I think the note in the plan that roller shutters cannot be cleaned on fixed glass elements is good. In fact, my cousin has had something like that for many years and is constantly annoyed by it; so you should definitely prevent that.
Hrm. I didn’t overlook that, but looking at how often we have cleaned the roller shutters here in 30 years – and they’re all easily accessible – I doubt it will bother us significantly. (The officially counted number is ... 0). I wouldn’t know what/why I should clean on such parts; they’re not white high-gloss things after all.
You should definitely furnish the rooms to scale now to recognize bottlenecks (especially kitchen/dining); absolutely also the conservatory, because currently I cannot imagine any furnishing/useful use there at all due to the two doors. 1.25 m is more like a winter hallway... in my eyes, that is unnecessarily expensive toy without added value.
I’ll get back to furnishing this weekend. I’ve already started that for kitchen/dining area and living room on the ground floor. I’ll redraw the plan with the current one (and paint the upper floor as well), and make some more cardboard furniture. This time I want to extend it to the other rooms as well, even if the kitchen is/was the main driver.
The conservatory is quite nice, but the doors and those wall sections make it strange.
It all depends on your individual idea of furnishing/using this room (and also the others). Personally, I would definitely miss a shower on the ground floor in the long term.
I don’t think a shower on the ground floor can be sensibly integrated under the current conditions.
If, magically, the basement hits a price range that makes us switch to it, and therefore all the technology goes down there (and maybe even the utility room), then – even with a probable reduction in floor area – there would be space. Yes. But otherwise? Probably not.
How do you want to furnish your bedroom?
Waterbed, nightstands, wardrobes, and a bit of “let’s see these days.”
The constantly used shower, on the other hand, is sufficient with 90x90 but also needs a door. You should play a bit of Tetris with that. I could imagine the shower (half-high with glass) with about 140x90 dimensions directly on the bedroom wall. Whether the “T” is a sensible measure here would have to be seen during the planning.
Hrm. Let’s see if I come up with something nice for that this weekend.
I would actually skip the laundry chute on the upper floor, it really causes trouble in planning.
Laundry chute: we also planned that for a long time, but in the end took it out. It really causes a lot of trouble, is expensive, and does it really bring so much comfort gain?
It would have been good if we hadn’t moved the utility room downstairs; until then it was well integrated. Now – it isn’t anymore.
The conservatory is one of those things that sounds much better on paper than in everyday life. Endlessly many glass surfaces to clean, extreme heat effect without shading. Alternatively, you have to shade it permanently for half the year, which then isn’t nice either.
The alternative is a bay window. Somewhat cheaper, but “only” a set of windows and no door. Although that could also be nice if you put three windows on the long side and the middle one is one with a deep window seat — that sounds good to me too. If we stick to a depth of 1.25 m here, then no side doors would fit. Don’t know if that’s especially bad – I can imagine at least one directly to the terrace would be nice. But then you could possibly make it 1.50 m or so deep.
But you also have to be able to put a bed...
The guest room is very small. And there’s also a laundry chute drawn in there?! I currently see two laundry chutes on the plan?
You missed my comment that it was still drawn there because it was originally planned there.
In the guest room we plan with a sofa bed and a wall fold-down bed. Then you can “put both away” in everyday life, and if necessary they’re there to sleep. Size-wise I still have to work it out. Yes, it’s relatively small, but the utility room on the left is much better, and on the right where it is now there would only be more space if I took it from the kitchen. And no, the kitchen is simply much more important.
But – it’s a room for occasional sleeping and otherwise “if you need a retreat” or “a place where you can have peace for a hobby/read...,” but unlike a children’s room or an office, it’s not used on a permanent basis. That has to be enough.
You have very little wall area in the living-dining area due to the many floor-to-ceiling elements (terrace door, lift-slide door, conservatory...). Floor-to-ceiling elements are a thing. When I walk through the housing developments here, almost all of these have been converted into normal windows with pleated blinds or other measures. I would reconsider how window area is used in everyday life. Especially in the children’s rooms, I’m almost sure they will be converted very quickly with pleated blinds or similar.
Floor-to-ceiling is basically a way to get more light and some openness. I don’t believe in pleated blinds in the living/dining area, but maybe for the children’s rooms. But we are hesitant to make them normal-height windows – if at all, then probably double width as compensation. But that steals wall space again and that is rather premium too. Okay, without floor-to-ceiling you get a window sill. Christmas decorations and stuff.
I’ll bring it up again in the next discussion round here for reconsideration, but hrmm, meh. Let’s see.