Two-family house - initial rough drafts

Hello Wastl,

that's exactly what I tried again yesterday – and found a pretty good solution for OG1 with it, which unfortunately was no longer good for EG and OG2. But maybe the architect still has an idea in this regard. What I quite like about the current OG1 solution is that the children's rooms are on the opposite side from the parents' bedroom. This could be quite helpful for all involved, especially during the teenage years....

Have you ever stood in a 2.5m wide but 6.14m long children's room? "Tube" is a mild way to put it.
The living room should be at least 4m deep.
Going straight from the dining area to the toilet is also not ideal.
And the slanted walls from the "Verbesserungen" only make it worse by trying to improve it.

Back to square one, I would say.

Hello Musketeer,

these points bother me too.

- Food-->Toilet: Where a shelf is currently drawn, of course a partition wall could also be placed. Would it then still really be critically "indiscreet"?
- Depth of the ground floor living room and children's room: The development plan would allow increasing the house depth. (Whether the budget would also allow that remains to be seen).
- Slanted walls on the first floor: Where exactly do you see the problem?
- I also wonder whether the space between the house entrance door and the staircase, the staircase itself, and the landing before the first floor are sufficient.

Back to zero: Next week another architect will be involved, maybe this will actually achieve the total reset. However, I suspect that a completely different solution would require a different staircase concept. And that is not so easy: -- The two upper floors should be open within themselves,
- but separated from the ground floor.
- Both parties need cellar access.
- The available space should be used efficiently, so all staircases should be aligned as much as possible.

So far no one has had an ultimate idea that solves this better than the current approach. (Which does not mean there isn't a better one.)

I also think that there must be a different staircase solution. In my opinion, the U-shaped staircase with a half-landing predominates in apartment buildings. I think that should also be the most sensible solution in your case. The architect can surely tell you which solution will be used to close the stairwell area on the 1st floor.

What speaks against taking a staircase that does not divide the individual levels in two halves and thus always results in corridors as rooms?
Besides, a livable staircase between OG1 and OG2 could be placed somewhere completely different, so that you have a residential UNIT upstairs and not such a segmentation.

I would also say: back to the start and new. You are now starting to segment and put up slanted walls instead of understanding that it would be better to plan anew and well.
A two-family house does not need to be created from scratch ;)

I also think start again from the beginning. Often ideas come up that you don’t have with the existing draft at all. I would definitely also plan a storage room in the kitchen area, you don’t want to have to run to the basement for every little thing, do you? And even as a shower bathroom, 9sqm is very generous (you surely won’t need more on that level). Better to cut off 1sqm and plan a small storage room (vacuum cleaner, supplies...)

I would also try to make the rooms a bit more square. 3.60 as a living room is already cramped, our couch is 3m by 2.5 and is not exactly "oversized." With 3.60 room width it will be very tight.

I like that you live upstairs, that has a bit of a penthouse character... so write down everything you absolutely want again and then back to the drawing board (or the notepad :-))

Best regards and good luck