Ok, our development plan does not allow 3 levels here etc. but as I said, if you have the money, please, please don’t waste it on a compulsively enlarged city villa or something similar. Build it like this. The little problems mentioned earlier should be able to be resolved without major changes to the concept.
Thanks. For your information, our development plan also only allows 2 full floors. If the third floor has a maximum of 75% of the footprint of the floor below, it counts as a recessed floor and may be built. If we built a gable roof over the second floor, the house would have a similar exterior shape.
How do you get into the technical room now?
I love secret doors etc. So you get into the pantry and the technical room through a cabinet door. That is done more often in kitchens and my brother-in-law is a carpenter and can make it for us in the hallway for the technical room. So we have a cabinet wall with a wardrobe etc. and behind the outermost door you get into the technical room.
Kitchen room, transition to dining and access to terrace have clearly lost with the last ground floor version. The kitchen area is too wide for basically a two-liner with a small peninsula. The passages to the terrace are annoying when maneuvering around the table.
Yes, that is true. We are currently trying several things here and have already said goodbye to that version. Yesterday we were at a kitchen studio and worked out some ideas. Either we want more hallway or more kitchen. If we want more hallway, the cabinets could be shortened from 60cm to 40cm and the island also from 120cm to 110cm. See drawing. As said, these are considerations. The 40cm worktop could be used for the kettle, coffee machine etc. The cooktop and sink would then be on the island. Perhaps we will leave the wall standing and thus have a bigger kitchen, then the island can remain 120cm and the cabinets 60cm wide.
Regarding the master bedroom... The closet area drawn on the left side does not look good because of the corner window... generally I find the intended closet areas a bit like "creating a labyrinth" and the open area to the right at head height from the bed also doesn’t work well.
I can fully understand your wife’s preference for floor-to-ceiling windows. And lowering it to 75 cm is also worth reconsidering. In children's rooms 2 and 3, I also find the distance between window and planned closet wall unfortunate. I also find the bathroom design in the children's floor unfavorable… the shower is less than 90 cm wide in the shell construction. Exit of the shower towards the washing machine? Washing machine/dryer stacked without laundry storage space is also not good.
Our requirement was that there should be room in the master bedroom for a 250 cm and 300 cm wide closet, as well as a 200 cm highboard. We want to place the closets against the wall so no labyrinth will form, but theoretically you could place the 300 cm closet away from the wall if you want to create an additional "room" behind it.
I can fully understand your wife’s preference for floor-to-ceiling windows. And lowering it to 75 cm is also worth reconsidering. In children's rooms 2 and 3, I also find the distance between window and planned closet wall unfortunate. I also find the bathroom design in the children's floor unfavorable… the shower is less than 90 cm wide in the shell construction. Exit of the shower towards the washing machine? Washing machine/dryer stacked without laundry storage space is also not good.
There is no bathroom design yet. The drawn furniture is only examples to show, e.g., that there is space for a double sink. We only want one sink etc. The bathroom design upstairs is still to come. The upper floor will probably be like that. The upper floor was tricky anyway. The stairs, the development plan, and our requirements do not make it easy.
Ok, enough complaining now.
Definitely
Basically, I would try to get a bit more sunlight into the living area, especially the kitchen/dining area.
Where will things like bicycles, lawnmower, garden furniture etc. be stored?
More light? Currently, almost 5 m of windows are planned in total. Yes, the windows are not floor-to-ceiling, but since light comes from above, a wider window provides more light than a tall window. Sure, a floor-to-ceiling window would be nice, but then we wouldn’t have any walls left at all.
Lawnmower, garden furniture etc. are things for the garden and therefore go into the garden shed.
Sorry, I unfortunately find all the changes disadvantageous. I would completely roll them back. The access to the utility room under the stairs probably won’t work like that anyway. I like aquariums, but you can’t calmly look at it there. I find the picture on the wall more sensible and the kitchen island should go back in.
The narrow hall in front of the stairs would annoy me as well. Therefore, I would consider setting the stairs back instead of moving them forward. That would affect all floors and of course cost money. But then the door to the utility room would work too. However, I still don’t see an aquarium there. It’s best placed upstairs in the office, I think.
We do have to adhere to the development plan. Setting the stairs back is therefore not possible. The door to the utility room does work as it is because the access is not via the stairs but there is already a door opening at the front door. The place where you drew the door is not possible because of the riser shaft. Under the stairs is only an additional storage room.
If we move the wall in, we can also get an island in, just 110 cm instead of 120 cm and the cabinets in the [-wall will only be 40 cm and not 60 cm. If at all, we want the aquarium in a prominent place and not in the office, where only my wife is, for example. That way the rest of the family can enjoy it. Another advantage is that the aquarium is not exposed to direct sunlight, which is good. Although it is not in a very quiet spot, we don’t have many alternatives. Whether the aquarium will actually happen is another matter. We want to have one, but the one drawn costs around 10k. Certainly nothing that will happen in the next few years.
The bathroom upstairs is still a thorn in my side. Apart from the direct bedroom access, I am also bothered that the door hits the "throne user" in the knees. Ouch!
What bothers you about a direct bedroom access from the bathroom? We had at times thought about an open bathroom. If it’s the sound, there are doors that solve that. My parents, friends, etc. have bathrooms that are not directly connected to the bedroom, but the bedroom door is always open, but yeah, mine has no direct access.
The toilet can also be rotated 90°. We haven’t decided yet. But either way, why would one hit one’s knees? If someone is sitting on it, the door is locked. And if it is not locked, one can quickly call “door closed” before being seen.
Attached is the S-shape with 75cm sill height. The graphics show the location of the house on the plot. 5 m to the front street. 3.40 m on the carport side and 3 m on the other side.
