Single-family house – new construction project from day one - and the planning begins

Oh sorry, after looking at your floor plan again, I got it:



The fireplace now has a width of 0.8m and a depth of 1.00m.
Behind that, there is again a width of 0.8m and a depth of 0.40m for the chimney pipe.

The passage to the living room is then 1.8m wide.

Basically, that's pretty cool too, because it creates a nice niche for the TV.

So it should work like this, right?

I haven't been following the thread the whole time. So I need to read through the development process again; at the moment, what bothers me about the latest draft is that the living room is squeezed into the corner and the fireplace somehow has a very prominent position but then there is nothing there... are furniture pieces supposed to go there? A retro wingback fireplace chair? Otherwise, to me, it's a total waste of space...

Edit: If you take Alessandro's floor plan as an example, then he has the sofa at the bottom of the plan and the TV opposite, so along the living room wall at the top of the plan in your floor plan. Then you would be using the entire living room area again but I don't know if that is too narrow for that, since the dimensions are missing in the plan.

I haven't been following the thread the entire time. Therefore, I need to read through the development process again. At the moment, what bothers me about the latest draft is that the living room is squeezed into the corner and the fireplace somehow has a very prominent position but then there’s actually nothing there... are there supposed to be furniture there? A retro wingback fireplace chair? Otherwise, for me, it’s totally wasted space...

My wife was thinking of a chaise lounge with a floor lamp in the left third of the area you marked.

This is basically a greatly simplified drawing. The sofa is supposed to be a corner sofa and can basically also be moved further toward the outer wall on the garden side... Also, I swapped the sofas. The long one should be along the outer wall and the short one along the inner wall.

Otherwise, we would like to separate the living area a bit from the rest into a cozy corner. There doesn't need to be much there except the corner sofa and the TV (mounted on the wall) with a lowboard underneath, like the Besta from a Swedish furniture store.

How do you think the red area to the right of the fireplace should be used sensibly?

How is the office supposed to be used? My office is quite similar in an L-shape, but I was able to place the door so that a cabinet fits behind it. That bothers me here a bit and greatly limits the possibility of furnishing. More than one desk in the niche (that's also where it is in my case) and a cabinet like you have drawn will probably be difficult to manage. For that, I find 12m² plus access from the hallway quite steep...

Some measurements wouldn't hurt at all.

In the parents' area, I don't really like the walking path. The bedroom as a full walk-through room to access the dressing area AND the bathroom. I don't see how one could sleep longer here if the other first gets ready in the bathroom, then walks through the dressing area and then again through the bedroom to get out. That would be too inconvenient for me and I'm glad we solved it differently: From the dressing area, you go into the bedroom and then into the bathroom.

How do you think the red area to the right of the fireplace should be used sensibly?

It's hard to use. That's always the problem with floor plans that use a straight staircase. As I said, I'm not "in" the floor plan, I have to look at it all again carefully. If it were my house, I would try to get the panoramic fireplace onto the exterior wall facing down the plan. It would then act as a divider between the living area and the cooking/dining area. But then you would also have to arrange the furniture and the windows or terrace door differently. At the moment, if you sit on the sofa, you mostly look at the fireplace from the side or almost from behind. That would be suboptimal for me.

How is the office supposed to be used? My office is very similar in L-shape, but I was able to place the door so that a cabinet still fits behind it. That bothers me a bit here and greatly limits the furnishing options.
More than one desk in the niche (that's where mine is too) and a cabinet as drawn in your plan will probably be difficult to achieve. For that, I find 12m² plus access from the hallway quite steep...

Basically, a cabinet at the spot where it's drawn, measuring 0.60m x 1.80m, is sufficient. I work from home two days a week and luckily entirely digital. So I don't need storage space for files, etc.

How would you create access to the home office?

Some measurements wouldn't hurt in general.

See post #145.

In the parents' area, I don't really like the circulation path. The bedroom as a full walk-through room for accessing both the dressing room AND the bathroom. I don’t see anyone sleeping longer here if the other first freshens up in the bathroom, then walks through the dressing room and then again through the bedroom to get out.
That would be too inconvenient for me, and I’m glad we solved it differently: from the dressing room you access the bedroom and the bathroom.

Since the gallery has moved to the entrance area and the children's area is placed on the garden side, the parents' area has been spread over the remaining space. My wife does not want a "trapped" dressing room as a walk-through room between sleeping and bathroom.

There is another upper floor design. There, the gallery is in the living area. The freed-up space is then used by the concept you sketched: from top to bottom—bathroom, dressing room, bedroom.

I don’t see anyone sleeping longer here if the other first freshens up in the bathroom, then walks through the dressing room and then again through the bedroom to get out.

We've always had it like that, and since both of us are fully employed, we get up at the same time. That will remain the case when the child arrives. I can strongly adapt to the family rhythm—I have trust-based working hours.