Hello everyone,
we are planning to start construction in June/July. Our architect is currently working on the drawings, so I wanted to join here and ask for your ideas or suggestions to improve my floor plan. At the moment, there are no dimensions included because it's purely about the room layout right now. Does anyone have an idea how to reduce the hallway from 16/17m² (172/183 sq ft) and somehow gain a bit more living space for one of the rooms? What else could or should be optimized in the floor plan? As soon as the drawings are ready, I will upload everything here and keep you updated throughout the build. A lot of the work will be done by ourselves.
Development plan/restrictions
Plot size: 1007m² (10,837 sq ft)
Slope: 0.8m (2.6 ft) drop over 22m (72 ft) width
Site coverage ratio: -
Floor area ratio: -
Building window, building line and boundary:
Edge construction: No
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of floors: 1
Roof type: Hipped roof
Style: Modern
Orientation: South
Maximum height/restrictions: None specified
Additional requirements:
Homeowners’ requirements
Style, roof type, building type: as indicated above
Basement, floors: 1 story without basement
Number of occupants, ages: 28 + 30 and 2 children aged 7 + 2
Construction location: Westerwald region, a still relatively affordable area. The plot is already owned by us.
Financial situation: I don’t think this matters much here, we have €320,000 (about $350,000) in equity, so the house will be funded entirely from own capital.
Own work: Earthworks, electrical, heating + plumbing, screed, tiling, flooring, painting will be done by ourselves. (These trades are covered by family members and me, as family companies are available, so everything is basically sorted and I have plenty of time.) The rest will be contracted out to local companies. According to the architect, savings through own work should be about €45,000 (about $50,000).
Space requirements on ground and upper floors: We currently live in a much smaller space with 5 people (100m² / 1,076 sq ft), so 137m² (1,474 sq ft) would be a big improvement for us.
Office: office combined with changing room
Guest sleepers per year: 2–3 times a year
Modern construction method
Open kitchen, cooking island: yes
Number of dining places: 8
Fireplace: yes, with external pipe
Music/stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: yes
Utility garden, greenhouse: no
Additional wishes/special features/daily routine: The parents’ bedroom and the living room should have access to a covered terrace.
House design
Planned by: me
Price estimate by architect/planner: €310,000 (about $340,000)
Personal price limit for the house including fittings: €320,000 (about $350,000)
Preferred heating technology: Air source heat pump
If you had to do without, which details or add-ons
-could you do without:
-could you not do without: air source heat pump, covered terrace, fireplace, kitchen with island
Why did the design end up like this? e.g.
Standard design from planner: This is my idea after one year of planning and hundreds of changes
Which wishes were implemented by the architect: The architect is currently still working on the drawings
we are planning to start construction in June/July. Our architect is currently working on the drawings, so I wanted to join here and ask for your ideas or suggestions to improve my floor plan. At the moment, there are no dimensions included because it's purely about the room layout right now. Does anyone have an idea how to reduce the hallway from 16/17m² (172/183 sq ft) and somehow gain a bit more living space for one of the rooms? What else could or should be optimized in the floor plan? As soon as the drawings are ready, I will upload everything here and keep you updated throughout the build. A lot of the work will be done by ourselves.
Development plan/restrictions
Plot size: 1007m² (10,837 sq ft)
Slope: 0.8m (2.6 ft) drop over 22m (72 ft) width
Site coverage ratio: -
Floor area ratio: -
Building window, building line and boundary:
Edge construction: No
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of floors: 1
Roof type: Hipped roof
Style: Modern
Orientation: South
Maximum height/restrictions: None specified
Additional requirements:
Homeowners’ requirements
Style, roof type, building type: as indicated above
Basement, floors: 1 story without basement
Number of occupants, ages: 28 + 30 and 2 children aged 7 + 2
Construction location: Westerwald region, a still relatively affordable area. The plot is already owned by us.
Financial situation: I don’t think this matters much here, we have €320,000 (about $350,000) in equity, so the house will be funded entirely from own capital.
