ᐅ Single-family house floor plan of approximately 150 square meters on a plot located behind other properties
Created on: 27 Feb 2023 08:24
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Hausbaurer
Hello housebuilding forum members,
I enjoy reading this forum and would like to share our planning for discussion. Our plot is designated as parcel number 173/6.
Development Plan / Restrictions
Plot size: 498 m² (driveway approx. 60 m² (645 sq ft))
Slope: No
Site coverage ratio: No development plan (§34 Building Code)
Floor area ratio: No development plan (§34 Building Code)
Building envelope, building line and boundary: 3 m (10 ft) from plot boundary according to Bavarian Building Regulations
Edge development: none
Number of parking spaces: 1
Number of floors: 1.5
Roof type: Gable roof with a pitch of 40-45°
Architectural style: Single-family house
Orientation: Ridge line East/West
Placement on the plot: Northwest
Maximum height / limits: approx. 9 m (30 ft) (§34 Building Code)
Immediate neighbors: North neighbor 1.5 floors with gable roof. South neighbor single floor with hip roof. West neighbor 1.5 floors with gable roof. Next-nearest neighbor south 1.5–2 floors with gable roof and knee wall >1.2 m (4 ft).
Owner’s requirements
Style, roof type, building type: Gable roof, knee wall 1.4 m (4.5 ft), single-family house
Basement, floors: Usable basement (concrete), ground floor, upper floor
Number of people, age: 4 (2 adults + 2 toddlers)
Room requirements on ground and upper floors: Ground floor (kitchen, living room, shower bath, wardrobe, office), upper floor (2 bedrooms, 2 children’s rooms, bathroom)
Office: Home office
Guest bedrooms per year: 0
Open or closed architecture: Tending rather closed
Conservative or modern construction: Modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island: Yes, no kitchen island
Number of dining seats: 6–8
Fireplace: No
Music/sound wall: No
Balcony, roof terrace: No
Garage, carport: Garage or carport
Utility garden, greenhouse: No
Additional wishes / special features / daily routine, also with reasons why some features are wanted or not:
House design
Planner:
- Do-it-Yourself
What do you particularly like? Why?: Shower niches in the bathrooms, large children’s rooms facing west, L-shaped living-dining area instead of a narrow layout
What do you dislike? Why?: Upper floor bathroom, office located in the southeast instead of northwest
Cost estimate according to architect/planner: 580,000 EUR
Personal price limit for house including fittings:
Preferred heating technology: Air-to-water heat pump with underfloor heating.
If you had to give up, which details / extensions
- could you give up:
Office on ground floor (if replaced by usable basement space)
- could you not give up:
4 bedrooms
Why is the design as it is now?
Requirements and many attempts with our furniture. As much garden as possible on the south and east sides.
What is the most important / fundamental question about the floor plan in 130 characters?
How much clearance should be planned on the north side for the garage or carport? The passage should allow room for people and bicycles (bicycle shed planned behind the garage/carport). Is the overall design usable or have we overlooked something?
Best regards,
Hausbaurer
I enjoy reading this forum and would like to share our planning for discussion. Our plot is designated as parcel number 173/6.
Development Plan / Restrictions
Plot size: 498 m² (driveway approx. 60 m² (645 sq ft))
Slope: No
Site coverage ratio: No development plan (§34 Building Code)
Floor area ratio: No development plan (§34 Building Code)
Building envelope, building line and boundary: 3 m (10 ft) from plot boundary according to Bavarian Building Regulations
Edge development: none
Number of parking spaces: 1
Number of floors: 1.5
Roof type: Gable roof with a pitch of 40-45°
Architectural style: Single-family house
Orientation: Ridge line East/West
Placement on the plot: Northwest
Maximum height / limits: approx. 9 m (30 ft) (§34 Building Code)
Immediate neighbors: North neighbor 1.5 floors with gable roof. South neighbor single floor with hip roof. West neighbor 1.5 floors with gable roof. Next-nearest neighbor south 1.5–2 floors with gable roof and knee wall >1.2 m (4 ft).
Owner’s requirements
Style, roof type, building type: Gable roof, knee wall 1.4 m (4.5 ft), single-family house
Basement, floors: Usable basement (concrete), ground floor, upper floor
Number of people, age: 4 (2 adults + 2 toddlers)
Room requirements on ground and upper floors: Ground floor (kitchen, living room, shower bath, wardrobe, office), upper floor (2 bedrooms, 2 children’s rooms, bathroom)
Office: Home office
Guest bedrooms per year: 0
Open or closed architecture: Tending rather closed
Conservative or modern construction: Modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island: Yes, no kitchen island
Number of dining seats: 6–8
Fireplace: No
Music/sound wall: No
Balcony, roof terrace: No
Garage, carport: Garage or carport
Utility garden, greenhouse: No
Additional wishes / special features / daily routine, also with reasons why some features are wanted or not:
House design
Planner:
- Do-it-Yourself
What do you particularly like? Why?: Shower niches in the bathrooms, large children’s rooms facing west, L-shaped living-dining area instead of a narrow layout
What do you dislike? Why?: Upper floor bathroom, office located in the southeast instead of northwest
Cost estimate according to architect/planner: 580,000 EUR
Personal price limit for house including fittings:
Preferred heating technology: Air-to-water heat pump with underfloor heating.
