Floor plans for the Villa von Trapp

I've not seen that particular movie, but now I'm curious!

That is exactly why I drew it!

And if you can explain to me why this thread has had 3250 views (when we have only 210 members, not all of whom are active), I'd be grateful!

You forgot my bedroom. Oh wait I'd be in his bedroom ( sorry ladies I'm assuming I got him to the alter first ). But I leave you Franz and Zeller to fight over.

Hahaha! I'd rather have Max than go anywhere near those two, bleh.

Hmm that might be it, still so strange though!

@indigoblue, where to you think Elsa and Max’s bedrooms were? You have guest bedrooms on second floor near Maria’s, do you think they were there? On the third floor above Georg and the children? On the third floor above Maria? The windows on the third floor are smaller/less light and they are likely lower ceilings due to the roof, so maybe these are staff bedrooms and the nicer rooms on the second floor are for guests?


Why do you think we see people walking down the main stairs in the party scenes? Were they coming from the “never be a nun” balcony? Surely, they wouldn’t have a reason to be in anyone’s bedroom? And there would be bathrooms for them on the first floor.

indigoblue, I was thinking about bedroom placements the other day. I agree with you that Georg’s bedroom would likely be the back corner room in the family wing, as this has the most privacy and best view. Isn’t this the room where Rolf was throwing stones at the window though? This does not change my opinion into thinking that this was Liesl’s room or a school room…I’m NOT trusting Rolf to know what’s going on! Maybe he would have been out of the picture sooner though if an angry scowling Captain would have appeared at the window he was throwing stones at. Hahahahaha. Run away Rolf!

this is amazing!! one question though... where's the ballroom? I assume it's somewhere near the Läendler terrace.

Ok, so a lot of this I shamelessly stole from indigoblue brilliant sleuthing in her floor plans above. I did add some more details. I was trying to make the windows work out. I do realize that the sets for the inside of the house are not actual rooms in the house shown for the exterior, but in my own mind, they are. I put question marks next to rooms that I was guessing on. I used VERY rough dimension layout (like a ruler on a print out of the outside of the house to get approximate dimensions on door and window locations). Then I tried to make them work with what we see inside.

The first floor. It always bothered me how many windows we see on the front of the house, but we don’t see any inside the front doors. There are doors to the side just inside the front door that we see when the children are leaving for their walk/the frog incident. So, I just made these closets and that explains why we don’t see the windows (because they are inside the closets). We know what side the dining room is on, and that it can’t be the 3rd window from the front door, as this is dark when Rolf pulls up on his bike to talk to Franz when the family is at dinner, so I made this dark window a staff stairwell. The dining room has three doors, so I made one to the staff stairwell room (to the basement kitchen??) and the other to a food prep area. We know where the sitting room is. Where should the bathroom(s) be on this level? I put one off the sitting room, making it the door we see behind the children when they are singing TSOM. I am guessing that the library is the other room on the sitting room side of the house, mostly because Brigitta is walking from that direction with her book when they are meeting Maria. We know where the ballroom is. I like the captain’s study being next to the ballroom, since this is where he goes to read the telegram Liesl gives him after the honeymoon. I like indigoblue idea of him being able to hear the singing and dancing during the thunderstorm from this location too, since it would be under Maria’s bedroom. I’m not sure what the room on the other side of the ballroom should be. A music room? A formal dining room for parties? We get a good view of the back of the house when the children are going up the stairs during So Long Farewell. We don’t see the back of house windows from the main hall. It appears that the rooms are bumped out so that the windows are inside the study and library on this level, and on the second level they are inside that awesome room we see behind the balcony (I’m calling it the sunroom) when Elsa comes to find Georg.

