Tanna
2014-10-04 17:57:06
- #1
It's a pity that the floor plan is no longer there... from what one reads, it was certainly exciting to look at.
Single-family house with split-level living area
- Erstellt am 2014-10-03 16:32:56
Bauexperte
2014-10-06 11:30:10
- #2
Hello,
If I remember correctly, there are "only" 2 things in your floor plan that you should in my opinion reconsider carefully.
One is the access through the airlock disguised as a pantry; the other is the room arrangement ‘sleeping, dressing & bathroom’. One of my architects often installs an airlock between the garage and utility room and I remember well that I - with a design I attached to you (the prospective buyers, however, had older children) - mediated for days between the creative and executing architect. I found - and by the way still find - the idea good, but our architect implemented the airlock more practically and did not equip it with an additional door/pass-through around the corner. You will notice as soon as children are there that your solution is not the best idea. Whether full shopping bags or a stroller - you will always be forced to make a stop in the pantry; probably already way before in the garage... provided the car allows space for it.
The other is the room situation upstairs on the upper floor. You say that you and your wife have synchronized daily routines; so far so good. But what if one of you gets sick, the vacation days do not match? Or - if children are there - one of the children is sick and sleeps in the parents’ bedroom? I personally wake up from a fly coughing... he would tell me something different if he could finally sleep in and I would bustle around him ;) You have a lot of space with your building project and therefore many options to change the situation upstairs without noticeably betraying "your" ideas of the perfect house...
The tedious topic wardrobe; here I am completely with “Jaydee”; not rarely do I have the thought that some houses of the users writing here are built around a wardrobe. You can see it that way, but you don’t have to. I have 2, now grown-up babies and when they were still small and I could not work, I looked after up to 5 foster children simultaneously. In those years we had no property and ergo the respective wardrobes/hallways of the houses corresponded to the prevailing opinion of that time not to waste too much space on the entrance area. Of course, the kids’ stuff "crowded" at certain times, but I cannot say that I “missed” space; ultimately it is a question of organization and also upbringing.
And honestly - my mother had a cleaning obsession, in my childhood days there was still the “good living room” and also everyday or Sunday clothes. When my children want to tease me nowadays, they fold a little crease into the small pillows... I could burst at the very thought alone. I LIVE in our house and have no mausoleum, everything is used ... there is also no “special” crockery for relatives/guests and if my granddaughter’s doll stroller stands in the hallway, then that is just the way it is ... the world doesn’t end because of it; certainly not mine ... :D
You also have to keep things in perspective ... or, as the people from the Rhineland say: “wat dem eene sing Üühl is, is dem angere sing Nachtigall”
Rhineland greetings
And it will probably stay the way it is, because we personally do not recognize the disadvantages thrown into the room here for us.
If I remember correctly, there are "only" 2 things in your floor plan that you should in my opinion reconsider carefully.
One is the access through the airlock disguised as a pantry; the other is the room arrangement ‘sleeping, dressing & bathroom’. One of my architects often installs an airlock between the garage and utility room and I remember well that I - with a design I attached to you (the prospective buyers, however, had older children) - mediated for days between the creative and executing architect. I found - and by the way still find - the idea good, but our architect implemented the airlock more practically and did not equip it with an additional door/pass-through around the corner. You will notice as soon as children are there that your solution is not the best idea. Whether full shopping bags or a stroller - you will always be forced to make a stop in the pantry; probably already way before in the garage... provided the car allows space for it.
The other is the room situation upstairs on the upper floor. You say that you and your wife have synchronized daily routines; so far so good. But what if one of you gets sick, the vacation days do not match? Or - if children are there - one of the children is sick and sleeps in the parents’ bedroom? I personally wake up from a fly coughing... he would tell me something different if he could finally sleep in and I would bustle around him ;) You have a lot of space with your building project and therefore many options to change the situation upstairs without noticeably betraying "your" ideas of the perfect house...
The tedious topic wardrobe; here I am completely with “Jaydee”; not rarely do I have the thought that some houses of the users writing here are built around a wardrobe. You can see it that way, but you don’t have to. I have 2, now grown-up babies and when they were still small and I could not work, I looked after up to 5 foster children simultaneously. In those years we had no property and ergo the respective wardrobes/hallways of the houses corresponded to the prevailing opinion of that time not to waste too much space on the entrance area. Of course, the kids’ stuff "crowded" at certain times, but I cannot say that I “missed” space; ultimately it is a question of organization and also upbringing.
And honestly - my mother had a cleaning obsession, in my childhood days there was still the “good living room” and also everyday or Sunday clothes. When my children want to tease me nowadays, they fold a little crease into the small pillows... I could burst at the very thought alone. I LIVE in our house and have no mausoleum, everything is used ... there is also no “special” crockery for relatives/guests and if my granddaughter’s doll stroller stands in the hallway, then that is just the way it is ... the world doesn’t end because of it; certainly not mine ... :D
You also have to keep things in perspective ... or, as the people from the Rhineland say: “wat dem eene sing Üühl is, is dem angere sing Nachtigall”
Rhineland greetings