Single-family house 160 sqm 2 floors without basement floor plan new construction

Hello, we have found a floor plan and implemented it according to our wishes.

What do you think?

Attention: the small window in the dressing room will be omitted and not installed!

Hook at the property driveway from the south.

15 m must be maintained to the rear.

Size of the property: 627 sqm
Slope: No

Number of parking spaces: 2 must be covered / garage not required, storage room planned next to the utility room

Number of floors: 2 VG knee wall 2.15 m from top edge of finished floor
Roof shape: gable roof 28 degrees
Style: modern

Number of persons: 4 persons

Office: family use or home office? Planned in the gallery

House design
Who is the planner:
- planner from a construction company
- do-it-yourself

What do you particularly like? Why?
Heat pump
External blinds throughout the house

If you have to do without, which details/extensions
- can you do without:
- cannot do without: passage from dressing room to bathroom - straight staircase

Why is the design the way it is now?
Since the driveway is from the south, the orientation was not entirely optimal anyway.
We did not want living space facing the street, therefore rather west orientation

We still need ideas for the bathroom on the upper floor.

What do you think?

yes, you can make something out of it.

First of all, I would mirror it and shift the house to the east so that you have the west sun in the living room and in the garden. But that is a matter of personal taste - some prefer the sun at breakfast in the kitchen.

The staircase seems too long to me. It's rare that someone plans too much space. But 18 risers? Really? How high are the rooms supposed to be? If it gets shorter at the front door, the entrance would benefit anyway. I removed 2 steps once.

I would still enlarge the depth of the living room a bit (arrows).



I would also widen the bedroom a bit. The gallery is still nice with 30cm less, but in the bedroom you then have space for a nice wide bed and room to breathe.

Door and window positions in the wardrobe and dressing room make these rooms almost unfurnishable - at least not for the mentioned or planned use. One might say that the dressing room and the guest WC have received the best location. It would be nicer if the children's rooms were located there in the south on the upper floor.

Overall not bad, a few of the pain points have already been mentioned.

I would overall lack storage space for a four-person household.

The gallery is nice and luxurious - the question is whether you can afford this luxury. I would at least treat myself to a small storage room on the upper floor and take it away from the gallery. Such a gallery loses a lot of its effect if it is permanently cluttered.

And otherwise, I wonder where you want to store the stuff for 4 people. Various children's vehicles (and there is quite a collection), possibly equipment for hobbies, garden tools, etc.

Can you at least still get a garden shed?

The gallery is huge, since it does not offer an air space, I would seriously consider if it makes more sense as a room. Use it as a home office? If the children are always running through there to their rooms? I consider that a very risky approach.
And for me personally, such a gallery only really makes sense as such if it is openly connected to the ground floor. I wouldn’t necessarily call this a "gallery," but rather a very large hallway on the upper floor - and then the fancy attitude is gone and you should really consider if another room makes more sense. But, as I said, that is my personal idea of a gallery and that you shouldn’t spend so much sqm on circulation space (=hallway).

And one more thing I noticed: does the wall stub at the kitchen island have a purpose? Otherwise, I would just place the island freely in the room and save myself this stub.

Thank you very much for your quick feedback.

A bench is planned under the window in the cloakroom.
One wall would be enough for us to place [t].
I have passed on the information about the bedroom immediately.
In the plan it is now only 10 cm wider than what we currently have. I think the additional 30 cm here are good. Thank you!
In the gallery, only a dresser/file cabinet with a desk is planned.
Due to the shifting of the bedroom wall, the window is then 30 cm away from the wall, but that is not a problem since the desk is supposed to be placed there and light is needed.
On the opposite side, there are then 55 cm left over.

We still have the attic as a storage room.

If we close the wall to the gallery for an additional room, we will have no light in the staircase...

The staircase is so long in the plan because the ceilings downstairs are 2.75 m high. Upstairs 2.67 cm.
The stair builder will make it one step shorter, then we will have a 1.45 m passage to the cloakroom at the entrance which should be sufficient.

We need the small wall in the kitchen because of the statics.
And it is a small separation to the living area. We didn’t find that bad.

Behind the carport on the property line, a utility room with 2 sliding doors is planned.
Approx. 16 sqm. For bicycles etc.

2.75 m high ceilings below

Why?