Floor plan single-family house 1.5 + basement / 1. Preliminary draft - suggestions?

You don’t have to write the same thing to everyone here. Everyone reads it as if in a conversation.

Because your argument/feeling is unfounded. It does rain very often in Germany, but mostly at night. You are not the only one who thinks it rains EVERY time he comes home and 4 meters along the house wall leave you soaking wet. That’s not the case!
And to misuse an office or another room that is not a hallway as a hallway reduces the personal living value of the space, since it then becomes just as maintenance-intensive as a house hallway and has to be equipped with door mats and boot jacks. You also don’t go to the kitchen to pee.

You are not moving in now, you are not building for one year, but hopefully for at least two generations. And even if it’s only 20 years: life will change, in purchases, values, and especially in food production and storage.

Door widths are among other things standard. How do you want to get your heating system into your place?

If the data here is correct with 40 degrees roof pitch, then your 2-meter mark is simply wrong! You have a max knee wall height of 130 cm... with an inside recessed dimension of about 80 cm you have your 2 meters. And at that height, I certainly see no shower fitting. Or do you want to say now that your windows have the same height at top and bottom or that the two windows in the upper floor are 3 meters high?


I don’t think much about what is not going to be built anyway. I already mentioned: The budget does not allow for a basement. Therefore, a new plan has to be made.

You don’t have to write the same thing to everyone here. Everyone reads it as if in a conversation.

Because your argument/feeling is unfounded. It does rain very often in Germany, but mostly at night. You are not the only one who thinks it rains EVERY time he comes home and 4 meters along the house wall leave you soaking wet. That’s not the case!
And to misuse an office or another room that is not a hallway as a hallway reduces the personal living value of the space, since it then becomes just as maintenance-intensive as a house hallway and has to be equipped with door mats and boot jacks. You also don’t go to the kitchen to pee.

You are not moving in now, you are not building for one year, but hopefully for at least two generations. And even if it’s only 20 years: life will change, in purchases, values, and especially in food production and storage.

Door widths are among other things standard. How do you want to get your heating system into your place?

If the data here is correct with 40 degrees roof pitch, then your 2-meter mark is simply wrong! You have a max knee wall height of 130 cm... with an inside recessed dimension of about 80 cm you have your 2 meters. And at that height, I certainly see no shower fitting. Or do you want to say now that your windows have the same height at top and bottom or that the two windows in the upper floor are 3 meters high?

I don’t think much about what is not going to be built anyway. I already mentioned: The budget does not allow for a basement. Therefore, a new plan has to be made.

I would move the living room window further to the right so that from the entrance you have a direct view through the whole house outside into the garden.

Otherwise, I think the design is already successful.

I find the door between the house and garage very advantageous for the same reasons as you. However, the office then becomes a passage room for the cloakroom and such. Therefore, I don't see a real home office in this floor plan!

The guest is just as loud as the child? I didn’t mean switching rooms above, but downstairs not quite as open :)

[*]the steep roof with a low knee wall is unfavorable and is neither required by the development plan nor by space requirements. Better would be a (very) high knee wall with a 22-25° roof pitch, possibly executed as an exposed roof truss inside. This way you won’t have problems with sloping ceilings and can plan windows on the eave sides.
[*]the airlock is not a good idea for the reasons mentioned by (even if you don’t want to hear it). If you don’t want to abandon the idea, leave out the garage door anyway, but design the outer wall so that you can easily retrofit a side entrance door later. If you still miss it in three years, you can retrofit the door (which you probably won’t do :) ).
[*]I would remove the small storage room next to the kitchen on the ground floor and instead extend the tall cabinets to the western outer wall. This results in almost the same storage space but is much more accessible. You can also use deeper cabinets there (in my opinion, kitchen manufacturers offer such systems).
[*]logically, the ground floor toilet should also extend to the outer wall, and possibly plan a shower.
[*]this will allow you to shift the wall from the hall to the ground floor toilet slightly to the right side of the plan and use a larger front door with glass side elements to get more light into the hall.
[*]on the upper floor, I would definitely shift the wall between the corridor and dressing/sleeping area downward on the plan to adapt it to the stairwell.
[*]in doing so, you could also shift the wall between the children’s room and bathroom downward on the plan to ‘streamline’ the bathroom and give the child more space.
[*]in this context, I would also move the door between sleeping/dressing upward on the plan and remove the separate access dressing/bathroom (quickly crossing the corridor once is really no problem).
[*]please tidy up the doors from the corridor to guest/child room (currently too convoluted).