Where do all the house connections (water, electricity, telecommunications) actually go? Should this be directly next to the front door? If so, is the fuse box there as well, and is there space for the router, switch, and patch panel, or have you planned another place for that?
As far as I know, these have to be directly next to the front door, that’s what we were told and the company is installing them there too. I find it annoying because it takes up a lot of space in the hallway. I assumed that everything would be in the hallway, so we would have to cover it with a cabinet, and the router etc. should all be there and then covered with a custom cabinet, but I will ask the architect and follow up in detail.
There MUST be a freezer compartment in the storage room, and on the right when you come in, a shoe cabinet, a small coat rack on the wall at the front, hooks are enough for me for us and some on the door for guests, and the remaining space a shelf for supplies. I will just put the vacuum cleaner and mopping supplies in front of the shelf since you don’t mop that often. Well, not really, but with kids it will be different and a house is different from an apartment,... I also have to clean upstairs, whether I carry the stuff down or up once they have to be carried anyway. But I can also store them in the utility room... yes the pantry is small, but still big enough to fit everything in, at least I think so. Feel free to correct me.
My parents have a coat rack, not even a storage room, but a basement. In my apartment I also don’t have a coat rack. I always do it so that all the jackets etc. are in the wardrobe, only the ones we use daily, the parkas, scarves, shawls, coats hang behind the door in my mother’s living room. Of course not nice, it’s a small townhouse. That’s how I would do it too, I just need space later with kids to hang the daily jacket, that’s enough. In winter everyone has a jacket. The other stuff will be in the wardrobe upstairs, which is currently 250 cm but someday I wanted to take 3 m if it works out with the door. I find it unnecessary to have ALL jackets etc. in the coat rack by season, then I would feel like I need the pantry alone for that.... What’s important to me is that there must be a freezer compartment, a shelf for supplies, and a shoe cabinet for all shoes, although I also keep shoes in a rolling container and store them under the bed, but I don’t want to do that anymore, I want a tall shoe cabinet where they fit, maybe on the right wall. I will put the rest in front of it.
Drinks in the garage, or in the kitchen there is space on the right at the wall, maybe there or I don’t know,... maybe under the open staircase. So yes, I am missing a few corners to store things, but I don’t want to give up on the look, I still think about it because I don’t have kids yet, no experience with many things, and here everyone writing has already built and lives with kids, so I don’t want to regret it later....