ᐅ Floor Plan: Single-Family Home 5.60 x 15.80 meters Do you have any ideas?

Hello everyone,

here is my question for you again.
We finally have a plot of land in prospect for building a single-family house. The whole project is being sold through a developer.
Since the houses on the right and left will remain, we have to comply with the required distances of 3m (10 feet).
I still have no idea whether the house will eventually seem too narrow to me. Unfortunately, there are not many model homes with these small dimensions.

I would appreciate any tips and suggestions for improvement.


Development plan / Restrictions

Plot size: 425m² (4573 ft²)
Slope: none
Building zone: 3m (10 feet) from the street, 15.60m (51 feet) house length and 5.60m (18 feet) width for the house and additionally 3m (10 feet) width on the left for the garage.
Number of parking spaces: 1 in front of the garage
Number of floors: max. 2 full floors
Roof type: gable roof 25-45 degrees
Style: any
Orientation: southwest
Maximum height / limits: ridge height 9m (30 feet) wall height max. 4.70m (15 feet)

Client requirements
Basement, floors: no basement, almost 2 full floors
Number of people, age: 2 persons
Space requirement on ground floor and upper floor: 110 - 130m² (1184 - 1400 ft²)
On the upper floor: 3 bedrooms (1 bedroom is used as an office)
Guest stays per year: adults children
Open or closed architecture: open floor plan (open kitchen)

Garage, carport: garage


House design
Origin of the design: first draft from the developer

• Access to garage from the garden
• Few hallway areas but still a cloakroom
• Open living concept
• Spacious bathroom

What do you not like? Why?

• Small kitchen
• Small bathroom

Why is the design the way it is now?

We definitely wanted an open floor plan because our daily life mostly takes place outdoors in the summer and otherwise in the living room or kitchen.

What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan summarized in 130 characters?

• General opinion on the floor plan
• See “what I don’t like” – suggestions for improvement welcome

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simonmarkus197 schrieb:

We finally have a plot of land lined up for building a single-family house. The whole process will be handled through a developer.

Well, then it’s clear: let them worry about whether they can deliver something decent within such tight constraints, and you just keep looking. You’ll find something better than such a narrowly limited option anywhere, if I may loosely quote the Bremen Town Musicians.

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According to the property boundaries discussed in the other thread, the neighboring building—apparently not a garage?—is located directly on the boundary line. This takes up space—specifically, your space. Roughly estimated, you cannot build on about one-third of your otherwise developable land because the neighbor (previous property owner?) is positioned too close to the boundary. In fact, you wouldn’t need to buy the rightmost 5 to 6 meters (16 to 20 feet) at all—or at least you wouldn’t need to pay for it—since you can’t practically use that area for construction.

The planned width is even at the lower limit for terraced houses and would be unacceptable to me. Considering that, I find the floor plan okay, but it’s far from ideal.

I think it’s good enough*... considering it’s planned without children, only for a guest room and an office.
*Except for the kitchen wall, which I find completely unnecessary.

But you can only say more once the orientation is known.
Could you please add the plot again? And include the dimensions as well? Thanks.

I will do that promptly. Thanks in advance for the feedback.

I find it a very charming house in terms of layout (maybe consider redesigning the open living area to create a larger kitchen). In our town, there are plenty of houses that are 5.00m (16.4 ft) wide. They all have a very charming and attractive interior. I even think I find smaller rooms (as long as they remain functional) somehow "nicer." I have never felt uncomfortable in any of the narrow houses, but I have in larger ones.
It might be possible to bring some natural light into the ground floor through the roof (using a solar tube or something similar).

I don’t find the bathroom small at all. Bath, shower, large sink — everything is there, plus space for placing items and moving around. I have never had a 9sqm (97 sq ft) bathroom. I currently have 7sqm (75 sq ft), which is truly enough for comfortable movement and storage.