Single-family house ~130sqm: balancing rooms

Storage space for what kind of storage?

Accessible and dry.

There is the storage room after all

I thought that was the wardrobe. The room apparently has to serve many purposes: keep in mind that it is a small room with 2 doors! Vacuum cleaner, drinks, container with trash... all on the floor or still 2 doors open? I don’t find that good at all. It’s no shame if the house is a bit too small, but then to add a strangely shaped extension, which is actually used as a room divider for terraced houses. Why not just 30 or 50 cm wider or longer – with some rearranging there will then be space for the utility room. The all-purpose room is quite compact, whereas the rooms upstairs are generous. In my opinion, a lot more heart needs to be put into this. Others call it work.

As a simple alternative to the basement that does not take up space inside the house itself. I think it also nicely closes off the house towards the driveway.

But it looks "retrofitted" like the second staircase at the Langen Eugen ;-)

So my main criticism is the uneven distribution of the spaces. You are expecting a child who will play in the living room for many years, and the 37 sqm for the living room, dining area, and kitchen is extremely tight. Drawing in a sofa over 2 meters long and sticking a tiny table to the wall gives a false impression of more space than there actually is. Meanwhile, this is the most important room where you live every day!

Instead, there's a dressing room that can only be used for a wardrobe wall including an oversized bedroom where you only sleep. The guest room and 2x home offices also take up unnecessary space. A children's room with 18 sqm is nice but not absolutely necessary. I therefore like your idea of moving the 2nd office upstairs. I would just divide it differently - see plan. Here you have space for 3 large wardrobes, in the bedroom, the children's room, and the office.

This creates significantly more space for the all-purpose room on the ground floor. In my idea, I also closed off the stairs (window then begins above the stair rise) and made the space underneath usable as a mini pantry. Tall cabinets for the kitchen move in. In the hallway, this also results in more wardrobe space.

Maybe I can give you new impulses with this and you reconsider moving the 2nd office upstairs.

Thank you very much and really coolly done. Was all of this done with Photoshop? And especially with the cabinets and the corner, very well solved, I always had the problem with such solutions that you walk into the cabinet. This brings the former dressing room to about 9,x sqm and is useful as a second office. Below will be the open-plan kitchen and living area with 49 sqm. I would tend to leave out the pantry and rather make a large U-shaped kitchen. There is definitely enough space for that now. With open steps, the staircase should also be bright. But since we don't have to commit to the interior floor plans for now as long as the static remains, there is still time to think about it calmly. In the conversation, we have definitely already started optimizing the bathroom and also removing the wall between the storage room and the heating room. Then the door can be turned so that it is easier to get into the heating room.

Thank you very much and really coolly done. Was it all done with Photoshop?

Yes, exactly! In real life, I am not an architect but a graphic designer ;) Feel free to keep us updated if anything happens.

The kitchen is really well designed



why do you want so much glass to look at your car? That’s exactly what I didn’t want to see.