ᐅ 130 m² bungalow with double carport on a 600 m² plot?

Thanks .. Everything is fine so far.
I guess I was probably thinking a bit too abstractly about the staircase.

Well, you’re not wrong about that. After spiral staircases, this is one of the least comfortable options. The question is whether that’s really a big problem.

Up there, we have 8 shelves full of stuff. A large plywood board for the model railway. Sails. Cushions, cookware, but only in winter. Spare chairs for when we have many guests. Garden cushions. All of this is easily carried upstairs.
My advice regarding the exercise bike: better go to a gym twice a week. There you meet people, it’s social, and there are real trainers from Techno Gym or similar. These home machines usually just gather dust and serve as an excuse for people who know they should use them but don’t because of laziness. Karsten

Well, we have the item now, and it has to go somewhere... It is also being used, even if only as a clothes hanger - lol...

Elnino schrieb:
Hmm, well, I was just thinking about good accessibility because without a basement, something will inevitably have to go up to the attic. And carrying a cross-trainer from Life Fitness (not one of those cheap ones from a hardware store) up there isn’t so easy… Or maybe I’m overthinking it a bit…

Of course, you are right to consider good access to the upper floor. That’s what stairs are for. And I’m not a big fan of that staircase either. But you also have to keep things in proportion: if you’re building a mansion where the staircase is meant to be a showpiece, it will have a minimum width of 1.20 meters (4 feet) and be prominently grand in the entrance hall. Maybe with a landing or an impressive spiral design…

Or if you’re building for five people, all of whom have their bedrooms on the upper floor and will use the stairs several times a day, then a straight staircase with at least one meter (3.3 feet) of walking width might be enough.

Then there are those who need to go from the upper floor to the basement, meaning they have to use two staircases, for example when doing laundry multiple times a day. The same applies as in the previous example. To save space, it’s common to add a turn at the beginning or end of the staircase, so it fits better in the floor plan.

If space is even tighter, a double-spiral staircase can be used, which also offers more flexibility in width or length. There are calculators for this, or you can use @kbt09’s drawing here as an example for minimum requirements: https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/grundrissplanung-unbedingt-vor-Beitrag-Erstellung-lesen.11714/

And then there are those who use the stairs twice a week because they actually built a bungalow to avoid stairs altogether. If there’s no large storage space on the ground floor, a fixed staircase in the bungalow is a good idea, like the one Karsten (@Nordlys) has. He or his partner can quickly fetch a heavy jacket or garden chair from upstairs without straining themselves. It doesn’t matter whether it leads to the basement or the attic; the attic has to be constructed anyway, but the basement costs extra.

Where you or your family see yourselves now is what you need to weigh. At least keep in mind that the staircase, even if your child will use it daily at some point or you constantly forget something upstairs, will probably play a minor role, because your life can be fully lived on the main ground floor level.

I would also advise against planning a moving strategy as part of the house construction. The current children’s room usually cannot replace a gym or vice versa. In a bungalow, you can very well organize two zones—parents and children. Then you add a living area (kitchen, dining, living room) and a utility area (hobby, gym, office, and laundry/freezer room).

For your bungalow, I would suggest something like this: Search on Google for "nurda studiohaus 2002," "Danwood perfekt 135," "Danwood perfekt 166," or "Danwood brave 176"—a bungalow where a small upper area is also developed right from the start, allowing a roof shape that, thanks to a third gable, enables good, fully usable windows and comfortable walls upstairs.

Regarding the cross-trainer, regardless of its cost, I can only ask: how long have you had it? How often do you use it? How often will you still use it in the house? It’s no news that exercise equipment tends to become obsolete faster than the extra pounds are burned off. One exception: if you’ve been training on it for years for specific sports goals because the weather outside is too bad for running or cycling.

There are more effective exercises you can do on a small yoga mat using your own body weight and movement, maybe combined with small dumbbells... but that’s probably a topic for another forum.

Elnino schrieb:
Well, we already have the machine and it has to go somewhere… It’s used occasionally, though. Even if only as a clothes hanger—lol…

Of course, you can build the house around a disposable item like that. But once the house is finished, that item definitely won’t move with you. Get rid of it! You have to anyway... people don’t move with unnecessary stuff.

ypg schrieb:
Get rid of it!!!!
You have to anyway... you don’t move with unnecessary stuff

She’s absolutely right. We threw away so much! A ton. I practically felt like a regular at the recycling center. And you know what: We don’t miss any of it. It was all really unnecessary.