ᐅ Single-family home floor plan, 230 sqm, with carport on a square corner lot
Created on: 15 Jun 2023 18:12
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fabreit
Hello House Building Forum,
After several months and iterations, we have a design for our single-family home and are quite satisfied. Now we are very eager to receive your constructive feedback! Thank you in advance.
Zoning Plan / Restrictions
Plot size | 540 sqm (5800 sq ft), fairly square
Corner plot, no slope
Number of parking spaces | 1
Roof style | all classic roof types possible
Maximum height / limits | not relevant, several multi-family houses in the neighborhood (neighboring development)
Homeowners’ Requirements
Style, roof shape, building type | gable roof, possibly triple gable (not shown)
Basement, floors | ground floor, converted attic, finished basement
Number of occupants, ages | target: 2 adults, 2 children (currently one-year-old)
Room needs on ground and upper floors | approx. 80-90 sqm (860-970 sq ft) each for ground and upper floors
Office | 1.5 offices required for home office
Guest sleeping per year | some family abroad, so relevant
Open or closed layout | rather open, but with adequate soundproofing for bedrooms (chamber music downstairs in the evening while children sleep upstairs)
Conservative or modern build | in between, should be a bit special
Open kitchen, cooking island | large open kitchen with breakfast bar
Number of dining seats | existing table 2x3 m (6.5x10 ft), extendable to 2x4 m (6.5x13 ft)
Fireplace | under discussion, probably no
Music / stereo wall | no
Balcony, roof terrace | no
Garage, carport | carport
Vegetable garden, greenhouse | garden with walnut, spruce, and ash trees present
House Design
Who designed it? | architect’s design, nth iteration with many personal ideas
What do you particularly like? Why? | staircase separated from living area (acoustics), large living room with window seat (party-friendly), terrace extending dining area (for warm summer evenings), parents’ area upstairs, no external heat pump (out of respect)
What do you not like? Why? | exterior not yet “attractive” from every angle – any ideas? All bedrooms next to each other
Price estimate according to architect/planner: base house costs from 0.8 million upward
Price limit for house including fittings: 1.2 million from demolition to kitchen/built-in furniture/garden landscaping
Preferred heating technology: air-to-water heat pump, possibly earth baskets (?)
If You Had to Cut Back, Which Details / Extensions
-could you give up? Much has already been rationalized away (fireplace, outdoor kitchen, attic)
-could you not give up? Priority on garden size
Why Has the Design Turned Out This Way?
A spacious family home with privacy, meaning large children’s rooms and a retreat space for parents, great importance on the garden with existing trees, an evening terrace in the northwest, otherwise focus on southeast garden. Inside, plenty of windows facing southeast. This will be enclosed by privacy hedges; the streets to the south/east have very little traffic, so this will be a nice, private, and quiet southeast garden.
What Is the Most Important / Fundamental Question About the Floor Plan Summarized in 130 Characters
Best regards
fabreit
After several months and iterations, we have a design for our single-family home and are quite satisfied. Now we are very eager to receive your constructive feedback! Thank you in advance.
Zoning Plan / Restrictions
Plot size | 540 sqm (5800 sq ft), fairly square
Corner plot, no slope
Number of parking spaces | 1
Roof style | all classic roof types possible
Maximum height / limits | not relevant, several multi-family houses in the neighborhood (neighboring development)
Homeowners’ Requirements
Style, roof shape, building type | gable roof, possibly triple gable (not shown)
Basement, floors | ground floor, converted attic, finished basement
Number of occupants, ages | target: 2 adults, 2 children (currently one-year-old)
Room needs on ground and upper floors | approx. 80-90 sqm (860-970 sq ft) each for ground and upper floors
Office | 1.5 offices required for home office
Guest sleeping per year | some family abroad, so relevant
Open or closed layout | rather open, but with adequate soundproofing for bedrooms (chamber music downstairs in the evening while children sleep upstairs)
Conservative or modern build | in between, should be a bit special
Open kitchen, cooking island | large open kitchen with breakfast bar
Number of dining seats | existing table 2x3 m (6.5x10 ft), extendable to 2x4 m (6.5x13 ft)
Fireplace | under discussion, probably no
Music / stereo wall | no
Balcony, roof terrace | no
Garage, carport | carport
Vegetable garden, greenhouse | garden with walnut, spruce, and ash trees present
House Design
Who designed it? | architect’s design, nth iteration with many personal ideas
What do you particularly like? Why? | staircase separated from living area (acoustics), large living room with window seat (party-friendly), terrace extending dining area (for warm summer evenings), parents’ area upstairs, no external heat pump (out of respect)
What do you not like? Why? | exterior not yet “attractive” from every angle – any ideas? All bedrooms next to each other
Price estimate according to architect/planner: base house costs from 0.8 million upward
Price limit for house including fittings: 1.2 million from demolition to kitchen/built-in furniture/garden landscaping
Preferred heating technology: air-to-water heat pump, possibly earth baskets (?)
If You Had to Cut Back, Which Details / Extensions
-could you give up? Much has already been rationalized away (fireplace, outdoor kitchen, attic)
-could you not give up? Priority on garden size
Why Has the Design Turned Out This Way?
A spacious family home with privacy, meaning large children’s rooms and a retreat space for parents, great importance on the garden with existing trees, an evening terrace in the northwest, otherwise focus on southeast garden. Inside, plenty of windows facing southeast. This will be enclosed by privacy hedges; the streets to the south/east have very little traffic, so this will be a nice, private, and quiet southeast garden.
What Is the Most Important / Fundamental Question About the Floor Plan Summarized in 130 Characters
- Especially ideas for the exterior: We want to build a “beautiful house” from the outside, not just a functional one.
