ᐅ Ground floor approximately 100 sqm, upper floor adaptable for expansion (planned bathroom, 2 children's bedrooms, 1 storage room)
Created on: 28 Mar 2018 10:32
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pffreestyler
Hello,
Development plan / restrictions
Plot size: 879 sqm (9,458 sq ft)
Slope: no
Site occupancy index: 0.3
Floor area ratio: 0.45
Building envelope, building line and boundary: 5 m (16 ft) to the street, 3 m (10 ft) each to the orchard area and neighbors
Edge development /
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of floors: 2
Roof type: gable roof
Construction style: solid / masonry
Maximum heights / limits: ridge height 9.0 m (30 ft), eaves height 6.0 m (20 ft)
Other requirements
Homeowners’ requirements: living room facing south, small office (initially used as a nursery), walk-in shower on ground floor, utility room on the driveway side
Style, roof type, building type
Basement, floors: no basement, 1.5 stories
Number of residents, age: 2 – under 30
Office use: family use rather than home office
Number of overnight guests per year: 2-3
Open or closed architecture: closed
Traditional or modern style: rather traditional
Open kitchen, kitchen island: no
Number of dining seats: 6
Fireplace: no
Music / stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: carport planned later on the east side
Kitchen garden, greenhouse: no
House design
Designer: general contractor
What do you like most? Why? living room facing south, the number of rooms as desired
What do you dislike? Why? the office window 1 should be moved from south to west (otherwise the wall looks too bare); driveway and access to be on the east, not the west
Price estimate by architect/planner: available after Easter; currently mainly focused on the floor plan
Personal price limit including fixtures: expected around €1,700 per sqm (sq ft conversion not added per instruction)
Preferred heating: gas
If you have to give up, which details/features?
-can give up: bathtub
-cannot give up:
Why is the design as it is now?
The floor plan is based on a very similar layout seen during a house viewing and is our favorite among all viewings and catalog research. We only adapted it slightly to our needs (removed guest WC and enlarged living room, rotated office).
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan in 130 characters?
The floor plan basically fits us, but I would appreciate your opinion to see if any improvements are possible. Note: as mentioned, we want to move the office window to the west so the wall doesn’t look so bare. Driveway on the east, not west. Therefore, the bare wall on the west is where the carport will go up to the utility room door. Alternatively, a window could be added to the living room there and the carport start behind the house. The plot allows this.
My main concern is that we’re not 100% happy with the roof’s east-west orientation; I would prefer a north-south alignment. Do you have ideas on rotating the floor plan 90 degrees while keeping the layout mostly unchanged? Only the kitchen and office could be swapped.
PS: The square meter figures for the hallway may be incorrect; the contractor will finalize after Easter. Correct figures will be approximately: living room 31.79 sqm (342 sq ft), kitchen 15.19 sqm (163 sq ft), utility room 9.87 sqm (106 sq ft), hallway about 19.5 sqm (210 sq ft), office/child room 1 about 8 sqm (86 sq ft), bedroom about 11.8 sqm (127 sq ft), bathroom about 8.5 sqm (91 sq ft)
Plot details: length west: 40 m (131 ft), east: 42 m (138 ft), width: 21.5 m (71 ft)
Best regards
Development plan / restrictions
Plot size: 879 sqm (9,458 sq ft)
Slope: no
Site occupancy index: 0.3
Floor area ratio: 0.45
Building envelope, building line and boundary: 5 m (16 ft) to the street, 3 m (10 ft) each to the orchard area and neighbors
Edge development /
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of floors: 2
Roof type: gable roof
Construction style: solid / masonry
Maximum heights / limits: ridge height 9.0 m (30 ft), eaves height 6.0 m (20 ft)
Other requirements
Homeowners’ requirements: living room facing south, small office (initially used as a nursery), walk-in shower on ground floor, utility room on the driveway side
Style, roof type, building type
Basement, floors: no basement, 1.5 stories
Number of residents, age: 2 – under 30
Office use: family use rather than home office
Number of overnight guests per year: 2-3
Open or closed architecture: closed
Traditional or modern style: rather traditional
Open kitchen, kitchen island: no
Number of dining seats: 6
Fireplace: no
Music / stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: carport planned later on the east side
Kitchen garden, greenhouse: no
House design
Designer: general contractor
What do you like most? Why? living room facing south, the number of rooms as desired
What do you dislike? Why? the office window 1 should be moved from south to west (otherwise the wall looks too bare); driveway and access to be on the east, not the west
Price estimate by architect/planner: available after Easter; currently mainly focused on the floor plan
Personal price limit including fixtures: expected around €1,700 per sqm (sq ft conversion not added per instruction)
Preferred heating: gas
If you have to give up, which details/features?
