Single-family house with a hip roof, approximately 340 sqm

Hello everyone,

my wife and I are in the process of building a house for us and our three children. We have a design from our architect that we would like to discuss. Please ignore the furniture drawn in, these are just placeholders. Planning for that will come later.

Development plan/Restrictions
Size of the plot: 6000m2 (60x100), the house will be roughly in the middle
House entrance from the west
no slope
Number of floors: 1 + attic
no special restrictions

Client requirements
Classic single-family house
Roof type: half-hipped roof
no basement, two well-usable floors
2 people in their early 30s, 2 children (2/5) + 1 planned
Space requirements: see planning
Office: We occasionally need a study
Closed kitchen
6 dining seats in the kitchen
12 dining seats in the living/dining room
conservative construction
Fireplace in the living room, fireplace in the reading corner in the attic
Underfloor heating
Garage and heating room already exist in the outbuilding

House design
Who created the design:
Rough draft by us, inspired by various floor plans. Executed by the architect.
Solid construction: Poroton inside, brick outside

What we especially like: ground floor in general, the large kitchen
What we don’t like: the children’s rooms in the attic are somewhat too large.

Our questions:
What can be improved? What is absolutely not acceptable?
Will the rooms have sufficient daylight?

Many thanks in advance!

Do you want to adopt me?

I find it all quite large ;) ... without planned furniture, I find an assessment difficult. Also, the 2m line in the attic should be labeled, the bedroom up there seems difficult to furnish. Difficult to furnish also applies to the bedroom on the ground floor.

How often will the 12-person dining table be used? You need an incredible amount of space for that.

The bathroom and guest WC situation on the ground floor are also quite uninspiring.

I find the cloakroom too small for the overall spaciousness of the house for a household of 5 people.

Where is north? Maybe a site plan with garages, etc. would be helpful.

Hello,

first of all, I am not an expert, so just two comments that I might want to change or at least see once in a drawing.

1) I would still provide a storage room on the upper floor. For vacuum cleaner, cleaning supplies, etc. In such a large house, I wouldn’t want to carry everything across the house every time. If you have cleaning done, then as a relief for the cleaning staff. :P

2) I would possibly like to see the dormers as one large one, at least once in a drawing. Then as a hipped dormer, matching the rest.

Please include a site plan. Where is north? How high is the budget? I assume the building land is not in Germany. I find there is empty space on the ground floor. The huge bathroom should be next to the bedroom. The staircase somewhat reminds me of an 80s stairwell. Please draw proper furniture everywhere. It sometimes looks unbalanced. Why don’t you want the master bathroom to be en-suite? There is no storage room on the upper floor. I wouldn’t want laundry and building services in the same room—unless absolutely necessary. I don’t like the exterior view. I would take the advice of .

mega lot of space :) But apart from space for a great dining area, I don't see any added value. Rather the opposite: you really walk yourself into a shoe - something else is beautiful. The dining table reminds me of a Corona meeting :p But apart from the giant madness: Lots of space, but the utility room is not exactly designed to be inviting to enter. Why is there a bathroom without a window? It doesn't have to be, right? Am I right in seeing that the bedroom for the parents is downstairs? So I ask: there is no space for a double bed either downstairs or upstairs! And then from the bedroom a path to the toilet, either past the stairs or upstairs, where the teenagers have their party, is a no-go - so it fails for me. I cannot recognize the work of an architect: the measurements are partly normal, partly completely distorted. There is someone involved who cannot realistically implement sizes or plans. Just the tiny elements shower and washbasin... the tiny windows in the living room..., and what is the bay window in the dining area supposed to be? It’s not even aligned properly. The 2-meter line is missing. The sofa disappears next to the "actually it's too wide" table and a fireplace behind, between the chairs, what is that supposed to serve? To your question: living room will be too dark!