- How best to calculate sun position/shadow cast from neighboring houses?
- Do you see any major no-gos including reasons and suggestions?
Best regards
fabreit
fabreit schrieb:
It’s not the same – could you give some examples? For some things, we made conscious decisions; others just “happened.” Then it happened for the best, or at least with attention and common sense.
11ant schrieb:
Be careful – once you’re on the home stretch toward satisfaction, don’t change course or re-enter the workflow!
Reset the push lever, hold the lines ready, and moor up. Exactly, for this reason, there is hardly any option to move a wall without triggering a chain reaction. Usually, there are no overall improvements when viewed as a whole.
However, I aim for asymmetry in the wardrobe area to take advantage of a window. Even though much here follows symmetry, which is well staged, I believe some interesting features make for a successful interior. For @hanghaus2023, it’s the wardrobe window that breaks up the furnishing. I still find the central door to the open-plan living area very awkward and dull. Double doors can either add openness or seem formal and uninspired. Here, I see the latter and would prefer a one-third/two-thirds layout in the hallway to allow space for a sideboard or gallery wall. Also, in the 9sqm (97 sq ft) office, I would stick to one door—whichever option suits the lifestyle best.
In the guest bathroom, I would swap the washbasin and toilet positions.
ypg schrieb:
Exactly, for this reason, there is hardly any way to move a wall without setting off a chain reaction. Usually, when considering the whole, there are no improvements.Just remember Loriot, who only wanted to hang one picture straight ;-)https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
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Solid plan overall. Just a few minor points, which are not necessarily critical:
- The kitchen door blocks or significantly narrows the walkway if the cabinets are placed as shown. This bottleneck could become annoying over time.
- Many cabinets have been precisely drawn by the architect with significantly varying depths. Are these all custom-made? If not, finding matching products from standard manufacturers might be quite challenging. For example, the room divider in the living room would need a proper back panel, which could look odd. Therefore, I would double-check these depths to ensure my desired furniture fits.
- I would also consider soundproofing or reinforcing the wall between the bedroom and the children's room. The path to the bed is annoyingly long. I would probably move the door forward (to the children’s room side). Also, it wouldn’t be a sliding door.
- Is the hobby room in the basement also intended to serve as a guest bedroom? Has this been well planned? What kind of window will be installed there?
Otherwise, congratulations—this looks like it will turn out very nicely, I think. 🙂
- The kitchen door blocks or significantly narrows the walkway if the cabinets are placed as shown. This bottleneck could become annoying over time.
- Many cabinets have been precisely drawn by the architect with significantly varying depths. Are these all custom-made? If not, finding matching products from standard manufacturers might be quite challenging. For example, the room divider in the living room would need a proper back panel, which could look odd. Therefore, I would double-check these depths to ensure my desired furniture fits.
- I would also consider soundproofing or reinforcing the wall between the bedroom and the children's room. The path to the bed is annoyingly long. I would probably move the door forward (to the children’s room side). Also, it wouldn’t be a sliding door.
- Is the hobby room in the basement also intended to serve as a guest bedroom? Has this been well planned? What kind of window will be installed there?
Otherwise, congratulations—this looks like it will turn out very nicely, I think. 🙂
K a t j a schrieb:
Just a few minor details, which are not absolutely necessary: [...]
Otherwise, congratulations – I think it’s going to look very nice.Yvonne chose to omit the words in between, and as loyal readers know, contrary to my usual tendency, I agreed to hold back as well. The problem is: on one hand, these are valid small flaws, and both Yvonne and I could certainly have found similar (sometimes different) ones. On the other hand, trying to perfect these details may damage the underlying base coat. Other contributors like X/Y/Z might also find small faults, presumably all equally valid. But what then? – even if you only fix the three most often named ones (Warning: conflict here—the three most frequently mentioned small flaws are numbers 3, 5, and 9, but these are not the most significant from the homeowners’ perspective, which would be 2, 5, and 8 – so should you fix 2, 3, 5, 8, and 9?) you’ve already started a domino effect, and in the end, an almost perfect design will be discarded because it is ruined by countless patches.So – dear readers, please write this carefully into your memory book: anyone who tries to improve a 95% successful result neither understands Pareto’s principle nor realizes they are opening a Pandora’s box!
That’s the explanation, after all, of why I held back here this once. Nothing is “perfect,” and as you know, I myself am happily renting a house that I did not design.
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Allthewayup17 Jun 2023 14:5411ant schrieb:
Model panels ... do you have a picture of that? I’m not quite following ...We haven’t installed the panels yet; we’re not that far along. I probably can’t post any pictures here due to copyright. Just enter “glass railing model panels” in a major search engine and switch to image results. There you’ll find a graphic showing various stair railings. The last example shows a model panel. Basically, it is a panel made using a pattern of pressed wood chips because the staircase doesn’t follow a straight line at certain points. The price is driven up by the complex pattern creation and, of course, the special setup time at the glass manufacturer.
As I said, next time we would definitely define the entire geometry of the staircase in detail upfront. The overall cost for the staircase will probably remain the same, but the appearance will be exactly as desired, and wider steps are more comfortable when carrying things up and down or when there is two-way foot traffic.
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allstar8317 Jun 2023 15:07I just noticed that there is nothing planned on your terrace for sun or possibly wind protection. Maybe your trees have already grown tall enough. If not, I would really recommend including this in the construction plans now after reconsidering. Portable umbrellas can be extremely inconvenient, and no one wants to sit in direct sunlight. You might also need to drill, install wiring, or lay foundations for this. At those costs later on, you definitely won’t want to deal with it.
We have a recess and an awning, which works great for both wind and sun.
We have a recess and an awning, which works great for both wind and sun.
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