ᐅ Floor plan of a single-family house, feedback requested

Created on: 20 Jun 2025 15:58
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Ganneff
Hello,

I have been reading along for some time now and finally dare to share a floor plan here.
First, here is the list of questions:

Zoning Plan / Restrictions

Site plan with blue building structures, green areas and trees


Plot size: 576 sqm (6,200 sq ft)
Slope: Yes, slight. According to the site plan, the top "right" corner is at 295.4 meters (970 feet), lower at 293.88 meters (964 feet), left side goes from 295.17 meters (968 feet) to 293.43 meters (963 feet)
Floor area ratio: 0.3
Building envelope, building line and boundary: Applies to house number 16

Site plan of a building plot with parcels, building areas and street details.


Surrounding buildings
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of stories: 2 full floors required, plus optional recessed floor (setback floor)
Roof type: Flat roof, max. 5° pitch
Maximum height/limits: Max. 10 m (33 ft) high
Additional requirements: Equipment (heat pump) must be integrated, not external. Maximum of 2 residential units. Specific exterior colors required, rainwater should infiltrate (soil report says this is unlikely). Roofs must be greened. No oil or gas heating allowed.

Client requirements
Style, roof type, building type: Actually, none specified.
Basement, floors: No basement, 2 floors.
Number of occupants, ages: 4 people — 2 adults, 2 children
Ground floor space needs: Daily life (living, kitchen, dining, technical room, guest room)
Upper floor: Family (2 children's rooms, master bedroom, separate bathrooms), home office
Office: Home office, second workspace for occasional use such as a work window sill for example in the bedroom
Guests per year: Currently few.
Open or closed architecture, conservative or modern style: Either is fine.
Open kitchen, kitchen island: We are still considering. Initial wish was separate pantry like in the floor plan. An island would be nice if space allows.
Number of dining seats: Normally 4, rarely up to 8.
Fireplace: None.
Music/stereo wall: Multi-room audio with central unit in technical room.
Balcony, roof terrace: Neither.
Garage, carport: 1 garage
Other wishes: Central vacuum system, laundry chute, smart home (KNX) (I am mostly doing this myself, yes, I am a certified electrician, can program, but will also get additional help)

House design
Who designed the plan:
- Planner from a construction company: Correct, with some input from us. Based on an existing plan.
Price estimate by architect/planner: approx. 485,000 € (euros) for the house, approx. 210,000 € for the plot including basic services (survey, soil report, etc.)
Personal price limit for the house including features: approx. 800,000–850,000 € (including land)
Preferred heating technology: Heat pump

If you had to give up, which details/extra features could you skip:
- Could skip:
- Cannot skip:

Why is the design like it is now? For example:
Standard design by the planner? Yes, with minor wishes from us (wall between study and child’s room 2, T-walls in bathrooms, porch roof, conservatory, pantry)
What do you find especially good or bad about it? So far it seems to fit; apart from possibly the pantry/dining room, we don’t see major issues yet. But that’s why I’m here now.

Floor plan of a house with rooms, furniture, outdoor area and dimension lines.

Floor plan of a single-family house: parent’s/children’s rooms, study, hallway, bathroom, garage.

Floor plan: green flat roof, conservatory above, garage on the left, VELUX windows in the center, dimension 10.96 m (36 ft).


Edit: The furniture shown in the floor plans can be safely ignored. Planners seem to like adding these.

Best regards
Ganneff

Two-story house with green flat roof, PV system, garage and upper floor windows, dimension lines.

Modern single-family house front view with flat roof, large windows, terrace and garage.

Modern flat roof house view with large windows and glass terrace to the right.

Architectural front view of a modern house with garage, entrance door and windows.
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HuppelHuppel
24 Jun 2025 18:47
11ant schrieb:

Be careful about possible property transfer tax on the house as well.

The tax authorities are already looking forward to this, as the plot has already been purchased by the original poster.

So the calculation would be roughly as follows:

Plot: about 180,000€
Land registry & notary fees: about 3,000 to 3,500€
Property transfer tax on the plot can be disregarded due to the Hessen subsidy
House: 500,000€
Additional costs including earthworks: 100,000€
Property transfer tax on the house: 30,000€

850,000€ - 813,500€ = 30,000€ budget margin

Edit: On lebeninfulda.de/Grundstücke there is a listing for a sold plot of 576sqm (6,200 sq ft). Is that the one from the original poster?
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haydee
24 Jun 2025 19:36
@Ganneff The construction company is unknown to me.

@wiltshire In our case, Fingerhaus was immediately dismissed because of the salesperson. I've never encountered anything so aggressive before.
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haydee
24 Jun 2025 19:38
The original poster is not building with Fingerhaus
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wiltshire
24 Jun 2025 22:23
Then I processed that incorrectly.
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motorradsilke
24 Jun 2025 22:27
haydee schrieb:

The original poster is not building with Fingerhaus
However, I understood posts 88 and 92 that way already.
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ypg
24 Jun 2025 22:33
haydee schrieb:

The original poster is not building with Fingerhaus
Yes, they are
Ganneff schrieb:

Prefab house builder from Frankenberg
It’s basically Fingerhaus, just renamed.