ᐅ Floor plan of a single-family home designed as an urban villa
Created on: 20 Apr 2026 23:13
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xDorix
Hello everyone,
Our project is about to start soon. Before all the masonry work begins, I would appreciate your feedback.
We more or less designed the floor plan ourselves after looking at various houses and layouts. We took the elements we liked from different plans and combined them to create our house design, which we have gradually refined with our structural engineer.
Development plan/restrictions
Plot size: approx. 2500m² (0.62 acres)
Slope: No
Floor area ratio: ?
Plot ratio/building coverage ratio: ?
Building envelope, building line, and boundary: ?
Edge development: ?
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of floors: 2
Roof type: Hipped roof 24°
Style: Modern
Orientation: Living/dining area facing east
Maximum height/limits: ?
Other regulations: unknown
Homeowner requirements
Style, roof shape, building type: Modern city villa with a hipped roof, 24°
Basement, floors: No basement, 2 full floors
Number of occupants, age: Currently 2 adults (two children’s bedrooms planned)
Room requirements on ground floor and upper floor:
Ground floor: Living/dining/kitchen area, utility room, guest WC, office
Upper floor: Master bathroom, children’s bathroom, master bedroom including walk-in closet, child 1, child 2
Office: Family use or home office? Family use
Number of guests per year: ?
Open or closed architecture: ?
Conservative or modern construction method: Modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island: Open kitchen with kitchen island
Number of dining seats: 6
Fireplace: Yes
Music/stereo wall: No
Balcony, roof terrace: Terrace accessible via lift-and-slide door
Garage, carport: Double garage
Vegetable garden, greenhouse: No
Additional wishes/particulars/daily routine, including reasons why certain things are or are not wanted: We definitely wanted a double-height space centrally located above the living/dining/kitchen area. On the upper floor, this space has a fixed window element overlooking our large plot and future garden. On the ground floor, the dining table is located directly under this double-height space.
House design
Who designed it:
- Own design based on many different floor plans
What do you like most? Why?
- The symmetry of the house’s exterior façade, the living/dining/kitchen area flooded with light through large windows including the double-height space, the open staircase with a large window, the bright and open hallway on the upper floor thanks to the double-height space.
What don’t you like? Why?
- /
Estimated price according to architect/planner: /
Personal price limit for the house, including equipment: /
Preferred heating technology: Air-to-water heat pump
If you have to give up something, which details/features
- Can you live without: /
- Can’t you live without: Double-height space, staircase, living room including kitchen
We are quite satisfied with the floor plan but would like to know if we might have overlooked something or if anything could be improved.
Regarding the kitchen, the door shown in the drawing will be removed. The kitchen unit will extend along the entire wall, and the indicated window is relatively large, facing south to allow afternoon sunlight.
Unfortunately, we do not have 3D views of the rooms like some others here have been able to share.
Ground floor:
Upper floor:
Our project is about to start soon. Before all the masonry work begins, I would appreciate your feedback.
We more or less designed the floor plan ourselves after looking at various houses and layouts. We took the elements we liked from different plans and combined them to create our house design, which we have gradually refined with our structural engineer.
Development plan/restrictions
Plot size: approx. 2500m² (0.62 acres)
Slope: No
Floor area ratio: ?
Plot ratio/building coverage ratio: ?
Building envelope, building line, and boundary: ?
Edge development: ?
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of floors: 2
Roof type: Hipped roof 24°
Style: Modern
Orientation: Living/dining area facing east
Maximum height/limits: ?
Other regulations: unknown
Homeowner requirements
Style, roof shape, building type: Modern city villa with a hipped roof, 24°
Basement, floors: No basement, 2 full floors
Number of occupants, age: Currently 2 adults (two children’s bedrooms planned)
Room requirements on ground floor and upper floor:
Ground floor: Living/dining/kitchen area, utility room, guest WC, office
Upper floor: Master bathroom, children’s bathroom, master bedroom including walk-in closet, child 1, child 2
Office: Family use or home office? Family use
Number of guests per year: ?
