Floor plan single-family house, approx. 200 sqm without basement - assessment

If you look closely at the upper floor from my last plan, you come up the stairs directly into the party room. All the other rooms are shielded from the upper floor hallway by thick load-bearing walls, and the entrances to the children's rooms and bedroom are all on the far right.

I don't see a problem there... central doorbell system with door opener option from the hallway and party room. Above all, your plans currently suffer from incorrect stair sizes. If you set them realistically, the rooms will turn out quite differently.

I would also recommend switching from the free programs to, for example, Virtual Architecture from eu-Software. It doesn't cost a fortune but allows for much more realistic representations.

But, as I have said several times already, and also with the reference to the roof, which a lot depends on in terms of design, go to an architect.

You spoke of the upper floor being only 2/3 of the ground floor... that is not given even with my last plan. You won't manage that well either as long as the roof connection to the party room above the garage exists, because this practically cancels out the roof slope to the left of the main house.
And, regarding all these numbers to consider, there are usually values like max eave height, ridge height, etc. These are all data that we laypeople can only work out with difficulty, we users here not at all based on your information, but an architect should be familiar with them.

Hello,

I have a new draft again. Some suggestions have been implemented, for example removing the slants. In return, other corners have been added... for example in the kitchen to place an old rustic cabinet.
The children's room is now in the south.
Attached are the drafts.





The kitchen island can be adjusted in length accordingly to create enough space for the seating area. The seating area should be a bench around the corner.
I wanted to show you these plans once again.

Are they still that bad for you (apart from the 2nd staircase, which we definitely want to keep)? Are there improvements?

I myself spoke with a friend who is an architect, and she gave some additional input.
I received the idea from her to design the entrance on the west side and thereby create less hallway.
I don't think the idea is bad at all; this creates a much larger bathroom downstairs where a shower tray fits. I also removed the edges as well as the bay window.
This offers the possibility on the upper floor to place the balcony in the middle.
The plan doesn't change completely because of this but significantly.

The first plan shown is, as mentioned, from the builder; he doesn't know the "new" one I created yet. What do you think about it?
I reduced the exterior dimensions again to 12x12. The design of the party room is not decided yet; you are welcome to give ideas/suggestions.





The exterior walls are actually thicker... probably it looks nicer this way so that when you come up the stairs to the upper floor, you can still take at least two steps. On the opposite wall, you can nicely create a large photo gallery.

But one important question: how does it look with the door under the stairs? The stairs would already be "above" there, but I can't imagine what that looks like in reality.

We like it even better if the stairs go up on the bathroom side; then we don’t have the problem that a door is in the way.

I have two variations for that:

No. 1:




The disadvantage would be that a later partition is no longer easily possible. Also, I have long walking distances to the toilet.
It would be nice to have the cloakroom corner, which can go directly left at the end of the narrow corridor.

Therefore, another version (the stairs are, of course, always spiral at the very bottom):



There, the narrow corridor moves further into the center of the house, from there access to the utility room and the bathroom. Shorter distances for the daily trip to the toilet.
Advantage of the bathtub: you can also bathe the children downstairs. Later, a walk-in shower can be moved to that place.

Now the catch with the version "bathroom side stairs": does the roof slope still work up there for the laundry room? Maybe it’s too far to the wall and you can't really enter it properly.

So, that was quite a lot.

I would appreciate criticism and suggestions. Even if you think something has improved, feel free to say so!

Best regards

I see many narrow corridors in every proposal: either the entrance of a room through walls, then through furniture ( kitchen, guest) or hallways. If you want it like that?! Something else is more beautiful. The architect friend probably imagined it differently. Why doesn't she professionally design your house?

Regards Yvonne

Hello,

don't put too much emphasis on the painting. I'm concerned about the floor plan, meaning the layout of the rooms.
The door will also be moved further towards the dressing room; it had shifted in the meantime.

I've also seen the "niche" for the guest wardrobe in model homes. It was only 1m wide there as well. Also, in the first link I sent you, if you take a look, it's the same case.

I also don't understand if it's just my plans that are misleading? Each room is actually sufficiently large.
By the way, our clothes are not hanging in the guest wardrobe but in the utility room; this includes clothing cupboards and shoe cabinets, which is why it is somewhat larger than usual.
The rooms will become narrow because I would like each to have a window.

Sorry, but this will only be a botch job, especially in the kitchen area. For the seating corner, you’re planning about 250 to 260 cm width, but within this width, the passage between the seating corner and the kitchen peninsula must also be included.

And I can only agree with Yvonne regarding the narrow corridors, etc.

Now, in your variations, the staircase is right next to the front door, even though you have so much hallway space.

The path from the garage through the utility room into the house ... well, you might as well skip access through the garage. It’s a walk around corners, etc.

The routes to the guest room/guest bathroom in your variants always nicely pass by the entrance.

No, I don’t like it at all. So much space and so many compromises.

Take a look at the big houses from Viebrockhaus or Elma etc. – everything you have there seems really convoluted somehow, cramped (?)