House plan - Please provide feedback

Hello everyone!

We (2 adults and 2 children) are currently planning our single-family house! I would like to ask for your feedback!

Background: We have a long narrow (17 x 55 m) plot with a north-south orientation. The street is located at the very south. We are building without a basement. The house has two floors and a flat roof! There will be an unheated shed near the street. I have attached the floor plans of the ground floor and upper floor as well as the site plan.

If you have any questions, just write!

Thanks for your feedback.

best regards trollusia

Hi,

well, I don’t like it at all somehow. Everything is way too narrow and tight.
OG reminds me a bit of an authority: a long corridor with offices branching off it........

Why do almost all the doors open outwards?

If you plan such a, let’s say, unusual building, then you also have to draw elevations

Regards

Good morning =)

Honestly, I don’t like it either, here are a few points that would bother me:

- The house is located all the way in the north, you have an even narrower garden through the driveway which is also completely on the street side.

- The hallways are way too narrow, two adults can barely pass each other straight
the hallway upstairs is 10 meters long and has only ONE 50 cm wide window, plus it’s in the corner of the building, it will get really dark if you don’t at least put skylights on the roof
- What’s the point of the expensive useless overhang of the second children’s room upstairs? It’s not above the entrance door so it doesn’t serve any purpose at all...
- When you come in, the guest WC door is right in your face
- The coat rack is located in the back part of the house... it should be by the entrance
- Large living area with little use, the living room isn’t even 4 meters deep
- You have two bathrooms upstairs but only one toilet... makes the whole thing somewhat pointless if you can hand the door handle around in the morning with 4 people plus guests
- Terrace upstairs in front of the children’s rooms? If they are very small it has to be fenced off, if they are bigger they play in the garden or in the living room with the parents, or in the children’s rooms, and as a teenager you don’t necessarily want to hear your siblings outside when you’re in the room with a friend/boyfriend/girlfriend --> again, little use and you have a damage-prone roof terrace
- Does the landing staircase work like that? 2 m depth is likely a bit tight
- The bedrooms upstairs are arranged wall to wall

Hello,

Trollusia

I hope the name is not indicative ...

Regarding the initial situation: We have a long narrow (17 x 55 m) plot with a north-south orientation. The street is located at the very south. ...

I am puzzled that you planned the width of the building to be 12.64 m towards the terrace but only 8.60 m towards the north. Given the plot width you specified, the building should, in my opinion, be 11.0 m wide. Furthermore, I do not understand why you placed the building so deep into the plot—is that the building zone?—because the development costs will be quite expensive. Do you want to use as much garden as possible?

Best regards

hey,

did you make the drawing yourself? overall, everything is very tight

I would also be interested in your insulation, maybe some savings can be made there and the entrance area on the 1st floor enlarged.

I would be very happy to hear back from you.

manu

Hello everyone,

First of all, thank you for your feedback. I should have given you a bit more information. I am making up for that now.

We are planning with an architect. We are in the early preliminary design stage. We have two floor plans to choose from. In the current plans, windows, doors, corridor widths, stair widths, wall thicknesses, etc. are only roughly considered. These details will be worked out later. The drawn-in furniture is also just a placeholder. For now, it is only about the functional arrangement of the rooms.

About the plot:
To the west, we border a settlement (not a nice view). To the east, we look into a river valley. To the east, we see fields. To the southeast, there is a single-family house. The street to the south is a dead end. There is basically no traffic here. We are not allowed to move the house further north or further south (development plan).

Regarding your comments:

Corridor widths: currently still too narrow at 1.1 m. We will have to improve this.
Light in the upper floor corridor: True, light currently only through windows in the south and a window in the stairwell (currently not drawn).
Overhang on the upper floor: We wanted this because of the complete lack of natural shading on our plot. A protected area to sit was important to us!
WC door on the ground floor: True, it should possibly be on the other wall.
Wardrobe not at the entrance: we did not want to place it at the front because we prefer a somewhat more spacious foyer.
Living room: a few windows might still be removed here (because otherwise no furniture can be placed).
2 x bathrooms on the upper floor: 1 bathroom is intended for the children (will only have a shower and a washbasin) and 1 bathroom for the parents (with bathtub, shower, and washbasin). Upstairs we have no additional WC because there is one on the ground floor (3 WCs in the house seem a bit too much to us – we do not want WCs in the bathrooms).
Terrace on the upper floor by the children's rooms: This only arises because of the dining room underneath. It might not be developed into a terrace but only gravelled or greened.
Platform staircase: as mentioned, not yet detailed.
Children’s rooms next to each other: there will be wardrobes on both sides (maximum width and maximum height). Sound insulation should therefore be ensured.
Building width: we are allowed to go up to 0.5 m to the boundary in the west. In the east, up to 1 m to the boundary. Therefore, the house can theoretically be 15.5 m wide. But that makes no sense because the plot is extremely elongated.
Building location: as said. We are not allowed to move further north nor further south.
Drawing made by myself: I only quickly copied it from the architect’s plan and also inserted a few windows and doors (so that we can imagine it a bit better).
Insulation: Which construction type will be chosen is still unclear. I am calculating with 50 cm exterior walls! (I just noticed, one wall near the ground floor WC is drawn too thick).

As already said. The plan is by no means mature or finely planned. I was interested in your basic opinion regarding the room arrangement.

Thanks in any case for your feedback. Looking forward to more feedback.

Best regards, Reinhard