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2024-01-31 11:55:35
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I would never take my own design to the architect. Ridiculous given the budget.
I’ll just list one after another what is flawed and immediately obvious, without much evaluation or ranking:
[*]Load-bearing walls not aligned
[*]Staircase has questionable head clearance
[*]Kitchen maximally far from the terrace
[*]Living room tends to become a walk-through room
[*]Guest WC directly next to cooking pots
[*]Staircase entrance next to front door in the dirt area
[*]Windows random sizes and distribution
[*]Children’s rooms all different sizes
[*]Senseless corners in the children’s rooms
[*]One children’s room less than 3m wide
[*]Mini bathrooms – questionable freedom of movement – ridiculous for the house size
[*]Parents’ bed under the window
[*]North orientation of children’s rooms (no, they are not looking outside)
[*]Kitchen ergonomics questionable with almost 6m of back and forth
[*]Laundry chute through the living room
These are probably not even all, and I haven’t even looked at the basement and hillside yet!
Take a list with your wishes, nothing more.
Thank you for your comments. I have commented on each point as we see it and have changed it in the floor plan.
I will take a closer look at the load-bearing walls. Thanks for the note.
I have clarified the staircase with the stair builder. It fits very well.
Honestly, the fact that the kitchen is far from the terrace does not bother me at all. Also, the passage through the living room is okay as far as I’m concerned.
Guest WC / kitchen: The guest WC has to be somewhere. And we really don’t find it bad that it is directly next to the kitchen.
Staircase entrance next to the front door in the dirt area is a point we will reconsider. Very good hint. Thanks.
Window position and size certainly still need optimization. I agree with that.
I have changed the sizes of the children’s rooms. They are now 16.92 / 16.52 and 15.49m². In our opinion, the difference is okay.
All children’s rooms are now at least 3m wide. Again, good note. Thanks.
Mini bathrooms: The space in the rooms is more important to us than in the bathroom. Due to the rearrangement, the bathrooms have gotten a bit bigger.
Parents’ bed under the window has also been resolved. We already considered it suboptimal.
The north orientation of the children’s rooms will remain as is.
The kitchen will be a bit narrower due to the conversion upstairs. But I didn’t find that so serious. We use the kitchen a lot and need the space.
Laundry chute: There is none; it was just once a thought of where to run pipes upwards.
Thank you for your contribution.
Attached is the upper floor plan with most of your suggestions as I have commented.