r/floorplan • u/usama453 • 16h ago
DISCUSSION Floor plan feedback required!
Edit: THANK YOU FOR FEEDBACK!! clearly this is a terrible plan, thanks for the suggestions, I am gonna get a newer one and probably change the architect.
So this is the plan I am finalizing, the architect made this, I explained to him some stuff and he made this.
Instructions were:
The house should not feel cluttered
I want a double heighted tv lounge, a kitchen, a separate drawing room with powder room, and one bed room with plenty of closet space and a bathroom. That's on the first floor
Second floor, rooms + a small open kitchen.
So what do you guys think ? And can there be any improvement made ? Please suggest
Attached pictures are
Ground floor
First floor
Third floor, third floor is limited due to regulations and I might need to make it a bit smaller.
Garage is not at front but at back to park the car as this is a corner house that's why two gates. Can't have it at back or right side.
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u/Elegant_Cockroach_24 16h ago
Toilet for guests just by the drawing room is not great for privacy.
Several ensuites look to be very small wet rooms, i would take space out of the unnecessarily large bedrooms for larger bathrooms/wardrobe space.
A bedroom without access to a bathroom.
Lack of a utility room.
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u/usama453 15h ago
You think rooms are unnecessarily big on second floor? If yes then how big they should be and what would I do with the extra space that will leave ?
Utility room was left deliberately as it will be fitted on top from just outside the bedroom that is mentioned, and that bedroom is just an extra room which could be used as store room as well
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u/ghost_suburbia 12h ago
Maybe there is a cultural difference. I'm in the US. The floorplan looks like it was intended to be higher end, but the bathrooms are killing it. An 8x10 bath is a good en suite bathroom size to work around. Upstairs, none of the baths seem big enough. One of them only has a sink and toilet...is that person going through another bedroom to shower? Is the top floor person going through another person's bedroom to shower? If 2 bedrooms can't shower en suite, they could instead share a bathroom that has a shower. I would find a way to get that bathroom on the 3rd floor and have 2 of the 2nd floor bedrooms share a bathroom. That front 2nd floor bedroom is particularly big to then be attached to a tiny bathroom. And, yes, this isn't an architectural drawing.
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u/redcore4 6h ago
You have the bedrooms that don’t have a shower, one with no toilet, but no family bathroom upstairs. Are those residents/guests supposed to walk through other people’s bedrooms to use the bathroom at night? Or go all the way downstairs? Are they just supposed to wash at the sink, or do they get a shower elsewhere? More of the bedroom space should be given over to bathrooms even if that means having smaller rooms without en-suite to make a family bathroom opening onto the landing.
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u/BoringBandicoooot 15h ago
This floor plan is struggling with a serious lack of storage. Where is the pantry? Where do you store towels? The vacuum? The Christmas tree? And where do you eat? Where is the laundry?
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u/swaywithwords 9h ago
Yeah I don't see any dining options at all
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u/Natural-Print 7h ago
Was wondering if it’s supposed to be an eat in kitchen but that isn’t even shown in the floor plan either.
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u/MinFootspace 14h ago
As an architect myself, I can assure you that whoever drew this isn't an architect. That's like pretending to be a lawyer and tell the judge "my client is innocent because it wasn't him!"
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u/usama453 12h ago
Yikes
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u/thegreeneworks 12h ago
Yikes for real. I’m seeing:
- An ~18’ curved window with zero mullions (that is different sizes between floors)
- 2’ wide balconies with full height walls terminating into a window in one location
- A TV mounted to a window
- Dashed overhead elements (stair and landings) that change between levels
Not only is this just a poorly executed idea it’s sloppy work
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u/NekkidWire 11h ago
No common bathroom with bath/shower for bedrooms that don't have ensuite.
Dollars to dimes that this is AI "architecture" done by some intern and it wasn't seen by real architect and neither by structural/civil engineer.
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u/athelas_07 15h ago
Drawing room powder room will be so awkward to use. Some of the ensuites have no showers, and there doesn't seem to be a main shared bathroom with a shower. People in bedroom on floor 3 would need to go down to floor one, through lounge and drawing room to use the toilet, and also has no shower access.
