Planning our single-family house - What do you think about the design?

Regarding the shower, I just want to say that it will have a partition wall that is even high enough to sit on. Also, I don't know why the showerhead under the slope should be a problem. Where it will be, a height of 2.20 should easily be possible.

Well, it is above all also the way to the kitchen, the children's rooms, etc.

Way to the kitchen in the morning... and almost all of it is also to get every schoolchild to the door. You can’t even quickly call up the stairs from the kitchen that it’s finally breakfast time, etc.

Sofa with its back to the window, but always nicely facing the hallway.



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For example, children's room 2 from your sectional drawing:

do you see what I mean? As a rule, you don’t open a door completely to go through, but already go through slightly at an angle... and here you end up at the sloping ceiling. Because the yellow is the door to the children’s room.

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Upper floor... just the stair landing situation:


rather narrow and dark.

For this one here:


open space, the south-facing window. At the bottom of the plan in the north then the storage area for the floor vacuum cleaner and mop.

Storage space in the bathroom for towels, toilet paper, etc. and a really large shower without a sloping ceiling.

Additional storage space in the hallway, e.g. bedding in the dressers under the roof window. Ok, the dressing area now has a little less storage space upstairs due to the sloping ceiling than in your last version, but on the other hand additional practically distributed storage space.

Furthermore, your upper floor covers 2 steps of the stairs coming from below. Unfortunately, this is not included in the section, but it could restrict headroom on the stairs, especially when going down.

Your planning is not bad, I just have a problem that our TV furniture, which together take up 3.26m, does not fit anywhere else. Also, in the bathroom, I don’t like that the washbasin is in the back corner and there is no space for cabinets next to it, but the main thing is a huge shower which is nice but we could manage with less. I agree with you about the south double-wing window that it would be nicer, but it would take up space in the children's room, which is already not large, and also in the bedroom it would take away space for a dresser for bed linen, etc., which we need. We need 5m in the dressing room with a height of 2.34m, so the other dressing room would be too small, although I liked the way it was planned. Regarding the upstairs situation, I can only say that the floor plan with the strictly desired straight staircase does not allow for more. Since we do not want to reduce the size of the rooms just to have more space in the hallway, we will give up this window. I have to discuss your step with my architect to see what he says.

In the end, you have to decide that yourself, especially since you or you all will actually be living there. But just the access situation to the children's rooms would definitely make me not want the floor plan that way!

Comparison (Estimated values)

Floor area (not living space) children's room in your design approx. 14.8m².
In kbt09's design approx. 13.3m².

That's initially about 1.5m² less, which is not insignificant.

However, if you take a closer look at the plans, in your design, almost exactly these 1.5m² are already spent just on the entrance to even get into the room.

So. 3m², which in kbt’s design can be used more sensibly, for example to make the hallway brighter or other things.

I understand your situation, that sometimes you get stuck and don’t even notice it. That has probably happened to everyone here in the forum at some point.
But the art is, when you get such a great pass from someone like you did from kbt09 (respect for that!), to at least try to question your floor plan objectively.

I’ve been in that situation too and we have been doing nothing but planning for a solid 6 months. However, I am really glad that we didn't just choose the first best solutions!

Just a well-meaning piece of advice...

I have also been in that situation and for a solid 6 months we have been doing nothing but planning. However, I am very glad that we did not choose the first best solutions right away!

Just a well-meant advice...

Full agreement. We also spent about 6 months on the floor plan and sometimes started completely over. (Relocated the kitchen, moved the stairs, etc...). And now we are glad that we did not take the first design option

When I saw your plans, my first thought was => trash bin.

But with the changes from , something reasonable came out.

Your planning is not bad, I just have a problem that our TV furniture, which together takes up 3.26m, doesn’t fit anywhere else.

If I read the plan from correctly, you have 3.51m space for that. So it fits. Otherwise, better buy new TV furniture than mess up the house because of that.

Additionally, in the bathroom I don’t like that the washbasin is located in the back corner and there is no space for cabinets next to it, but the main thing is a huge shower which is nice but we could also manage with less.

But you also have natural light at the washbasin there. And once you get used to such a huge shower, you don’t want anything else anymore.

For that we need 5m in the dressing room with 2.34m height, so the other dressing room would be too small even though I liked the way it was planned.

The only help is to tidy up. And to store a part where it belongs. The revised floor plan also offers possibilities for that.

Regarding the landing situation, I can only say that the floor plan with the absolutely desired straight stairs doesn’t allow more.
Since we don’t want to reduce the rooms just to have more space in the hallway, we give up on this window.

Then you should reconsider this "absolutely desired straight stairs". We also absolutely wanted straight stairs. But we also had the house size for it. Before I squeeze a nice straight stair between an overhang and a slanted wall, right into my path, I’d rather not.

I have to discuss the matter with your first step with my architect to see what he says about it.

He will tell you that it works without any problem. But a comfortable, open feeling on a staircase is something else.