Floor plan initial sketch - needs improvement?

Hello everyone,

I would be very grateful for your help with my case!

Plot: 605 m² Width 18.7m - Length 32,x m
Current house size: Width 8.09 - Length 11.84 (length and width still changeable)

I am currently racking my brain over the ground floor. I am totally unsure about the arrangement of the rooms. Everything is still changeable at the moment.

The living room should be relatively large facing west, the kitchen must definitely be closed, there should be a pantry as well as a study and a utility room.
How these are arranged can still be planned completely freely. What do you think of this current floor plan? The double garage will be built directly on the boundary, so that there is still an approx. 3-4m wide passage at the bottom to the backyard.

In the southwest area of the living room, there are currently 2 large fixed windows in the corner as a winter garden replacement. The upper door is supposed to represent a terrace door leading to the backyard.

All doors could also be sliding doors, although this might only be conceivable for the pantry or for the entrance to the living room from the kitchen/hallway.

The advantage of the pantry’s position would be that I don’t need a window there because the double garage is in the way.

As soon as I have roughly finished the ground floor, I can first devote myself to the upper floor, otherwise everything drives me completely crazy. But I think that the arrangement of the staircase landing makes it a bit easier to distribute 4 rooms upstairs to a decent size.

I would be very grateful for further tips!!

Best regards Ravosch

Needs improvement - of course. There are many shortcomings that make a change unavoidable. For one, the hallway is far too narrow and too long, the wardrobe is not integrated at all, and the pantry is unusable with a width of one meter. Why do you plan yourself if you cannot estimate measurements with standard furniture? A bad (or even good) program does not make a layperson an architect. Also, in this section we have a pinned post that you should also read and fill out the form. The attachment would also be interesting for you. Please upload your sketch as a jpg so that others can access it as well. Thanks and Merry Christmas. Regards

To make it short: No. A slightly longer version: First, please replace papier-mâché walls with real walls (load-bearing walls: 17.5 cm) and please dimension everything, not just the outer walls on the outside.

To make it short: No.
A slightly longer version: First, please replace papier-mâché walls with real walls (load-bearing walls: 17.5 cm) and please dimension everything, not just the exterior walls on the outside.

This design strongly reminded me of you and your first terrible attempts with exactly this program. So much so that I wondered where you were... and then here you are... ghosts I called ;) :)
Merry Christmas!

It looked like that for me too at the beginning, or even worse, right :-)

Merry Christmas..

Hello everyone,

I'm getting in touch again because I have been experimenting a bit more.

I hope it works better now. The advantage of the garage not being attached to the house:

We would have a second passage to the garden
I am not completely restricted in the planning since we can plan windows on the north side
On the south side, we would still have 3 meters of space for the passage to the back garden (possibly later a parking space => then the passage between garage and house would be advantageous).

Please don’t nail me down to the exact square meter number, whether the living room is now 29 or 32 sqm doesn’t play a huge role for me in this initial planning. The size of the house, whether width or length, as mentioned before, is still changeable.

I am still missing a pantry, does anyone have an idea where it could be placed well? Of course, I am happy to completely rearrange the rooms again.

Thank you very much!!

Best regards Ravosch