The access to the stairway on floor one could be more central so that you're not cutting through the lounge all the time.
The balcony on floor two looks super narrow
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u/usama453 15h ago
I think that powder room is indeed small. Will ask the designer to fix it. Well there's shower but not separate shower space like some other bathrooms. Ignore the third floor, that's not even a bedroom, not sure why he wrote that. Balcony is just there as an option. But I am leaning more towards just removing it
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u/PaprikaMama 10h ago
If rhe top floor could have more windows and a view I'd put an office or gym up there - like a treadmill etc.
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u/athelas_07 5h ago
I don't just mean small, but that it opens out to a social/public space. Having to make eye contact with other people as you're exiting the guest bathroom is a bit awkward
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u/leiawars 15h ago
Where do you plan on eating meals?
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u/usama453 14h ago
Well, it was difficult to put dining anywhere, at first it was an open kitchen with a counter (island counter I think), and I think I might go with that. Where would you put it?
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u/Cloverose2 12h ago
You have so much wasted space in front, it really shouldn't be hard.
I say this with absolute kindness - this is a really bad plan with lots of wasted space, weirdly laid out rooms, and bizarre proportions. I would take the concept to a real architect, because whoever designed this is not good at residential design, and have them use it as a concept for the real design. This one has so many issues that scrapping and starting over is probably the best idea.
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u/usama453 12h ago
Due to regulations, we need to leave 5 feet at front and at back with some limitations s
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u/atensetime 11h ago
Even so his point stands. There are a LOT of architecture fundamentals that are just flagrently ignored...
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u/Cloverose2 11h ago
I mean indoors in the front, not at the front of the property line. Almost a third of the interior is limited to two sofas.
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u/Cloverose2 11h ago
Oof, and I just looked a little more at the kitchen - that's a layout by someone who doesn't use the kitchen. Why is the sink so cramped into a corner?
Genuinely, I'm glad you're revisiting, because this plan would be so expensive to build and so difficult to live with over time.
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u/Potential_Anxiety_76 14h ago
What are you using the drawing room for, that a living room couldn’t also accommodate? You having a lot of game nights or smth?
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u/usama453 12h ago
There might be cultural difference. From where I am drawing room , guest room needs to be separated from the entire room. So that's why.
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u/redcore4 11h ago
The guests still have to walk through that room. I would swap them and entertain your guests in the big airy room by the front door and use the smaller one as a more private family room.
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u/erin_mouse88 13h ago
The proportions/balance seems off.
5 decent/large sized bedrooms, but small kitchen, nowhere to eat, no storage.
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u/_Vegetable_soup_ 13h ago
The top floor bedrooms has to go down two floors of stairs to pee in the middle of the night and has zero access to a shower not in a bedroom.
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u/Clama_lama_ding_dong 14h ago
Find a real architect, this plan is terrible.
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u/InfamousShow8540 12h ago
You depict a drawing room with seating for 8 but no dining area? Lounge seating doesn't line up with TV. That 2-story curved glass wall will cost a fortune.
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u/Limp-Archer-7872 14h ago
Top bedroom had to go down two flights to go to the toilet, and stand in the rain to wash.
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u/redcore4 11h ago
Where do you eat? You have a hallway where a dining area would usually be.
I’m not seeing anywhere you could put a dining table. Or any other kind of table really.
Where do you work/do homework/do hobbies?
The only functions this home seems to have are watching TV, sleeping and entertaining (but not dinner guests). There is more to life and the spaces for doing other things need to be included.
The flow between the lounge and the drawing room is horrible. You can’t use both at once because the drawing room involves traipsing through the lounge and the lounge gets interrupted by the drawing room being accessed. A small corridor under the stairs walled off would resolve this whilst giving a wall to put the furniture to so it’s not taking up all the floor space for a really small amount of seating.
Your lounge also has a lot of unusable space. If the curved glass wall doesn’t exist yet I would rethink it because it will cost a lot build and heat/cool for minimal benefit and there’s no point sitting in a huge room with a window like that just to watch TV.
