Newly built single-family house with 150 sqm living area, Saarland

Hi, so I have now swapped the kitchen and living area. I like the living area and I was also able to integrate the fireplace well, so that it also fits on the upper floor.

11.8 m² is not a living area, it's a better reading corner.

The kitchen is very large at almost 16 sqm (in my opinion), which is why I drew in a pantry. But I'm not really satisfied with it.

Which is an indication that no planning is taking place, but rather a sequence of rooms. There are still square meters left over, hmm, what do I do with them, ok, draw in a pantry....

Alternatively, I could make the utility room a few centimeters bigger and expand the kitchen island back to 3m

Moving walls won’t get you anywhere here....[/QUOTE]

Which mini door do you mean?

Well, the one by the wardrobe. Apart from additional costs and wasting space because of less wall area, this door is useless.

[*]Entrance area too small because the wardrobe is away from the entrance [*]Guest WC too big (remove shower) [*]Living corner too small [*]Straight staircase does not belong here (in my opinion) anyway --> 1 m airlock [*]Upper floor: children’s room with 3 windows costs wall space. Bed in front of window! Please properly furnish both [*]...

You need to note which rooms I want and approximately what size they should be.... so we end up again at the "beloved" question floor.... The "new" upper floor plan just came in.... nothing fits in the children’s rooms except a changing table. Don’t you see that this is nothing and will never be?

Addition: Children's room: Paint the middle window, there is a cupboard/shelf wall over 3 m there. Or where should all the toys go someday? You can't properly furnish the office like this either. A shame about the 10 m²....

Hello, I’ll chime in as well. It has already been mentioned, but you quickly brushed it aside: the stair length. In my opinion, it is really planned too short. And with the current floor plan, a longer staircase would completely ruin your plans, so you really need to double-check that. I can also very well understand your wish for a straight staircase; we wanted that too (against the advice here in the forum). Still, I would check the hallway width again. I also find 1m very narrow. In the living room, you currently have a room width of 3.5m. That’s not exactly generous. Personally, I find 4.5m a good distance. The pantry is too small. If you install shelves with a depth of 50cm there, you only have 50cm left to the wall. That makes it very hard to bend down. In the bedroom, there is very little room to move at the top of the bed in the plan. In the morning, you literally stand with your forehead against the wall. I also find the dressing room awkward, since it’s “trapped.” So in the morning, you have to go into the dressing room first and then past the sleeping partner in the bedroom back into the hallway. Child 1 is furnished terribly in the plan, but due to the window areas, it can’t be done differently at the moment. I would definitely plan that differently in order to be able to nicely place the floor-to-ceiling wardrobe. Child 2 is already much better, in my opinion. More generally: you get a lot of resistance here because, of course, everyone finds something else great (and stupid). You can hardly do anything with this input if you don’t know your own routines and your life. I think you should really think more about what you really want, what effect is important to you, etc. Then you can also take some criticism more calmly without feeling personally attacked.

Hello everyone,

For Child 1, I will remove the right window on the back wall. I had included it because of the window arrangement on the back wall. But the room is already so nicely flooded with light.

What is wrong with the office? It fits my needs, or am I overlooking something?

The only option to enlarge the living area is to swap it again with the kitchen. I do like the idea of going directly from the kitchen to the terrace, but a sliding door is already planned in the kitchen anyway, and I also find a 16sqm kitchen too oversized. Then the fireplace just has to be placed elsewhere.

The staircase at 4m on the ground floor and 3.5m on the upper floor is not a problem. I also wouldn’t know why it shouldn’t fit.

The mini door is supposed to be a normal door and is necessary for the connection to the garage. Obviously, the possibility of a detached garage exists, but I think everyone has their own preferences or ideas on that. Since I also want to place the home gym behind the door, it is actually indispensable. Otherwise, I would have to go through the open air into the house in any weather.

I can look at the master bedroom again, but I find it fine for my needs and don’t think you pass by your partner when coming from the dressing room. Also, in terms of size, I don’t actually need more in the bedroom. I am there "only" to sleep.

I don’t want to do without a shower in the bathroom in the basement.
The toilet can be moved in the bathroom upstairs, that’s no problem. The shower is clearly larger than standard at 1x1.2m in my opinion and sufficient, and also fits with the wheelchair. Surely, it can be adapted more smartly and the shower can be made 20cm wider and deeper.

Best regards
Chris

I can take another look at the master bedroom, but I find it fine for my needs and don't think you have to walk past your partner when coming out of the dressing room. Also in terms of size, I really don’t need more in the bedroom. I’m there “just” to sleep.

1. Whether you have to walk past your still sleeping partner when going from the dressing room to the hallway or not is not a matter of opinion. How else do you want to get from the dressing room to the hallway without going through the bedroom? The only way to avoid this situation is to always get up at exactly the same time. That’s rather unrealistic.
What is of course a matter of opinion: whether it bothers you if your partner has to go through the bedroom again. For me, that includes the consideration that a sliding door would have to be whisper quiet and the additional light would bother me. If it doesn’t bother you, that’s fine.

2. “Enough space in the bedroom.” Yes, basically it is big enough. But you can only place the bed in a way that leaves 50cm between the wall and the bed. That is very tight!

If you were enthusiastic about everything, I think everyone else here would be completely fine with it too. But these are just “compromises stuck together.” The kitchen is too big, the living room too small, I don’t care about the bathroom, the bedroom somehow fits, the wardrobe well if it has to be, I don’t want to think about the stairs anymore, the child is okay as is, the office will work out, pantry fine by me but I don’t really care.

1. Whether you have to pass by the still sleeping partner when going from the dressing room to the hallway or not is not a matter of opinion. How are you supposed to get from the dressing room to the hallway without going through the bedroom? The only way to avoid this situation is to always get up at the same time. That is rather unrealistic. What is of course a matter of opinion: whether it bothers you if the partner goes through the bedroom again. For me, this includes the consideration that a sliding door would have to be whisper-quiet and that the additional light would bother me. If it doesn’t bother you, that’s fine. 2. "Enough space in the bedroom." Yes, basically it is big enough. But you can only place the bed so that there is 50 cm left between the wall and the bed. That is very tight! If you were enthusiastic about everything, I think everyone else here would be totally fine with it too. But they are only "pasted together compromises." The kitchen too big, the living room too small, bathroom I don’t care about, bedroom somehow fits, wardrobe well okay if it has to be, stairs I don’t feel like thinking about anymore, child is okay like this, office will work out, pantry I don’t care but whatever.

Regarding point 1: that is not true, you can easily put the bed on the other side, then you have one meter of space to the wall on each side.

Regarding point 2: "stairs I don’t feel like thinking about anymore": that is not true either, I have looked at the calculation of stairs and as I have drawn it it is absolutely no problem. "office will work out": it will, it is an almost 10 sqm room that can be furnished as desired, just as I have shown. It will absolutely work. "child is okay like this": so I think the rooms are big enough to make something out of it, and when the time comes, the child can decide where the bed, desk, etc. should be...

"Bathroom I don’t care": I never wrote that, but personally it doesn’t matter to me whether I put the toilet behind the door or somewhere else. If I now get an argument why the toilet should not be behind the door, I will take that into account and put the toilet somewhere else.

But unfortunately you can take 0 from your scribbling. Instead of arguing, you just put words into people’s mouths that are not true.