Single-family house for 4 people - Opinions

But it’s not practical if you have to turn on the light every time because you can’t see your jacket at the wardrobe due to the darkness. Where should the light at your wardrobe come from? Same upstairs, a big hallway that lies in darkness.

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Sabine

You are right. The wardrobe is in the dark, and currently the hallway upstairs too. My wife would prefer to have the entrance to the utility room in the hallway, and honestly, I would too. A dormer window upstairs could help counteract that. For downstairs, only double doors help.

An alternative is to put the utility room entrance into the kitchen. Then we have more options because the hallway becomes wider.

Why then have a guest room?

You could also save the door and just have a fixed window.

I would have this planned now so that windows, doors, etc. are coordinated with the kitchen.

In the guest room, we can also later have our bedroom if we can no longer manage the stairs.

I also meant that a sliding door should go there.

Ask people who have a pantry. Water and crates of beer, milk, bulky kitchen appliances, yellow sacks, etc.

So if you don’t do laundry in the utility room, the opposite is true – in my opinion. You spend almost all your time in the open space and not in the hallway, so it would be the shortest way that way.

That’s completely legitimate. You are building the house for yourselves and not for resale. Still, I would consider whether I would spend that much money on space to then only allocate 50% of the ground floor for the main living area = living room + kitchen. The living-dining room will be quite a dark, boring room – to put it bluntly. At least think about a west window.

Good arguments. Because of the dark hallway/wardrobe, I might change that again. Then with a different staircase, you could also omit the dormer window at the stairs. If I have time, I'll sketch the various variants and post them here for selection.

You need to get something from the utility room several times a day, whether shopping bags, hammer or toilet paper. It always makes sense to have a neutral door to the utility room that can also be quickly reached directly from the hallway. Constantly going through the kitchen (even though you’re already standing in the hallway), technical noises in the open space, disturbing the cook, i.e. being in the way in a kitchen where the utility room door is even behind the island, is not practical. Everyday things are needed not only from the open space but rather from all areas, so it’s more practical if the utility room door is in the hallway. Otherwise, you degrade the open space or kitchen to a traffic area.

Even better arguments. But I am still considering moving the utility room entrance again. As already said above, I’ll make a few sketches based on the ideas here and my previous ideas. I’ll then post a selection in the forum, but it will only be tonight.

A single-family house where the living room has windows on only one (!) side and one of them is even blocked by the sofa – to me, that is dark and boring. A terraced house would have done just as well. It would be less boring with larger windows on two sides with nice plants in front or a terrace with stylish garden furniture.

I once looked for something like that with windows on only one side and I don’t find it boring at all – if the wall is nicely designed, it can even appear more lively than with a window, in my opinion.

It really looks great, I agree with you. But I bet on the side where the photographer is standing, there are windows because it is so bright there. And maybe a third wall with shelves or picture collages "completely plastered" would then possibly also be too much.

I also like that, it’s quite similar. However, the living room in both pictures is much bigger, so deeper!

And behold, on the other side of this living room are windows

I once looked up something like this with only one side window and I don't find it boring at all - if you design the wall nicely, it can even appear more lively than with a window, I think. [ATTACH alt="Wohnidee-Haus-Wohnzimmer.jpg"]45885[/ATTACH]

It really looks great, I agree with you. But I bet that on the side where the photographer is standing, there are windows because it’s so bright there. And a third wall with shelves or picture collages "completely plastered" would probably be too much.

That may well be, the question is only whether this window would bring much to the living room. And in the OP’s floor plan, the kitchen is also there, so the distance is already pretty large. I think if the middle window, as in my example here cut off on the right, is appropriately large and present, it brings more than another window on the outer sides?

if you design the wall nicely, it can even appear more lively than with a window, I think.

How right you are: here I actually miss picture links showing that the builder would have been inspired by your zigzag wall.