Are you really going to furnish the living room as planned? Not really nice for watching TV.
For now, I've only marked the TV and the seating. I'll get to the other living room elements shortly. I had forgotten that. Why do you think watching TV there isn't very nice at the moment?
The kitchen is not exactly practical now: stove on a 60 cm island – doesn't look nice and leaves grease stains on the floor behind. Where do you plan to put tall cabinets there?
A stove on a 60 cm island really won't work. I also overlooked that. Thanks for the tip. There are currently 4 tall cabinets on the north side of the kitchen. Two more are planned to include an oven and stove, so they serve only partly as storage for kitchen items. Do you think that would be too few?
The living room is normally also a retreat from the rest of the day’s activities, unfortunately here it is a passage area to the main activity zone, the kitchen, and apparently the only access to the terrace. The long way from the kitchen to the terrace would bother me.
The living room is normally also a retreat from the rest of the day’s activities, unfortunately here it is a passage area to the main activity zone, the kitchen, and apparently the only access to the terrace. The long way from the kitchen to the terrace would bother me.
I only see the possibility to avoid this long way from the kitchen to the terrace if the dining area is not under the kitchen but to the right next to the kitchen. The living area would then be located on the north and east sides. Of course, this would make the living room more of a retreat. I would also prefer that in this respect. Although living in the north and east is not so great, or have you had different experiences there?
There are hardly any partition walls.
Where are there hardly any partition walls? In the living room?
Upstairs you always have to go through the dressing room, which is also not cozy.
Well, I don’t really think that’s so bad. When you wake up, the first path is always to the wardrobe (later the dressing room) and then to the bathroom anyway.
When going to bed, you first go to the bathroom and then through the dressing room. Hm, okay, that would actually be unnecessary.
Thinking from the other side: if the access to the hallway is in the parents’ area...
When you wake up, the first way is to the dressing room and then to the bathroom. If there is no access from the dressing room to the hallway, you have to walk back through the dressing room and end up with unnecessary walking.
I don’t think much changes whether the access to the hallway is through the dressing room or the parents’ area. But I’m happy to be proven otherwise. :)
The open storage room is more of a cloakroom and storage space with built-in cupboards?
Where do you keep paint, tools, decorations, etc.? In the office? Don’t you think it will turn into a junk room where the vacuum cleaner etc. is stored?
Where do you keep beverage crates, waste paper, and similar stuff?
My wife also doesn’t like the open storage room. I just don’t know exactly what kind of room could be there instead. I have one idea, but I’m not sure if it’s possible since the gas, water, electricity, telephone, and sewage lines are routed from the west across the property into the house. Couldn’t we just switch the heating and bathroom and close off the current storage room with a door? I’m not so sure about that because of the lines leading to the heating room... A garage will be built on the north side of the house, so the lines would have to be routed under the garage toward the heating room. Or could the lines be somehow routed “above ground” into the heating room?
As a layman, there are too many offsets in the walls and corners – no idea if this causes problems for the structural engineer or builder.
Do you mean the inset on the ground floor in front of the front door and at the terrace or generally throughout the whole house?