Our floor plan is under discussion

We haven’t found any building envelope, though...
To the left on the plan is a palisade (spelling?!)(about 2m high) since the property behind it is a bit lower (which suits us just fine, there is a shopping center behind), from this lower property there is access to the dead-end street, with some steps for pedestrians and a kind of “loop” for cyclists. This loop is fenced off from our property with a wire fence (blue line). To the right on the plan is a neighbor, and at the bottom on the plan as well, but only at a distance of x meters, since the house is on the other street and connected there. The neighbor to the left on the plan only has a small hunter’s fence and “flowers” planted; here we get plenty of sun. We are also quite well shielded from there by the garage.
The exterior dimensions of the house are fixed, a shower toilet needs a certain width, a hallway as well, and a wider kitchen wouldn’t be ergonomic either; as it is, it is already "wide enough, but not too wide" to work in it together.
We have already tried to shift things around on the upper floor, but that always resulted in rooms with way too many corners, or rooms where not even the bed could fit... I guess we lack the spatial imagination...
That’s why I’m here.

Can you please draw where your street is, and everything you wrote in #13?

Regards

The kitchen will definitely be extended longer than on the floor plan and it will get a small counter. It will be roughly where the double balcony door is still drawn. That will be reduced to one and the kitchen will extend up to there. Our dining table is also quite large, so that fits quite well. I also find it a pity that the living room is so narrow, especially since there is supposed to be a corner sofa, which is usually about 3m wide, so it almost reaches the south window.

Hello,

if you reduce the double balcony door to a single balcony door, then you definitely need to plan additional windows, as hardly any light comes into your kitchen through the north window. You find it a pity that your living room is so narrow, then I would plan it differently too. You don’t have to put up with that! Where do you want to put a TV, I don’t see any space at all?

Best regards
Sabine

Hello ypg,

I have doodled a bit on Google Maps and hope it becomes a bit clearer...

Hello Sabine,

it's true, the first light from the side only comes in at just under 5m, but once from the balcony door on the right side, and also from the large passage in the hallway. The hallway is quite bright at that spot due to the open staircase and two large windows there.
I don’t find 3.65m depth in the living room particularly narrow. A corner sofa is about 2x3m wide (roughly). On the side, we therefore have 0.65 - 1.65m of space to the corner. The coffee table is not that big, it fits exactly in the corner in front of the couch in terms of size. I think that’s enough, especially since there is nothing in this corner because of the large sliding door. We were again in a living room with exactly this width over the weekend, and it didn’t look cramped at all (ok, small sofa, but also a cabinet on the wall. We immediately set it up to see how it would look in our place).

I also stumbled over the TV at first, but the TV will simply go on the wall facing the garden, on the lower side. There’s 2.65m of space between the south-facing windows. Probably without a cabinet underneath, just the TV itself.

Best regards
Tanita

I also stumbled over the TV at first, but the TV simply goes on the wall facing the garden, bottom of the plan. There is 2.65m space between the south-facing windows. Probably without a cabinet underneath, just the TV itself.

Best regards
Tanita

As I understand it, the sofa is supposed to be positioned as drawn, right? The TV then goes on the exterior wall and you can look at the TV at an angle. Who would want to watch TV like that? Personally, the entire kitchen, dining, and living area would be too narrow for me. Your kitchen including the dining area is about 2.9m wide and approximately 10m long.

Best regards
Sabine