Long narrow plot 170-190 sqm

Let's be honest, those are room-height walls that enclose the bathtub there:


Who is supposed to find the space in the bathtub cozy? And yes, the bathtub will get wet when used, but normally it doesn't get wet with shower splashes every time you shower... depending on the water hardness, you also have to dry the bathtub after showering. Well, it's not me who has to do that.

And the washbasin is again drawn as a small, flimsy sink to show size.
Are 370 cm of cabinets enough for you?
At least for the window in the storage room, you should move it 25 cm away from the left wall so that a less deep shelf can be placed on the left.

On the bed side, I would rather put two narrow windows that might even extend a bit into the bed area, but are rather on the right and left of the bed. In any case, not the window as it is now.

I am confused, do the forum members now decide whether one finds their own house cozy or not? Don't worry about that or our water hardness, it's already fine that way, but thanks for the hints. The windows are only provisional in the plan.

The forum members give you valuable and informative tips and their point of view. Whether you accept them is up to you. My tip is, for example, that you plan the floor plan with to-scale furniture and correct window arrangement and size, instead of proceeding "provisionally."

The forum members give you valuable and informative tips and their point of view. Whether you accept them is up to you.

"Who is supposed to find the space in the bathtub cozy." is not a tip though.

My tip is, for example, that you plan the floor plan with to-scale furniture and the correct arrangement and size of the windows, instead of proceeding "provisionally."

We are working on the windows. The rest is already correct.

Hello Ben-man,
I am really not a floor plan expert; other users here are much better at that than I am. Much of what you see, I personally don't see at all, and I am always amazed at what stands out to users in the forum here. Honestly, much of what is criticized wouldn’t bother me either.

But I do have to comment on the planned layout of your bathroom – I find it extremely cramped and impractical, and as soon as you start showering in the bathtub because you don’t want to dry both the bathtub AND the shower after each shower, you will curse it, I’m sure of that. The alternative would be living with tiles/glass walls that will look terrible after a few years because they will be covered in lime and water stains that no one can remove anymore except with acid, which damages the grout.
The room’s shape is actually very nicely designed; I am certain that with some creativity you will definitely find a much more practical and spacious solution that still reflects your needs.

By the way, we have a bathtub with an integrated shower and I don’t shower there (we also have a separate shower) because cleaning and drying the bathtub (especially when you’re in a hurry in the morning) just annoys me.

However, as you say, you have to feel comfortable in your house and you have to clean it later (or pay the cleaning staff who does it). It’s your decision what you ultimately do, but I can only strongly advise you to reconsider your bathroom design thoroughly.

Hi Asuni,

you can have a wonderful conversation based on this. We have the great advantage that we practically have no limescale here. Just as an example: we have had a kettle for 8 years that we use several times daily and only descaled it for the fourth time a few weeks ago. More is simply not necessary. From my own experience, I can say that I would never build such a bathtub/shower combo in a city like Frankfurt. After 2 weeks, the kettle there looked worse than ours after 2 years. So I absolutely don’t worry about that.

We want to avoid tiles and glass walls. As you already said, they look catastrophic after a few years. Therefore, we wanted to separate the wet area from the dry area and work with vinyl. In our current setup, it would basically be "always" wet behind the wall, but never in front of the wall. For me, there’s nothing worse than stepping into wetness in the bathroom in the morning with fresh socks. The walls of the bathtub will not reach the ceiling but leave enough space above so that the room doesn’t feel cramped and light reaches every corner.

Regarding the space, it may seem like a lot at first, but the window has to be on the side and the laundry chute must also run in this corner. We tried numerous combinations. The only alternative we still like would be to move the entire bathtub block including sink and shower down to the wall. This way, you wouldn’t have a completely open shower anymore and would have more space by the window.