The second floor. We know where Maria’s room is since we see her leave it during the party. I gave Elsa the room across the hall from Maria. It wouldn’t have as nice of a view, but would be just as big. This would make it less suspicious for Elsa to be going down this corridor to scare Maria during the party if her room were here as well. I struggled with the other rooms on this side. I made one a stair to the staff rooms above and I made the other Max’s room. Though, I don’t really like the idea of his bedroom being a door off the main walkway. He has a pretty small room for a guest suite in a fancy house too. The family side of the house was much harder. I have spent a lot of time thinking about the captain’s bedroom (not like THAT people!). I love the idea of the captain having the whole back corner with the big windows and awesome view of the lake, but I didn’t do that for two reasons. 1) Rolf is throwing stones at the second window in on the back of the house, so maybe Liesl told him this was her room? 2) Liesl and Gretl are seen running from this back side of the house when they are whistled for to meet Maria. It seems unlikely that they would be in their father’s bedroom. So, what do you think about giving Georg the third floor on the family side for his rooms? I know the windows are smaller, but maybe this is actually an awesome space with the sloped high ceilings? I thought about making his rooms on the second floor taking up the whole side of the house. They would only be 1 window bay wide though in order to make the second window be Liesl’s, so like half the width of Maria’s room, but much longer. I just think he needs more space.

The third floor. I made staff rooms on the third floor on Maria’s side of the house. I put Franz in the front room because I think this is where he is looking down from when they are pushing the car. How many people do we think live there full time? I wasn’t sure how many staff bedrooms to make. I added another guest bedroom up there too. I’m not sure if this is proper etiquette to have guests up in the staff space, but I needed more guest rooms. There should probably be more than the three I have actually. The family side is the master suite. I put storage space and a guest room as a buffer between the staff and family sides.

Some of my rooms can’t work with the window lights that we see on when they are pushing the car out of the gates (only one window in Georg’s room is lit up for example), but it’s the best I can do.

I am attaching my floor plans for all three floors of the house. 
Whew. This turned into a novel. Thanks for reading. Any and all suggestions are welcome.

Since I was working on floor plans, I was thinking more in depth about how Liesl got into Maria’s room during the thunderstorm. What does the side of the house look like? If you look at an actual picture of the side of this house, it has three rows of 5 windows. This can’t work for a couple several reasons. First, there needs to be 2 doors in the bottom center for the ballroom. Second, Maria would need to have two windows on the side of her room and she only has one (she has two on the back side). So, I propose that there are four windows and two doors on the ground floor, three windows on the second floor, and six windows on the third floor. Though we never see it, I am thinking there must be some sort of ledge between the first and second floors on the outside of the house. Liesl looks to come from the direction of the front of the house and takes a couple steps before climbing into Maria’s window. I originally was thinking there was ivy on the house or a lattice of some kind, but then she would have climbed up with her hands on the bottom of the window frame and throwing her leg over. She is clearly not climbing up, but at about the same height of the window when she enters. So, what do you think about her climbing the tall hedges we see during the Laendler scene and getting herself onto a ledge then walking over to Maria’s room? She would have easy access to Elsa’s room if they wanted to play tricks on her this way too. Thoughts?

I’m attaching a picture of the actual house where you can kind of see the side windows.  I'm also attaching a view of what it looks like in my head

Thanks indigoblue!

I just used Microsoft Excel and added borders around my rooms then printed to pdf once I had it the way I wanted it. I wish I had AutoCAD (and the ability to use it) to really lay it out.

Interesting that you call the first floor an upstairs level. What would you call what I labeled as the first floor? The ground floor? And yes, I’m in the US. I’m guessing you are in England?

Oh, the captain’s room. I really wanted to put it in the back where you have it. It’s entirely possible that Rolf doesn’t know what’s going on and that Liesl/Gretl are running from another space (the sunroom?). That way Georg can have the back of the house and the kids can have the front. What do you think would be on the top floor on the family side? Storage? School room? More staff space that is accessed from the stairs on the staff side of the house?

Thanks for starting this thread. I think about your floor plans often, which is why I started making my own. It is fun to be the Von Trapp’s architect, especially when there are so many blanks to fill in.

I've never seen this picture.  I love it! Do you know at what point was this scene supposed to be in the movie?  It kind of reminds me of Georg watching her from the balcony. 

So much of me would have loved to see the “dreamy Maria” scene. Sigh.

The Rolfe scene would have added to our disgust with him. We saw what direction he was going in but the moment he sees Liesl and addresses her so callously was like a bucket of cold water. I guess it added to our heartbreak for her instead of watching the let down slowly.

I’ll have to research and find someM&G Swoon stories tonight though.

Any chance of you uploading those photos?!