Skya2020
2025-01-14 18:42:30
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Honestly, I can’t really warm up to the room orientations and/or the floor plans. The house might be a matter of taste, but those protrusions above the windows are usually seen in South Africa or so, designed to keep the sun out of the rooms. But I’ll focus more on the floor plan:
Why is there nothing like that on the upper floor? Except in the bathroom and children’s room? If the view is so great, then I miss it when going up the stairs. Also, since understandably the basement gets its elevation, one should rather rotate the stairs so you can catch the view.
First of all, thanks a lot for your input. Finally someone who focuses more on the floor plan.
All 3 important rooms upstairs have a view to the "viewpoints." Our downstairs neighbor is somewhat lower but still quite tall with his roof. Towards the east, there's also a very nice horse meadow. So the bedroom and both children’s rooms have a view. In the southwest stands the very elevated and very blue house of the neighbor, who could easily look in there. That’s why we don’t want living rooms there. In addition, the sun comes from that direction and casts shadows there during the day. The stairs upstairs currently don’t have a window at all. I also find that wasted. I don’t spend time in the hallway. As you rightly pointed out, we have to economize on square meters upstairs...
What can the kitchen do now that’s more or better than packaging the kitchen without the bay window into the floor area? If you put the kitchen inside the house, you would enclose it with walls and might be able to do without the support column in the middle of the room. The effect would be the same.
The tight 75 sqm open-plan room is furnished with large furniture, but something like coziness when watching TV with the family probably won’t come up. In my opinion, the dining area is too much pushed into a corner. You have to know whether you’re happy with a 120 cm deep island, just like the child’s panoramic window facing the street so that everyone can look in there. I feel there is too little thought put into it.
Just like the southwest side for bathrooms, utility room, dressing room. That’s like pearls before swine...
Then there are doors with 80 cm width even though the rooms are already very big and high. That somehow doesn’t fit.
Actually, the kitchen can’t do more than without a bay window now (it’s possibly even more restricted), but I saw that in a Weber show home and immediately fell in love with it. If we now request quotes and it’s far over our budget, I’ll skip the bay window. But first, I’d like to plan it that way.
This huge living room is intentional. However, for coziness we decided on rotated stairs. Right now, when you come up the stairs, you walk towards the dining table. Because I wanted to prevent sitting on the couch with someone behind your back. Consequently, the dining table is somewhat squeezed... It’s not 100% optimal, but I haven’t had a better idea so far.
Regarding the child’s window facing the street, I totally agree with you, I first replaced it with one with a railing in my modification.
I also find the basement ill-conceived. You enter the office through the fitness room. You can do that, but with the house size there should be a bit more logic.
I would place the stairs more centrally but rotated. Also so that the stairs upstairs get daylight/view. At the moment, there is only a hallway opening. Then mediate the open space between the terrace side and sun side.
To better mediate the space conditions on the floors, maybe put the bedroom on the living floor. What the upper floor lacks, the ground floor has too much of.
That is partly due to the structure of the granny flat (there it would be the division living/sleeping area) and partly because my husband trains while being creative and direct access is practical there.
If you don’t place the stairs centrally, you get problems fitting all the rooms without creating huge hallways.