Floor plan of a single-family house, feedback

A sliding door is NOT a room door. It is not airtight and lets any noises through.

Any? I agree that it is different from a normal room door, but it must block something as well. And at least a web search suggests that sliding doors can be equipped with sound insulation.

Although I do wonder anyway – how much do normal room doors let through? They can't be completely airtight either, due to controlled residential ventilation and supply/exhaust air stuff?!

Exactly, that’s what this is about; brainstorming and inspiration. Nobody, myself included, wants/should try to convert you here, but it shows you the different life plans, each of which also works, and that makes it exciting.

I also see that as a huge gift! Building a house is such an incredibly complex topic, where many far-reaching decisions have to be made within a relatively short time. Whether it’s room planning, window areas, heating technology, choice of provider (including wall structure), heat protection, and a thousand other things. In the end, everyone has to build their own house anyway and feel comfortable in it. At the same time, knowledge can be shared and costly mistakes avoided. Speaking of which...

Any? I agree that it’s different from a normal interior door, but something will stop it as well. And at least a web search says that sliding doors can be equipped with soundproofing. Although I wonder – how much do normal interior doors let through? They can’t be completely tight anyway, due to controlled residential ventilation and supply/exhaust air systems, right?!

I was also puzzled about the doors (sliding door?) to the children’s rooms on the upper floor. Even though I find it very positive to involve the children in planning their rooms: here I would consider that the children will grow up and then say that normal doors should be installed. Once children become teenagers, they will curse the sliding doors. Sliding doors offer significantly less privacy than normal doors. That will be a problem waiting to happen.

Even though I think it is very positive to involve the children in the planning of their rooms: Here I would keep in mind that the children will grow up and suggest putting in regular doors.

As soon as the children become teenagers, they will curse the sliding doors. Sliding doors offer significantly less privacy than regular doors. That will be a problem waiting to happen.

It is a sliding door. The other person would prefer a swinging door, which we will probably craft "ourselves."

If he actually regrets it in one, two, three years – such a door apparently doesn’t cost the world, judging by some websites. Then he can earn the money with a holiday job and replace it. But – I truly don’t believe this will happen in the next few years.

I was already informed that I will only receive input again in week 28

Well, no. I actually got an update today. New drawings attached. There are still 2 small errors, but otherwise we are currently happy.

On the ground floor, there is a slightly wider sliding door – now double-winged. We are still considering that, but regardless of sliding or not sliding: it should be further to the right. Why it moved to the left is unknown to me. (*At least* it should hit the wall straight down from the wall panel for about 10 to 15 cm in width). That is also doable with this wider door.

The utility room was rearranged and now has a window – even though that steals a bit of wall space on the plan and I still have to clarify with the provider if they mind (some apparently do), I would like to have it in. There is now a step drawn in front of the exterior door since there is a 35 cm height difference to the finished floor. I’m not sure if that bothers me or not – but that’s a detail for later execution, for now it can stay drawn.

The guest room now only has a "normal" window. But the biggest change is at the top right with the bay window. Large window of 2.50x1.50m, but fixed – and therefore planned with a venetian blind.

In the upper floor, the bathroom redesign was adopted and all windows are no longer floor-to-ceiling, but those in the children's rooms are wide. And the study is aligned centrally as requested. This breaks the symmetry on the outside with the lift-and-slide door below, but that doesn’t bother us. In the master bathroom, we would still like a window above the bathtub; that was forgotten.

I think, with the 2 mentioned small corrections, it is approved by us so that the following departments can start their work. If I compare the drawings now with the initial plans, they have developed quite a bit; thanks again to everyone for their input!

When it gets down to the nitty-gritty, I will definitely come back, and sometime (if everything goes according to plan, mid/end of next year) there will also be pictures of the finished box. (For now, I’m just looking forward to finalizing the electrical planning.)

There are advantages to pulling the sliding door in the living room out of alignment with the individual living room wall if you ever want to close off the living room there. In the study, I would probably only plan a single window and then align it with the lower one. Was the sink under the window intended? In the utility room, I would set up a space for a cabinet and a workspace for laundry and would wish for it to be free of technology.

What does the [Versorger] care about the window?