Initial Floor Plan - Backyard Development - 1.5 Stories

Unsorted thoughts:

- Overall, I find many things here already quite good.
- I don't like the children's bathroom. Maybe I just don't understand it. It seems very oddly constructed to me, and especially so empty. You come in, walk past the shower wall. Somewhere in the back corner is the toilet. No bathtub. A lot of unused space. Here, the size of the room could be significantly reduced or designed much nicer, including a bathtub.
- The pantry doesn't make much sense to me in terms of size. Like others, I would add it to the utility room. Alternatively, add it to the kitchen and build cabinets there. This would also have further advantages (e.g. dishwasher at waist height, or another steam oven, or... well, other stuff). Even if you just built normal kitchen cabinets there, you could surely store twice as much as currently in the pantry. Due to the necessary walking space in the pantry, you would have to noticeably take away space from the utility room. I don't think it's worth it.
- I would plan a pantry under the stairs. Also widen the entrance hallway a bit so that a wardrobe cabinet fits next to the front door.
- The size of the bedroom is already small; if it is purely a sleeping room, it would be enough. But: it restricts the concept. Barrier-free or low-barrier planning is supposed to be done directly here, and then you also need more space beside the bed. The same problem applies in the bathroom. Many people only think about stairs when it comes to barrier freedom and low-barrier design. If it actually comes to needing this, many more difficulties arise in daily life: bed, toilet, shower, and several more. (Therefore, I wouldn’t plan too far into the future here.)
- The house, as it is, is naturally not exactly planned with cost optimization. Very large concrete slab, a lot of roof. I can't estimate prices with "all done by oneself."
- I would never plan floor-to-ceiling windows in children's rooms. When I walk through neighborhoods here, all of these are covered at the bottom with pleated blinds or completely blocked by furniture.
- Lighting plan: The entrance area will be really dark (north + roof shelter), the living room will be extremely bright (south + west windows, both very large as far as I can see). The kitchen, on the other hand, is quite dark (south window under terrace roof, no east window, but this is hardly changeable due to the garage as currently planned). I don't like the overall arrangement here; I would move the kitchen more into the light and the living area more into the darker area.
- Upper floor: I would see if both children's rooms could go to the south side, with the children's bathroom to the north.

PS: I am sleep-deprived and only partially sane.

That means all plans would be oriented uniformly once..somewhat.





Now the darkness of the children's rooms is noticeable.

I would rather place the children's rooms towards the bottom of the plan, that is, facing east, or even on the left side of the plan, facing south. However, this now begins, together with the suggestions for the hallway (above), for the utility room, etc., to mean one should rather start again from scratch and also reconsider the stair position.

Regarding the conservatory... you already have the living room set apart (which I find good), it should be bright etc., so why create a similar use with a conservatory (glass roof)? Especially since the house is already quite large as it is.

Yes exactly @ktb09. That way the alignment is correct.

It might then possibly look like this.

I’m attaching the site plan here. Hope my amateur drawing helps a bit..

Now also for comparison, the excerpt from the development plan oriented to north, then everything would be clear.

Increasing or changing the stock has already been included.

At least I didn’t mean / less the size, but the wall behind the shelf, without which it could be refilled by a much shorter route. Therefore I would not move this wall, but just omit it. Being able to move the shelf then is only a side effect.

The design is refreshing. The children's bathroom is OK in size. Consider the sloping roof and, as writes, an appropriate ceiling height above it. The bedroom is small; for me, that would be OK if the dressing room provided enough space to dress comfortably. The space between the wardrobes is far too narrow for that. Without changing the building structure, it might help to reduce the wall between the dressing room and bedroom to about half the width of the wardrobe and instead of the two inward-facing wardrobes, choose a dresser-like variant. This way, space is created around the upper body when dressing, and the bedroom appears visually larger. If the cooking and dining area is a central part of life and not just for brief stays, there would be too little natural light coming from outside – even if the terrace had a gas roof. If you want to implement the design as it is, invest in very good lighting to somewhat compensate for this. Whether the size of the pantry is adequate is a question depending on what is to be stored there. Entering it takes up real space. I would make it a kind of deep built-in cupboard accessible from both sides, i.e., the kitchen and the utility room. This is great for storing groceries and creates multiple times the storage capacity. With appropriate doors, such a cupboard room can also be kept dry and cool.