Floor Plan Ideas Single-Family House 140 m²

Ha, that’s almost telepathy… because last night I was nearly going crazy with sliding back and forth exactly on cloakroom solutions.

Actually, we wanted to add the space under the stairs to the utility room, as shown in the first draft from the architectural office… but I’m already considering whether adding it to the cloakroom might be more sensible…

The utility room would then only be about 8 m2, but by now I almost believe that the extra 2 m2 won’t make a big difference for purposes like hanging laundry. Instead, we’re thinking of buying a dryer now to reduce the need for laundry lines during the cold months. Also, I’m considering moving the wall between rooms 3 and 4 a bit to the right (south) upstairs, so that rooms 2 and 3 would then be exactly the same size, and using the resulting niche in the southwest of room 4 as a laundry niche separated by a curtain, so I can work with drying racks and baskets there without ruining the living aesthetic. What do you think about that?

Can someone help me again with the visualization of the staircase layout suggested by [Bauexperte] (continuing the staircase all the way to the attic)? Even though I tried to read up on staircases over the weekend, I still can’t quite imagine where and how the staircase would run into the attic and how that might affect the rest of the floor plan.

Many thanks,

Kazazi

PS - I just noticed that my response to ypg room swap proposal didn’t appear yesterday, sorry! We have already started trying out the suggested combination, and I hope to upload two new versions for the ground floor tonight.

Once again about the stairs: We have received the message from the architectural office that there is not enough space for a continuation of the normal stairs into the attic, as there is insufficient headroom for the stair entrance. I had also stumbled over that exact point. Do I understand correctly now that something like this could only work with a completely different stair design? And what could that look like?

Ok, we have been busy and have thought about the room layouts, taking into account our existing or planned furniture and the planned room usage.

First, we tried to make the cook-dining-living area a bit larger in the original layout (cooking in the east) by taking a bit of space from the hallway, utility room, and guest bathroom.

We removed the gable and kitchen counter and moved a few doors so that we can vary the different areas (cooking-dining-living) more flexibly and let them flow into each other. Around the cowhide there should be a floor play area.



Then we tried ypg’s variant with the west kitchen, but planned the glass corner for the floor play area.



In both variants, you can still see the architect’s draft shining through for comparison. You can find the complete pictures .

Regarding our dining table, I should also say that it will be a smaller model for everyday use, as shown with the extendable leaf. Windows in the rest of the house and some other details are still missing or not quite right yet, please excuse that...

So, here are a few numbers for the room dimensions, and then I would be very happy to get your feedback: Which variant do you like better? To what extent does it succeed in improving the previously criticized aspects? Which aspects of our playful experiments do you think perhaps don’t work at all?

Room dimensions West kitchen
Utility room 7.5 (plus possibly space under the stairs)
Shower bathroom 2.5
Room 1 12.4
Hallway 9.3 (plus possibly space under the stairs)
Cooking-dining-living 39.4

In the east kitchen variant, the dimensions are almost identical, except that the east hallway is probably too narrow (1.10 m), but the utility room is somewhat larger (7.9 plus possibly stairs).

Last but not least – the architects have proposed the following variants to widen the living space (based on their design, not our moving things around). What do you think about them?:

There are different variants to widen the living room:

1. The staircase is shortened, then the wall between the hallway and living room could be pushed a bit further towards the hallway. However, a shorter staircase is at the expense of the ceiling height on the ground floor.

2. The house is made slightly wider overall, then it would have to be shortened a bit in the other direction so as not to exceed the living area too much. That of course comes at the expense of Room 1. The wall between Room 1 and the living room can also be pushed a bit further towards the living room, depending on how deep the niche for the cupboard and fireplace in the living room should be.

As always, many thanks for your effort and suggestions

Good morning, does anyone perhaps still have time and desire to say something about the floor plan changes in the previous post? I would really appreciate your feedback!

Otherwise, I think I have now understood the staircase issue... if we want to continue the main staircase up to the attic, we need a half-turned staircase pretty much in the middle of the house, right? Or are there other solutions?

Thank you very much

I am missing the dimensions (widths and lengths of the rooms) for the definitive posting. You know my arguments about the west kitchen. I also do not like the kitchen furnishing in the east kitchen (elongated row).

Subject to reservation (due to missing dimensions) I would plan the downstairs bathroom rectangular, so that a normal washbasin fits, i.e. straighten the wall at the shower. Possibly check if the door wall can be moved further "upwards," so that you have the possibility to shift the door to room 1 far enough for a deeper partition wall behind the door.
Cloakroom into the closed staircase, move the kitchen door a little. Possibly move and widen it so far that you can do without the door in the living room (more space for furniture). The table can be rotated and placed more centrally – there is enough space available.
Move washing machine + dryer into a niche with doors into the bathroom (unfortunately, I don’t have your attic layout in mind now).

Regarding the staircase I don’t want to comment, as I am a layman.
The logic of the staircase is quite simple: it has to be placed so that upstairs you still come out at 2 meters roof slope height. The planning, however, is somewhat more difficult again...