Single-family house for 4 people - Opinions

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Chrisi1906

2020-04-11 23:15:47
  • #1
Back to the topic. I wanted to know if the rooms are okay like this. I assume they are well / acceptably arranged. After all, the floor plan is from Gussek Haus.

As YPG suggested, I am going with a 1.4m knee wall but a 35-degree roof pitch and will leave out the dormer. The office will get a skylight. For our furniture, this is pretty much exactly the knee wall height I need.

Something else that occurred to me. Currently, the hallway on the upper floor gets little light. That’s why I would also position a skylight there. The downside is that it is really hard to clean because it is far up. What do you think?

Maybe the other rooms in the attic could also use a bit more light?
 

ypg

2020-04-11 23:55:52
  • #2
After all? Every home builder uses this arrangement. But whatever. I'll take a stance: The hallway is way too big at over 18 sqm. However, your staircase is drawn too small, it needs more space, at least a stair flight of about 220 x 250. I find the cloakroom too small for 4 people. I actually started a thread about that the last few days. THE LIST! I'll also include the utility room in the criticism, which is nicely large but can only be accessed through the living room and kitchen doors. The utility room is the most central room of a house and must be used several times a day. Accessing it through living spaces is therefore not suitable, plus having to use 2 additional doors is very inconvenient, especially for laundry. Window areas and size are insufficient for an airy living atmosphere. The drawn-in sofa certainly does not correspond to an acceptable size or seating depth and suggests a larger living room than it actually is. Upper floor: hallway too big. Staircase already mentioned. Toilet position under the 2-meter line and needs to be adjusted with the other bathroom fixtures. The washbasin does not correspond to a realistic size for a family bathroom. 4 people: 2 washbasins. And a proper shower instead of a cramped corner space-saving shower. The bathroom door, like the office door, should open inward. There is no reason to deviate from this rule. Bedroom: draw in a realistically wide bed. As you age, you want more space and need sufficient clearance on the sides. So get rid of that brown thing, then it will fit. Plan a nice large window in the stairwell. If you want a double casement window, don't worry about cleaning; rainwater carries dirt away as it runs off. For the rest of the rooms (applies also to the lower rooms), regarding windows: make them wider. At least 160 cm, preferably two-leaf up to 2 meters. Almost 20% hallway is too much. Storage room upstairs is good. Think about cloakroom(s). Make utility room more accessible. Enlarge windows and furnish the bathroom.
 

11ant

2020-04-12 00:46:30
  • #3
I see plenty of opportunity for facade windows alongside the stairs and in the knee wall.
 

haydee

2020-04-12 06:15:27
  • #4
The garage is quite narrow; with that width, I would choose a carport. Garage and carport in a row is no good. After the 5th "Honey, move your car, I have to go," someone parks somewhere else.
 

kaho674

2020-04-12 08:16:56
  • #5
I would start at the very beginning: You don’t seriously want to place the garage on the west because of the curb? Man, when you build the house, everything will be torn up, new lines laid, shafts dug, gigantic earth masses turned over. Your curb is a joke compared to that. As long as the village oak right in front of the driveway on the east isn’t cut down or a streetlamp is in the way, that’s no reason.

Therefore: mirror the site plan. But without that path between the garage and the house. I would simply remove it, since it is dark, ugly, and above all would be a prime wind tunnel.

Otherwise, I find the location of the rooms quite okay now. Whether it can and should stay that way is another question. First, I see your architect / general contractor responsible for offering you something. So why not just have them do it first?
 

Chrisi1906

2020-04-12 08:28:59
  • #6


Thanks for the feedback.

Yes, I didn’t manage the hallway well either upstairs or downstairs. That will still be improved. I had read your thread "the list". I liked it and had to think about us in many places.

We wanted both the washing machine and dryer to be in the storage room on the upper floor and also in the utility room. As long as we use both floors, washing will be done upstairs; if we get very old, we can use the connections downstairs and wash only there. You are, of course, right that the utility room is not optimally accessible. However, it can’t be improved without losing space in the utility room and the wardrobe in the hallway. I also discussed this point with my wife because it would also provide more cupboard space in the kitchen and we could design the kitchen differently. We came to the conclusion that this is the best way for us to do it. Once the floor plan is redrawn by BU, we will look at the point again. If the utility room is still that big, one could consider it then.

The sofa has the dimensions of ours. It is actually a bit small for 4 people.

We will design the bathroom later.

Regarding the bedroom: the brown thing is supposed to be a piece of furniture of ours. Since we have it, it is included.



Okay.



True, that’s why there are 2 parking spaces next to it.
 

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