Opinions on the house floor plan wanted

  • Erstellt am 2017-03-26 18:49:50

Curly

2017-03-27 10:59:51
  • #1
I don’t really like the floor plan. The hallway would be too long for me. The living room and the kitchen are very large; wouldn’t a freestanding kitchen island be much nicer than an L-shaped solution? The access to the living room is only through a regular narrow door. Firstly, this door stands open right into the middle of the room, and secondly, I think a double door would look nicer for such a large living area. The dressing room upstairs looks more like a storage room, especially compared to the otherwise large rooms. I can’t imagine having two doors to the bathroom at all. Both of my children would close both bathroom doors every time they go to the toilet and only open one door again. I would then always be standing in front of the locked door from the bedroom. It’s also a bit annoying to always have to close and open two doors; I would prefer to have an extra kids' bathroom.

Best regards
Sabine
 

Martin-83

2017-03-27 11:59:44
  • #2
Hi Sabine,

thanks for your suggestions. We have already had a kitchen planned for this floor plan, which I have attached.

We can also make the walk-in closet bigger by taking space from the bedroom or bathroom. We wanted the two doors so that from the bedroom you only have to use one door. We don't yet know how our children will handle that.

The hallway is long, yes, we agree with you, but with the entrance on the right side, we don't think it can really be done differently, unless the kitchen is moved there. But then every guest would have to go through the kitchen to get to the bathroom or guest room. Then we also wouldn’t have morning sun in the kitchen or evening sun in the living room. We have arranged the rooms according to the recommendations.

You are right about the door into the living area; we have also considered a double glass sliding door.

Regards Martin
 

j.bautsch

2017-03-27 12:02:48
  • #3
I find this kitchen design unfortunately anything but successful. Many corner cabinets (impractical), few pull-outs (impractical), shape (impractical), etc.
 

Martin-83

2017-03-27 13:36:26
  • #4
Yes, you are right. The planning had not been worked out yet. At first, it was just about whether the size fits for the kitchen and roughly where the price would be. But when the time comes, I will ask there again as well.

Regards
Martin
 

haydee

2017-03-27 15:28:12
  • #5
My husband had the same plan. Restore a car nicely again. Until he realized, business trips, 60+X working hours per week, and a child, so there will be no car restoration. The garage will be built normally and there will be no lifting platform for the time being.

What I notice:

[Einliegerwohnung]:
Where should a wardrobe go in the bedroom?
I find the bathroom very small, especially considering age, walker, and help with washing and dressing.
I don’t like the living/dining room with kitchen at all and find it hard to furnish.

Ground floor: I don’t like the hallway. The storage room is tiny. Broom and vacuum cleaner in there and it will be tight.
Possibly use the guest room as a combined guest room and office.

Upper floor
huge bedroom, small children’s rooms and one of them isn’t even nicely located. In my opinion, the nicest room in terms of layout is the office.
Bedroom smaller, dressing room bigger
Bathroom only 1 door
Swap the location of children’s rooms and office.
Possibly make the office smaller because one person has their workplace on the ground floor.
Laundry room upstairs if you are already considering putting the washing machine in the bathroom.
 

11ant

2017-03-27 16:04:09
  • #6


... but only crosswise. In depth, I estimate only about four meters in front. Then a car does not stand in front of its own parking spot without hanging over the sidewalk with the bumper, completely on its own property, and you just raise the gate in the evening to roll it straight in; instead, it stands crosswise in front of its spot and that of another car.



If you lack a feeling for the dimensions, you won’t develop it through a hundred drafting considerations. That’s exactly what bothers me about this design:



... namely, that you actually did exactly that: you did build a 120 sqm house – just much larger. In some places, disproportionate expanses have developed, but they are not consistently maintained. The result is a 19 sqm bathroom, while rightly criticizes that there is (in my opinion, in a house this size a no-go, especially in contrast to four garage spaces) no children's bathroom. By the way: in the event of an auction, this alone reduces the value of a property of this category by easily twenty thousand.

That the defects lie so fundamentally at the conceptual level (without meaning that the district administrator and the kitchen planner don’t notice it) is my main reason for not commenting on this design at the detailed level so far.

But maybe detailed criticism will open your access to the conceptual flaws – so I’ll give it a try:

The height differences – especially with the surrounding street – would almost invite me to stack the two double garages. As I said, the short path between car and front door is quite sufficient when it relates "only" to everyday cars. What I would definitely consider is to reduce the building masses by separating into two double garages, for example, classically on both sides of the main building.

The level exit can simultaneously only apply to the window door on the left-hand side in the dining room or to the granny flat bedroom.

I would never plan a granny flat with the perspective of an apartment for elderly family members on the ground floor, never with the bathroom so far from the bedroom, and never without access to the staircase of the young family.

I would turn the direction of the staircase. I would not surround the study with children's rooms but rather include it in the master suite.

The chimney pierces the ridge beam and requires beams for at least two ceiling slabs.

I hope it is now clear why I have not even addressed the dressing room, which is only closet-sized and inappropriate for such a house, the guest room, the guest bathroom, the storage room, etc.

By the way, windows should correspond in number and size to what is actually ordered so that they can serve as a basis for the offer. They do not do so here in the slightest.

Four cars are the only unusual aspect in your situation. The combination "two adults (who sometimes work from home) – two kids – grandparents – no dog – creditworthiness for a villa" occurs often enough that you can include real buildings of similarly situated people in your working basis.
 

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