Our floor plan, please provide feedback

Hello,

we would like to introduce our floor plan to you and ask for an honest opinion or ideas on what could be improved.

Basic data:
approx. 170-180 sqm with a gable roof.
Ground floor: 2.80 m ceiling height.
Upper floor: 1.60-1.80 m knee wall.

Unfortunately, I couldn’t edit the plan, so I just edited it with Paint. I think you understand what I mean.


As you can see, we want to have a shower in the "guest WC," among other things for our dog because we don’t want to shower/bath him upstairs when we have been playing in the field/forest. In the kitchen, there should be a corner window and no door or window that can be opened. One of the doors to the garden in the "living/dining" area should be removed (the upper one), and the lower one should be moved further up. We do not have a TV; everything runs via a projector, so we don’t need electricity etc. on the wall facing the office.

The staircase will look like this (for easier explanation)

That’s it for the ground floor for now. Now let's come to the upper floor.


The elements in the bathroom will of course be arranged differently. We don’t like the current layout planned by our advisor, but that doesn’t matter.
The dressing room will be separated from the bedroom by a sliding element.

The room to the office will be open; I already have a picture for you of how it should look.


Now I ask for your honest opinion, and I would be happy if you could share a few more ideas with us.

Best regards

If you put a shower in the WC downstairs, there will be no WC anymore... alternatively, you can also leave out the washbasin... Don’t understand the office at the end of the living room – what is it supposed to be used for? Poor child gets a chamber in the palace... that is, if it really is a child. Is there a basement? Otherwise, HAR / utility room is too small. Also useful: where is north? What does the property look like?

Hello,

Thank you for your reply. We have no children, none are planned, only a dog. The "children's room" is currently planned more as a "storage room." If we should ever have a child, the plan is to raise the wall to the bedroom further up, then both rooms would be about 15sqm. If we have two children, a wall will be built in the "office upstairs," as it is basically planned in the current layout, but until then it remains open. These are not load-bearing walls, so there is no problem doing all of this with drywall.

Regarding the guest toilet - the toilet can then be positioned under the window where you can see it, or am I mistaken?

The office downstairs - this will probably be used for the dog; his bed, toys, etc. will go there, as well as a bookshelf and a reading chair, among other things.

We don't have a basement, the utility room can easily be made larger, guest toilet a bit to the left, the wall in the office downstairs a bit to the right, then it should fit, right?

North, the problem is, you have to imagine that the plan is completely flipped. The kitchen will be where the hallway is, etc. North is the direction where the front door is.

PS:
Plot:

Size of about 552m². The built-up area is 180 m², whereby for courtyard, terrace and other built-up ancillary areas only 50% is counted (floor area ratio 0.4). The dimensions of the plot are about 18.4 m x 30 m.



Regards

Then just copy the whole thing together so that all parts are where they are supposed to be and put it on a sheet of paper in such a way that you can see where north is and how the whole thing lies on the property. You want people to figure out your floor plan from 3 pictures and a few lines of text ... I’m not doing it

Removing the patio door in the kitchen area .. but then you should think about the next patio door. Because if the table is right in front of it, the path terrace/kitchen and vice versa is quite a slalom run.

And, regardless of whether you watch TV via projector or whatever, I would never plan a piece of wall without a power outlet, especially if the wall is in the middle of the room. You can’t unobtrusively get power from any other outlet with an extension cord there.

About the guest bathroom, I see it the same way as .. WC rotated and installation wall behind, then the way to the shower is blocked and sitting on the WC .. the knees are then almost touching the opposite wall.

The kitchen is supposed to have a corner window and no door or window that can be opened.

Why?

One of the doors to the garden in the "living/dining" area is supposed to be removed (the upper one) and the lower one should be moved further up.

Why?

Everything runs through a projector

How am I supposed to imagine that? Do you watch the news with the projector or only movies or Sky?

The staircase will look like this (for easier explanation)

No, the staircase will be quite dark for you. Where there is a window in the picture, you have a wall. You go up and right into a wall. Do you want that?

We don’t have a basement, the utility room can easily be made bigger, guest WC a bit to the left, the wall at the office below a bit to the right, then it should fit, right?

You can’t really gain much space that way, but if you use your rooms as storage rooms, that will probably add up to quite a lot.

Otherwise, I don’t really want to deal now with the mirrored position of the house that I have to imagine now. oops:

Cheers Yvonne

The toilet already works in its basic form... just play it through, you open the door, then what? You squeeze yourself between the wall and the sink and swivel the door past your back and hope you're not fat, otherwise it scratches your back... and again when you get out. Yeah, just play that through. If you don't have kids, okay - but remember, you'd have to move a whole lot... and depending on the flooring, heating, installations, that's not just done in an hour. I think I'd give it some thought beforehand.