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2017-05-16 18:01:37
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The root of the whole problem is, by the way, the missing basement.
What nonsense. You can also design a sensible plan and a great house without a basement – and it doesn’t have to be detached; townhouses as well as semi-detached houses can be satisfactorily and happily inhabited.
Dear Ev,
Read through all the comments again: most users here (myself included) have experience from building their own homes, but also from carefully living in apartments and houses. They mean well, but you don’t have to implement everything – some suggestions are pointless (basement), others should be given attention (cloakroom space).
One person struggles with a too narrow hallway and builds a small foyer as a windbreak; another had too small a children’s room and is now building palaces for princes and princesses.
As for you, you need to write it down and then have it implemented in the design.
You were already almost at the end of the planning. If someone here criticizes the bay window, it is nonsense, as it cannot be changed – just like the external dimensions.
You have decided that the kitchen will move west toward the garden. That’s a comprehensible statement. What should be weighed, however, is whether you will spend all day standing at the sink looking out of the north window or get more out of claiming a wider cooking island and relocating the kitchen to the middle (whether south or west... the exit to the terrace always remains in the middle on the west side). One person makes the kitchen long and narrow, another a bit wider and more ergonomic in terms of workflow, but gives up on the north window, instead gaining space for a pantry and WC.
You should really pay attention to whether space is needed here and there or wasted. If you don’t even sit down yourself, trace the drafts, and sketch in your furniture (the furniture measurements should by now be cut out as templates and ready!!!), you will experience surprises upon moving in, and everything will somehow not be as you imagined.
Here again are the floor plans of the identical semi-detached houses currently being built near us – although smaller in size, it should not be a problem to implement sensibly on a larger area.
I might still take the time to make at least one or two sketches myself... however, I personally do not see the kitchen on two exterior walls!