Part 2: Schnuckline builds a cozy little house

Hello dear ones :)

After so many suggestions for my first plan, everything has now gone back and forth with our architect and now everything is finished :)
I’m happy if you take a look!

A few quick infos:

Our basement living area is still missing from the floor plans. Basement living areas are allowed in principle. Planned there are a laundry room, the boiler room, the storage room, an office, and a large hobby room with bathroom and small kitchenette.
Slope: no
Number of floors: 2 floors (attic counts as 2nd floor due to knee wall) + basement living area
Roof type: gable roof 25 degrees, knee wall 160 cm (we have a waiver for this) + a dormer on the south side for the two children's rooms is also planned but not yet final (also have a waiver)
Number of persons: 2 adults (eventually + 2 children), 28 and 34 years old
Heating: heat pump with ventilation

The cardinal directions of the floor plan correspond almost exactly to the real cardinal directions. Except for the guest WC, the far right window in the living room, the kitchen and the bathroom, all windows are floor-to-ceiling.

Ground floor: A small path leads to the right side into the house. Right at the entrance is a small niche that holds water crates, ironing board, vacuum cleaner and other stuff. Instead of a door, this niche is separated by a curtain. That saves space and I like how it looks :) Next to it is a guest WC with a urinal. Opposite the stairs on the wall are three coat racks planned, which will be screwed between ceiling and floor. There is space for a shoe chest and a tall shoe cabinet next to the entrance door and along the WC wall. Strollers and bicycles etc. will be banished to a small shed in front of the house. That’s about the entrance area.
The kitchen will be accessible from two sides via sliding doors. The garden is accessed through the double doors in the dining area.

Upper floor:
The bedroom is planned to be quite small. I know. That is intentional. Our current sleeping area is even a bit smaller and we get along very well with it. In an emergency (plaster cast, crib etc.) we can push the bed to the wall and have a bit more space. The dressing room is not separated from the sleeping area by a door. The two children’s rooms might get a dormer. There is one small change in the bathroom that is not shown: the washbasin will be integrated into the bathtub ledge and will move 25 cm over. The passage is therefore about 90 cm wide.

Finished :)

Just as a thought experiment. If it is assumed that you lock yourself inside the bathroom when on the toilet, which you said somewhere, you don't need the wall next to the throne. That would give some air. In my opinion, the bathroom needs a window. And the bedroom window should be wider. I think, internally, you should overcome the tendency to close everything off in favor of brothers, the sun, freedom, and towards the light. I'm also not a fan of the ultra-modern open living where there are no longer rooms but only utility zones, but a certain amount of light and air is necessary in a house to feel comfortable in it.

Thanks for your feedback :) Do you mean on the upper floor? I absolutely need that wall. I find it terrible to have to see the toilet bowl when I’m relaxing in the bathtub :D I wanted to separate the WC from the rest of the bathroom. An alternative would have been a separate toilet, but unfortunately I can’t afford that luxury :( You might not be able to tell so well now, but the window is a skylight above the bathtub. The bedroom window is deliberately narrow, since our shutters are down there 24 hours anyway. But theoretically, it could be made wider. I’ll have to ask my boyfriend what he thinks :) Thanks!

Ok, overlooked roof window.

I see the attic twice, but no basement (?)

I liked the bathroom better before (Part 1 #48). For the dressing room, I would step down the wall behind the dresser slightly (i.e., just about a hand's width) above its height. Then the TV setup works, and it also looks better.

On the ground floor, the toilet stands quite solitary in the hallway, as it would fit in the "Bauhaus style" – but not here. I would be massively disturbed by the spatial feeling of having the beam over my knees while sitting on the sofa. That's the nice thing about the 3D house planner programs I normally don't like so much: you can also look at things like that in section. I can see it anyway; that's routine.

You will curse daily about the drip trail between the stove and the sink. I would equip the window above the sink with a fixed lower part, so it also swings over a fixed faucet, and you can have pots with kitchen herbs there. Having no roller shutter there does not seem like a good idea to me; thanks to the high fence, the burglar can work there well, perfectly screened from view.

I am also still missing the elevations.

Hm. As tidy as the ground floor looks at first glance, I like the upper floor that much less.

Regarding the ground floor: a roughly 1 m wide corridor as a storage room (plaster missing from the measurements?!), you can do that; I just saw it recently. In an apartment in Munich, which was probably very expensive and only about 70 sqm. But you have an entire house and won’t run into strangers on the way to the basement... with the limited space you have, I’d probably prefer to install a built-in closet in the WC or hallway. You probably have that now in the apartment? Maybe you should free yourself from the conditions of an apartment, this will now be a whole house with completely different circumstances and possibly also habits!

I wouldn’t like the crooked hallway upstairs at all.
The dressing room is already only 1.95 m wide in the shell. Minus plaster, possibly some space between the back of the closet and the wall, maybe only about 1.88 m remains. Minus 2 x 60 cm closets leaves 68 cm to walk through. In my opinion, you can’t furnish it as drawn (without feeling cramped). The bedroom door would always block access to the closet (and I’d be afraid of pinching my fingers between the door leaf and the wall).

The position of the WC in the upstairs bathroom seems to be unchangeable for you, although I would bet that with children it gets used more often during the day than at night. And even at night, one more step wouldn’t be a big deal?
Why you then still need such a cramped privacy wall, I just don’t understand?

By the way, I don’t believe you will always, always put a stroller back outside into the cold after you’ve taken the child out. And I also don’t think it’s great to put a very small child into a completely cooled-down stroller in winter.