Floor plan single-family house. Your suggestions are welcomed.

Hello everyone,

we would like to build a single-family house in the near future and would greatly appreciate your suggestions regarding our floor plan.

Regarding the requirements:

[*]Residents are two adults and two children (in planning :))
[*]No basement, but building next to parents with 4-sided courtyard (larger storage space is therefore available if needed)
[*]Heating via underfloor with air heat pump or geothermal and additional Swedish stove
[*]Living and dining should be one room but separated from the living room
[*]We want bright rooms but not living directly in a glass house
[*]Carport adjoins the utility room (shed roof over utility room, which also spans the carport)
[*]A bit further right from the top of the plan is north (approx. 2 o'clock)
[*]We do not want skylights and the house should have a simple layout
[*]We want two full floors and a suspended ceiling for the upper floor, no exposed rafters

Thank you very much in advance and best regards

Somersault

Hi, solid plan thanks to generous rooms. What I would miss is a room/space for the parents where you can do your office work or similar. The technical room, on the other hand, is monstrous, but the technical room / carport thing has not yet been fully understood by me. Can you paint the car?

I find the arrangement in the downstairs WC not so successful in terms of windows. This tiny peephole hardly lets in any natural light and then only in the front corner. I would try to plan a somewhat larger central window there. You can use ribbed glass so that people outside cannot look in.

I envy the gigantic bathroom upstairs. But there is no shower drawn in. Is it just missing behind the sinks or do you only want to put the tub in the corner? I would find that really sad. I would build myself a waterfall to dance under. ;)

Although I am not an advocate of symmetry compulsion, I would still make the 2 windows and terrace doors (?) on the south side on the ground floor and upper floor the same size. But it is okay as it is.

Hello kaho674,

thank you very much for your quick response.

Until now, we have always done our paperwork at the dining table. Thanks to the laptop, you are no longer so dependent on a separate room. I think we will store the paperwork in the technical room in appropriate shelves. However, the most important thing, namely the technology, is still missing here. So not that much space will be left.

In the bathroom on the upper floor, a walk-in shower will be installed in the top left corner. It just hasn't been properly drawn in yet. I'm especially looking forward to it because I won't have to clean annoying shower walls with tiny little corners anymore. :)

The windows are basically aligned with each other. I am attaching the views. Maybe the carport will become clearer as well. The west view will follow in a later post because I might not be able to upload it due to file size limitations.

You are right about the window for the bathroom on the ground floor. We still have to think about that. The difficult part is that it should still look harmonious on the north view.

The roof is not quite correct yet; the crossbeam and the supports don't fit. So please ignore that. The same applies to the roof of the technical room and the carport.

Best regards

Somersault

And here is the west view.

Have a nice Sunday

Somersault

Oops, the north view was missing, not the west view. Here it is now.

Best regards

Somersault

So far, we have always done our paperwork at the dining table.

You have such a generous layout. I would try to plan a desk corner somewhere. Personally, it annoys me quite a bit when I have to clear my husband’s laptop with all its accessories off the table every time. :rolleyes: I don’t want that in the new house anymore.

I think we will store the paperwork in the utility room on appropriate shelves. However, the most important thing is still missing here, namely the technology. So there won’t be that much space left after all.

What have you planned? We also have geothermal energy, a buffer tank, electricity, and so on in the utility room. But we manage with 8m². You have over 22m²? Wouldn’t you rather plan an office there?