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
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
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.
Edit: The furniture shown in the floor plans can be safely ignored. Planners seem to like adding these.
Best regards
Ganneff
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
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
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.
Edit: The furniture shown in the floor plans can be safely ignored. Planners seem to like adding these.
Best regards
Ganneff
Friends of ours would like to get rid of the “just-standing-around wall” and no longer include it in their plans.
I’m glad that we insisted on including the beams in our design. Sometimes we have up to 20 people at family gatherings, and recently even over 30. I couldn’t have imagined that eight years ago. Two to three times a year, the large open-plan room is completely packed. There’s the Christmas tree, the children, space needed for gift-giving, dining tables are required, and some mobility is now limited (that’s why celebrations always take place at our house). At the end of April, my husband suggested we build a living room in the attic just for us as the immediate family, and downstairs we would have two huge dining tables and my grandfather’s sofa. In the meantime, everything has been pushed aside to practice jump rope and cheerleading choreography as well as parkour – I’m looking forward to going back to the daycare gym in December for these activities. And no, I never would have imagined practicing choreography with girls either.
I’m glad that we insisted on including the beams in our design. Sometimes we have up to 20 people at family gatherings, and recently even over 30. I couldn’t have imagined that eight years ago. Two to three times a year, the large open-plan room is completely packed. There’s the Christmas tree, the children, space needed for gift-giving, dining tables are required, and some mobility is now limited (that’s why celebrations always take place at our house). At the end of April, my husband suggested we build a living room in the attic just for us as the immediate family, and downstairs we would have two huge dining tables and my grandfather’s sofa. In the meantime, everything has been pushed aside to practice jump rope and cheerleading choreography as well as parkour – I’m looking forward to going back to the daycare gym in December for these activities. And no, I never would have imagined practicing choreography with girls either.
haydee schrieb:
Acquaintances of ours would prefer to remove the "pointless standing wall" and would not include it in their plans anymore. In my partner’s case, the pointless standing wall is simply a rolling cart under the Wi-Fi TV. This keeps the dance floor clear when the TV isn’t on. With a ceiling-mounted projector, you can take it a step further by having a retractable screen. In some households, TV entertainment still influences the interior design as if its quality justifies it – even though those days are long gone.
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wiltshire4 Jul 2025 12:03Ganneff schrieb:
The "dummy wall" is a feature that is highly favored here. I already mentioned that the living room door is the wrong way around. But luckily, only we have to like the wall. That’s true. You are the standard.
We don’t have such a wall and have to admit that the options for hanging art are so limited that either we can’t buy anything else or have to “change” pieces. We didn’t plan space for an archive, and I also believe that art doesn’t belong there. It’s not like I wish we had a wall like that, but I can certainly see the advantages.
Tolentino schrieb:
which I cause while cooking or tidying up when others want to watch something in peace. Alternative to the wall: use wireless noise-canceling headphones for watching TV.
A brief update after some time for those who might be interested: As planned, there were minor adjustments but nothing major. In the living room, the lift-and-slide door shifted slightly to the left; on the ground floor, the guest bathroom door was moved; upstairs, all the doors leading to the hallway now open outwards, meaning they open into the hallway. Also, the roof drainage direction is going to be changed. It was previously directed southwards, towards the terrace, but now it will be redirected to the side of the house to avoid having the gutter drain onto the terrace—which would be inconvenient if I want to place a rainwater barrel there. Initially, the drainage was set that way; I’m not sure why it was changed. Additionally, we'll enclose the space next to the staircase upstairs to create a built-in shelf (pull-out). According to the builder, for technical reasons, the staircase should have had a running wall there anyway, so now we’re simply extending it fully to create expandable storage space.
After much consideration, we decided on a garage—it will be a steel garage with rigid foam core insulation. It will be placed on a strip foundation, and the driveway leading up to it will be fully paved.
Meanwhile, the whole process with the land registry office has been ongoing. Fees here, taxes there, another fee here—it’s quite drawn out, my goodness. But it’s finally settled now.
At the moment, we’re waiting for the building permit/planning permission. Once I receive the latest drawings, I can upload some pictures.
After much consideration, we decided on a garage—it will be a steel garage with rigid foam core insulation. It will be placed on a strip foundation, and the driveway leading up to it will be fully paved.
Meanwhile, the whole process with the land registry office has been ongoing. Fees here, taxes there, another fee here—it’s quite drawn out, my goodness. But it’s finally settled now.
At the moment, we’re waiting for the building permit/planning permission. Once I receive the latest drawings, I can upload some pictures.
Ganneff schrieb:
There were still some minor adjustments as planned Which design are you referring to?
Ganneff schrieb:
On the upper floor, all doors leading to the hallway now open outwards Are you sure?
ypg schrieb:
Which design are you referring to?What I wrote is in comparison with the last one with my pictures here. So #208ypg schrieb:
Are you sure?Yes. Why shouldn’t I be? I noted it in the preliminary drawings for them, and there’s nothing (technically) against it. (And here, “outside” means “into the hallway,” not “into the room” anymore.)
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