Almost forgot: for 2 later apartments the airspace would have to be removed and the staircase rotated. The guest WC would have to swap places with the utility room and might possibly be quite large. This has not been thought through yet.
Well, that would only be nice to have in the end but nothing essential, but I’ll take up the ideas anyway
Which garage do you mean? Please draw your house on the plot. Where is the access from the mentioned 85 sqm?
Otherwise, I find the floor plan buildable and also okay.
See above the site plan from the development plan Garage/Carport is marked on the ground floor plan. The access is hard to see but is marked in red
One more question about the bathtub: You already have a 1-year-old child. Is it really not bathed but just put/set under the shower? I can hardly imagine that practically.
We have such an insert from Ikea. The little one is not 1 yet, but in the first year
Now for the constructive suggestion:
The wardrobe should be near the entrance door to keep the dirty zone as small as possible. Also, muddy shoes don’t belong where laundry is washed. All in all, the architect can improve and implement this here.
When you don’t shower at the moment, that’s one thing...
But also consider that you don’t only need a tub for bathing (I also find putting children in a bucket in the shower strange)
In 5 years you might need sitz baths, want or have to "deal with" a base bath, soak a wool blanket, keep a fish alive, finally eat fresh kale which has to be washed there, soak a carpet and so on and so forth.
If there is an airspace, it should also get a window. How should that be implemented there?
Whether the island in the kitchen is enough for working remains to be seen. Personally, I would find too few west-facing windows.
Overall, I would probably mirror the whole plan but leave the kitchen in the west. The utility room with carport in a west location is like casting pearls before swine.
Thanks for the suggestions. The utility room in the carport only works there, see site plan. I would of course also find it nicer in the east.
Does the guest room have to be that big?
Do you have guests often?
I calculate it like this: 15 sqm guest room * 2,500 EUR/sqm. That’s 37,500 EUR, for which you could put the guest up in a hotel lifelong, including breakfast...
Also, the utility room is way too big for my taste, even with cabinets.
12.5 sqm for children’s rooms is borderline for me. It should be 14 sqm. And preferably the same size, saves you the annoying debates about who gets the bigger room when you build new and have it in your hands.
I find the living room too small, scrap the guest room ;)
Is home office ever a topic? Then the guest room as an office with 10 sqm and enlarge the living room.
We also don’t find the utility room suitable yet, see original post.
The 12.5 sqm is not the floor area. We had much smaller rooms back then, that worked too. The children are also not in the house forever. That’s why we would rather use the guest room as a "children’s playroom" with a home office workspace.
The basic idea with the guest room in that size was that you would still have a bedroom on the ground floor, should there be any staircase restrictions one day. We are also still considering whether to assign the room downstairs completely to the living-dining area and only separate it if necessary/in emergencies (there is a K3?!).
Then you might as well forget building it… (otherwise it will be used as an office/storage...)
For 5 people living/eating/cooking too small. Children’s rooms a joke. 3.5 x 3.5 m? A bed is 2 m long. I don’t see any beds.
Corridor upstairs dark?! Ok airspace, above that the corridor upstairs gets lighted?
But “rabbit hutches”, corridor size upstairs and airspace don’t fit together anyway!
Do you mean the corridor needs a window? Maybe you can solve that with a skylight. The architect is still checking whether the staircase works like that or if maybe there is an extension in the entrance area. Unfortunately, we have not yet received any cross-sections/views.
Thanks to all tip-givers for the suggestions.
Especially laundry/side entrance/utility room is still an unresolved topic for us. Maybe rather washing machine/dryer in the bathroom after all. The core question for us is also where to put the laundry for drying sensibly when it is too wet outside.
Many greetings