Layout Floor plan Multipurpose room Kitchen Living Dining

Hello dear forum,

I have bought an apartment through a developer. The floor plan and plot are already fixed. So, the exterior floor plan. Only after some time did I realize that the planned floor plan is difficult to furnish. It concerns an open space with kitchen, living, and dining area of about 600x600 cm. I am attaching a plan. This is the sales plan. I probably will only get a fully dimensioned plan at the end of August.

The apartment will be completed by the 3rd quarter of 2018, so there is still time to adjust one thing or another. But how? I’m tearing my hair out because I have blindly stared at the problems and unfortunately don’t come up with any new ideas myself. I hope you can give me a good nudge in a different direction.

To be furnished are:
- Kitchen for 1 to 2 people
- 1 dining table 150x80 with 4 chairs
- 1 two-seater (160 cm long)
- 1 lowboard (120 cm long)
- 1 highboard (100 cm long)
- 1 display cabinet (90 cm long, 110 high)
- 1 cocktail chair as a reading corner

All furniture except the sofa is flexible and can, if necessary, also disappear into the adjoining room. Kitchen and dining table are also necessary.

Unchangeable is also the utility duct (the diagonal black-and-white square) and, in the worst case, the toilet. But I still have to ask about that.

I hope someone can give me a stimulus for new thinking. I have already asked the question next door in the kitchen planning forum, but that was probably too early for me. Somehow I couldn’t really engage with much. Now it’s different and I am hoping for the local collective intelligence

Don't you want a living area with a couch? Or have you just not found space for it yet? What is still flexible? I hardly think the wall with the installations is, which means it's already pretty fixed where the kitchen has to be. Square rooms are always difficult to furnish, but I wouldn't want to do without a living area. Does the kitchen have to be an island solution? If it has to be an island, I would definitely make it narrower. Cocktail chair as a reading corner? Phew... I imagine that to be uncomfortable... how do you envision it? I'm having a hard time with that right now... But I'll sketch something anyway.

Is this supposed to represent an everyday apartment or a holiday apartment? You mention the adjoining room, where would that be?

I think all the furniture from the list is accommodated there.

If the passage between the kitchenette and the table to the private living area becomes too narrow, possibly shorten the kitchenette or island a bit.

But at least this way you would have a living area. I personally find a sofa at the table stupid, if only because you sit way too low on the sofa for the table.

You are fast I will work through the points step by step:

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I am mostly alone (only not on weekends). The living area for me is really just a sofa and a mini coffee table to put my feet up. I don’t have a TV, laptop on my lap and when not in use next to/behind the sofa.

The utility shaft is fixed, the toilet is fixed in the worst case, the wall itself is still flexible. I think the kitchens could also be on the opposite side, so technically that wouldn’t be a problem.

An island solution is not necessary. It’s just that with a one-wall setup I am always looking at the wall instead of into the room or the light. I find that a bit depressing and would only do it if there was no other solution.

The cocktail chair is now just in a corner, with a reading lamp. But that is really the least important part of the whole thing and can also be easily removed.

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Yes, it is my only and everyday main apartment. I live alone and have a second bedroom as a "reserve", for storage and drying laundry and such stuff.

Yes, I also wouldn’t put the sofa at the table. That was a suggestion from someone else which I still have electronically available. I will make an empty plan again, maybe that will be clearer then.

I also have the idea that I could arrange the kitchen on the left side of the plan and shift the passage to the rear bedrooms more towards the center, closer to Planogen. But then I’m missing inspiration on how to plan the utility room and toilet.

The rear hallway takes up quite a lot of useless space. I’m currently at a loss as to how I could solve that differently.

Why not put the toilet together with the bathroom, placing the utility room at the bottom of the plan in front of the second room (move the door of the second room upwards)?

Then you could arrange the kitchen as an L (along the new wall and extending into the room) at the bottom of the plan (with the small terrace behind), and distribute the table and the sofa in the remaining space.