Log cabin with a clipped gable roof by the forest - improve planning?

I like it better.

I wouldn’t worry too much about the smells. I assume you are using a Bora system or something similar.
If you plan to have a ventilation system, then you will also have exhaust air in the kitchen.
In the old apartment, despite a closed construction, the smells spread much more and were more intense.

Be sure to draw all the furniture to scale.

Whether the staircase will work like that - I have my doubts. What is the headroom in front of the 2nd landing? And so you now have the drain pipes in the living room after all. Chimney at the roof edge is always a pain. Looks like an asparagus. Preferably no PDFs - most cannot read them. For all those who can't do PDFs:

So I think whoever wants to enter the office will get quite a headache. At least it looks silly to "crawl" through the door under the stairs.

Hi,

in our first house design we had exactly this staircase location with the entrance door to the right of it - just as it is now planned with you - and then positioned the staircase roughly as in my shown design on page 7. This way, through sliding doors (which even run on the north and south sides of the staircase and disappear into the walls), we can optionally "include" the staircase with the entrance or separate it from it and assign it to the living area.

Also practical when children want to go upstairs and you can sit undisturbed in the living room or similar.

What personally bothered us the most about the shown staircase location is that when you go to sleep – which for us is always also associated with "retreat" – you come directly through the dirt zone and, on the other hand, directly through the entrance area right by the front door.

We found this personally extremely uncomfortable – we felt like we were "half outside" before going to sleep, and it conveyed more of a "separation" of the floors than a connection. Furthermore, from the living room you always look at the front door through a glass sliding element – some may like that, others might not at all.

Personally, the staircase location (please don’t take it the wrong way) reminds me of a row house or model homes in prefabricated house exhibitions where this often can’t be done differently for space reasons.

For a house with 300 m2 area on ground and upper floor, as well as 170 m2 partly finished basement area, I personally don’t find it entirely fitting upstairs either.

I also don’t consider the access to the basement from the living area as optimal.

But as I said, that’s my opinion and everyone has different needs and that’s a good thing, please just take this as my opinion and suggestion. Possibly I would rethink the lighting of the hallway upstairs if you want to implement it this way, I’m not sure if it would be especially bright.

If I were you, I would really just understand this as a suggestion and ask the architect to make several designs again. Drawing yourself is great to get a feeling of whether you basically like it, but the architect can of course usually implement it better.

Many greetings

The height under the platform is 2.20m, which shouldn’t cause any headaches at least. We can also go up to 2.35m if we add another stair step towards the door. Do you think that is too low?

The drain pipes above the living room shouldn’t be any more critical. I will double-check this, but everything is within the insulation.


We don’t have a ventilation system. I am forced to have one in the office and it bothers me a lot; the air is extremely dry, and when ventilation is really needed, I can’t just fling open a window or there isn’t enough window area that can be opened. I prefer the concept of windows.

As a range hood, we currently favor the Berbel Skyline above the island. We can get it in all widths and performance levels and don’t need extra air supply. The chimney will have a separate external air supply.

I can well understand your argument that retreat occurs through the dirt or semi-outdoor area. For us, prompted by the tips in the last few days, this has been a major point of discussion. The option to be able to close a door between living, dining, cooking, and sleeping clearly prevailed. I’ll take another look at your design from page 7 right away so I don’t miss anything.

Except in that version, we don’t really get the option of a great entrance area, a nice staircase, and integration into the living area. In the end, we’re better off pulling a small entrance area under the carport, which visually separates everything, and then opening the living room completely to the current entrance area. However, the staircase will always remain huge due to the floor height.. hmm, that is unsatisfactory.

We have a Berbel Moveline. Are very satisfied.

Ventilation systems do not reduce window areas, do not diminish the possibility to ventilate - only the reasons and do not automatically produce dry air. Don't want to sell you one. They simply offer a certain comfort. No fogged windows, hardly any odors in the quiet place, no cooking smells, always fresh air and through an enthalpy heat exchanger in winter not quite such dry air. Since spring, however, the windows have been open a lot. Otherwise something is missing.