Is the floor plan okay like this? Your opinion

Good day everyone,

I would like to hear/read your opinion on our floor plan!

After initial consideration and planning, our floor plan currently looks like this. It will be a wooden house with a timber frame construction (9.55m x 11.30m, Kfw 70). The basement will of course be masonry.

The entrance area faces a dead-end street.

Below the house (street view) runs the main road (entrance to the granny flat) [Spiel Straße].

The pantry in the kitchen will probably be replaced by tall cabinets.
A kitchen island is planned, open to the dining/living area. Kitchen planning is still missing.

We are still considering whether the stove would be better placed opposite with an exposed chimney. Possibly even as a room divider.

The heating system (air heat pump) will go into the basement (technical room).

The electrical supply including home automation will also go into the basement (technical room).

The bathrooms are not yet planned but you can also give your opinion here. It should not be a corner bathtub!

Hopefully you can make use of this information so far.

I would be very happy to hear your honest opinion!

Thank you very much

I find the pantry too small to use it properly, so you'll probably be happier with cabinets.

I don't like the shared laundry room in the basement very much because there is a door in between that I always want to keep closed, but I have to go through it quite often.

I find the floor plan good overall.

I don't like the pantry and I also think tall cabinets are much more practical there, as the pantry would be quite cramped. And there is still the storage room.

In the kitchen, I find the standalone block somewhat impractical. What is it supposed to be good for? We currently have an unused table (worktop) of this size in the kitchen and it really encourages putting all sorts of stuff on it.

Do you really need 3 showers + 1 bathtub? On "only" 2 floors?
How is the children's bathroom supposed to be drained, by the way?

Walk-in closet is okay. Nothing extraordinary but offers a lot of storage space.

I find the bathroom (except for the corner bathtub) very practical.

In the basement, I would also separate the laundry rooms (or put the separate utility room upstairs) and give the tenant another storage room.
Even in a 2-room apartment, I would want to have a bathtub. Maybe there is room for more.

Good morning,

thank you first of all for the answers.
Yes, we have already found the pantry to be too small ourselves and want to plan the kitchen without it. The small partition wall to the kitchen will probably disappear so that the kitchen is open to the living area.

Our washing/drying should be in the storage room on the ground floor to avoid constant stair climbing.

In the master bathroom, the corner bathtub will be removed and a "normal" bathtub will be placed under the slope.

A bathroom on the ground floor is planned for the future, in case living "only on the ground floor" is ever realized or for guests who find space in the office on the ground floor.

How the children's bathroom should be drained? Hopefully the builder’s responsibility!

Attached again are views from outside and floor plan.

I really like your floor plan layout, but I find 9.5m too long for the living and dining room. There will probably always be a lot of free space in the middle of the room that I couldn’t use and that would bother me. Of course, it’s a matter of taste and often you urgently need the length in another part of the house, so you wouldn’t be able to avoid it, even if you wanted to.

I also think the upper floor is well designed, but personally I would swap the large bathroom with the playroom so that you have direct access from the bedroom to the bathroom. Otherwise, the children will be messing around in your bathroom again in the mornings and, depending on their age, on Friday and Saturday evenings (in hordes) because it is nicer. If I see it correctly, the current playroom is also free of sloping ceilings. Another advantage for the bathroom. Then you wouldn’t have to put the bathtub under the slope.

I really like the layout of your floor plan, but I find 9.5m too long for the living and dining room. There will probably always be a lot of free space in the middle of the room that I couldn't use and that would bother me.

We even have a length of 9.90m and the access is pretty much in the middle as well. I don't find it too big. On the contrary, when I enter the living-dining room, I don't have to squeeze past any furniture right away.

For example, we use the space between the patio doors, which are arranged like in the OP's layout, to "show off" our stylish secretary desk.
;)