Floor plan of a single-family house with basement, 150 sqm, only single-story allowed

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SoL

2024-11-24 15:51:06
  • #1
It is not your job at all to find solutions for that. That is the architect's job. He (hopefully) studied that and has to think about it.

Your task is to set requirements and framework (price, space program, ...). The implementation of that is the architect's task.

Consider whether the house with the points of criticism is what you want to have for the next 20+ years. If not, then just keep planning. Don’t let yourselves be rushed or pressured.
 

ypg

2024-11-24 15:52:05
  • #2

Thanks,

overall the draft looks good and functional.
The more I look at it..
the wardrobe is personally too small for me. It is recommended to have 50-60 cm width per resident. Then also a sideboard or chest of drawers for the small things. A sightline into the garden is missing. If there is one, it’s nice, if not, it’s just a pity.
WC door was mentioned.
The pantry needs to be checked: right now no freezer or second fridge would fit in due to lack of depth. If you work a lot with baking sheets, then a 70 cm door is indeed not enough.
The path for the groceries is somewhat long.
I find the kitchen too small. On the one hand, there is no significant workspace. There must only be a KVA and a Thermie standing there, possibly also three beverage bottles and a fruit bowl, then there is no workspace left. The tall cabinets suggest more than is actually there. These are not 60 cm widths needed for fridge and oven. We are a 2-person household and it would not be enough for us.
I would probably completely remove the pantry on the ground floor and make the kitchen properly.

The sliding door in the living area may not even be usable if the sofa is there, so you can watch TV without straining your neck.
Upstairs the bedroom would currently be a walk-through room, which you try to avoid. I would place the door towards the dressing room. There you can also take a glass door and then you get some light into the hallway. Floor-to-ceiling window in the dressing room is a planning mistake. Possibly also rethink the other floor-to-ceiling windows of the bedrooms, as this is very uncomfortable for many and steals space in children’s rooms.
The balcony must go, a pure 70s planning mistake that brings trouble into the house. All defects meet here. And it looks dull besides.
Children’s rooms work - they do not have to be the same.

The light wells in the basement would have to be secured, they would be life-threatening for children.
Why isn’t the front door centered? That would probably bother me unless there is compensation.
Note: in summer the sun sets in the NW, possibly place the bay window on the other side.
 

Arauki11

2024-11-24 18:21:17
  • #3
I also find the cloakroom area too small; it will look unattractive quickly. With a bit more width there, for example, one could place a closet on the door hinge side and maybe something under the stairs, but that often doesn’t look nice either. I would give honest thought to myself/us there. There are two of us, and that wouldn’t be enough. With a child, dog, etc., the entrance quickly becomes a mess. I wouldn’t let myself be tormented by a desired exterior appearance there either but would want to feel welcomed by a pleasant view in the entrance area. I would swap shower and toilet in the guest bathroom; then it fits; having the door open outwards is acceptable if it doesn’t work otherwise, but so far, this is only a plan. The kitchen is also probably too small; the door to the pantry wastes space and money uselessly, which could be used to install tall kitchen cabinets. The kitchen as currently drawn looks nice but is an unnecessarily cramped box, in which I see no advantages. Currently, the way to the kitchen is long, then even longer around the open door, and then even longer into the pantry unless groceries are passed through the window from outside into the pantry... In this or a possibly redesigned kitchen, I would give a wide window above the sink area; above it, it’s also wider. Lighting in the hallway will be tight; therefore, a kitchen redesign might provide possibilities or a wider entrance area with more light admission. Somehow, the space between living and dining rooms seems somewhat unmotivatedly large or hardly usable to me, but maybe you already have a furnishing idea for that. I would consider this broadly and concretely now anyway. Currently, you enter the living room and stand in front of an unusable space, looking half at a wall and half at windows. One could still bring in some imagination here and also not let oneself be pressured by the exterior view. Anyway, in the dining area and possibly also the living area, I would favor wider window surfaces only on the cream side. It may be picky, but for a real representation, I also want my furniture and my desired use to be drawn to scale and situationally appropriate. In this respect, the sofa is completely wrongly placed. This way, your sofa would stand with the long side directly in front of the window front. Is that how you want it and watch TV there? If that is a sliding door to the terrace, I would certainly save those costs and opt for a “normal” hinged door with the option of opening the second side as well (I can’t think of the right term for it). We, as former sliding door owners, deliberately and gladly left them out in the new build. The upstairs bedroom looks as if it just happened that way and now someone is trying to draw something pleasing. Floor-to-ceiling windows there are probably again due to the exterior view and out of place. I would have the upstairs bathroom redesigned once. You enter through a tunnel directly facing the throne, a no-go. Almost 13 sqm is huge for a bathroom, in my opinion too large, and then a narrow shower. 90 cm would be a good size. Once the unmotivated entrance tunnel with the stylish washbasins in the room’s center is gone, it can become a nice bathroom that could also give some space to the children’s room. Balcony, as mentioned, is a nice idea but visually does not fit there, and the children already have nicely sized rooms and would only need the balcony to fool around. If the balcony and some other things were rationalized away without making the house less beautiful in its function, it might also be enough for the truly stylistically fitting bricks instead of trying to spruce up the house facade with expensive, unnecessary substitute tools, and if you want bricks, you will find someone to do it. Please don’t misunderstand; I find the house quite good and really functional. However, in my opinion, it is now time to give the whole or the individual areas a bit more attention to detail and, as said, not to deal with unnecessarily expensive substitute satisfactions (balcony), because actually, you imagined a chic brick house, which I absolutely understand. Don’t let yourselves be pressured, as one previous speaker already said. That’s how it is.
 

Schorsch_baut

2024-11-24 18:54:03
  • #4
I would plan for a slightly shorter dining table, perhaps an extendable one that can be turned 90 degrees for many guests, and give the sink area an additional base cabinet of 60 or better 80 cm, so that the kitchen island comes further into the room. This also eases the bottleneck as the access to the kitchen and generates more workspace.
 

Schorsch_baut

2024-11-24 18:57:40
  • #5
I would illuminate the upstairs hallway through a skylight or roof windows.
 

ypg

2024-11-24 19:05:36
  • #6

There is the basement stairs.

Even in a house of appealing size like this, I would not plan an extendable table for myself but rather treat myself to a proper table. Good tables are also very solid; you don’t just move them around casually.

There will still be an attic up there.
 

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