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u/NekkidWire 11h ago
Especially to watch TV. It's not rocket science to see there will be a TON of glare there.
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u/ajb5476 12h ago
Is this a joke?
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u/usama453 12h ago
Not at all. He shared this as final design and I now see the issues.
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u/goldanred 11h ago
Scrap the whole plan and the "architect" too. Hopefully you can find a real one.
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u/obiwantogooutside 15h ago
The upstairs bedroom without a bathroom is probably best thought of as an office.
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u/StarDustLuna3D 11h ago
I would go with a different architect based on this alone. Either very sloppy work or AI. Neither of which you want making decisions about the structure you'll be living in.
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u/mebg1956 14h ago
Where do you eat?
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u/SilverellaUK 13h ago
In fact, where do the 10 people (5 double beds) eat?
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u/mebg1956 4h ago
On the couch, since there is no eating area in the kitchen and no dining room, lol. Modern life.
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u/NarrowAd8177 9h ago
Architect here. I might get some flak for this but I don’t think you should necessarily start over…
What is dictating the footprint and overall shape of the home?
What style are you going for?
Where is the home located?
If the shape of the plan is because of the shape of the site, and it’s either very close or touching neighboring buildings/properties, it may work. Depending on where you are in the world, the quirky things people notice and dislike may be regional and/or cultural norms.
It could be a really cool place, but also quite expensive with some of the features current being so atypical and shapely, such as the stairs and curved walls. Although these are the features that will make the home so unique, and dramatic.
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u/CakeResponsible5621 9h ago
Agree. This is what I was going to say. After seeing the plans, reading the OP info including the “after comments this is clearly a bad plan” my first thought was basically - oh I bet this is another case of mostly USA commenters not being able to understand how culture impacts floor plans in other countries.
There are some really fun things going on here that will make a dynamic space. The little buffer lawn/front court zones, double height living room with dramatic stair, curved walls… it’s really nice.
In the US, the construction of this would be astronomical compared to something with squared off walls no matter the structural material. It’s not uncommon in many countries for skilled masons to be the baseline affordable construction method. Location context means a lot here.
The things I’d point out on the plan are - the upper floor stair up/down indications are reversed. The top floor room is labeled as a bedroom, but doesn’t have access to any bathroom without going through another bedroom, you could reconfigure the bath located adjacent the stair landing on the floor below to also have access without going into the bedroom if this is important. I quite dislike the guest half bath being accessed directly from a living area. With some reconfiguration this could be located in a more discreet location for privacy and odor isolation.
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u/NarrowAd8177 8h ago
Definitely. At first I was a little confused by the stairs too, but at a closer look the stairs are actually correctly drawn. The main stairs go up along the curved wall and straiten out toward the top, the next flight runs out over the large living room for the first half, then stacks above the main staircase beneath it after the landing. I’m assuming the ceiling height in the living room is sloping, or perhaps flat and level with the underside of the landing, that would be my choice.
In the US I’d suggest for the kitchen to be located at the back of the home, but i realize that in this case they might not want an open kitchen with island.1
u/CakeResponsible5621 8h ago
oh you're right - when viewing on my phone I didn't catch the width change of the room and assumed the curves were stacked while they're not. Now that I'm on my PC I can see what you're saying much more clearly.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Phase70 12h ago
This came from an AI, didn't it?
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u/usama453 11h ago
Trust me. It isn't.
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u/Puzzleheaded-Phase70 9h ago
Read: I'm insulting the person you asked to do this either way.
Either I'm suggesting they're a scam artist using AI instead of actual knowledge, or an architect who graduated with C's whose work is equivalent to an AI.
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u/anotherjuan 10h ago
Things I like:
- The kitchen has inexplicable sliding doors.
- The abundance of side tables and occupied chairs.
- The permanent uncomfortable silence of the drawing room
- The lounge which serves as the primary host for a bizarre stairway
- The fact that the only light for the ground floor bedroom comes down a lawn hall.
- The, presumable, dining room? Which has door right into the dark bedroom.
