Floor plan proposal single-family house 1.5 stories

Development plan/Restrictions
Size of the property: 600 sqm building land, 270 sqm green area
Slope: no
Floor area ratio: not yet known
Floor space index: not yet known
Building window, building line and boundary: see attachment property (building window 20x17 m)
Edge development: garage
Number of parking spaces: 2 in garage
Number of floors: 1.5
Roof shape: gable roof

Requirements of the builders
Style, roof shape, building type: family house with gable roof
Basement, floors: 1.5 without basement
Number of persons, age: 2 adults, planned 2 children
Space requirements on ground floor, upper floor: on the ground floor a small guest room that should also serve as bedroom in old age (or in case of unexpected family growth)
Office: family use or home office? see above
Overnight guests per year: at least once a month
Open kitchen, cooking island: yes, see floor plan
Number of dining seats: 6 or extendable to 10
Fireplace: no
Music/stereo wall: see floor plan
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: yes, garage 6x9 m
Kitchen garden, greenhouse: no

House design
Who created the design:
- Planner of a construction company implemented our ideas
What do you particularly like? Why? The dormer on the upper floor, the bathroom on the upper floor, and the dressing room (is exactly aligned to Pax…)
What do you not like? Why? Possibly the kitchen is too dark as it has no direct window!?
Price estimate according to architect/planner: €250,000, already fully specified

If you have to do without, which details/expansions
- can you do without: we are still completely flexible!
- can you not do without:

Why is the design as it is now? for example
A mixture of many examples from various magazines…

Hello dear forum,

I have been a silent reader for a very long time and would now like to present our design for a single-family house.

The plot is already reserved but not yet developed, so I do not yet know all the required details, but we have already tried out a lot… It is about plot no. 21 in the property development.

I have already taken many of your advice here in the forum to heart. For example, the dressing room can now be accessed from the hallway to avoid disturbing the sleepers and so the rooms can still be switched flexibly without constantly having to run into a child's room. We did not place the kitchen directly on the terrace, but the path is kept very short through the dining area (in the drawing the dining table is fully extended, normally it is only 2 m long). Since we have little space for the wardrobe in the hallway (except under the stairs), the dressing room is also large enough to accommodate more than two people's clothes. The attic is accessible and also offers some space.

The drawing completely lacks the garage; this is to be 6x9 m and connect to the house on the left with access to the utility room. The garage is large enough at the back for garden equipment etc., so there is 6x3 m space there. The utility room should also serve as a small pantry / drinks cupboard, so it is quite generous and has access to the kitchen.

Most of the drawn-in furniture is already present or planned as such.

So, I look forward to your criticism and thank you in advance for your contributions!

One more addition: unfortunately, I do not have a north arrow in the drawings, but the house is to be built 3 m from the property boundary to the street, along the building window, so the entrance faces northeast. Is that understandable? ops:

Just very briefly, have to go soon...:

What I personally don't like at all: detached single-family house, but the kitchen, living, and dining area has the character of a terraced house.. windows only on the front side, nothing on the left and right. The kitchen/dining area also feels quite cramped. A square island just for the cooktop is highly impractical (you can't properly place anything, cooking takes up only a tiny part of the time compared to preparation, ...)

I see it the same way as my predecessor. The island definitely won't work like this, as the fat splashes out in three directions when frying and anyone entering the kitchen risks slipping. The utility room is really difficult to use because of the three doors; I would pay attention to space behind the doors to be able to place cabinets or shelves. Additionally, I would swap the bedroom and the lower children's room to have both children's rooms next to each other. First, you then have acoustic separation, and second, both children have bright rooms in the afternoon. I don't need that in the bedroom, as that's where you sleep.

At first glance, I would have said your previous reading along was worth it, it already looks quite successful - apart from the sprawled-out transverse gable.

But now I rather think: too bad, after the discussion everything will be torn apart.

The almost house-depth garage would have to go to the other side - the consequence of a fan-ventilated guest WC seems to me far more bearable than actually living with the - in my opinion overrated - garage-utility room-passage practically with a windowless kitchen.

In the new planning, I would make the window formats a bit more uniform.

With a huge garage, the utility room could be somewhat smaller and on the same side as the guest WC (why does it need a shower there?).

Kitchen island gone. Shower downstairs gone. Window above sink, kitchen smaller. Office bigger. Walk-in closet smaller, it's a dark hole anyway, better call it vacuum cleaner parking, bedroom bigger. Done. Karsten

I have already taken many of your advice here in the forum to heart. The dressing room is now accessible from the hallway so that the sleeping person is not disturbed and the rooms can also be swapped flexibly without constantly having to run into a children's room.

Addendum: first of all, a compliment for this, insofar you are indeed a teachable reader. Maybe that's why you get scolded a little more quietly for not showing any wardrobe here and so on.