Your opinion on the floor plan? Help with planning the windows.

Hello everyone,

we want to build a house over the next year. At the moment, we are still in the planning phase. A plot of land has already been reserved. I would be very grateful if you could take a look at the floor plan and give some feedback. Also, we have no sense at all for windows. So, if you have any ideas or tips for window positions or sizes, bring them on. The house will also have a basement, but we have not made a floor plan for it yet.
The staircase will be a landing staircase (the fourth step is a landing), which I couldn’t represent very well with the program. The bicycle on the ground floor is a placeholder for the wardrobe :D. Upstairs there are three bedrooms and a bathroom.

Thanks in advance,
Marion

Hello Marion, this program is the worst I know as a home planner. Several people have already tried this program. No one can read it :(
Better is a squared sheet, pencil, and ruler.
You should look at common floor plans (just for the imagination) on the internet, you’ll find a lot on Google... some less creative, some more. Still, you are practicing how something can work – in the end, the (good) architect will erase what doesn’t fit.
In your case, the staircase is already positioned very badly (think about where you will come out in the basement;))
But the staircase is the most important core around which the design is created.

For a gable roof house, it is advantageous to have symmetry along the longitudinal axis, meaning the gable windows at the same distance from the exterior walls.
It is also statically beneficial if the axis is used as a load-bearing wall and can be continued upstairs.

Don’t take too many window sizes, you can vary, but there should be uniformity and structure visible.

This is my gleaned layman’s opinion, which will certainly be supplemented by other users here. :)

Me again :)

You are really at the very beginning... I looked at the pictures again... :cool:

Have loads of catalogs from house building companies sent to you, they are free and give insight – maybe you will find a house provider this way who will build your dream house.

It seems that at the moment you are working around a badly positioned platform staircase (seen this staircase somewhere else? It can be very nice, but please don’t get stuck on seen wishes ;))

Hello ypg,

thanks for the criticism and the tips for the windows. The platform stair is my fault and I stand by it :D But I am also happy to reconsider everything. When it comes to stairs, I have a little "quirk" from childhood. I always felt uncomfortable on open stairs (without risers) and also on curved stairs, meaning when the steps got narrower on one side. The "entrance" to the basement stairs is next to the living room door and should then also go around the corner downstairs. You would then come out to the left next to the wall in the basement and would need a slightly longer hallway to the right, but I don't actually see a problem, so the stair doesn't end at the wall or anything, or have I missed something?

No, you haven't overlooked anything, except that you come out onto an exterior wall in the basement and thus waste traffic space in the basement. Of course, you could remedy this by planning a built-in wardrobe (under the front door) right there in the basement hallway so that this hallway space is not wasted. Otherwise, it's simply not ideal. If you build with a basement, the basement walls later support the interior walls of the entire house – in your case, hardly any wall is directly above another... Since you want to build compactly and without frills (as can be seen from the pictures), you surely don’t want to waste an extra cent on structural engineering. Therefore, have a look at other floor plans. 45-degree walls are also not what you want, unless it really cannot be done otherwise (makeshift solution).

Your wardrobe (window is out of place there) takes up the walking space in front of the stairs, for example. In the worst case, you might stumble against the cabinet. The chimney is planned where you might possibly want to install a fireplace in the living area. A window on one side of the living room (which direction is that anyway?) is completely missing. The windows in the dining area are also arbitrary... okay, you have a problem with that too... maybe better a double window on one surface.

Missing for the planning: the plot, the location, the orientation, possibly a development plan.

Very little can be said like this.... :cool: