ᐅ Semi-detached house 7x12 m with additional rooms on the ground floor

The Town & Country City 136 is a semi-detached house with a footprint just slightly larger than your size (7.12 x 12.24 meters (23.4 x 40.2 feet)).

If you move the utility room (HAR) upstairs, omit the guest toilet, and possibly reduce the kitchen size, there is enough space for a bedroom in the utility room area that would otherwise be planned for that purpose. A guest toilet might be possible under the staircase—try searching Pinterest for “staircase toilet.”

However, if you want to create a separate apartment on the upper floor, you would need about 63 m² (678 sq ft) of floor space—which still subtracts around 3 m² (32 sq ft) for the entrance hallway—and also include a bathroom on the ground floor. That becomes extremely tight, and honestly, I can’t really imagine it working. Two rooms, kitchen, and bathroom within 60 m² (646 sq ft)… you don’t really need a whole house for that, so it’s better to skip the idea of a separate apartment!

This just doesn’t add up at all. What’s the point of having a (bed)room on the ground floor if there is neither a bathroom nor a shower available, let alone one that is accessible for people with disabilities?

Trying to square the circle simply can’t be done.

lastdrop schrieb:
This just doesn’t add up at all

That’s exactly what I thought when I read the post from @Scout.

sireg schrieb:
The given dimensions for the house are 7x12m (23x39 ft) or 6x10m (20x33 ft), with 2 full floors and a pitched roof.

Then the pitched roof should be used as well.

sireg schrieb:
We are now looking for a floor plan that includes a bedroom on the ground floor (12m² (130 sq ft) should be enough).

Then the whole family will have to gather in the open living area, just because you want a bedroom on the ground floor...

sireg schrieb:
It would also be nice to have a separate granny flat.

A granny flat, especially above the main unit? And where will the laundry be done then? Or is another staircase supposed to be added? Are granny flats even allowed in a semi-detached house? What about parking spaces? Storage rooms?

haydee schrieb:
Why not put the bedroom under the roof? That frees up quite a bit of space on the ground floor.

Exactly! A nice room just for the parents.

sireg schrieb:
We wanted to avoid stairs a bit, so the bedroom is rather on the ground floor.

Then you should look for something else.

It is what it is: whether 10x6 or 12x7 meters (33x20 or 39x23 ft)... it won’t be a villa or a bungalow with four bedrooms. It’s a semi-detached house.

From your words “we’d actually like,” I hear sighs.
Get real, focus on 6x10 or 7x12 meters (20x33 or 23x39 ft), and realize that a ground floor bedroom is pointless.
You can barely fit a utility room of 6m² (65 sq ft), stairs 5m² (54 sq ft), hallway 6m² (65 sq ft), kitchen 13m² (140 sq ft), living/dining 35m² (375 sq ft), and a shower toilet 5m² (54 sq ft).
These are sizes for five people that don’t feel cramped, even once the kids have moved out. For three people, a smaller living and dining area will do.
Everything else is a lifelong compromise. If the house ends up too big, you can always downsize later to a smaller place without stairs.

I don’t want to spoil anyone’s mood, but semi-detached houses are really a bit of a compromise that no one truly wants, right? Time and again, there are questions here about this type of building and how to best separate oneself from the neighbor while still living like in a bungalow.

Uhm... no, actually I don’t feel like I will need to rely on a crutch anytime soon...
I don’t need to be able to walk all the way around the house once to truly call it “mine.”

But we didn’t have such unusual expectations either...

Müllerin schrieb:

But we didn’t have such unusual expectations either...

Maybe it just stands out to me because all the satisfied owners of semi-detached houses here don’t ask questions like this...