Planning is almost complete - Your opinion is wanted

I can't understand why the entrance area is too dark? We have windows at the staircase, and there should be enough light coming in there?

The stairs won't let the light from the window into the hallway. Additionally, you will have a closed staircase, nothing will pass through anyway. Take your children's Lego bricks and build the hallway in 3D... then you'll know what we mean.

I also think that the waste cut in the ground floor has too many flaws to make something good out of the design with only small changes. What might be tolerable in an old apartment is not necessarily what you want in your own built single-family house. The entrance area, outside as well as inside, is the calling card of the house. If that is already a makeshift, do you really want that...? This also applies to a granny flat - that entrance is just shoved behind the garage :(

Actually, the ground floor consists only of the living area for you... assuming something will be changed here, you might not even want to go toward the stairs, meaning entering the hallway.

I also wonder if you want to operate the attic ladder three times a day if you want to get things that are normally stored in a utility room ;)

Ok, I am now at the point where I completely discard this plan and plan again. [Aussehülle bleibt]

I can't understand why the entrance area is too dark? We have windows at the stairway and there should be enough light coming in there?

We also have a window at the stairs, similar to yours. But you have almost 6 m of hallway, ours is 3.80 m long. Light also comes through the opposite glass door and through the front door with glass inserts. But: we have an open wooden staircase.



As you can see, most of the light comes through the door here (the sun is shining here at the moment, entrance faces east). If you have a closed staircase, it will be darker. Also, the hallway is longer and the light simply doesn't reach that far into the room.

Nice chest! It shows how great it can look when you don’t always plan the wardrobe under the stairs just because there’s otherwise no space :)

Thank you! We are especially proud of the chest! That is the dowry chest of my great-great-grandmother. The restorer who refurbished it for us said that it must be much older, around 300 years old, and must be an old castle chest. "Normal" citizens would not have been able to afford artistic fittings at that time. From my father I know that my great-great-grandmother worked on an estate in Holland before the First World War and probably brought the chest from there. It has become a real treasure after the restoration!!