An anecdote:
We were once at the kitchen studio and shortly before purchase asked about a different front that was higher quality. The vendor’s standard answer was: "But that is also much more expensive!!!"
However, we liked the front much better. So we said: "Yes, hm, HOW MUCH exactly is it more expensive?!" After calculating, it was a ridiculous 200 euros extra cost for the entire kitchen...

I can only give you this advice:
You will live in this house... It is your home and probably not just for the next few years. The kids will live with you all for at least 10 more years.
So just draw it bigger and have it calculated. If it gets much more expensive, then at least you know the exact amount and can decide whether you might cut somewhere else (cheaper tiles? doing some work yourself? no vacation?). And maybe we are just talking about such a "small" amount that it makes sense to spend it, who knows?

Of course we can and will ask that. But based on the current assessment, I rather assume that we are already at the limit, our budget for the house is simply only 190,000... how does it look for you if you have 5 rooms on 140 sqm? What you wrote about that in another text (rooms of equal size and so on) actually sounded pretty much like what we want.

I would swap the ground floor room with the kitchen. Orientation (East) would also be better for the child. Why did you want this orientation again?

Hello ypg - do you mean the orientation of the kitchen to the east and of room 1 to the west? We liked that because we actually really like morning light in the kitchen and thought a room facing the garden with evening sun is also nice. Plus the bathroom should get morning light and is better placed above the kitchen than in the other corner of the house, right?

But we are not fixed on this layout at any cost. What would be the advantage of a swap from your point of view?

Thanks & regards,

Kazazi xx

The bathrooms are stacked, which is already good for the wastewater pipe. The kitchen where Child 1 is now. Of course open to the rest. Short way from the entrance door to the kitchen. Child 1 instead of the kitchen in the east, so that Child 1 also has nice temperatures to sleep in the evening and doesn’t have to bake. Later, when the child grows up or the room is used as an office or guest room (or bedroom), the room is nicely close to the WC and wandering people are not disturbed. Other advantages: You would have more space for a big dining table and an L-shaped room for optimal room separation. Yes, kitchen in the east is also nice, but you can't have everything Also, the sun "crawls" into the room in the morning. And consider: now you may still have the morning, but what about later, when the youngest child starts school (two years after moving in): then the east orientation can only be used on weekends, and the evening has more value than the morning. You could also move the terrace to the southwest (from kitchen and dining). Just try this possibility...

On the topic of stairs or wardrobe: Not only with a bunch of children, it is advisable to create a storage room under the closed stairs by mounting a rod as a wardrobe. Behind/next to the rod, there is space for a shelf for shoes and bags. In the shallower area of the stairs, large drawers can be planned for the rest of the shoes and seasonal wardrobe. Door closed: everything gone