Floor plan of a single-family house just before final design - Please provide tips and advice

  • Erstellt am 2022-08-12 00:10:32

xanthippa

2022-08-18 09:40:24
  • #1
Ok, thanks, we'll keep that then. My husband really wants to have a lot of light in the rooms. ypg, could you please draw that in when you have time? I am currently working on the kitchen planning and am struggling with it. The problem is that the room is square and there is also a door, 2m window and a sliding patio door (which we could possibly replace with a regular patio door).
 

xanthippa

2022-08-18 09:41:36
  • #2

Thanks for the input, then we'll keep the wide windows.
 

Myrna_Loy

2022-08-18 09:47:55
  • #3
But don't forget that a bit of wall space is important for storage or pictures. So weigh it up.
 

K a t j a

2022-08-18 10:18:45
  • #4
Sorry, the planning of this house is in my humble opinion quite thoughtless, confused, and rushed. One problem is not even solved, and you are already rushing into the next one, having forgotten the first again. I would call this completely unplanned and see a lot of money wasted here, which you will regret later – but then it won’t be possible to change it anymore. Or did something happen in between that I missed? If so, I apologize.



So what about the staircase now? You have a story height of almost 3m. A staircase with a length of 3.50m is certainly not enough or it will turn into a mountaineering staircase. What exactly are the architect’s specifications for the staircase (number of steps, tread, riser height)?

Your sense of space will get even worse if you now plan to enlarge the hall. Ultimately, you have now put two tube-shaped rooms together at a corner. That’s how you get a living room depth of less than 4m and that for 43 sqm just for the living area! This is totally unacceptable in my humble opinion and just poorly planned.

The only solution is a new approach. Is the straight staircase really so existential?

At present, you have almost 60(!) sqm for kitchen and living. Your architect was already embarrassed by the large amount of unused space and out of desperation drew a pantry right in the middle of the dining room in front of the terrace. I find that absurd. You also wanted to omit it. So have you canceled it now or not?

The granny flat is a catastrophe. Somewhere I read that you were still unsure whether you would actually use it. What about that? Do you really need it? If yes, is that really supposed to be this gloomy kitchenette in the entrance area? Where are you supposed to hang your coat and put your shoes? Maybe on the wall against which you bump when you enter the monster?

I would recommend that you check again what you really get for your money. First, ask about the staircase whether it can even stay like that. If yes, whether it should stay like that with the whole tail that is still attached. Once it is built, there is no going back and the money is gone.
 

xanthippa

2022-08-18 11:00:26
  • #5
Hello Katja, I can’t say. The architect is on vacation for the next two weeks. There are 15 steps drawn in the plan. So far, I have relied on the architect because I am not familiar with it. Isn’t a living room depth of 4m sufficient? No, but how should I plan it otherwise? I have no ideas in this regard. Do I have to hire a new architect to plan it differently for me? The pantry is definitely scrapped. Possibly tall cabinets will be placed on the wall as a kind of replacement for the pantry. The granny flat will be used as an office; the kitchen as a second cloakroom. The coats hang on the left side by the entrance. A wardrobe will be placed there.
 

K a t j a

2022-08-18 11:56:31
  • #6
Google: "Staircase 1x1!" Here you can test measurements for stairs. But please don’t be fooled by the DIN standards. Your staircase has a riser of 20cm and regarding the tread depth I don’t see much more than 25cm either. This is in my opinion outrageous for a project worth 650K! For orientation: A "normal" riser is about 18.5cm. In any case, 19cm is already bad and (for me) counts as an emergency staircase for small houses. The tread depth for me is at least 26cm. The staircase is a main staircase and will be used several times daily. You shouldn’t make compromises here, as might be acceptable for basement or attic stairs. 4m is the standard depth for living rooms. That would be okay, although it’s already the lower limit for this size. But you want to shift the plank wall further down according to the plan, I believe a cabinet is supposed to go there? Then it will be less than 4m. 4m was already little for 43sqm. Below that becomes absurd. Dimensions always depend on the total length and size of the rooms as well. Even an 8m wide tunnel remains a tunnel if it’s a kilometer long. Since you have already submitted the building permit application, you can only redesign within the walls. There is surely still some room for adjustments but of course not much more. Above all, the question is how flexible you are with the arrangement of the living spaces? Now I don’t know how urgent all this is. If, as in some regions, one has been waiting for approval for 1 year, of course one doesn’t want to start over. On the other hand, 650K for an entire lifetime is a period of time that definitely justifies waiting a few months. In this case I would first consider alternatives that fall within the building permit. If that turns out to be too poor, one could see whether small changes suffice. Such changes often do not take as long at the building authority and between us, you can already start building and get approval later, provided the authority has already indicated approval in principle. Apart from that, the question is what your architect is willing to do. Changing architects initially costs money. Whoever plans a granny flat because of subsidies apparently does not have that left over. Maybe your architect can also improve the stair situation in the design - don’t know. The all-decisive question remains: what do you want? You need to engage more intensively with the execution. Why are you planning the granny flat then if you don’t need it? If it is about subsidies, I would first check what the requirements for building one are. Keywords that come to mind are fire protection walls, partition wall thicknesses, separate heating, separate electrical circuit, parking spaces, etc. Theoretically, the effort is very high. If you don’t have to prove all that, okay. But do you know that? I don’t know offhand. In the end, you will only strain yourselves here completely unnecessarily and won’t get the subsidy.
 

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