Your wife should consider whether it makes more sense to have the workspace in front of the window in order to be able to look outside while working. You don’t really do that much directly at the sink.
When working, you look into the room (workspace NEXT TO the cooking area). When washing up, which often happens later or the next day in the morning or also the next day after work when our child is, for example, still at the daycare or with grandma, you look outside. Surely, though, we still have to think more about the kitchen, maybe start the ALNO kitchen planner and post here.
Bathroom upper floor .. I think it’s good with the shower, but I would attach the shower door on the left and have it open inward. That way you don’t have dripping water in front of the shower.
That’s a good tip, we will probably do it that way – but then with a swinging door. According to my research, it shouldn’t open inward only because if someone, for example, becomes unconscious in the shower, then you cannot help that person.
In the bedroom, I wouldn’t like the solution with the large access hole in the middle. I would put the dressing room window at the top of the plan, or at least put the door to the bedroom immediately at the bottom corner of the plan.
At the top of the plan perhaps more of a mirror integrated into the wardrobe and then you have side light when standing in front of the mirror. And you can also step half a meter away from the mirror and look. I know, with the door at the bottom of the plan you can create more storage space, but on the one hand it’s somehow enough since many things that are now in the bedroom wardrobes can be distributed to other rooms (bed linen, towels, decorative items!, seasonal clothing for seasonal storage…), on the other hand, I somehow like the spatial effect of the open double door.
In three months there will be a basement again
Oh well, even then the floor plan would be pretty similar if I compare it with our basement-included floor plan. The difficult part was probably deciding which rooms you need and where they should be and what size (living – southwest; dining – southeast; kitchen – around the corner; guest WC with shower; office on the ground floor // 2 children’s rooms both south; bathroom; bedroom; sufficient space for bedroom wardrobes). With the big house without basement, a utility room still fits into the ground floor and a laundry room into the upper floor. With the smaller house not, but both rooms are in the basement. The rest remains fairly similar in orientation and size. No rooms are added, no rooms are omitted.
What I personally don’t like much is the hallway situation. But that’s probably because I’m not the city villa type with these squeeze hallways.
What is a squeeze hallway?
Also, I hope that the living/dining area in the final version won’t look too narrow and long. That could really turn out badly. What ceiling heights are planned?
The living area should definitely be arranged so that you don’t see the whole kitchen immediately from the living room. Planned are 11.5 and 11.0 rows of bricks each 25 cm in the shell construction. The finished clear height will then probably be about 2.70 and 2.57 meters – something like that.
If you want to create an impression of spaciousness, you can also skip the sliding door to the dressing room. It causes unrest, even when, for example, one person gets up first and the other still wants to sleep.
So, for example, the double sliding door is open at night = bigger room; path for children at night not blocked; etc. If then one person gets up and the other stays asleep, simply close the double sliding door and that’s fine. If both are awake, then it can certainly be left open during the day.