Floor plan single-family house approx. 160m², main entrance in the basement, north slope 1700m²

2025-09-18 11:19:17

You were online again yesterday and read the dozens of questions addressed to you. Do you want to answer them or do you prefer not to discuss the draft anymore?

Unfortunately, I did not finish my message. From now on, I will more often respond only from my phone. Sorry that you have to wait so long for answers. I hope to post answers to your remaining questions by tomorrow evening, because your work is very well received by me. And I appreciate every feedback that leads to a more coherent house. Please excuse me and feel free to ask again if something has been overlooked by then.

2025-09-18 11:40:50

I think only the green arrow is the real north arrow. The black arrows are all more like "direction arrows" indicating earth movements or something similar.

The crux, as always, is that the plans are set in different orientations. Here, there were 3 different orientations.

What stands out very negatively as a result is the south corner of the ground floor with the kitchen .. where the tall unit corner is planned. I consider this worth redesigning. The 3m wide kitchen is neither fish nor fowl. It is neither suitable as a good double-row kitchen nor as a real island kitchen or similar and wastes square meters in the current layout.

The sketch for the terrain modulation is from me. The blue arrows are intended to represent slopes, which are to be executed as embankments with grass cover.

Thanks for your work on the compilation and orientation. I can remember that for next time. Only the text is then more difficult to read.

That the extension provides shading in the dining/kitchen area is even positive for us. If your objection was meant that way. The kitchen is still too wide for our wish (the extension should have internal dimensions of about 2.7m). The kitchen planning at the specialist store is still pending, and we want to gather inspiration for the layout. We probably do not want to adopt the partition wall between kitchen and dining from the preliminary draft into the planning. But we want to plan it so that, in principle, a wall could be inserted at some point (although not in the next 20 years).

2025-09-19 22:38:23

Please provide the sections of the terrain.

Is attached. Please don’t be surprised, I only have the sections from an earlier version. For example, the kitchen extension is still missing there.

This way your hobby room gets proper daylight.

Move the window to the south and the stairs to the north. The stairs can then be closer to the house, so you have space for modeling.

Otherwise, the space around the house seems to be well planned. The slope to the garage should be feasible at about 15%. In my opinion, the excavation of the basement will be used entirely for modeling in the north. Here the basement really makes sense. I won’t say anything about the floor plan because there are people here who can assess that better.

That is now also planned in the new interim version. Thank you.
Thanks also for the assessment of the terrain. Maybe the house will be about 30 cm higher and about 1 m away from the street towards the south. In anticipation of accommodating more soil excavation in the garden.

2025-09-19 23:31:57

I would sacrifice the guest sewing room to get more space in the dining and living area. Or rather, I took it out of the plan very quickly back then.

Cut it down to the large dining table and a sewing corner in the hobby room. When the children are gone, you can later set up a sewing room upstairs. Until then, the Carrera track has to be built around the sewing machine. You need the space now, and the heads will probably increase at first.

Draw your desired furnishing with clearance space to see if the space fits and it’s not just a feeling.

The drawing with desired furnishing is a good idea and we will tackle that.

You said it yourself... in the final expansion with 3 children, the dining table is already too small for everyday use, and if 2 people visit 50 days a year, where will they sit then? Not to mention if you want to celebrate birthdays or Christmas at your place?
Remove the guest room from the ground floor, put the living area with TV there and move the guest room to the basement. You will get a spacious dining area with lots of room for cabinets/display cabinets.

The guest/sewing room on the ground floor combines many advantages for us (grandma with mobility impairments for 1-2 consecutive overnight stays, storage room for board games/sewing & crafting supplies, home office, spare living room if we need a larger dining area or if the living area is too exposed/vulnerable). That ("sewing") room means more to us than an even bigger living-dining area.

The guest rooms are all designed so that in an emergency they can also be used flexibly as children's rooms if we have more than 3 children.

In the basement, the bathroom and guest room are planned as expansion reserves (in about 12 years in case 2 showers are needed in the house in the mornings), and the hobby room in the basement is currently intended as storage space for us.

Why do hobby room and work have to be separate? There is a bed, you can’t deduct it from taxes as a study room anyway. Move "work" into your hobby room and make the work area the guest room.

