Floor plan MGH 200QM - Evaluation ideas

The technician and installer need working space. Connections/fittings/meters, you have to be able to access all of them and sometimes turn something with a tool. The electrical cabinet requires 1.50 meters of clearance space in front of the cabinet itself.

Exactly that happened to us here. The general contractor said everything would easily fit and now it turned out differently. The electrician claimed a proper amount of space, there was no two opinions about that, water and all imaginable pipes also wanted to be placed somewhere and cannot all be built crossing each other, and suddenly our planned shelf disappeared. I recommend a CLEAR planning of the utility room with some space buffer. The general contractor then said, oops... but that’s a big device... but it fits in :mad: ... after we practically cancelled our planned shelf. The storage tank needs distance because of heat, etc... get informed or provide space for it!

Currently, there are many individual rooms that already take up space and additionally need to be accessed (= circulation area). At the same time, some of these rooms are clearly stated to be used only sporadically (e.g., guest/family, chill area). You also describe yourselves as flexible ("when grandma comes, we move upstairs," "drying laundry in the living room," etc.), which I find very likable.

Maybe you can use this flexibility to create multipurpose rooms? For example, guest and work areas on the upper floor don’t have to be two separate rooms. Or combine guest and chill areas – if visitors are there, you just don’t chill for two weeks :). You could possibly set up a work corner in the bedroom as well. Or combine guest & work spaces on the ground floor and sleep upstairs. The guest toilet and en-suite bathroom on the ground floor could also be combined. No idea if this is legally permitted, but maybe the house technology can be housed in a separate part of the garage, and spacious bathrooms with laundry and technical facilities can be accommodated on both floors in the northeast.

These are just suggestions. The current different usage scenarios are mapped out in individual rooms, and that makes it compartmentalized. If you move away from that, it would be more generous.

Speaking of suggestions:
- Teenagers eventually move out
- 50-something adults eventually stop working (or do so more flexibly and self-determinedly)
Both happen pretty quickly...

Maybe you can use this flexibility to create multipurpose rooms? For example, guest and work on the upper floor don't have to be two rooms. Or combine guest and chill – if visitors are there, you just don't chill for two weeks

Exactly my thought. We have a room on the ground floor that is guest room, maybe the TV room, second bedroom (younger applicants, turn away here), possibly bedroom for old age or it can just be a nameless room. If guests are there, there is no TV anyway; if there is TV, my guests are here. It’s no longer (everywhere) common to have special dishes for visitors or a formal room ready for boring family celebrations. Just loosen the usage specifications of the rooms....

Teenagers eventually move out

which often remains just a parental pipe dream, and if it’s too cozy, why should they move into the unheated shared apartment.

Both happen pretty fast...

But that could also be expressed a little more empathetically!

One more word about the stairs. We have pretty similar dimensions in the entrance area (2.55m x 3.8m with a floor height of 3.11m) and a similar staircase. Here is the floor plan:



The staircase is really very, very steep! The rise and tread are at the limit of what is even permissible. One more step would be better! We have 3.8m length for this. In your current plan, it is 3.64m - and even for that, you already have to notch out a step at the top in the hallway. That will not work like this. You need at least 3.8m (without a notched step!) or you have to have more steps running downwards in the plan (so you would have to move the entrance door).

Under the stairs, we had a carpenter make us a shoe cabinet, with a coat rack above it. That is enough for us - but we are only two people.
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Okay, enough confusion - it’s puzzle time!

So I have now worked on the hallway on the ground floor, stairs longer (it was democratically decided that the stairs remain in the hallway), hallway bigger, technology room bigger. Toilet under the stairs (minimum height is 2M). Wall of the toilet is at the same time terrain. In my opinion, it doesn't look bad.

Toilette unter die Treppe (minimal höhe ist 2M). Wand von Toilette ist gleichzeitig Gelände. Sieht m.M.n. nicht schlecht aus.

I suppose you have assumed a similarly, let's say, "peculiar" computational model of the staircase for the visualization as in the drawing.