Looking for the perfect floor plan for our single-family home - thanks for the ideas

I agree! An additional room on the ground floor makes a lot of sense. No one likes to go upstairs to the office.

Why not?

I am often in the bedroom because I iron clothes there, there is also a dressing table. Where do you iron your clothes?

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Sabine

We also iron in the bedroom. But I don't need a great view for that. I look at the clothes or the TV....

I have ironing done *snobbish look* *polishing fingernails* *reaching for champagne glass*

No, I really am very lucky that my daughter-in-law does it for us (just for that alone I already love her!). Unfortunately, our utility room upstairs turned out smaller than I wanted (it just couldn’t be helped); I would have liked a dedicated sewing space as well; but that was one of the things I had to give up. I could set up an ironing board, but leaving it standing around all the time wouldn’t work. But since I only need it in the absolute last resort anyway, that’s okay (and if my daughter-in-law stops ironing someday, as long as I’m still working, I’ll have someone else do it).

No, I’m really lucky that my father-in-law does that for us ...

Are they easy to care for and how can you catch them?

Easy to care for... well... I'll put it diplomatically with Goethe: Where there is much light, there is much shadow

Why not?

I know it so that you sleep upstairs, maybe the children's rooms are also there. I always see the ground floor for the normal daily routine, where you can do everything... that means staying in the living room, cooking, but also doing paperwork in the office, and all on one level. That way you also stay on one level with your partner. I also know houses where the office is upstairs. Whoever is there is always like cut off and isolated, and no one likes to go there because it always means "effort." I also don’t go to the bathroom upstairs if I have one on the ground floor and am currently staying there.

I know it like this: you sleep on the upper floor, maybe the children’s rooms are there too. I always see the ground floor as the normal daily routine area, where you can do everything... that means staying in the living room, cooking, but also doing paperwork in the office, all on one level. This way you stay on the same level with your partner. I also know houses where the office is on the upper floor. Whoever is there is always kind of cut off and isolated, and no one likes to go there because it always means "effort." I also don’t go to the bathroom on the upper floor if I have one on the ground floor and am currently staying there.

I deliberately placed my home office on the upper floor. Making this room accessible without "effort" contradicts the philosophy of working from home. Otherwise, exactly what many bosses dislike about home office happens: employees do gardening, look after the children while Mom is shopping, or lounge with their notebook on the sofa among the family.