Open or closed architecture: ?
Conservative or modern construction method: Modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island: Open kitchen with kitchen island
Number of dining seats: 6
Fireplace: Yes
Music/stereo wall: No
Balcony, roof terrace: Terrace accessible via lift-and-slide door
Garage, carport: Double garage
Vegetable garden, greenhouse: No
Additional wishes/particulars/daily routine, including reasons why certain things are or are not wanted: We definitely wanted a double-height space centrally located above the living/dining/kitchen area. On the upper floor, this space has a fixed window element overlooking our large plot and future garden. On the ground floor, the dining table is located directly under this double-height space.
House design
Who designed it:
- Own design based on many different floor plans
What do you like most? Why?
- The symmetry of the house’s exterior façade, the living/dining/kitchen area flooded with light through large windows including the double-height space, the open staircase with a large window, the bright and open hallway on the upper floor thanks to the double-height space.
What don’t you like? Why?
- /
Estimated price according to architect/planner: /
Personal price limit for the house, including equipment: /
Preferred heating technology: Air-to-water heat pump
If you have to give up something, which details/features
- Can you live without: /
- Can’t you live without: Double-height space, staircase, living room including kitchen
We are quite satisfied with the floor plan but would like to know if we might have overlooked something or if anything could be improved.
Regarding the kitchen, the door shown in the drawing will be removed. The kitchen unit will extend along the entire wall, and the indicated window is relatively large, facing south to allow afternoon sunlight.
Unfortunately, we do not have 3D views of the rooms like some others here have been able to share.
Ground floor:
Upper floor:
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Noxmortana21 Apr 2026 10:33You sound like you are already quite satisfied with your plan, and if the building permit / planning permission has already been granted or the shell construction is about to start, I’m not sure how much critical feedback you want to hear—I certainly don’t want to undermine your general satisfaction, after all, it’s your house and it has to work for you. However, the following points would bother me personally:
There seems to be rather little coat and shoe storage space in the entrance area for a family of four.
The utility room is large in terms of square meters, but as far as I understand, it will be used for four purposes: technical equipment (what exactly?), laundry room (including drying racks?!), pantry/storage (what will go in there? Freezer? Second refrigerator? Shelves?…), and as a passage from the garage to the kitchen. I’d plan carefully to see if the space and layout really work for all these functions.
The dressing room is only accessible through the bedroom, making the bedroom a “pass-through” room. I don’t have personal experience with this, and I’m not convinced by the dressing room concept anyway, but this was a common criticism in this forum about “trap” dressing rooms, and no one has mentioned it here yet.
With the current door and window positions, the children’s bathroom doesn’t seem to have space for a shower. You should plan the bathroom fixtures carefully. Maybe reconsider what the purpose of the children’s bathroom is for you: the space is not generous, do you really want to be helping the little ones with washing, using the toilet, and brushing their teeth there for the first 4 to 6 years? Or would you rather use the larger, more spacious main bathroom? Will this bathroom be comfortable enough for your teenagers, or will they end up crowding into your bathroom for showers and getting ready? If it’s just intended as an additional toilet and sink to ease busy times, then the size and layout are more or less fine.
These are my subjective concerns. Unfortunately, I can’t comment on more objective aspects like door swings, stairs, windows, natural lighting, or structural engineering.
There seems to be rather little coat and shoe storage space in the entrance area for a family of four.
The utility room is large in terms of square meters, but as far as I understand, it will be used for four purposes: technical equipment (what exactly?), laundry room (including drying racks?!), pantry/storage (what will go in there? Freezer? Second refrigerator? Shelves?…), and as a passage from the garage to the kitchen. I’d plan carefully to see if the space and layout really work for all these functions.
The dressing room is only accessible through the bedroom, making the bedroom a “pass-through” room. I don’t have personal experience with this, and I’m not convinced by the dressing room concept anyway, but this was a common criticism in this forum about “trap” dressing rooms, and no one has mentioned it here yet.
