Thanks in general already for your feedback!
For years?
Then a few questions:
- What exactly is in the utility room that it needs over 15m²?
- What floor height fits this staircase? What is planned? What riser height / tread width do you have?
- What are the dimensions of the kitchen island?
- What is that corner in the bedroom?
Apart from the lack of windows and the fact that the space for the dining table is far too small and that here and there a few mouse paths need a bit more width, one can see an idea that is not complete nonsense. A good planner can make it buildable for you.
For a few years we really wanted to build and have been collecting ideas. The plan has only been developing since August, since we know which plot we are getting. Building land is very rare and very expensive here. Nothing has been allocated for over 10 years, hence the years of planning.
- The utility room really has everything in it. Technology, a shower, washing machine and dryer, cloakroom and storage like Christmas decorations etc., therefore so large.
- The staircase is supposed to be a staircase with a landing. That’s also the corner in the bedroom, that is still a recess for the ceiling, but it didn’t work any other way in the program.
- The kitchen island is supposed to be simply big enough for all the work you don’t want to do with your back to the family, so cooking, washing, chopping.
Which mouse paths exactly do you mean that are too narrow? And where do you think more windows should go?
The space for the dining table is in the bay window. Basically, the table can also be placed the other way around.
A garage with 6m is very tight. You also still have masonry and garage door. As in your sketch, it is then only 5.76 without the garage door! A normal station wagon is about 2.1m wide. With 2 station wagons that would be 4.2m. So about 75cm remain on both sides if the cars stand DIRECTLY next to each other.
You can hardly get in and out with small kids there, rather you have to drive the car out of the garage first.
Make it 7m or at least 6.50m and you have enough space. It’s definitely affordable in your budget. Finally some realistic numbers.
What is that stub at the upper left bedroom?
Is 1m knee wall not too little to place the beds like that? Especially in the bedroom, this could go wrong if the wardrobe suddenly has to make way for the bed or am I thinking wrong?
Sadly, the garage can’t be bigger. We are already at the limit and are not allowed to move the house. The house is exactly in the building window and may not be moved a millimeter more. So we have to make do with the space. The alternative from the municipality was to place the garage in the garden and also use the north as a garden, but that doesn’t make sense to us because it’s also awkward in terms of the driveway.
The stub at the bedroom is still for the staircase.
My parents have 1m knee wall too and it works both for the bed and the bathtub. I even lay down in the bed myself and with my 1.80m I have no problem not bumping my head. My dad is even taller and can also get up in bed without a head bump.
The small living room and the layout / furnishing of the cooking/dining area make the "years of" planning appear questionable, but the sketches inform the architect quite clearly and largely feasible about the wishes of the builders. Regarding the beds and the bathtub, I share the question marks behind the sufficient knee wall or whether these things are placed correctly under the eaves. The garage width is adequately sized if no trash bins have to be rolled through. The bay window could also protrude a bit further out of the strict center.
Years of planning see above!
We are still quite open with the kitchen planning and will have it planned exactly in the kitchen studio. The bay window was at the beginning on the S/E corner. But that looks strange and if there was a dormer in the corner. And according to the development plan, we may only have one large dormer.
I want to say something again about the oh so important "airlock" – namely, that it is not one. You practically go directly from the garage including exhaust fumes to the fresh or not so fresh laundry. So if you don’t invest in 2 electric cars with the house construction right away, you have the exhaust fumes in the house. Especially with the laundry that’s really disgusting.
I don’t see the smell as so critical. If the engine is running, the garage door is also open.
The airlock is very practical for us because the children simply have a lot of cloakroom and I don’t want it in the entrance area. Also, my husband works with very odorous raw materials and I don’t want the smell anywhere except in the utility room. So he can put his clothes there and shower downstairs right after work without "contaminating" everything upstairs. Currently, we have the smell in the bedroom and that’s not nice.