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2021-06-02 19:16:27
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The problem is that there is a small (approx. 60cm) earthen embankment along the western property boundary. So we want to raise the entire house to be able to compensate for the embankment.
The embankment is great to give the garden a boundary. The embankment frames the garden and the house. You can plant on it. Or how wide is the embankment? Please mark it, as well as the entire property.
No one will start measuring to check if it fits.
No one needs to measure, everyone can count the squares on graph paper in millimeters. They are quite accessible and insightful for bathrooms or rooms. Ok, I’m used to it, others not.
Some things seem too small to me. Could be deceptive.
That is no illusion.
how we imagine the house, what is important to us.
So I read from the plan that you like to run slalom, love tightness and walls. Except when eating, then it can be more. But only in proportion, because generosity is something else.
Maybe you have a lot of art paintings that need walls?!
You don’t like showers, only emergency showers at most.
I’m surprised by the mega-long kitchen island, because you are more or less small slender beings.
Your explanation regarding kitchen and pantry contradicts itself.
Actually, you like the tunnel vision of row houses; otherwise there would be a window somewhere on the side?!
This is not a finished draft. It is more a sketch.
Correct. No doors have to be moved yet.
So better to move the door to the left after all? That was my first idea. Where the entrance is now, I could well imagine a window. Opposite the window a fancy large abstract illuminated painting.
... here we already have the painting in the sketch ...
a sketch is a rough drawing, a line drawing, basically without size specifications, but just recording an idea with the essentials.
Since your property apparently is not very large, you are already trying it in detail.
Unfortunately, some tightness can already be felt there, e.g. in the bathrooms, in the bedroom, in the entrance area, and in the interplay of living. For example, an 80cm wide shower hits the door. A toilet has 70cm in front of it, and that without tiles on the walls. And the toilet itself... too short?
Built-in or installation dimensions are not taken into account.
So none of this will work like this.
Same with the stair position: a staircase as a stylish object in the house can be done. (We have one too.)
But not between anything (wall/sofa) and/or behind something (kitchen island), because it doesn’t come into its own there.
Then it’s not in the walking flow here. So it should rather well connect the zones ground floor and upper floor without being obstructive or having obstructive objects in front of it.
Whether one puts up with this, yes, extreme openness in a family household here, I consider ill-advised. And if, then it should just be where it is more in the walking flow, for example, with good planning you could put it in the “sketched” area on the left plan side, where the second corridor is indicated. A corridor should also preferably be rather straight without a kink, otherwise the corner wears quickly with hurried people. (Shoulder joints too ;) )
To the highlight of the kitchen;
Yes. It is only 2m. I know a household with a similar back kitchen.
Everything works perfectly there.
Who says that? What does similar mean?
I just don’t like cluttered countertops.
Me neither. But necessary when preparing food. Where there is chopping, there are chips.
In my current apartment I also have an open kitchen. I work between the stove and the sinks. Counter space approx. 1m. Everything works perfectly. And yes... I cook fresh daily for 4 people. The other half of the countertop (1m) is never used. There is only a fruit basket.
Believe me: we all have more or less kitchens, open kitchens, kitchens with pantry, kitchen islands, sink islands, closed kitchens... whatever: they usually have one goal: prepare food, store, clean, drinks, pre etc. So we all know how this works, the workflow between two lines. Ergonomic triangle!
What bothers me now is that every time I have to hide my toaster in the cupboard after use. I just like as clean countertops as possible.
That’s why you put something back :D you don’t hide it. After the work is done, you clean up. You are mentally relocating your work to a small pantry to keep the workspace clean ;)
... and here instead of putting a device away again, you will put yourself in a dark pantry without light (light switch and door will be happy) multiple times in a row, waiting for the toast, to then go back to the family.
I believe even someone intentionally planning a closed kitchen would find this idea absurd.
A backup kitchen should also be planned as such: with light, with freedom of movement, with storage space. Actually, the kitchen industry has invented something for this, namely cabinets with sockets so you can operate devices where they stand and stay in the kitchen area yourself.
Tall cabinets enough? Freezer? Side-by-Side or French door? Oven? Window for daylight? Your pantry can’t accommodate that, nor can the kitchen be expanded...
But anyway: if you submit the plan, one cannot read it as to what it is actually meant to express.
If improvements are to be made, then only with a property plan and the text form. But it will probably be that your garden will shrink even further.
And yes: exterior dimensions could be noted already. Some scroll here with their phones to help you :)