ᐅ Bungalow Floor Plan with 140 sqm – Is the Storage Space Sufficient?
Created on: 23 Feb 2023 13:38
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EinmalimLeben
Hello! I would like to share our plans with you and would appreciate any suggestions or improvements, more specifically further down. First of all:
Development Plan / Restrictions
- Plot size: 707 sqm (7,609 sq ft)
- Slope: no
- Site coverage ratio: -
- Floor area ratio: no development plan, same as neighboring buildings
- Building window, building line and boundary
Edge buildings: 3 m (10 ft), building encumbrance considered
- Number of parking spaces: 2
- Number of storeys: 1
- Roof style: hipped roof
- Architectural style: bungalow
- Orientation: driveway on the south side, terrace on the north side
- Maximum height / limits: -
- Other requirements: -
Owners’ Requirements
- Style, roof type, building type
Small but cozy floor(s) 😉 No stairs (for husband), bungalow / country house style, no basement, attic not usable
- Number of people, age: 2 adults, 2 children (2 and 5 years old)
- Space requirement: 140 sqm (1,507 sq ft)
- Office: family use or home office: both teachers, so necessary, but one desk is enough
- Overnight guests per year: grandmother often (about every other weekend), otherwise irregular visits from friends or family members
- Open or closed architecture: both
- Traditional or modern construction: both
- Open kitchen, kitchen island: yes, already purchased
- Number of dining seats: 6
- Fireplace: no
- Music/sound system wall: no
- Balcony, roof terrace: no
- Garage, carport: carport planned later
- Utility garden, greenhouse: children’s play equipment, some garden for vegetables, more of a natural garden
- Additional wishes / special features / daily routine, including reasons for choices: our plot is quite narrow; a bungalow was our dream and fits well on the lot, although it is quite far from the driveway and parking spaces. We prefer a country house style; the house will have red facing bricks with an anthracite-colored roof. We all spend a lot of time on hobbies and gardening in the afternoons, but the children also want their fun... The large building to the east on the neighboring plot will soon be demolished and replaced by three large buildings with senior apartments. The distance to us will then increase somewhat, but these are three storeys and part of our street will be used. So there are quite a few changes happening around here. The village has many supermarkets, a drugstore, an outdoor pool, and schools, but no train station or grammar school. Those are located in the nearest larger town (15 minutes by bus/car).
House Design
- Who designed the plan: planner from a construction company with us
- What do you particularly like? Why?
The layout, bathrooms, separation of living and sleeping areas, open kitchen
- What don’t you like? Why? Possibly too little space in the utility/technical room and for storage cabinets?
- Price estimate according to architect/planner: Plot 80,000, house price 321,000 without flooring and painting but tiled in kitchen, baths and utility room, we signed in April 2022 and financed at the same time, rural Lower Saxony plot but located between three large cities, additional costs for the plot paid so far 16,500 (property taxes, tree removal, surveying...), planned further 30,000 for construction road, extra cost for deeper excavation, drainage. Kitchen (Bristol style) from Häcker in L-shape with island already purchased and stored, 14,000 Euro as it is a display kitchen and only slightly modified.
- Personal price limit for the house including fixtures and fittings: flooring 5,000, painter, electrician, tiles... 10,000, kitchen 14,000, furniture included, new sofa 1,000 and a few new cabinets: approx. 360,000 Euro without exterior works and additional costs.
- Favored heating technology: we are installing geothermal heat
- If you had to give up some details or fittings, which ones? I think we have already given up on a lot of unnecessary things. Carport for now
- Things you can’t do without: open kitchen, children’s bathroom with shower, shutters on the south side
- Why is the design as it is now? Developed together with planner
- Which wishes were implemented by the architect? Bungalow, children’s room 14 sqm (150 sq ft), children’s bathroom with shower
- What do you think makes it particularly good or bad? Everything on one level, wishes were implemented, possibly too little space for stuff?
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan in 130 characters?