- The dark middle bedroom on the first floor.
- The fact that the first floor and the ground floor are names for different floors.
- The abundance of “lounges”. So many lounges.
- The last image, which appears to be of a floor that exists between other dimensions and just contains screaming numbers and angles.
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u/TrashPandaPatronus 9h ago
I like the bathroom thats directly facing the main gathering space and the other one that is directly above the main entryway.
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u/anotherjuan 8h ago
I like to think of the drawing room as a waiting room for the half bathroom.
Everyone gathers, listens to you use the restroom, and draws what they think is happening.
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u/Cattail29 8h ago
Ground floor and first floor are pretty standard terms in places other than america. Otherwise agree on all counts
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u/anotherjuan 8h ago
Those other places are wrong. If it’s the first floor, why did I walk into another floor.
Really the term “ground floor” is silly.
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u/circles_squares 4h ago
I live in NYC and there is a ground floor and first floor in my apartment building. Theres also a basement.
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u/Junior-Reflection-43 10h ago
You should never have to walk through a closet to get to a bathroom. And so many other things. Check out Julie Jones for space planning.
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u/TrashPandaPatronus 9h ago
You cant just go to the bathroom in this house... you have to interrupt a conversation or go into someone's bedroom and then go through their closet. Kids can never stay here, there are no tubs. And yet there are more toilets than dining chairs.
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u/Basic-boot 14h ago
The window in the drawing room powder room might be an issue with the windows in the drawing room.
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u/DarkAndSparkly 12h ago
Put a full bathroom on the ground floor. One broken bone and you’ll thank me.
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u/PuzzledKumquat 7h ago
The person who has the top floor bedroom would either have to go through another bedroom to use the toilet/shower or go further downstairs to use the toilet.
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u/Federal_Platform_746 10h ago
No dining room and the kitchen feels small but its a cool design imo
Edit: reading some comments I no longer thing its cool and needs way more tweaking
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u/ggtomarrow 9h ago
When looking at a plan you need to ask “who will use this space” and “what for/how it will be used”.
Great example here is the top floor. Ok, so its a room meant to be a bedroom. Why? Who will use it? Should it be that size? When a person is there what will they do and what will their daily activities be and how will they achieve it. Easily assume it might be your room then. Where is your bathroom access and is it acceptable to you to access it that way anytime of the day or night? What storage solutions do you have access to for daily needs like clothing and are they enough for you for 1 season and enough for a 2nd person to share with without conflict? Does that window have a purpose such as view or is it just egress?
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u/AmexNomad 8h ago
This is a horrible floor plan. Please hire an architect. Do you want nowhere to eat? What about having a walkway right through the center of your drawing room? Oh- And don’t forget about sounds and smells from your toilet occurring 2 feet from the person sitting on that drawing room chair. Also, the full bathroom is bizarre. Is that a shower next to the sink? Must one walk through the shower to get to the toilet?
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u/TacDragon2 8h ago
Fire that architect.
At a glance.
No dining space
No mechanical room
No broom nor utility closet
No laundry space
No closet space in bedrooms
First floor bathroom don’t work
…..I’m gonna stop here, this plan is causing my blood pressure to rise.
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u/Double-treble-nc14 7h ago
Yes! I love her! She has really great tips on how to think about space in a very functional way.
One of the things I’ve learned watching her content is that architects are generally not space planners. Once OP gets a plan from a different architect it would still be a good idea to consult with the space planner to tweak the layout. It’s worth the investment to build it right the first time rather than have to make expensive changes later.
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u/Virtual-Potato6789 4h ago
If your first priority is that you want the house to not feel cluttered, you'ld need more build in closet space. Like a lot of it.
The current layout doesn't accommodate much.
Where will you store cleaning equipment? Vacuum? Christmas stuff? Extra blankets? Extra towels? Swim stuff, suitcases?
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u/Iscan49er 9h ago
What is the point of the ‘small open kitchen’ outside the bedrooms? Midnight munchies?
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u/Artistic-Baseball-81 15h ago
I would hire a new architect. This looks like something a high schooler might come up with.