If you had to give up, which details / extensions
- could you give up:
Office on ground floor (if replaced by usable basement space)
- could you not give up:
4 bedrooms
Why is the design as it is now?
Requirements and many attempts with our furniture. As much garden as possible on the south and east sides.
What is the most important / fundamental question about the floor plan in 130 characters?
How much clearance should be planned on the north side for the garage or carport? The passage should allow room for people and bicycles (bicycle shed planned behind the garage/carport). Is the overall design usable or have we overlooked something?
Best regards,
Hausbaurer
dieJulia schrieb:
Oh, I grew up in three different houses, two of them built around the turn of the millennium, the other one later. I have also lived in a 200m² (2,150 sq ft) apartment with five people, in my lovely two-room 80m² (860 sq ft) apartment, as well as in a 34m² (365 sq ft) two-room secondary apartment, oh, or our 117m² (1,260 sq ft) five-room apartment with two people, and now our four-room apartment with four. I’ve also visited, measured, and inspected dozens of houses, apartments, and even show homes.
But yes, I know quite exactly what we use, why we use it that way, and what we need. Just because someone labels it “modern” doesn’t automatically mean it makes sense for us. We are not undemanding; we just have different priorities. Well then, everything is perfect. Get building. Good luck!
dieJulia schrieb:
There simply isn’t enough space to the south if someone were to build their house 3m (10 feet) from the boundary there. That’s why I rotated it, to gain a bit more distance in that area. So why are you then “wasting” 1.5m (5 feet) of the south garden for a passage to the entrance, which ends up as a drafty, windy, and dirty corner, instead of moving the garage a few meters to the east? Without the passage and with the rotated ridge, you’d only be 30cm (12 inches) further south!
(I’m not trying to push this point, just to put it into perspective.)
The bungalow already looks renovated on Google (new roof, solar panels, new garage), which makes a short-term (partial) sale less likely. Do you know who lives there? Are they around 80 years old or between 40 and 50? If it’s the latter, chances are good that nothing will be built there for the next 30 years. If it’s the former, it’s more of a gamble—although the probability of demolition is lower for a house with high building value. And honestly, a single-family home that can’t be reached by car and doesn’t have dedicated parking is unlikely both from a building regulations standpoint (fire safety, fire department access) and practical use.
K a t j a schrieb:
Well, then everything is perfect. Start building. Good luck!@K a t j a - you should mark things like that as irony 😉K a t j a schrieb:
Upstairs, however, you could definitely make good use of the space with your four bedrooms.With a permitted roof pitch of 45° and considering the neighboring houses, I would also think about converting the attic (gable and roof windows) into a spacious office. I recently saw that in a renovated suburban house from the 1960s – it was really cool!
RomeoZwo schrieb:
@K a t j a - you should mark something like that as irony 😉You can’t save everyone from themselves. If someone wants to sleep in a tiny room for 20 years and then wash and shower in just 7 square meters (75 square feet), even though they spent 600,000 on a house, there’s nothing you can do to help.Ahjo, Katja, everything has already been said. We have no problem with the sizes, you do, but you won’t be living in it and you don’t have to pay for it. We have lived in plenty of apartments and houses of different sizes, so we know how various sizes feel, not just based on square meter (square foot) numbers on a floor plan. I am 100% sure you don’t, otherwise you wouldn’t say such nonsense. And yes, I have had a bedroom of 25 square meters (270 square feet), or as a teenager lived in a room of 34 square meters (365 square feet), or had a bedroom of 10 square meters (110 square feet), and none of that was a problem or uncomfortable.
We considered having an office in the attic, but it’s too impractical for cooking breaks or when the kids are sick at home, and many other reasons. The house is not attached to the garage because we want to be able to walk past the house. Our car is hardly used, meaning we usually come from the front or from the east side with bikes, trailers, etc.
We considered having an office in the attic, but it’s too impractical for cooking breaks or when the kids are sick at home, and many other reasons. The house is not attached to the garage because we want to be able to walk past the house. Our car is hardly used, meaning we usually come from the front or from the east side with bikes, trailers, etc.
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