We like the floor plan as it is and have already obtained building permit/planning permission for it. I would like to know if the space in the utility room is sufficient and if there is enough space for cabinets. We currently live on 73 sqm (785 sq ft) and have rather little; even the basement only stores a bit of Christmas decoration, children’s clothes for the younger one to grow into, and my husband’s workshop items, which will eventually go into a shed/workshop. The children currently share one room (11 sqm (118 sq ft)). If it is then split into two rooms in the house, that should be plenty. Still, there is sometimes some concern since many here plan much larger and allocate more storage space...
Would you change anything else or are we overlooking something? We have no load-bearing walls and could still make some adjustments before construction starts (even if it costs more).
Development Plan / Restrictions
- Plot size: 707 sqm (7,609 sq ft)
- Slope: no
- Site coverage ratio: -
- Floor area ratio: no development plan, same as neighboring buildings
- Building window, building line and boundary
Edge buildings: 3 m (10 ft), building encumbrance considered
- Number of parking spaces: 2
- Number of storeys: 1
- Roof style: hipped roof
- Architectural style: bungalow
- Orientation: driveway on the south side, terrace on the north side
- Maximum height / limits: -
- Other requirements: -
Owners’ Requirements
- Style, roof type, building type
Small but cozy floor(s) 😉 No stairs (for husband), bungalow / country house style, no basement, attic not usable
- Number of people, age: 2 adults, 2 children (2 and 5 years old)
- Space requirement: 140 sqm (1,507 sq ft)
- Office: family use or home office: both teachers, so necessary, but one desk is enough
- Overnight guests per year: grandmother often (about every other weekend), otherwise irregular visits from friends or family members
- Open or closed architecture: both
- Traditional or modern construction: both
- Open kitchen, kitchen island: yes, already purchased
- Number of dining seats: 6
- Fireplace: no
- Music/sound system wall: no
- Balcony, roof terrace: no
- Garage, carport: carport planned later
- Utility garden, greenhouse: children’s play equipment, some garden for vegetables, more of a natural garden
- Additional wishes / special features / daily routine, including reasons for choices: our plot is quite narrow; a bungalow was our dream and fits well on the lot, although it is quite far from the driveway and parking spaces. We prefer a country house style; the house will have red facing bricks with an anthracite-colored roof. We all spend a lot of time on hobbies and gardening in the afternoons, but the children also want their fun... The large building to the east on the neighboring plot will soon be demolished and replaced by three large buildings with senior apartments. The distance to us will then increase somewhat, but these are three storeys and part of our street will be used. So there are quite a few changes happening around here. The village has many supermarkets, a drugstore, an outdoor pool, and schools, but no train station or grammar school. Those are located in the nearest larger town (15 minutes by bus/car).
House Design
- Who designed the plan: planner from a construction company with us
- What do you particularly like? Why?
The layout, bathrooms, separation of living and sleeping areas, open kitchen
- What don’t you like? Why? Possibly too little space in the utility/technical room and for storage cabinets?
- Price estimate according to architect/planner: Plot 80,000, house price 321,000 without flooring and painting but tiled in kitchen, baths and utility room, we signed in April 2022 and financed at the same time, rural Lower Saxony plot but located between three large cities, additional costs for the plot paid so far 16,500 (property taxes, tree removal, surveying...), planned further 30,000 for construction road, extra cost for deeper excavation, drainage. Kitchen (Bristol style) from Häcker in L-shape with island already purchased and stored, 14,000 Euro as it is a display kitchen and only slightly modified.
- Personal price limit for the house including fixtures and fittings: flooring 5,000, painter, electrician, tiles... 10,000, kitchen 14,000, furniture included, new sofa 1,000 and a few new cabinets: approx. 360,000 Euro without exterior works and additional costs.
- Favored heating technology: we are installing geothermal heat
- If you had to give up some details or fittings, which ones? I think we have already given up on a lot of unnecessary things. Carport for now
- Things you can’t do without: open kitchen, children’s bathroom with shower, shutters on the south side
- Why is the design as it is now? Developed together with planner
- Which wishes were implemented by the architect? Bungalow, children’s room 14 sqm (150 sq ft), children’s bathroom with shower
- What do you think makes it particularly good or bad? Everything on one level, wishes were implemented, possibly too little space for stuff?
