Single-family house design

Good evening,

I would like to ask for your opinions on the following draft:

It is a single-family house with approx. 180 m² of living space
- flat pitched roof (22°) with exposed roof truss, rafters visible, boarding covered with gypsum plasterboards, knee wall 1.60 m, maximum room height on the upper floor 3.50 m
- monolithic masonry (42.5 cm perlite)
- heat pump (deep drilling), controlled residential ventilation with heat recovery
- open living-dining area, the kitchen can still be separated if needed
- direct access to the garage
- relatively large hallway, guest bathroom with shower (mainly to be able to clean the dog)
- bedroom on the upper floor with approx. 12 m² plus semi-open dressing area and direct access to the master bathroom
- the (not yet existing) children each get a room with ~16 m² and their own bathroom including bathtub (we hardly take baths ourselves, so we only have a shower)



The house is to be built on a ~750 m² plot with a 3 m slope from east to west; in the west a retaining wall of 1.40 m is to be constructed to level the garden. The terrace door is about 1.4 m above ground level, where either fill will be added or stairs to the living room will be built.

Thank you for your opinions,

Regards,

Sebastian

Basically doable. Downstairs it's similar in room layout to ours, just a bit bigger. We also thought about having the kitchen open or closed for a long time.
Regarding the living room: Do you want a wall unit next to the fireplace? Is the wall big enough for that?
Bathrooms: Do you really need a sink for every person upstairs? Do you have a cleaning lady?
Bedroom: If you really want to equip the dressing area with cabinets like that, why don’t you make a spacious bedroom out of it? Or properly separate it and have a walk-in closet. You still can’t just leave things lying around as planned, because you pass by every time you enter or leave the bedroom.
[Galerie]: The purpose of a [Galerie] has remained unclear to me so far. It’s actually just wasted space, which you compensate for by the size of the house. In my opinion, the only advantage is the lighting of the hallway, which perhaps could also be done from above. Maybe a utility room or storage room there would still make sense. We, for example, have planned a utility room upstairs for washer and dryer due to lack of a basement.

Hello =)

In the living room, besides the fireplace, there is still 3.20 m of space, so a wall unit would still fit, but it will only be a TV board. Possibly, I also want to have the stone slab of the fireplace extended over the entire length and have drawers made underneath by the carpenter.

Regarding the bathrooms on the upper floor: the two sinks in the children's bathroom are not fixed, maybe only one will be installed. In the parents' bathroom, we definitely need two =)
We don't have a cleaning lady, only my wife, I hope she doesn't read this :)

You are basically right about the dressing room, I will think about whether to really remove the wall, but this way I have two wall surfaces for cabinets, plenty of space.

The gallery is actually really "a waste of space," but it creates an open and bright entrance/hallway. The washing machine and dryer will move to the basement; unfortunately, I couldn't include that upstairs anymore.

Hello,

Wouldn't you rather build a proper chimney instead of just slapping an ugly stainless steel pipe on the outside?!

Best regards, Andy

Hello,

Wouldn't you rather build a proper chimney instead of just sticking such an unsightly stainless steel pipe on the outside?!

Regards, Andy

I think Boergi has the same problem as we do. Where a chimney would be possible, it is not practical, and where it is practical, it is not possible. That's why the outside wall. And on the outside wall of a modern house, I think a stainless steel pipe even looks better than a masonry one.

The chimney is still uncertain, the stainless steel chimney outside is also becoming tight since we only have a 40 cm roof overhang, going around the roof looks even worse. I have also read several times that stainless steel chimneys draw less well when lighting fires because they are quite cold. A chimney inside the house would be possible, but that would mean an additional corner in the children's room upstairs.

A third option would be a masonry chimney on the outside wall ;)