Steps between kitchen/dining room and living room

How do you like a net as an idea for fall protection?

I think has that with the kids and the loft bed. I don’t find it attractive over the area in the living space. While tracing, I noticed the front door: I would widen it from 90cm to 100cm, then have a narrower side panel. Between the wardrobe and the kitchen cabinets, you could make a three-part sliding door that disappears between the tall cabinets. I think that idea was mentioned further up as well. I will puzzle around with Homebyme again this evening, although one has to say that split-levels and roofs are not really suitable with this tool. The seat stools I use have the advantage that they can also be used elsewhere. The kids can use them to watch TV. Not everything has to be static and built-in.

I wouldn’t like the net there either. Whether you take the wooden sticks shown here or glass is entirely up to your imagination or your taste. These "lounge furniture" in that spot can also be chic bean bags or huge floor cushions, so as already wrote, it doesn’t have to be permanently installed, but can remain flexible, there’s that. Maybe you should first create a mobile solution and then take your time later to find the right one. I would rather not take something off the shelf, but look for a self-developed, simple idea. Ultimately, you could also leave it completely open as long as the children are no longer very small, but I think something to look through or over will give a great, spacious feeling. You don’t have to (can’t) always see everything from everywhere, at some point that just doesn’t work anymore, but with the open floor plan you’re constantly walking past things and enjoying them. I’m currently sitting in the spot I created in the gallery and from there I can’t see the fireplace, but I can look out into the distance. Each zone can have its own beauty and actually you don’t have to be able to look out from everywhere.

Which program did you use to make that? I would like to learn Sketchup

That’s definitely fun too, but at the same time I would strongly recommend looking at individual situations yourself "in real dimensions" or somehow representing them structurally. We did that very often with boxes, boards, etc. and encountered all sorts of tricky points.

How do you like a net like this as an idea for fall protection?

We initially implemented something similar for the children. But it wasn’t really great.

Friends have built a similar version - however, the ceiling is at one height. As a result, the extension has an amazing ceiling height and a gigantic glass front facing the garden. The staircase that connects the living room and kitchen spans the entire width and is a mega design element. For me personally, the house is the coolest thing I have seen in my personal environment so far. I couldn't imagine this 240cm ceiling height at all. The spatial feeling with it is not nice - neither in the dining area nor in the living room. I would really consider something different there.

The extension is unfortunately higher here than planned, because the split level, that is the living room, determines the height.

But unfortunately, it’s much cooler like this than with a 240cm ceiling height…

I really couldn't imagine a ceiling height of 240cm. The feeling of the room wouldn't be nice with that – neither in the dining area nor in the living room. I would seriously consider something different.

Unfortunately, the extension is higher here than planned because the split level, i.e. the living room, determines the height.

I haven't read yours yet. Interesting point of view. So, the extension probably doesn't have to be 2.40, but I would be cautious with extreme height. Furniture can look quite puny then. Besides, there are also children's rooms, which want windows. I think, alongside all the great design possibilities, one must not forget that a family life is supposed to be lived there. Style and living are not mutually exclusive, but please equally important and cozy. For example, I would not just continue the staircase. It may look cool, but "cooler" is also sometimes a place to retreat from the kitchen and other people.