Single-family house new construction floor plan design

Hello everyone,

my name is Jens and this year we will be building our house.

I would like to know from you what I could still improve in my self-designed floor plan.

The floor plan itself has already been coordinated with the builder regarding its feasibility.

Dimensions of the house: 12.07m x 8.78m (without entrance area)

Orientation: Entrance facing the street (SW),



Here is the checklist:

Development plan/restrictions: none
Size of the plot: 20x47m (940 sqm)
Slope: none
Floor area ratio: no specification
Floor space index: no specification
Building window, building line and boundary: no specification
Edge development: the garage will be built on the boundary
Number of parking spaces: 2.5 garage + 1 carport
Number of floors: 2 full floors
Roof shape: hip roof
Style: city villa
Orientation: see attachment
Maximum heights/limits: garage max. 9m long and 3m high
Further specifications

Requirements of the builders
Style, roof shape, building type: city villa, modern
Basement, floors: no basement, 2 full floors
Number of persons, age: 2 (30 years old) + 2 children planned
Office: family use or home office?: home office
Overnight guests per year: occasionally
Open or closed architecture: open
Conservative or modern construction: modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island: yes and yes
Number of dining seats: 6 to 8
Fireplace: no
Music/stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: terrace at the living room
Garage, carport: both
Utility garden, greenhouse: small bed

House design
Who is responsible for the planning: myself
What do you particularly like?: panoramic windows in the living-dining area, air space above the dining area, open design
What do you dislike?: bathroom and children's room on the upper floor, the toilet on the upper floor must be placed above the pantry so that the waste pipe can be routed through it, which results in a less optimal ratio of children's room and bathroom.
Preferred heating technology: air heat pump (KfW55)

If you have to do without, which details/extensions
-can you do without:
-can you not do without: garage is fixed

Thanks in advance for your help.

Best regards

Jens

Dimensions are missing - then it is very difficult to assess. I find the living room very tiny, the bathroom too large (and unfurnished) & destructive to the children's room.

WC/washroom in the garage means that it must at least be insulated & possibly heated there. Are you aware of that?

Heating room really only 6.42m²? That looks like much more...? Are the square meter figures even correct? In my opinion, you are also wasting space for the hallway downstairs (which is open anyway) and especially for the gallery upstairs with the air space - that will not work at those sizes and you also have to think about what you do there. Look down for an hour every day? Look up? Think about it carefully, because it costs a lot of money...

Hello Jens,

without dimensions it is quite difficult to evaluate a floor plan.

Visually, I notice the following bottlenecks:

- Staircase very narrow

- Passage between staircase and pantry wall very tight

- Access to the shower on the ground floor too narrow

- Doors generally appear very narrow

Therefore, please provide it again with dimensions.

Regards,

Dirk

Check whether a garage of that size is allowed to be built. Usually, it is limited to about 40sqm. Depending on the federal state.

Regards, Steffen

There are still some other things... But what strikes me: you have two! adjacent holes in the ceiling slab that compete with each other. On one hand visually, on the other with the noise upwards. I also don't think the space in between will be cozy. And I say this as a friend of open staircases and a gallery owner myself... This is simply too much of a "good" thing here. Otherwise: pantry and WC can be reasonably placed in this intended area, the same applies to the bathroom on the upper floor: simply push it out of the children's room. Straighten corners. The bedroom won't become a place of well-being either...

Hello Jens.

I notice that on the upper floor you "burn" significantly more space for the gallery, hallway & air space than for both kids' rooms combined. (unfavorable constellation - if all other rooms were also bigger, okay. But as it is, very wasteful)
The rooms for the kids are too small for me, the bathroom should also, as already mentioned, be shortened to the kids' room door.

Also too much circulation space on the ground floor - the living room in relation to the vestibule & hallway, as already mentioned above by Sebastian, is too small.
Have you furnished all the rooms visually & based on the key figures?
It might not only become problematic in the living room.

Otherwise, the gallery & the air space are very representative & certainly nice to look at visually, but unfortunately at the expense of the room sizes.

Best regards