ᐅ Bungalow floor plan approximately 16 x 9.5 meters (exterior dimensions) on a 1000 m² plot with existing structures
Created on: 25 Jun 2019 09:14
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micric3
Hello forum community,
after gathering a few more ideas—and having received and tried to incorporate good feedback from previous posts—I would like to ask for your feedback on the current floor plan and your general opinion of the bungalow on our 1000m² (10,764 sq ft) plot with existing buildings.
The floor plan was created with RoomSketcher. I have tried to include quite a few pieces of furniture (kitchen is still missing) as references. The windows for the bedrooms and bathroom are not yet finalized, as I don’t have ideas for them yet.
Attachments:
1.) Plot image + orientation
2.) Original building permit/planning permission (BU) after I designed/modified the draft
3.) My draft (with RoomSketcher)
Zoning plan / restrictions
Plot size: 1000m² (10,764 sq ft)
House dimensions: 15.87 m x 9.50 m (52.1 ft x 31.2 ft) (specified by BU to keep price close)
Slope: No
Parking spaces: 0
Number of floors: Bungalow (single story)
Roof type: Hip roof or gable roof (BU includes hip roof in price)
Orientation: Entrance west, living room southeast facing, dining room southwest facing
Maximum height / limits
Other requirements: must adapt to existing buildings
Owners’ requirements
Number of people, ages: 4 people (2 x 40 years, 2 x 3 years)
Office: In the outbuilding
Guests per year: Max. 2
Open or closed layout: undecided
Conservative or modern style: doesn’t matter
Open kitchen, kitchen island: sliding door, probably L- or U-shaped kitchen
Number of dining seats: 4 in kitchen, possibly 6-8 in living room
Fireplace: possibly a wood-burning stove
Garage/Carport: along the access driveway
House design
Who planned it: based on the Bungalow 131 floor plan by Town & Country. Draft designed by myself using RoomSketcher
- Planner of a construction company
What do you particularly like? Why?
- Access from the west
- simple and compact
Price estimate according to architect/planner: 215,000
Personal price limit for the house, including equipment: 250,000
Preferred heating technology: air-to-water heat pump (either Vaillant aroSplit or Vaillant recoCompact)
If you had to give up some features or expansions, which ones?
- Can give up: size of the living room
- Cannot give up: 2nd bathroom
Why is the design the way it is now?
- Position on the plot
- Location relative to existing outbuilding
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan, summarized in 130 characters?
- Is the west orientation of the children’s rooms better than east orientation?
- Is the bedroom too narrow considering the ~2 x 2 m (6.6 x 6.6 ft) bed?
- Should the kitchen have its own small dining area?
- Size and number of windows for the living room with southeast orientation
- How should the living room furniture be arranged?
- Should the living and dining rooms be swapped? (SE <-> SW orientation)
--> Dining room faces southwest to see who is arriving
- Is it better to have one floor-to-ceiling window (which size?) or two windows in the children’s rooms?
after gathering a few more ideas—and having received and tried to incorporate good feedback from previous posts—I would like to ask for your feedback on the current floor plan and your general opinion of the bungalow on our 1000m² (10,764 sq ft) plot with existing buildings.
The floor plan was created with RoomSketcher. I have tried to include quite a few pieces of furniture (kitchen is still missing) as references. The windows for the bedrooms and bathroom are not yet finalized, as I don’t have ideas for them yet.
Attachments:
1.) Plot image + orientation
2.) Original building permit/planning permission (BU) after I designed/modified the draft
3.) My draft (with RoomSketcher)
Zoning plan / restrictions
Plot size: 1000m² (10,764 sq ft)
House dimensions: 15.87 m x 9.50 m (52.1 ft x 31.2 ft) (specified by BU to keep price close)
Slope: No
Parking spaces: 0
Number of floors: Bungalow (single story)
Roof type: Hip roof or gable roof (BU includes hip roof in price)
Orientation: Entrance west, living room southeast facing, dining room southwest facing
Maximum height / limits
Other requirements: must adapt to existing buildings
Owners’ requirements
Number of people, ages: 4 people (2 x 40 years, 2 x 3 years)
Office: In the outbuilding
Guests per year: Max. 2
Open or closed layout: undecided
Conservative or modern style: doesn’t matter
Open kitchen, kitchen island: sliding door, probably L- or U-shaped kitchen
Number of dining seats: 4 in kitchen, possibly 6-8 in living room
Fireplace: possibly a wood-burning stove
Garage/Carport: along the access driveway
House design
Who planned it: based on the Bungalow 131 floor plan by Town & Country. Draft designed by myself using RoomSketcher
- Planner of a construction company
What do you particularly like? Why?
