Renovation floor plan

Three steps up to the living area .. ok ... but, does that then fit with the basement stairs? Is the basement in the "old building" now only about 200 cm high? Is there perhaps a more detailed basement floor plan and maybe a cross-section at that spot (architects should actually do that)?
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Hmm,

versus:


That's quite a hallway hassle to realize the two entrances to the rooms at the bottom of the plan, and it's wasted space of about 1.5 sqm. The children's room is smaller than in my version and therefore rather less suitable for the interim phase of 2 children sharing a room. And it opens to the terrace, which is rather inconvenient if you want to sit outside in the evening during summer and the children are then in their rooms.

The dressing room .. well, I really find it impractical in this arrangement, it's just too cramped. Whose stuff is actually supposed to go in there? Parents'? It's also quite a bit of running back and forth in the morning.

The storage space I created in the hallway is omitted.

The bedroom is basically neither here nor there now. It could even get tight with the door.

And then you have 30 sqm in the basement for that .. what is supposed to be there? Because the guest room, now on the ground floor, the room really isn’t that big.

In my version, you could gradually "rearrange" the children ;). The 16 sqm room on the ground floor can ultimately be very well used as a home office with a great couch (for guests to sleep on). When you have guests, you probably won’t need to work that intensively, and even if you do sometimes, the guests can hang out nicely during the day in the dining/kitchen/living area and you can work. And as long as the home office with sofa bed is still in the basement, that works too.

By the way, I also have a home office with sofa bed .. on 12 sqm. It’s a super couch that converts into a bed surface of 160x220, and otherwise allows for creative thinking ;).

Could you please share your plan with a few more measurements? I simply based it on the window widths and converted it to scale accordingly.

In fact, I end up with over 35 sqm for the extension.

The basement is currently only about 200 high and we have a problem with digging out at the bottom for our extension. We just had a detailed phone call with the architect, but the steps probably won’t help us anyway and we would still have to underpin. The next issue with the basement is that we can’t/won’t put a bathroom or toilet down there because otherwise we would have to install a second pump for wastewater from the basement, which is totally uneconomical. We already have one because the wastewater is at the street level above. That’s why I’m also skeptical about putting the children’s rooms or the bedroom downstairs if there isn’t even a toilet there.

Here is the floor plan of the "old" basement; we haven’t redrawn it yet with the extension attached. We want to make the breakthrough directly at the first window next to the stairs.



I think now I just have to keep thinking. Many thanks for the good tips and ideas!!! But this is so far from our previous thoughts, I have to process it first.

Yes, I can well believe that ;)

Where is the existing [hebeanlage] located in the basement? Couldn't something be combined there? Just so you have something to think about.

Great, you are really putting yourself into Kerstin's construction site. Top!

Hello,

I haven’t been in touch for a while because we had to reorganize some things. Unfortunately, we can’t build the extension at basement level / souterrain due to structural reasons, so now we will build larger on the ground floor level. This way, at least everything is on one living floor. Our floor plan now looks like this:



We are initially planning a children’s room, a bedroom, a guest room, a dressing room, and an office. As soon as we need a second children’s room, the office will move into the dressing room and the guest room into the current office (or vice versa, we’ll see).

I would appreciate your opinion again!

Best regards
Kerba