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan in 130 characters?
We like the floor plan as it is and have already obtained building permit/planning permission for it. I would like to know if the space in the utility room is sufficient and if there is enough space for cabinets. We currently live on 73 sqm (785 sq ft) and have rather little; even the basement only stores a bit of Christmas decoration, children’s clothes for the younger one to grow into, and my husband’s workshop items, which will eventually go into a shed/workshop. The children currently share one room (11 sqm (118 sq ft)). If it is then split into two rooms in the house, that should be plenty. Still, there is sometimes some concern since many here plan much larger and allocate more storage space...
Would you change anything else or are we overlooking something? We have no load-bearing walls and could still make some adjustments before construction starts (even if it costs more).
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EinmalimLeben24 Feb 2023 21:3211ant schrieb:
Did the planner possibly base this on an amateur design? No, no amateur was involved, although I don’t have much technical knowledge on this. I’ll need to look into it further. The plan image with the furniture is older, the final submitted design is the photo on page 1. There might be differences in the wall construction? Our brick is Olfry 1907.
The bathtub issue was also discussed with the architect, but we exclude the possibility of the children bathing together with a partner at our place. Period. Maybe we’re a bit more traditional in that regard?! 😉 Of course, the bathtub can be used by the children, even as teenagers. I only had a bathtub in my own apartment for the first time; back then, the three of us bathed together in the tall-tiled shower, and I survived. So for me, having a bathtub in the house is definitely a luxury. 🙂
EinmalimLeben schrieb:
No, there was no layperson involved, but I don’t have much specialized knowledge about it. I’ll have to look into it again. The picture of the plan with the furniture is older; the final submitted draft is the photo on page 1. There might be differences in the wall construction there? Our brick facing is Olfry 1907. By laypersons, I meant you yourselves: it’s quite common that non-professionals base their designs on their own drafts, and the draftsman just takes the measurements from their Sweet Home / Roomsketcher drawings and rounds them to the nearest half centimeter (because nowadays there is a widespread assumption that a brick saw can achieve any dimension, so there’s no need to be able to do even the simplest mental calculations when planning). At least in terms of wall thickness, the structure is still the same as in the original post.
Personally, I would be highly skeptical whether the walls will be built with the same laissez-faire attitude as planned. Simply because I would suspect that your contractor has no real understanding of what the old man is even talking about. Unlike you, the contractor should know, since this is their profession, and having expertise in the subject is more than just decorative.
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EinmalimLeben25 Feb 2023 08:08Ok, understood! We sent the architect an initial design beforehand. However, during the planning process, we completely changed everything with her, and none of the rooms remain as they were before. We told her that we wanted an open kitchen, the bathroom accessible from the bedroom, and that the size of the children's rooms (both equal in size, 14 sqm (150 sq ft)) was important to us. But she drew and planned it, and we really liked it!
We hired an external construction supervisor from the Homeowners’ Protection Association, which makes me feel more secure. But I will do my homework! Thanks for the clarification!
We hired an external construction supervisor from the Homeowners’ Protection Association, which makes me feel more secure. But I will do my homework! Thanks for the clarification!
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hanghaus202325 Feb 2023 08:57Hoping that @EinmalimLeben will get in touch again, here is an optimization.
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EinmalimLeben25 Feb 2023 09:03Of course! Thank you very much for the drawings!
I prefer the layout with the guest room opposite the front door a bit more, even though the children's rooms are a little more spacious in the other version.
In the bathroom and bedroom, I find the many doors inconvenient, as we would be constantly running into each other, and the additional partition walls feel like too many for me.
I prefer the layout with the guest room opposite the front door a bit more, even though the children's rooms are a little more spacious in the other version.
In the bathroom and bedroom, I find the many doors inconvenient, as we would be constantly running into each other, and the additional partition walls feel like too many for me.
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