ᐅ Shed Roof House, Part Two

While searching for an indoor parking space for our travel truck, we are now building a house with two residential units and a large garage.
Since the plot next to ours has not been sold for the past three years, probably due to its unfavorable shape, I got the idea at the end of January to build a hall there for our truck. After two phone calls, we agreed on the purchase price with the seller. A brief conversation with a friend who is an architect revealed that an ancillary building is only allowed together with a main building, which is a residential house. Then, after a short talk with my son, we decided to build a house with two residential units.

I quickly sketched a draft and roughly calculated the costs. In mid-February, we had a meeting with the bank. At the beginning of April, we had the notarization appointment, and on April 15, earthworks began.

We are now building a single-pitched roof house with two residential units and a large garage.

Here is the first sketch from early February

During the excavation work, we had to redesign the utility room located between the house and the garage. I like it much better now, as it creates a very nice inner courtyard.

And once again, in an easily readable format

Interesting project!

Fitting a kitchen into 7 sqm (75 sq ft) is quite a challenge. As shown, a U-shaped layout of course works, but then there is hardly any space left to stand. The same applies to the bathrooms. With 90 sqm (970 sq ft) of living space per unit, you are naturally limited, no question.

I think I would also enlarge the bathrooms enough to fit a washing machine and some storage space (for towels, a clothes drying rack, etc.), and completely open up the kitchen (tall cabinets work great for storage and provide more flexibility in kitchen design, potentially allowing for the addition of an island).