Hey Yvonne! Nice that you’re joining in again. I’ve been waiting for your usually very, very critical but also honest comment. Basically something like the baptism by fire.
Don’t underestimate the arbitrariness of the technology: craftsmen like to use the full width, so later there won’t be any space left for a shower.
Nope, due to lack of ceiling height, escape windows, no common room is allowed anymore, and that is why the ceiling will probably be done in such a way that no really spacious living area can be built there.
The attic is intended as storage space. An extension is basically not planned.
I think if we have triplets the first time or twins the second time, a solution will be found (extension or sale). You can’t cover all eventualities in life...
We definitely wouldn’t need the shower on the ground floor for old age, since the straight staircase is ideal for a wonderful stairlift. And honestly: before I can no longer live on an entire floor upstairs, I’d rather sell and move into our condominium or build myself a barrier-free bungalow...
My tip:
I would rotate the shape of the guest WC and then put the wash basin on the left side of the plan and the toilet under the window. Just a suggestion for more finesse, if possible.
Then: we have an office with the same layout (basically a similar floor plan anyway).
I find the layout a bit annoying with the door in the “narrower part”… I would turn the stairs, make the storage room a cloakroom, then the office rectangular with just a small storage area from the kitchen line on the left side of the plan.
Upstairs I find the situation with the bedroom as a double walk-through room doubly suboptimal… that can be changed better – anyway by turning the stairs. The children’s rooms would shift a bit too, but I think that works. But it doesn’t have to, of course… it’s just a suggestion.
The idea with the guest WC is good and also results in a nicer guest WC. We had it that way before. We have now changed it so that we have more storage space in the utility room (utility room bottom right on the plan). If we rotate the guest WC, the door to the utility room would also move further down and the storage space would be lost.
I once turned the stairs as well. Downstairs that would actually be a bit better. But the problems then occur especially upstairs. The parents’ and children’s areas are separated by the straight staircase. The separation would then no longer be left and right on the plan but bottom and top on the plan.
1. Problem here: The rooms become too narrow because the floor area measures 9.80m (depth) x 11.60m (width).
2. Problem: The garden sides (bottom and left on the plan) would be used only suboptimally. One area would then be in the northeast (street) and one area in the southwest (garden). As it is currently divided upstairs, the children’s rooms and the bedroom all have a garden view.
3. Problem: Part of the nice southwest side would then be used as a corridor area.
I sketched the rotated staircase some time ago but found the result clearly worse than the current layout.
My wife definitely wanted a bathroom en suite without its own entrance and basically a walk-in closet but no real dressing room as a walkthrough room. That is currently arranged that way in our condominium as well. Theoretically, it would be possible to place the dressing room between the bathroom and bedroom and create an exit to the hallway from there. But then the wall closet in the hallway would be gone. Independent of that, my wife absolutely does not want the arrangement bedroom -> dressing room -> bathroom. In my opinion, the current arrangement of the parents’ area also optimally uses the space upstairs.
Wanted to say I find it a steep price for a prefab house. Well, I don’t know how luxurious it is.
And building solid with the local craftsmen wasn’t more expensive, and everyone stuck to the offers despite some extra effort.
We obtained quite a few offers, including from two local solid construction builders… The offers all ended up in this price range or were even significantly higher. I don’t know where you built, so I can’t explain where the difference comes from.
However, we are building in Southwestphalia with what I think is a very upscale finish. Based on what I’ve experienced so far, there is often a difference of 50 to 70 thousand euros between two fairly similar houses just because of the finish. Even in the wall construction alone, there are quite significant differences.