-can give up: bathtub
-cannot give up:
Why is the design as it is now?
The floor plan is based on a very similar layout seen during a house viewing and is our favorite among all viewings and catalog research. We only adapted it slightly to our needs (removed guest WC and enlarged living room, rotated office).
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan in 130 characters?
The floor plan basically fits us, but I would appreciate your opinion to see if any improvements are possible. Note: as mentioned, we want to move the office window to the west so the wall doesn’t look so bare. Driveway on the east, not west. Therefore, the bare wall on the west is where the carport will go up to the utility room door. Alternatively, a window could be added to the living room there and the carport start behind the house. The plot allows this.
My main concern is that we’re not 100% happy with the roof’s east-west orientation; I would prefer a north-south alignment. Do you have ideas on rotating the floor plan 90 degrees while keeping the layout mostly unchanged? Only the kitchen and office could be swapped.
PS: The square meter figures for the hallway may be incorrect; the contractor will finalize after Easter. Correct figures will be approximately: living room 31.79 sqm (342 sq ft), kitchen 15.19 sqm (163 sq ft), utility room 9.87 sqm (106 sq ft), hallway about 19.5 sqm (210 sq ft), office/child room 1 about 8 sqm (86 sq ft), bedroom about 11.8 sqm (127 sq ft), bathroom about 8.5 sqm (91 sq ft)
Plot details: length west: 40 m (131 ft), east: 42 m (138 ft), width: 21.5 m (71 ft)
Best regards
Nordlys schrieb:
Maria, land is cheap here.
Curly, the floor plan isn’t awful, but you find it awful. While others, like me, think it’s very good.What good is cheap land if I can’t afford the house on it?
I also think the hallway is poorly designed. Too large, that extension… no, it could definitely be improved.
Just an idea of how the house could be rotated. If you place the child’s room or utility room at the top, it could, in my opinion, also become smaller.
Edit: File too large. :-(
How can I do this on my phone?
Of course, it’s all a matter of personal taste, but I simply don’t like it. There are 1m (3.3 ft) wide windows everywhere in large rooms; our guest toilet window is 1m (3.3 ft) wide, so it fits. Just imagine how dark it is in front of the living room entrance—the hallway is huge and has no windows.
Best regards
Sabine
Best regards
Sabine
The house can handle a few more windows. One in the living room, and an additional one in the kitchen. There aren’t enough windows in the kids’ room, but not needed in the bedroom. The hallway is okay. Ours isn’t that dark either, even though according to the plan it only gets light through the front door. In reality, that’s not the case. It also gets light through the open door, the glazed living room door, and the attic door, which is glazed like a patio door to separate warm and cold areas.
About the money, folks, now some of you are letting your imagination run wild. We don’t know any of that. And even if we did, it wouldn’t concern us, since the question wasn’t whether we can afford it but what improvements you would suggest. He’s learning now. A few say tweak this and that, otherwise good. The majority, especially women, say ditch it and do it completely differently.
About the money, folks, now some of you are letting your imagination run wild. We don’t know any of that. And even if we did, it wouldn’t concern us, since the question wasn’t whether we can afford it but what improvements you would suggest. He’s learning now. A few say tweak this and that, otherwise good. The majority, especially women, say ditch it and do it completely differently.
Ok, the garden part is just speculation.
But in post 1: it will come down to about €1,700 per square meter (approximately $160 per square foot).
Later, this was added:
But in post 1: it will come down to about €1,700 per square meter (approximately $160 per square foot).
Later, this was added:
pffreestyler schrieb:
The upper floor is not yet fully planned, but the builder told us that it will have to be planned along the way, so that at the start of construction it’s clear how it should be later. I hope there is still enough budget left to have bulky materials like drywall already brought upstairs, so that my father and I can start with the rough finishing phase in time.
@Nordlys: this is not from Team Massiv, but from the general contractor
Now 1700 per square meter (approximately 158 dollars per square foot) is still a normal price here. Six months ago, it was 110,000 to 163,000 for us.
It is understandable that he needs to do some calculations. However, a smaller 1.5-story house with a fully finished interior does not change anything. Believe it or not, building a bungalow-style house here in Schleswig-Holstein does not cost more. The bungalow is not considered a special design with additional costs; about 50% of the houses sold here are bungalows. Karsten
It is understandable that he needs to do some calculations. However, a smaller 1.5-story house with a fully finished interior does not change anything. Believe it or not, building a bungalow-style house here in Schleswig-Holstein does not cost more. The bungalow is not considered a special design with additional costs; about 50% of the houses sold here are bungalows. Karsten
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