Hello everyone, thank you for your answers
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Our living rooms are downstairs and the bedrooms upstairs.
The slope goes from north-east towards south-west. The neighbors are then directly to the south-west. We thought about putting the bedrooms on the ground floor since we don’t have a view there anyway. The view is only at the level of the upper floor. Therefore, we want to build our “living rooms” and the “terrace/balcony” there.
Only considering the upper floor, I would move the stairs towards the south-west, with a storage room accessible from the kitchen behind it. I would completely rethink the ground floor.
I like your idea to move the stairs, then the ground floor can be reconsidered. The problem with the ground floor is that the rooms that don’t necessarily need light have to be on the north-east side. Due to the slope, no windows can go there. So that means bedrooms, child 1 + 2 have to be on the south-west or north-west side. Hmm difficult, I would actually like to move the front door. Probably only possible if we give up the dressing room and then move the rest.
Our first plans were also for the house to be rectangular, then it became square
Can your floor plans be seen somewhere here in the forum?
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Swap the dressing room and bedroom, remove one bathroom door. Then it fits. Swap the stairs with the storage room, the kitchen will follow. Please don’t make the WC visible from the living areas. The window combinations in the basement look dreadful.
- You’re right, definitely one bathroom door has to go
- If I swap stairs with the storage room, I’m afraid then the sauna downstairs won’t work anymore, right?
- We would make the bathroom upstairs as small as possible, so pull the wall towards the north-east, so it’s a bit “hidden.” Then put a cupboard or something on the side in front.
Why is the house placed so far north-east on the property? I’m not quite getting the attachments, but wouldn’t it be possible further west to significantly shorten the access path (and presumably supply lines)?
- What do you mean by window combinations? The arrangement or the choice between large and small windows? (probably both)
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Swap the dressing room and bedroom, remove one bathroom door. Then it fits. Swap the stairs with the storage room, the kitchen will follow. Please don’t make the WC visible from living elements. The window combinations in the basement look dreadful.
We would like to do that too, but there is an easement on the property. A pipe route for water supply runs in the western area with a protection strip of three meters on each side. So unfortunately, it can’t be further west.
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That the WC on the upper floor is visible through the living area and likely audible is quite unusual. A “quiet place” feels different.
We thought we need a WC upstairs because, on the one hand, we didn’t want to “make” guests always go downstairs and everything really takes place upstairs. On the other hand, the office is used as a guest room and then the bath is directly next door. If the WC were downstairs, we might unnecessarily wake the child in the evening. But you are completely right with the “quiet place” remark. As written to ypg, we would move the bathroom upstairs. Do you think that would be somewhat acceptable?
The storage and technical rooms are, in my opinion, much too small.
The small storage rooms will definitely be a challenge
There is practically only a room divider upstairs – drywall?
I still have to clarify the wall upstairs with the structural engineer. Actually, no drywall planned.
This statement doesn’t make sense to me from the views etc. The slope drops away from the living room. So you could comfortably sit in front of the house.
The slope drops from the kitchen to the dining room. We don’t build a terrace downstairs mainly because of the “view” issue. Downstairs we look at the neighbors. From the height of the upper floor, above them.
I would have also thought that was the better way. In the end, it’s the choice between insulating the heating room extension for living space on the ground floor or balcony + living space on the upper floor. Probably little difference in cost, but for room planning the first is, in my opinion, a gain. Or are there other obstacles for the extension?
I will speak again with the roofer about the insulation topic. I thought that if we have to insulate the heating room, then actually the entire garage roof. Then we have a high construction. If the garage roof is also used as a balcony, this construction height must also be provided on the rest of the balcony. That will be expensive, and this height must then also be planned as a floor structure on the upper floor so that one can go “barrier-free” from the upper floor onto the balcony somewhat. Although one could adjust the garage height… well, I will definitely talk to the roofer. Or can rooms simply be insulated from below the ceiling with insulation boards?