With the current door and window positions, the children’s bathroom doesn’t seem to have space for a shower. You should plan the bathroom fixtures carefully. Maybe reconsider what the purpose of the children’s bathroom is for you: the space is not generous, do you really want to be helping the little ones with washing, using the toilet, and brushing their teeth there for the first 4 to 6 years? Or would you rather use the larger, more spacious main bathroom? Will this bathroom be comfortable enough for your teenagers, or will they end up crowding into your bathroom for showers and getting ready? If it’s just intended as an additional toilet and sink to ease busy times, then the size and layout are more or less fine.
These are my subjective concerns. Unfortunately, I can’t comment on more objective aspects like door swings, stairs, windows, natural lighting, or structural engineering.
Unfortunately, I was unable to find a way to add information to the original post. I will answer the open questions here.
We are building with a small family-run company, from which we have only heard positive feedback, especially regarding flexibility. The building permit / planning permission also states that changes are possible but must, of course, be reported. Therefore, I would not say the matter is settled.
The house construction contract states 409,000 euros. The available budget is 450,000 euros. The buffer is intended for upgraded materials, flooring, the rooftop photovoltaic system (the system itself is included in the fixed price), and incoming incidental costs from now on. All basic work and what is shown on the floor plans are included in the price and the scope of work description. The plot of land is already paid for. The kitchen will be paid for separately from additional available equity.
I will sketch the furnishing by hand and respond to your questions and comments accordingly.
Thank you very much in advance!
We are building with a small family-run company, from which we have only heard positive feedback, especially regarding flexibility. The building permit / planning permission also states that changes are possible but must, of course, be reported. Therefore, I would not say the matter is settled.
The house construction contract states 409,000 euros. The available budget is 450,000 euros. The buffer is intended for upgraded materials, flooring, the rooftop photovoltaic system (the system itself is included in the fixed price), and incoming incidental costs from now on. All basic work and what is shown on the floor plans are included in the price and the scope of work description. The plot of land is already paid for. The kitchen will be paid for separately from additional available equity.
I will sketch the furnishing by hand and respond to your questions and comments accordingly.
Thank you very much in advance!
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nordanney21 Apr 2026 12:06xDorix schrieb:
The house construction contract states 409,000 euros. Good luck with additional charges and costs "to be provided by the owner" or for items not included in the scope of work...
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MachsSelbst21 Apr 2026 12:14That comes to about 2,000 EUR/m² for your nearly 200m² (2,150 sq ft) plus garage. Nowadays, you can’t get a standard house from Town & Country that cheaply anymore. There must be a catch somewhere; it’s better you find it before you get started.
xDorix schrieb:
Unfortunately, I haven’t found a way to add information to the original post. Thank goodness not, this time the green option is actually the worse one ;-)
xDorix schrieb:
The house construction contract states 409,000 euros. Available funds are 450,000 euros. The buffer is intended for upgrades, flooring, attic photovoltaic system (the system itself is included in the fixed price), and ongoing ancillary costs from now on. A 10 percent reserve will not be enough where 30 percent would be required.
I will respond regarding the house design in the somewhat older hybrid between the original thread and double post https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/umsetzung-unseres-walmdachs-bei-einer-stadtvilla-mit-vorgezogenem-og.j3p6f5/
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https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
We have compared our construction scope description with those of major home builders, and ours is just as detailed and comprehensive as theirs.
However, that is no longer really relevant since the project will start soon. I would still appreciate it if the focus here could be on the floor plan again.
I apologize for the duplicate thread. Initially, I just wanted to get ideas regarding the roof overhang. Only afterward did I realize that there is a section dedicated to floor plan evaluations.
However, that is no longer really relevant since the project will start soon. I would still appreciate it if the focus here could be on the floor plan again.
I apologize for the duplicate thread. Initially, I just wanted to get ideas regarding the roof overhang. Only afterward did I realize that there is a section dedicated to floor plan evaluations.
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