ᐅ Initial floor plan draft of the ground floor

ypg schrieb:
With an estimated 25 sqm (270 sq ft) for the hallway, you’re off to a good start.

Yes, the bedroom would fit there (or even in the bathroom). That should at least give you something to think about.

MIA_SAN_MIA__ schrieb:
Many new builds have these small hip roofs. We think they look better than a tent roof.

It can’t look better than a tent roof, because it is a tent roof. Technically, yes, it’s a classic hipped roof, but visually it is simply a tent roof (for vegans). Neither fish nor tofu.

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ypg schrieb:
You can definitely afford a 200sqm (2,150 sq ft) house!

But what you have drawn on the digital plan is not proportional to your desired dimensions. It’s all just an illusion if you put a slightly wider child’s bed in the bedroom and think it will fit. Your doors are only about 79/75cm (31/30 inches) wide, and so on. Your hallway on the ground floor roughly measures 5.4 x 5.5m (18 x 18 ft)... 29sqm (312 sq ft) minus the two small storage rooms at the entrance... You could actually dance in the bathroom... Any experienced person can see that this will not work out the way it looks.

Great idea, but I’m out!

Those are finally statements I can understand and work with!

MIA_SAN_MIA__ schrieb:
Now these are finally statements I can understand and work with!

And I dare say that something is wrong with digitalization if what works there is clearly flawed in the analog world.

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Even a structural engineer won't straighten out a self-made floor plan.

180 m² (1,938 sq ft) and then something like this. Either hire an architect or a general contractor with a good planner.

We started out similarly to you. We made a "rough plan," and a structural engineer was supposed to refine it. What came back was far from what we wanted.

After that, we went to an architect, and I do not regret that decision at all.

Baufie schrieb:
Even a civil engineer wouldn’t exactly approve the self-made floor plan.

Unfortunately true, because the eligibility for approval is not affected by awkward room layouts. In that sense, the design is already "finished" (and when professionally drafted, it unfortunately also looks that way to laypeople). An engineer only ensures technical feasibility, while an architect also advises and guides the client.

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11ant schrieb:
Unfortunately true, because: approval for construction is not hindered by awkward room layouts. In that sense, the design is already "finished" (and, when drawn professionally, unfortunately looks that way to laypeople as well). An engineer makes it technically buildable, while an architect also advises the client thoroughly.

How do you come to such a generalizing statement? Basically, I agree with you, but not every structural engineer is the same, just as not every architect "thoroughly advises you."

However, we have since distanced ourselves from the structural engineer mentioned and will likely work with a specialist planner for single-family homes. Alternatively, I have a construction company with its own design department in mind, but then I would also have to commit to having them complete the structural shell.