Floor plan question, garage, stairs

Hello,

the washing machine and the dryer are located right next to a children's room with a thin wall. I can imagine that it will be loud in the children's room.

Best regards
Sabine

Those were the main points. Any comments? :)

Sounds good. Maybe you can upload the new floor plan again once you have received it from the planner.

- Storage room upstairs: We tend to omit this. Because of the higher knee wall, you could place cabinets or a dresser there, and a large roof window could continue to illuminate the hallway.

I would think carefully about that. I somewhat miss this storage room in our house. Another possibility: Make the storage room only as wide as the stair opening and leave the left part open to the hallway. A window could also be placed there to provide it with some light.

Hello,

Hello, - the knee wall is raised by 0.2m, creating space in the bathroom and children's rooms - the new space in the children's rooms is taken away again directly by moving the stairs and thus the corridors on the upper floor 0.2cm further up, so that the stairs can be planned a bit more generously.

If you raise the knee wall by 20 cm and move the stair system by the same centimeters, the children's rooms will actually become smaller. Children play on floor area, not on living space; the slightly larger dormer doesn't really change that. When converted to living space, however, it should be (almost) the same again ;)

A slightly higher knee wall doesn't really change the bathroom situation because a partition wall still has to be built on the eaves side in front of the bathtub and shower, so the layout isn't changed. Don't forget that the lighting in the bathroom has to be adjusted. The slightly higher knee wall benefits your bedroom; the bed access situation is quite daringly planned anyway.

Rhenish greetings

Hello,

the washing machine and dryer are located right next to a children's room with a thin wall. I can imagine that it will get loud in the children's room.

Best regards
Sabine

Thanks for the tip. The washing machine usually runs on a timer for us, I think we can manage that. Should we still make sure to keep a wall that possibly offers better sound insulation? Is something like that possible and sensible?

Sounds good. Maybe you can post the new floor plan again once you have received it from the planner.

I will gladly do that. However, it might take a little while, since the next version will no longer be a hand drawing but will now be digitized.

Hello,

If you raise the knee wall by 20 cm and shift the staircase installation by the same number of centimeters, the children's rooms will actually become smaller. Children play on floor area and not living space; the slightly enlarged dormer does not really change that. In terms of living space, it will probably come out (almost) the same again ;)

You are of course right. Whether it will be 10 or 20 cm that we move the wall will be decided finally after we have spoken to the stair builder (probably within this week, luckily he is practically on site), and know exactly what measurements are needed for the stairs.

A slightly higher knee wall does not really change the bathroom situation either, since in front of the bathtub and shower there still needs to be a knee wall built on the eaves side, so the layout is not changed. Don't forget that the lighting in the bathroom needs to be corrected. The slightly higher knee wall benefits your bedroom; the bed entry situation is quite boldly planned anyway.
Rhenish regards

The bathroom will at least feel a bit airier, but of course you're right, it doesn't really change anything. For the bedroom it is good, yep. For the children's rooms I can live with the 0.2m less space. Of course that corresponds to about one square meter less floor area per room overall, but the size still feels right to us.