- Access from the west
- simple and compact
Price estimate according to architect/planner: 215,000
Personal price limit for the house, including equipment: 250,000
Preferred heating technology: air-to-water heat pump (either Vaillant aroSplit or Vaillant recoCompact)
If you had to give up some features or expansions, which ones?
- Can give up: size of the living room
- Cannot give up: 2nd bathroom
Why is the design the way it is now?
- Position on the plot
- Location relative to existing outbuilding
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan, summarized in 130 characters?
- Is the west orientation of the children’s rooms better than east orientation?
- Is the bedroom too narrow considering the ~2 x 2 m (6.6 x 6.6 ft) bed?
- Should the kitchen have its own small dining area?
- Size and number of windows for the living room with southeast orientation
- How should the living room furniture be arranged?
- Should the living and dining rooms be swapped? (SE <-> SW orientation)
--> Dining room faces southwest to see who is arriving
- Is it better to have one floor-to-ceiling window (which size?) or two windows in the children’s rooms?
Seriously, it can't be that confusing. All the important information is in the initial post. And just because a floor plan suggestion is rotated or the entrance is moved from west to east, everyone gets confused -.- ?
Unfortunately, the only feedback on why something doesn’t fit or how to improve it came from ypg.
Unfortunately, the only feedback on why something doesn’t fit or how to improve it came from ypg.
In the original post, one might think the access road is located to the north. In post #86, it now seems that on one hand there is no road to the north at all, and the jungle marked with the light green line in the original post is the (only) access route. In post #88, you say that the visitors just came through there, and actually you would arrive from the north. Compared to this, the image orientations are the easiest part—I am now completely lost in the forest, even though I’m a professional at understanding layouts and usually not slow to grasp things in my free time either.
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
micric3 schrieb:
Let’s be honest. It can’t be that confusing. All the important information is in the opening post. Yes, I’m just reminding everyone about the terrace we should all be considering.
micric3 schrieb:
And just because a floor plan suggestion is rotated or the entrance is moved from west to east, everyone gets confused -.- ? Yes, if only that were the case. But when someone prefers option 6 even though only 4 are shown…
micric3 schrieb:
Unfortunately, only ypg has given reasons why something doesn’t fit or suggestions on how to improve it. kaho674 schrieb:
To me, it looks like a temporary shelter or emergency accommodation, not a dream home. Isn’t that enough?
11ant schrieb:
In the original post, one might think the access road is to the north.No, it was definitely to the west.
However, now I’m confused by this statement:
micric3 schrieb:
No. There will be no new access, and as you correctly understood, the path must go around micric3 schrieb:
Guests can, however, be received via the access path from the west or via the terrace@kaho674
The original poster wants to build with Town & Country. It’s about house model 131 and the possibilities to improve the original floor plan so that Town & Country can implement it.
Even if you don’t like the house, which competed for the Design Award 2019 and consider it a barrack, you shouldn’t judge the house too quickly before the project is realized. Especially you, who frequently propose variations of standard houses like townhouses that I wouldn’t touch with a ten-foot pole because most buyers of those houses already struggle with giving up their passageway to the beloved garage, should see this project as a challenge.
ypg schrieb:
No, it was definitely in the west.There was absolutely nothing there – in the original post, the plot (and the eventual or maybe not access road) was completely overgrown except for the shed.https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
@micric3 ... you are probably interested in exactly ONE thread here, which is your own.
The frequent commenters here tend to be interested in ALL floor plan discussions. Since these naturally stretch over several weeks and by then more than ONE thread, no, more than TEN… actually more than TWENTY threads have emerged, the threads that provide all the recommended information in the FIRST post and actually make the effort to stick to the chosen lot orientation from the original thread gain the most attention. Unfortunately, follow-up posts with lot details rarely contain more than 50% of the necessary information. Therefore, necessary information should be included in the FIRST post; otherwise, it becomes very difficult to find and significantly reduces the willingness to respond.
The frequent commenters here tend to be interested in ALL floor plan discussions. Since these naturally stretch over several weeks and by then more than ONE thread, no, more than TEN… actually more than TWENTY threads have emerged, the threads that provide all the recommended information in the FIRST post and actually make the effort to stick to the chosen lot orientation from the original thread gain the most attention. Unfortunately, follow-up posts with lot details rarely contain more than 50% of the necessary information. Therefore, necessary information should be included in the FIRST post; otherwise, it becomes very difficult to find and significantly reduces the willingness to respond.