Your thoughts on our floor plan. Thank you for suggestions

I find the storage room too big again if you also have a basement.

Best regards,
Sabine

But I find the storage room too big again if you also have a basement.

Best regards
Sabine

Well, we used to have a basement too. But I didn't run down there for every broom, vacuum cleaner, water bottle, etc. The room would be full immediately for me. :oops:

Just a quick feedback at first glance, what catches my eye:
- Entrance area: you are standing directly in the kitchen. One has to like that. If someone is working there and someone comes in through the front door in cold outside air, the cold incoming air could possibly be perceived as disturbing
- Kids' corner here, kids' wardrobe there. Kids are great, but what do you do when the kids outgrow that age? Wardrobe, okay. But the corner in the living room?!
- Guest WC door on the outside I find yuck
- The seating distance couch-TV would be too small for me. 4.38m would be too little for me even as a finished dimension; here it is an external dimension, including wall thickness, plaster, etc.
- The living room could appear quite tube-like.
- I don’t know whether the covered terrace will be useful, I find it lacks depth. 2m I find very little
- Bathroom upstairs: would be too tube-like for me. 5.78m x not even two meters... phew
- 2x stairs to get to the study (or what’s the studio for?) while the rest takes place on the ground floor...
- The master bathroom would be way too small for me
- Space distribution especially at the very top seems unbalanced to me. Tiny bathroom, okay dressing room, huge bedroom (why?), unclear studio use.
- Roof terrace will probably never be used, complete waste of space, which only costs money. Unless the studio would get a wellness area with sauna, then you could step out there, but it doesn’t look like it
Overall: catalog house or from an architect? I hardly believe the latter, more likely property developer.

-The kids’ wardrobe could better be called family wardrobe; here we want to store jackets, shoes, bags, etc. of the family. The guests’ wardrobe is open in front of it.
-The kids’ corner in the living room is intended to hold toys and such. So when they are tidied up ;p Since our 3 kids are still quite young, they first play a lot on the ground floor and the corner will definitely hold a lot of toys. When the corner is no longer used by the kids, you could put the TV or bookshelves or a minibar there.
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Since our 3 children are all still pretty small,

How small exactly? - see questionnaire ;-) That sounds like they don't place much value on "separate bedrooms" yet, and at the beginning the parents won't be thrilled to be under the same roof (?)

For my grandma, there is no ground-floor room, and not everyone needs 3 children's rooms either. The house could gladly be 2 meters wider and a head shorter. Now seriously: this is what happens when no information flows. So, maybe ask to delete (or move) the thread and then post it again with a completed questionnaire and site plan, so that one knows yours and the property’s situation.

Just a quick feedback at first glance, what catches my eye:
- Entrance area: you stand directly in the kitchen. That’s a matter of taste. If someone is working there and with cold outside air someone comes in through the front door, the cold incoming air could be perceived as disturbing.
- Kids' corner here, kids' wardrobe there. Kids are wonderful, but what do you do when the kids outgrow it? Wardrobe, ok. But the corner in the living room?!
- I find the guest WC door opening outwards yucky.
- The seating distance couch-TV would be too small for me. 4.38m would be too little even as a finished dimension, here it is an external measure, including wall thicknesses, plaster, etc.
- The living room could seem quite narrow.
- I don’t know if the covered terrace will have a use, I find it lacks depth. 2m is really little.
- Bathroom upstairs: would be too narrow for me. 5.78m x not even two meters… phew.
- 2x stairs to get to the study (or what is the studio for?), while the rest takes place on the ground floor…
- The master bathroom would be way too small for me.
- The space distribution especially at the very top seems unbalanced to me. Tiny bathroom, ok dressing room, huge bedroom (for what?), unclear studio use.
- Roof terrace will probably never be used, complete waste of space, just costs money. Unless the studio would get a wellness area with sauna, then you could step outside, but it doesn’t look like it.
Overall: catalogue house or architect-designed? I hardly believe the latter, probably a developer.

- The wardrobe could better be described as a family wardrobe for shoes, jackets, and bags. Next to it is still an open wardrobe for guests.
- The corner in the living room is rather intended as a place for all the toys / play kitchen etc., since our children are still small and will play a lot on the ground floor anyway.
- We will reconsider the seating distance to the TV. 3.60m is really not much.
- The covered terrace is still going to be extended a bit more inward. It should then be 4 x 2.60m. Or possibly 3.50 x 2.60m… then the living room would be a bit wider again. Thanks for the tip.
- The studio is more of an alternative room for gaming and watching TV. Maybe it will also become a fitness room.
- How often the roof terrace will be used, I honestly don’t know either, but we are only allowed to build a recessed/top floor upstairs, and the terrace results automatically.
The house was planned with an architect, although we gave many specifications.

And – is it number 4 in the end?

Also fill out the questionnaire and provide more views.

The recessed top floor doesn’t seem successful to me yet. What is that in the kids’ bathroom behind the shower, and why is a wheelchair user drawn there (on a floor that can only be reached by a normally wide staircase)?

Corner windows are in my opinion a gimmick.

In the end, it became plot no. 7, which we originally did not want. But ultimately, we are now satisfied because we can build a much bigger house that offers us significantly more space.

Which questionnaire should we fill out?

The wheelchair is supposed to mean barrier-freedom because you can still get special funding for that (even on the first floor).

Without the corner windows, the house would appear as an even thicker, heavier block. I will add the exterior views.

Apparently a semi-detached house – that would have been good to know. Where is south?
The thread belongs in the floorplan discussion forum where you will also find a pinned post that asks for essential info for a meaningful discussion.

I don’t think the thing is bad. Yes, the kids’ rooms are narrow and long. I once had such a room. I loved it because you could furnish it very well, which is much harder in rather square rooms.

No bathtub in the entire house – that wouldn’t work for me. Better less dressing room and enlarge the bathroom upstairs accordingly.

But the worst I find is the entrance area. I also usually find the recessed door cool if it fits well into the overall package. But with you, it makes the necessary entrance area too tiny. When the five little people come home, congestion is pre-programmed. Also, that long narrow corridor next to the stairs is pure wasted space and in my opinion totally pointless. Get rid of it.



I think the kids’ play corner is rubbish. Why should the children want to hang out in this dark little corner? The kids’ wardrobe is already so dark and creepy. As a child, I would be afraid of it.
I would sacrifice both for a storage room (you will love it) and enlarge the wardrobe for everyone a bit.

The TV moves to the wall now created in front of the former play corner for a pleasant distance. There is also more space for armchairs and co.

The garden is oriented southwest.

I didn’t know there was another thread for that.

There is a (extra large) bathtub on the first floor. But maybe it is possibly too dark at the end of the bathroom there. The window is exactly on the other side.

Do you mean the entrance area is too small? Well, we have thought about that already… it goes a bit further left to the wardrobe. The narrow corridor next to the stairs is also kind of meh, but otherwise, the kitchen is a bit _too_ open and probably tricky statically?!
It would be nice if there was a reasonable solution to get the corridor next to the stairs arranged better somehow. Any suggestions?

Is there actually an affordable and easy program where I can create a 3D model of the rooms? Like kitchen studios have, for example?

We have also thought about a storage room. But because we will have a garage in which almost certainly no car will ever be parked, we have counted it as a storage room. Beverage fridge and shelves for supplies etc.

Thanks for your drawing/suggestion for change.


For us, it is still a question what it would roughly cost to cellar the house (unheated, waterproof concrete) as a shell (completely solid construction, stairs also built masonry).
The house has approx. 200m2 in the end and will be fully brick-clad.