Floor plan (single-family house / 1.5 stories / approx. 170 m²)

Hello,

I would be interested in your opinion on this floor plan.

The floor area of the house is 10 x 10.5m, there will be no basement. There is a garage from an old building, which will receive a new facade and will be connected to the house by a roof. This creates a carport as well as an entrance canopy.

The house itself is 1.5 stories high and has a knee wall height of about 1.40m. It has a gable roof and is not supposed to have any bay windows, balconies, niches, or other frills. A terrace is to be built later at the back of the house on the corner facing west. Whether it will be as large as shown in the drawing in the southwest remains to be seen, probably somewhat smaller.

On the ground floor, it is important that there is a relatively large utility room and that the kitchen is separated from the living area. On the upper floor, large children's rooms are to be created. In the bedroom, the area between the bed and wardrobes is visually separated (e.g. by a large curtain) to create a kind of dressing area.

What do you think about all this?

What I notice in the attic is that the shower appears to be in a very dark corner without natural light. Is it intentional that when you enter your bedroom, you are standing in front of your wardrobes first? That would bother me at least.

On the ground floor, the U-shape of your kitchen is planned so that when you are standing at the shorter kitchen unit, the doorway to the dining/living room is blocked.

Hello,

as a basis a nice design, I would only move the office door towards the stairs, it could get tight at the front door.

And I would redesign the bathroom, I find it very cramped in the entrance area and I’m not sure if the lighting will work like that.

Otherwise a nice design, especially the ground floor.

Regards

I would also widen the entrance area, maybe sacrifice a bit of the WC? Swap the stove with the sink -> the sink in front of the window is nicer :) The entrance to the bathroom upstairs is not nice at all... maybe imagine how that might feel (darkness, narrow corridor) Otherwise quite ok, but definitely still expandable :)

Overall, I like the approaches on the ground floor.

But I would remove the shower in the guest WC (is anyone really going to use it?) and rather try to get more space in the hallway. Or make the access to the utility room less narrow.

Are there already children? Think about stroller parking, car infant seat, and shoes, jackets for 4? people!

I would design the kitchen open with a half-island, then the living area looks bigger.

Everything feels a bit cramped around the back of the couch! Is that really enough? How are you supposed to get on the couch and out again without everyone else having to get up and leave? Climb?

I would "straighten" child 2 and bathroom doors. It looks calmer. Dressing room wall at the same height as the children's partition wall. The bedroom looks way too tight. How wide is it?

But honestly: the upper floor will not work like this.
There is no wall opposite. The statics are likely to be interesting and/or very expensive :(

Reduce the office or bathroom and plan the entrance area larger. That way you have no space at all for a dresser or hooks for jackets or space for shoes... Even without kids, the area becomes very cluttered.

I also find the placement of the furniture in the living area very cramped. Better to place the sofa on the window side (do not plan for floor-to-ceiling windows here) and the "entertainment center" opposite or something like that...

The hallway upstairs is incredibly dark and tiny! Two people cannot pass each other there. Straighten the wall between the children's room and the bathroom, where the doors are. Because of this, you hardly gain more space in the rooms but lose space in the hallway! I would also straighten the wall between the storage room and the children's room in favor of the children's room. Then the sizes of the children's rooms would be similar again, and the rooms not so awkwardly shaped. The storage room is still large enough, or what is supposed to go in there? I would also reconsider the bathroom planning!