Single-family house design - Looking forward to comments!

Hello everyone,

thanks to the nice people here in the forum, we found a program in which we could create a draft for our "dream house."

Looking forward to your feedback and possibly suggestions for improvement!

Best regards! :cool:

You can't do much with that,

no views, no dimensions, no furnishing, no windows, wall thicknesses?, stair length?

Apart from that:

- Bathroom above the living room is unfortunate (regarding wastewater) --> you have 1. additional costs due to extra pipes and 2. the noise issue which can be solved but also costs

- Walk-in closet only accessible through the bathroom: do you then run naked through the hallway in the morning and meet your kids' friends?
- The hallway upstairs is quite large, that can be better adjusted in favor of room sizes
- Similarly on the ground floor: a large entrance hall, but no proper place for a wardrobe
- To bring groceries into the pantry from the garage you have to go through 4 doors and a long zigzag course
- Is that a wood stove in the living room? Where will the chimney go upstairs?

Regards,
Sebastian

Always the same thing when you try something yourself that others have studied for years :)

The best way is to take floor plans from prefabricated house providers and "change" them a bit to cover your wishes. Then you go to a professional with them and get informed/advised about the extra costs and feasibility, and above all, the sensibility.

Thanks Boergi for the tips!

Thanks Der Da for nothing... do you think I’ll sit on our property tomorrow and then start diligently building??

Of course we have appointments with specialists in the coming days...
I was asking for tips (like: bathroom above the living room is unfortunate (regarding wastewater) --> you have 1. extra costs due to additional pipes and 2. the noise issue which can also be solved but also costs), what we should consider in our design.

On the topic of dressing room, there is a sliding door to the bedroom, unfortunately you don’t see it in the print... ;)

Actually, this does not need to be commented on, the Da is right, furthermore the first floor is 12m and the ground floor 14m or is that intentional?

Where is the south located or is the very elongated rectangular shape intentional because of the plot?

Since when have paper-thin walls been in fashion???? :eek:

no, honestly, Ocken, Der Da is right! You should see for yourself that you can't comment on something like that???!!!!!

Walls are walls, they have a thickness. You lose about 10 - 15 % of the floor area because of that.
A staircase has a length. It takes up space. About 3.80 meters on the plan. You want to step on it and off it.
Walls are there to be furnished. Furniture has, besides height, width and depth. For that, corners are quite useful. A shelf can be about 30 cm deep, a cabinet 65 cm.
A plan needs measurements. So you can see if something can fit there.
A house needs windows. To look outside. You plan them right away so the facade looks nice too.
A house needs a plot of land. It’s built on that. There’s a plan for that. With a north arrow, so you know where the terrace will be built.

That would be the fitting comment to the child’s sketch.

A bit of self-reflection is definitely called for: put the sketch away and look at it again after a week, then you won’t even know what’s front and back ;)