Our floor plan design for an affordable house

I once took the external dimensions 8.20 x 12.80

I just see: The requirement was 7.20... Damn

Hello and good evening,

dear , wow and thank you for really putting thought into this. I am quite amazed. But unfortunately, it's true: external dimensions are 12.5 x 7.5 in the current plan (I believe it’s in my very first post) and we really don’t want to get any bigger. Also, I have to admit that your suggestion is too closed off, it has too many walls. Privacy is not very important to us, there are four of us living in it—my boyfriend, me, and the children. No strangers . The office absolutely has to be open, and I don’t really like the small edge in the wall there. My sewing area upstairs should not be in the bedroom, if possible, because my boyfriend always goes to bed 1-2 hours before me and the sewing machine is too loud and rattles.

I have thought a lot about your staircase solution, it’s an interesting idea. The staircase would then be shorter and upstairs you might have more possibilities. However, the entry is also narrower because you have the coat rack at your back.

About the storage space: It’s true, we don’t have a basement or attic and only a small utility room. Currently, my calculation is like this: We are living in 86 m² with only a tiny cellar compartment that barely has anything in it. Christmas decorations, travel suitcases, camping gear, tools, flowerpots—we mostly store all of that currently in the apartment (and it doesn’t look as bad as it sounds here ). My mom also says that we will have more stuff once we have the space. That may be true, but I am not a collector type. Too much stuff overwhelms me and I regularly try to declutter. Of course, we will have 1-2 sheds. In the house, the very spacious wardrobe is planned in the bedroom (more than twice as much as we have now) and in the ground floor across from the stairs is the coat rack. This is intentionally not 60 cm deep (I have been asked about this several times). We never hang our jackets on hangers, I find that totally annoying. For hooks and shoes, 40 cm is also enough. The space under the stairs can still be used if we need it. Whether just with a nice chest or something like that or an additional built-in closet.

About our design quality: This is not our first draft, but already the one revised by the planner. So the dimensions and measurements are correct, the walls are exactly as thick as the planner/structural engineer calculated. The external walls are 36.5 cm, most interior walls 11.5 cm. Okay, I admit the plaster is not included. But that probably doesn’t make much difference, right? The staircase was also calculated exactly by the planner: 17 risers at 18.5 cm high and 24 cm deep, in total 370 cm long. That is a bit steeper than other stairs maybe, but I think it works. You could of course make it less steep if you adjust the ceiling height of the ground floor downwards...

About § 34: The surrounding buildings are very diverse so far. From single-story bungalows to 2.5-story settlement houses to modern 1.5-story semi-detached houses and 2-story typical city villas, everything is represented. I think we will hardly have any problems with that.

Now don’t ruin everything we tell people here. Of course, that costs something, namely a considerable amount of living pleasure, if a downpipe is built in between the dining table and sofa.

The gap between applicant drawer and architect can also be closed with a forum community. At least here—in the green forum I would see that differently

Thank you, , that’s exactly what I was hoping for!!

So, here are two possible solutions for the window arrangement. It works if you reduce the double window in the children's room on the left to a single one and do the same at the bottom. They could be 1 m wide instead of 90 cm for that. Which variant do you prefer?

Also, a "quick&dirty" second floor plan variant. Do you find this better than the first?

Now to our questions:

[*]Simple: How do you find the floor plan?

Despite the incorrect measurements for understanding: do you now just want to hear how we find it? Or did you want constructive criticism? I have now also made other suggestions, and the topic of privacy and retreat concerns the own personality of each resident in the house, who want to develop and unfold in it .., inside and also outward ... and not always want to be on top of each other just because openness is important to the planner I’m not just making this up, there is something to what I say

I would remove the sewing corner on the upper floor. It’s just annoying there. I would go crazy if the machine rattles in the hallway.

Desk into the too large bedroom and a closet on the ground floor (can be found in Pinterest ideas) with the sewing machine. You can also nicely use the table for cutting.

My suggestion regarding the windows was apparently welcomed but not implemented: they are still strictly timed instead of moving much more lively to where they are called.

Reminds me a bit of the thread by ... (@11ant, you surely know which thread I mean... the one with the flaw on the west side and too small a living area, but a fireplace)

That one?
https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/Stadtvilla-ca-150qm-auf-500qm-Grundstück.33740/

I would remove the sewing corner upstairs.
It’s just disturbing there. I would go crazy if the machine rattled in the hallway.

That’s exactly what I was about to say