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Kiki_ schrieb:

My mother-in-law has a very similar floor plan. The house is located in Franconia and was built in the post-war years. Every wall is made from a different building material (whatever was available at the time), with a compressed clay floor covered with tiles in the basement. However, it was built as a semi-detached house. Overall, this floor plan appears about 10 times on the street, sometimes as a semi-detached house, sometimes slightly larger as a detached single-family home.
About 10-12 years ago, it was renovated, during which the wall between the living room and bedroom (the two large rooms) was removed. So the ground floor now consists of the living/dining room, kitchen, hallway, and bathroom. It was originally planned as a two-family house, which is why there is still a door in the hallway (where the staircase ends).

Maybe it was the same architect 🙂 Same here – bedroom right next to the living room, apparently that was common back then. With such small rooms, an open-plan layout is almost a must.

icandoit schrieb:

Why don’t you start planning already? You’ll just lose unnecessary time if construction is supposed to begin soon.
What are the dimensions, 9 x 9.5 m?

I can only dream of those measurements. According to the original plan, it’s 8 x 7.50 m (26 ft x 24.6 ft)... minus the thick exterior walls, you can imagine how cozy it is inside 😉

ypg schrieb:

No matter what, new build or renovation – why do you need a similar floor plan? You adapt an existing property according to your own needs. There’s no need to look at other floor plans with a similar stair position. It’s there, so just get started!

Similar floor plans aren’t a requirement, but I’ve always been interested in seeing how others come up with different ideas – not just for my own project. For example, with terraced houses, you usually see very similar patterns, yet occasionally there are some that are completely different – I just enjoy discovering things like that. But well said – you take what’s available and adapt it to your own needs – that’s exactly what I plan to do 😉

I didn’t expect so much encouragement – I thought people would advise me to gather more information first. But then I’m happy to start right away and will upload a detailed description myself in due course. Until then, I’ll try to familiarize myself with the forum a bit.

HausAmWaldrand schrieb:

According to the original plan, it is 8 x 7.50 m (26 x 25 ft)… minus the thick exterior walls

You wrote it was built in the early 60s – back then, thick exterior walls were actually uncommon.

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11ant schrieb:

You wrote it was built in the early ’60s – back then, thick exterior walls were not common at all.

Well, I haven’t actually measured yet. I’m just trying to interpret the original plan, and according to that, a wall should be about 24cm (9.5 inches) thick – as to whether that meets the standards of that time or today, I can’t say as a layperson. But in such a small house, even half a meter (about 1.6 feet) makes quite a difference. ;-)

HausAmWaldrand schrieb:

I’m just trying to interpret the original plan, and according to it, one wall should be about 24cm (9.5 inches) thick – to what extent this complies with past or current standards, I can’t say as a layperson.

Back then, 24cm (9.5 inches) was common; even a bit more typical in the past would have been 25cm (10 inches). For an exterior wall, that’s not very thick—a house is not a tent after all.

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HausAmWaldrand schrieb:

Maybe it was the same architect 🙂 The same here – the bedroom right next to the living room, apparently that was common at the time. With such small rooms, an open floor plan is really a must.

This is how small two-family houses used to be built. Parents downstairs, grandparents upstairs. You didn’t need much more than a bedroom, living room, kitchen, and the toilet was either outside or already built inside.

11ant schrieb:

That’s not much for an exterior wall; a house isn’t a tent after all.

Fortunately. I’m already curious about when the topic of “insulating old houses” will come up—I’ve seen both positive and negative experiences with that.

ypg schrieb:

This is how small two-family houses were built in the past. Parents downstairs, grandparents upstairs. You didn’t need much more than a bedroom, living room, kitchen, and the toilet was either still outside or already built inside.

Back then, it was indeed considered that two families might move in. In the end, though, only three people actually moved in. For the toilet, you even had a free choice—either inside the house or an outhouse outside. The basement always stored preserved fruit from the garden, and cooking (and heating) was done on the kitchen stove. If I had one wish for the house, it would be to do everything possible to keep the kitchen stove there!