Own work: Earthworks, electrical, heating + plumbing, screed, tiling, flooring, painting will be done by ourselves. (These trades are covered by family members and me, as family companies are available, so everything is basically sorted and I have plenty of time.) The rest will be contracted out to local companies. According to the architect, savings through own work should be about €45,000 (about $50,000).
Space requirements on ground and upper floors: We currently live in a much smaller space with 5 people (100m² / 1,076 sq ft), so 137m² (1,474 sq ft) would be a big improvement for us.
Office: office combined with changing room
Guest sleepers per year: 2–3 times a year
Modern construction method
Open kitchen, cooking island: yes
Number of dining places: 8
Fireplace: yes, with external pipe
Music/stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: yes
Utility garden, greenhouse: no
Additional wishes/special features/daily routine: The parents’ bedroom and the living room should have access to a covered terrace.
House design
Planned by: me
Price estimate by architect/planner: €310,000 (about $340,000)
Personal price limit for the house including fittings: €320,000 (about $350,000)
Preferred heating technology: Air source heat pump
If you had to do without, which details or add-ons
-could you do without:
-could you not do without: air source heat pump, covered terrace, fireplace, kitchen with island
Why did the design end up like this? e.g.
Standard design from planner: This is my idea after one year of planning and hundreds of changes
Which wishes were implemented by the architect: The architect is currently still working on the drawings
erwin93 schrieb:
We were planning to take out a loan anyway, but not for the house construction—instead for the kitchen, garage, and landscaping. However, I think it might be wiser to borrow the money for the house construction because of the low interest rates and then use part of our equity for the kitchen, garage, and landscaping.Kitchen, furniture, and lighting from equity, landscaping is better too, keeping 20,000 (about 22,000) in reserve. I would hold back a total of 50,000 (about 55,000) for these items and borrow what is missing for the house and additional construction costs. That might be between 100,000 and 130,000 (110,000–145,000).
Either way, it will work. And you don’t have to count every penny so strictly, which doesn’t mean being wasteful.
There are also, as already mentioned, several suitable floor plan templates without long corridors that work well.
Great plot of land!
erwin93 schrieb:
The architect is currently still working on the drawings.Of what, if the design is still in progress? By the way, I regularly mention here that future-proof planning is becoming outdated, especially for homeowners well under their mid-forties, and even among those under 60 today it is already declining. Therefore, I agree with the advice to reconsider the bungalow concept. The user closest to you here is @Chrisi1906. He started with a bungalow and then changed both the plot and concept in two steps, see: https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/grundrissplanung-bungalow-170qm.31445/ and https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/grobe-grundstuecksplanung-819m.31558/ and https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/bungalow-148m-grundstuecksplanung-grundrissplanung.31975/ and https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/efh-fuer-4-personen-meinungen.34437/—the last one being a one-and-a-half-story house.
But since the example of @Steffi33 has already been mentioned here (and is worth looking at if you want to stick to a bungalow), the floor plan can be found here: https://www.hausbau-forum.de/attachments/haus-bilderthread-zeigt-her-eure-hausbilder-203393-1-jpg.14461/, or more recent and shown in an angled view here: https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/grundriss-bungalow-auf-schon-genutztem-Grundstück.37392/page-11#post-456167, as well as several times in the house pictures thread.
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
Hello, thanks for all the suggestions. I’ve taken a look at the floor plans, and I really like the one from @ypg. It’s definitely worth considering, and I will definitely take it into account. Yesterday, I received a cost estimate for the project I mentioned at the beginning of the thread. According to the architect’s estimate: €309,589.
However, I’m thinking of having the floor plan adjusted again and possibly making it somewhat similar to the SH147, as its room layout is noticeably better.
However, I’m thinking of having the floor plan adjusted again and possibly making it somewhat similar to the SH147, as its room layout is noticeably better.
erwin93 schrieb:
I took a look at the floor plans,And did you also follow my links and read about how @Chrisi1906 has developed beyond the bungalow?https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
11ant schrieb:
And did you also follow my links and check how @Chrisi1906 has developed away from the bungalow?Of course. Very interesting.Similar topics