Single-family house for 4 people - Opinions

If you place a closet on the office side, there's still 68cm left. That's not much, but with a 180cm wide bed you would have 78cm.

Again: You can walk there, but you can't use the closet. If you really need the closet, you have a problem. Stand in front of a closet and now place something 70cm behind you so you can't step back, e.g., a table. Now try to take something from the bottom of the closet without sitting under the table. Just opening the closet doors with the dance around it would annoy me. But okay, it's not a real planning error. You can simply leave out the closet.

Can you please say something about the "path" next to the storage room?

I think counting the cm here is rather unimportant. If it were mine, the stairs would be 1m wide and the rest — whatever is left — must be enough for the "gallery." However, the width of the stairs may influence their length. As soon as it’s about the stairs, you need all measurements again (available space, floor height, ceiling height). Have you even calculated / received / reviewed the values for your stairs? What are they?

What speaks against this arrangement of the living room? You have a view of the TV and out the door. The disadvantage is that you have the dining table at your back, which wouldn't bother me.

I always find it nicer to sit open to the dining table/rest of the room. And with your arrangement, you enter the room and look at the back of the couch. I think that might look good in very large rooms, but here the couch then takes up almost the entire width of the room and you have to squeeze past it along the outer wall. Not a great walking path either.

I just don’t see the point of a cooking island in a closed kitchen, it neither looks particularly great nor is it particularly practical.
So I would plan a) a proper open kitchen with a great, spacious cooking island or b) a classic closed kitchen with plenty of space.

What bothers you about the open kitchen right now? Especially your situation with small children actually screams for an open kitchen with a cooking island...

What bothers us about the open kitchen is that it looks messy if you leave something standing around. The advantage, of course, is that you have a good view of the children. Our current idea is to install a double sliding door there so we can have both.

If you make the path all the way to the back, in my opinion you will have a problem with the passage height.

You’re right. But if I don’t make the path all the way to the very back and leave 90 cm space, it’s hard to reach the window. What weighs more? From my perspective, not being able to reach the window well. I often read that the window cleans itself on the outside, but I don’t really believe that. I think it depends on how old the window is and that the Lotus effect eventually wears off.

What is the problem with this arrangement of the living room? You have a view of the TV and out the door. The disadvantage is that you have the dining table behind your back, which wouldn’t bother me.

There’s nothing wrong with the idea. I hadn’t considered it.

Again: You can walk there, but you can’t use the cabinet. If you really need the cabinet, you have a problem. Imagine standing in front of a cabinet and now put something 70 cm behind you so you can’t step back, e.g. a table. Now try to take something out of the wardrobe at the bottom without sitting under the table. Even just opening the cabinet doors with the dance around it would annoy me. But okay, it’s not really a planning error. You can simply leave out the cabinet.

I find counting the cm here rather unimportant. If it were mine, the staircase would be 1 m wide and the rest – whatever is left over – must be enough for the “gallery.” But the width of the stairs may also influence their length. Once it comes to the stairs, you need all the dimensions again (available space, floor height, ceiling height). Have you even calculated/obtained/inspected the values for your stairs? What are they?

We have an Ikea wardrobe and a Malm board. When I open the wardrobe, I need 55 cm space so it opens comfortably. Then, of course, I sit on the bed myself. When I pull out a drawer from the MALM board, it takes 40 cm space so it can be opened comfortably. Since the MALM board will go against the wall to the office, I currently see no problem in combination with the 160 cm wide bed. Later, of course, this will look different.

I haven’t really dealt with the stairs yet. For that, I would also need complete dimensions of the stair area. What I have seen is that 90 cm seems a bit too narrow to me. You mean a gallery so that one cannot get to the attic window at all?

I find it always nicer to sit open towards the dining table/remaining room. And with your arrangement, you enter the room and look at the back of the couch. I find that might still look good in very large rooms, but here the couch almost takes up the entire width of the room and then you have to squeeze past the outer wall. Also not a great walking path.

It depends on what kind of couch you have. Our current couch is about 3.10 m wide, which means the walking path is very large. (room width 4.8 m) I don’t think Hanse987’s idea is wrong.

At the staircase, the headroom prevails 100%. According to DIN, the head clearance should be at least 2m. If I roughly calculate, I come to less than 2m head clearance when you extend the path all the way to the back. You get annoyed about the poor cleaning possibility twice a year. You get annoyed about insufficient head clearance several times a day. Sufficient head clearance also reduces the consumption of bandaging material and doctor visits!

It depends on what kind of couch you have. Our current couch is about 3.10 meters wide, which means the walking path is very large. (Room width 4.8m) I don’t think Hanse987’s idea is wrong.

Of course it’s not wrong. I just don’t find the walking path very comfortable, and the living area doesn’t feel very open either; you might as well make it a separate room.

The clearance height is 100% dominant for the staircase. According to DIN, the head clearance should be at least 2m. If I roughly calculate, I come to less than 2m of head clearance if you extend the path all the way back. You get annoyed about the poor cleaning possibility twice a year. You get annoyed about insufficient head clearance several times a day. Sufficient head clearance also reduces the consumption of bandages and doctor visits!

True. Sorry, I had a mental block. ☹️ This urgently needs to be changed. If I had done it this way, I would be annoyed for the rest of my life and literally have headaches.