About your ground floor
The shower is very narrow
Still, I like it this way better
Pantry
Freezer won’t fit in there, right?
I like that better too
Kitchen
Not optimal yet. 80 cm to walk through is a bit narrow. Usually your hands are full
I would finish the row of cabinets flush with the wall and plan the row facing the dining area 1 m deep. It’s quite convenient for rolling out dough if there is more depth
A double bed doesn’t fit in the guest room
The freezer is planned for daily use underneath the refrigerator (fridge-freezer combo). For supplies and things that are not used often (fruit from the garden etc.), an additional cabinet in the basement is planned.
In the pantry, my wife really only wants to store supplies, so it is intentionally going to have no window in order to protect various foodstuffs from sunlight.
As mentioned, the whole kitchen is still in planning; I have passed this on to my wife now since she spends a bit more time there than I do—yes, cliché...
A proper, planned kitchen will follow soon.
The “guest room” is intended more as a “multipurpose room” rather than really for guests.
The plan is as follows:
- Mainly for the children (specifically our very little one, since the older one only comes rarely and not for much longer, and when he does, he’s just at the PC anyway), so there is a place where model trains or building blocks can be left out
- Storage for board games
- “Home office” in the form of a place to put the notebook and a cupboard space for the printer
- A sofa bed or “fold-out wall bed” so grandma can stay overnight occasionally if the older child happens to be home and his room is not available. But as mentioned, the older one rarely comes. Grandma comes even less often. Both at the same time only around Christmas…
We have even seriously considered omitting the guest room altogether, but then we would have to find another suitable place for children’s toys etc.
An architect we recently spoke with had a suggestion I’d like to put forward for discussion here:
A sliding partition between the guest room and the living room. Then the guest room would have to be planned next to the living room, but the room could be allocated to the living room 90% of the time and only partitioned off when someone really wants to sleep in it (or when guests come and the mess is too bad to show).
I find this idea basically exciting but I’m skeptical due to drawbacks (a wall that must not be obstructed on either side, sound insulation?)… What do you think?