Our space requirements foresee 5 children's rooms in case of doubt (3 upstairs, and one each in the basement and ground floor). In that case, the hobby room would also be home office and guest room. And then we would also have to do without the "spare living room"/"sewing" room on the ground floor.

We are not really couch/TV users. Therefore, the living room has so far taken a back seat in our planning. Given the limited capacities, we now have to make some kind of compromise.

2025-09-20 00:37:13

We are not really couch/TV users.

And how will the kids see it in about 10 years? How do you see it with the third child, when the other two want to be "kept a bit calm"?

Our space requirement in case of doubt provides for 5 children's rooms (3 on the upper floor, and 1 each in the basement and ground floor)

Okeyyyy... until just now, until last week, I actually found it quite sympathetic that you do not adapt your house to the planned large family in terms of "everyone having their own room," but that there are three children's rooms that have to be enough ;)

The ("sewing") room means more to us than an even bigger living-dining area.

.. until the next child. But grandma still insists on three children who want to watch TV or play games in peace. Sorry, the room can also accommodate grandma several times a year. Even if it's 4 days a month.

The guest rooms are all designed in such a way that they can also flexibly serve as children's rooms if we have more than 3 children.

That's why they don't have to be kept free.

In the basement, the bathroom and guest room are planned as expansion reserves (in case 2 showers are needed in the house in the morning in about 12 years)

Uff, are now dozens of children supposed to run two floors in the morning?

The kitchen is still too wide for our wish (the extension is supposed to have interior dimensions of about 2.7 m).

The extension is supposed to be 2.70? If you count the terrace access as one meter, then that's 1.60; usable area... .. So, if I were you, I would clarify some passages again. Unfortunately, I have deleted some plans here again, and I am not willing to think about it again here. Good luck!

2025-09-20 01:02:11

I don’t really see it that way. I see a very prominent chill/TV corner and the kitchen “in the back corner” as a quiet area. The kitchen not only hides, it also has a spatial buffer, what is that supposed to be good for?

.. ah, I see that tall cabinets are in the corner by the island, the workspace is away from the island. I consider that suboptimal. That needs to be planned next so that the design addresses this.

Because first of all, the partition wall with the sliding door has to go. Actually, for me, the load-bearing wall between the “hallway” and dining area should also go. I would also eliminate the pantry because it fits either in the utility room or one of the tall cabinets, which I would place within reach.

The suggestion came up already half a year ago:

The TV or playroom fits well there. If you want, the sewing machine can go into the cabinet there, sewing happens when the kids are in bed or at school. A sewing machine is portable. The rest will work itself out.

The open space also offers enough potential to reshuffle everything again.

For example, I question the use of the building annex: why fill it with tall cabinets when it connects to the terrace? Either I make it more glazed and put my workspace there, or I put the utility room there. Then the laundry drying of the large family works and you can puzzle indoor/outdoor. By the way, the sewing machine can also nicely stay in the utility room, since it belongs to housekeeping.

The bathroom, or rather the drainage of the upstairs bathroom, will not work adequately just like that.

The wall between dining and kitchen will be removed. The spatial buffer of the kitchen so far is due to the kitchen planning not yet realized, if I understand the question correctly.

The wall between dining and hallway is important to us to provide sound insulation while still bringing openness with a large (glass) door.

The pantry makes sense to us; we might forgo the wall or door to the utility room to be more flexible.

We like the idea of equipping the building annex with more windows. That also depends on how many tall cabinets we plan. That is not decided yet.

The drainage of the upstairs bathroom is planned to go into the pantry (top left corner of the room in the plan) and from there into the hallway (bottom right corner of the room in the plan) in the basement. Are there any problems with that?

The different north arrows confuse me!

In the preliminary draft, the architect actually drew the north arrow incorrectly (mirrored) on the ground floor. I only noticed that today.

Maybe can write what the idea was behind it. What purpose the house annex is supposed to serve.

The house annex has for us mainly two purposes:

Thanks for all the overwhelming feedback hanghaus2023, haydee, MachsSelbst, kbt09 and ypg. That I answer ypg last gives me time to think about your words again. In hindsight, I realize that as a layman I only really grasp your brilliance on the third reading. And I am sure that even now not all thoughts have reached me in their full depth.

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Floor plan single-family house approx. 160m², main entrance in the basement, north slope 1700m²

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