Floor plan of a top floor apartment with a flat roof, what do you think about it???

Hello everyone,

we recently came across this forum and are immediately impressed by the discussions and feedback on the floor plans.

Due to current circumstances, we kindly ask you to take a critical look at our floor plan and give us your feedback.

Some additional information beforehand...
- We, male 33 and female 34, are building our first own apartment. No children are planned so far, but not ruled out either.
- The apartment is part of a building community project. Therefore, we can be very creative in the floor plan design.
- All windows are floor-to-ceiling. To the west, we have an unobstructed distant view. The attic apartment is located on the fifth floor with an elevator.

That’s it for now. Here is the floor plan. We are very much looking forward to your feedback. :-)

Best regards A&S

Is there another apartment to the north? Otherwise, I would give the toilet a window. What I don’t like: The kitchen has no natural ventilation option. It is in the middle of the room. You need an incredibly good exhaust hood so that everything doesn’t stink. The way to the bathroom – through the dressing room and the master bedroom – is also too far for me. Especially if one wants / can / is allowed to sleep longer and the other is showering, the latter has to go through the bedroom first to get to the dressing room and then out of the sleeping area. That would bother me. Floor-to-ceiling windows have been discussed here plenty. French balconies are a matter of taste. We also chose the alternative: fixed glazing at the bottom, window at the top that can be opened.

I also don't think it's good that the path to the bathroom goes through the dressing room and through the bedroom. With a kitchen in the middle of the room, you really need an insanely powerful extractor hood so that everything doesn't get full of smell!

Thank you already for the first feedback.

So our apartment is the northern one. -> On the side with the small bathroom/WC, the "southern" neighboring apartment adjoins, so there is no window here. However, we are planning skylights in the ceiling, which can be opened electrically.

The matter of the extractor hood is still an issue for us. Possibly we will have an extractor hood installed that vents upwards through the roof, instead of one with a recirculation system. Do you not think anything of the recirculation system at all? Or why do you think that the central kitchen is not nice?

We currently consider the walk-in closet-bathroom-bedroom situation to be unproblematic. Fortunately, we both have very comparable daily rhythms. :-)

I have to read up on the floor-to-ceiling windows this evening. Floor-to-ceiling windows are planned, and as a fall protection, a fixed laminated safety glass pane will be installed where necessary.

Best regards S.

Apparently there is not much criticism of this floor plan otherwise!?! Otherwise the discussion here would be livelier, right?

Could you please also explain what is critical about the extractor hood in the middle of the room? We have not quite understood this point yet.

Many thanks and best regards
S.

It is not critical, just something to consider: A) it is very expensive because the extractor hood hangs from the ceiling, the exhaust air must go up through the ceiling. B) Odor does not always spread only upwards. Therefore, it will be difficult to vent the odors. They arise in the middle of the room with you, so then? Where should, for example, the resulting grease odor go?