I like the note in the plan that shutters on fixed glass elements cannot be cleaned. In fact, my cousin has something like that for many years and keeps getting annoyed by it; so you should definitely prevent that.
Hrm. I didn’t overlook that, but when I look at how often we have cleaned the shutters here in the 30 years – and they are all easily accessible – I doubt it will bother us noticeably. (The officially counted number is ... 0). I wouldn’t know what/why I should clean on such parts, they are not white high-gloss things anyway.
You definitely should furnish the rooms to scale now to identify bottlenecks (especially kitchen/dining); also the conservatory, because currently I cannot imagine any furnishing/useful use there because of the two doors. 1.25m is more like a winter corridor..... in my eyes that’s unnecessarily expensive toy without added value.
The furnishing will come up again this weekend. I have already started that for kitchen/dining area and living room on the ground floor. I will redraw the plan to reflect the current one (and also paint the upper floor once), and make some more cardboard furniture. This time I want to extend that to the other rooms, even if the kitchen is the main driver/was.
The conservatory is quite nice, but with the doors and those wall pieces it’s weird.
It stands and falls with your individual idea of furnishing/using this room (and the others). Personally, and in the long term, I would definitely miss a shower on the ground floor.
I don’t think a shower on the ground floor is sensibly integrable under the current conditions.
If it magically happens and the basement lands in a price range where we switch to it, thereby moving all the technology down there (and maybe even the utility room) – then there would be space, even with a likely reduction of the footprint. Yes. But otherwise? Probably not.
How do you want to furnish your bedroom?
Waterbed, nightstands, cabinets, and a bit of “we’ll see in the coming days.”
The constantly used shower, on the other hand, is sufficiently sized at 90x90, but it also needs a door. You should play a bit of Tetris there. I could imagine the shower (half-high with glass) with approx. 140x90 measurements directly on the bedroom wall. Whether the "T" here is a sensible measure would have to be seen in the plan test.
Hrm. Let’s see if I come up with something nice for this weekend.
I would actually skip the laundry chute on the upper floor; it really causes trouble in the planning.
Laundry chute: we had planned that for a long time, in the end took it out. It really causes a lot of trouble, is expensive, and does it actually bring that much comfort gain?
It would have been good when we hadn’t moved the utility room downstairs, until then it was well integrated. Now – it just isn’t anymore.
The conservatory is one of those things that sounds much better on paper than in everyday life. A hell of a lot of glass surfaces to clean, extreme heat effect without shading. Alternatively, you have to shade it permanently half the year, which also isn’t nice.
The alternative is a bay window. Somewhat cheaper, but then “only” a set of windows and no door. Although that could also be nice if you put 3 windows on the long side and the middle one with a deep window seat; that sounds good to me too. If we stay at a depth of 1.25m there would be no side doors here though. Don’t know if that’s really bad – I can imagine at least one direct door to the terrace there would be nice. But then you could maybe make it 1.50m or so deep.
But you also have to be able to place a bed…..
The guest room is very small. And there is also a laundry chute marked there?! I currently see two laundry chutes in the plan?
You overlooked my comment that it was still marked there because it was originally planned there.
In the guest room we plan with a sofa bed and a wall folding bed. Then you can have both “away” in everyday life, and if necessary they are there for sleeping. Size-wise I still have to work it out. Yes, it is relatively small, but the utility room to the left is much better, and on the right where it is now there would only be more space if I steal it from the kitchen. And no, that is simply much more important.
But – this is a room for occasionally sleeping and otherwise “if you need to retreat a bit” or “to have some peace for a hobby/read...,” but unlike a children’s or study room, it is not used so permanently. It has to be enough.
You have very little wall space in the living-dining area because of all the floor-to-ceiling elements (patio door, lift-slide door, conservatory...). Floor-to-ceiling elements are a thing. When I walk through neighborhoods here, almost all of them have been converted to normal windows with pleated blinds or other measures. I would rethink how window area is used in everyday life. Especially with the kids’ rooms, I’m pretty sure they will quickly be converted with pleated blinds or something similar.
Floor-to-ceiling is the way to get more light and some openness. In the living/dining area I don’t believe in the pleated blinds, in the kids’ rooms it could be. But we have concerns about making them as normal height windows – if then probably rather twice as wide, as compensation. But that steals wall space again and that is rather premium. Ok, with non-floor-to-ceiling you have a window sill. Christmas decorations and such stuff.
I’ll bring it up again in the next discussion round here to rethink, but hrmm, meh. We’ll see.
