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, Trempel/knee wall is 1m., which site plan do you mean exactly?
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Yours! Where your house is supposed to be on it. The one you’re withholding from us [emoji6] The one that belongs in this thread [emoji4]
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Yes, we have thought a lot about storage space too... especially upstairs. We also had one or two variants with a small storage room. After a lot of back and forth it stayed like this in favor of the size of the children's rooms (and the wardrobes there). But we will reconsider it again!
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I don’t see much more storage space in the hallway in your ground floor design either, the 1.50x42 are intended for shoes, hats, helmets, stuff. The coat rack comes on the hooks for us. Maybe I forgot something, what else do you “park” in the hallway?
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Regarding storage space, we’ll take a closer look again and reconsider what we want to store where.
... Then give me a tip about what you store where [emoji6]
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... The washing machine should go in there because the laundry piles up upstairs.. but why does a strong woman have her man by her side *fg*, maybe it will stay in the utility room for now.
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What we have in the hallway: 1x1 meter closed wardrobe: a rod with seasonal jackets and shoes. Shelves on the wall for scarves, gloves, shoe cleaning supplies, bike helmet, running accessories... Dresser with various stuff. Bags, shopping basket, handbags. Backpack. Corner for the "I’m just quickly going outside to the garden/bin slippers and jackets." With children, there may be more.
My husband recently had to sort out a whopping 11! jackets collected for the garden, road bike, etc.
Kitchen/dining: candles, sets, tablecloths, etc... can all probably be stored in a well-organized kitchen. I would put one wall only with tall cabinets, one 60 cm each for food, dishes, ovens, appliances, and miscellaneous.
Utility room/freezer: yellow sack (plastic waste), glass recycling, paper recycling, cleaning supplies, mop, vacuum cleaner, drink crates, small tools, tape, batteries, spare light bulbs, shoe cleaning stuff, indoor planting items, everything that no longer fits in the kitchen like big soup pot, roaster, cake pans, storage bowls..., canned goods. Quite a lot of bulky items.
Utility room/laundry: drying place for hand wash, collection place for dirty laundry, collection place for ironing laundry, washing accessories, storage for ironing board and drying rack.
Office: books, catalogs, folders, office supplies, spare bedroom blankets, guest beds, wrapping paper and decoration, sports equipment, seasonal wardrobe (currently winter shoes), hobbies, photo equipment, DVDs, boxes for greeting and postcards, photos, memories...
Storage space and what for in general:
Heated storage room: leftover paint and painting supplies, Christmas decoration and Easter and generally, tripod for work lamps, construction phase fan heater, lots of tools for the house, garden cushions, suitcases, seasonal blankets, games, tent, camping stuff, skis?
Wardrobe: bed linen, towels, bathing utensils, clothes of other sizes (could fit again someday [emoji6])
I have certainly forgotten some things and others might not appear in some households at all. But you have to keep in mind that over the years something always gets added, e.g. roaster, soup pot. They then take up space, for which other things should not be displaced. You have and there comes something new.
That’s why I would always plan built-in cupboards or pantries from the beginning, and definitely at the latest 5 years later, you start looking for alternative spaces, e.g. another dresser in the hallway etc. But since you actually don’t plan that, think about it now.
You already have a good 8 sqm in the utility room/freezer, but those get used up eventually.
Having a washing machine in the bathroom might be okay in an apartment, but there you still have a drying room in the basement or similar.
Also consider that in a house other things come than in an apartment.
Of course, garden stuff and bicycles go into the garden shed, wheelbarrow can also stand outside, but cushions and such get moldy and should overwinter in the house. They can then also go on the attic... The attic hatch/stairs should find their place in the upper floor hallway when extended.
I hope the list helps you and you get a bit more storage space out of 160 sqm [emoji4]
Nothing is worse than housework becoming a way of the cross because you can’t find anything and first have to rearrange to get to something.
I consider enough storage space a luxury that we carefully created in the design. And still, we now have a bed with storage box where our seasonal blankets and spare pillows are stored.