Floor plan of a city villa with approximately 160 m² without basement

Oh, you mean the entrance of the shower opens into the room and not towards the wall, right?

10x10 looks nice and practical, square and good from the outside, but as has often been noted here, it is usually disadvantageous for the floor plan. I tend to see a spacious hallway more in 9x11 or similar. So if the "coffee grinder" is not essential, I would also consider the alternatives.

What bothers me about the bathroom is that there is only one sink and the area with the toilet, shower, and sink looks so dark and cramped.

How about a large walk-in shower and a glass splash guard?
Double sink on another wall?

Maybe haydee can explain that better, because I already see a walk-in shower in the original plan. Maybe her comment only referred to the size...?
In any case, for me, everything is walk-in that is flush with the floor and without an additional door—whether glass or masonry.

Still, I find the arrangement in the bathroom unfavorable; the shower and toilet could actually be more spacious.

Upstairs, I would generally shuffle everything around again. A bedroom facing southwest, which is probably more attractive for children (you only sleep in the bedroom). I find the position of the bed terrible and that the way from the bathroom to the dressing room is 1. as far as possible and 2. always past someone who is sleeping. It already looks uncomfortable and uninviting to lie in the bed on the plan, which is surrounded on three sides by traffic areas.

Also think about your routines here. For us, it goes from the bed to the bathroom first and then to the dressing room (which is not accessible from the bedroom!). If we didn’t ventilate the bedroom “with the window open” in the morning, I wouldn’t enter it again until I go to sleep.

Hello kaho674,
10x10 is not mandatory. We have only managed to accommodate all rooms quite well with this floor plan. However, there was also an office back then. That is why the floor plan was 10x10m at the time. I only changed the floor plan that we received.

With 9x11, we probably won’t be able to maintain a living room width of about 4.50m, right? I need to try it out first when I am back home. But as I said, 10x10 is not set in stone.

I only changed the floor plan we received.

I wouldn’t change it, but at most use it as inspiration for my own antithesis. It’s not that it’s “bad” – apart from the bed inconveniently located between the bathroom and the dressing room – but it’s simply a typical ten-by-ten-instead-of-a-villa drawer floor plan. Accordingly, the client reflexively wants to first turn it like a Rubik’s Cube into the correct order. In doing so, the entrance shifts to the side (which is not considered that bad) and the utility room / HAR ends up on the street-facing side (which is more of an objective planning error). The floor plans look as if someone first tapped generously over them with the mouse and then pushed the furniture “more suitably” into place. In other words, the client behaves like a learner on a bicycle with training wheels. Accordingly, my advice is to bravely try it now without training wheels; we are happy to lend helmets and knee pads here. My experience-based guess is boldly that trying it yourself would be more successful, even if there is little to criticize about the “template” – it wouldn’t be a standard model if you couldn’t build it that way a hundred times. What is seen here is therefore not a big mess, but still far from “convincing” – just courage, you can definitely do it better. And if it’s not enough yet: just read along for a few more months.

The planning mistake with the utility room facing away from the street is undeniable and clearly my thing. But somehow it's not so easy to create something "original." Somehow things always end up being included that you've already seen one way or another in other floor plans. In my opinion, most floor plans are quite similar anyway; what else can you really do differently. But I am also happy to put on the helmet and knee pads and try something "new."

Only somehow I am probably not blessed with creativity. I will try to design something different for 11x9. Let's see if I succeed.


I will also rethink the layout of the upper floor. The paths from the bedroom to the bathroom are actually a bit inconvenient. Maybe it can also be a different staircase and thus a different layout. We just really liked the straight staircase at the moment. But none of these are "must-have" things.