ᐅ 100m² House Floor Plan – Too Small?

kbt09 schrieb:

Building over the staircase won’t work. It’s probably already quite steep, and you want to cover 3 to 4 steps. Here’s an example (although it’s a straight staircase, it illustrates the problem, and only 2 steps are fully built over)

Yes, I suspected this problem as well. Especially since, as drawn, 3 to 4 steps are being covered. I have my first consultation next week, so let’s see what else they come up with.

kbt09 schrieb:

This can work quite well. I have something like this. At 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) tall, it’s no problem. With 3 steps, it definitely won’t work anymore.

If you make many changes to the standard design, there will always be an additional charge, without compensation for not building to the original standard.
If there are many changes, it can be worthwhile to hire a general contractor (GC) who builds your custom home.
So before you sign, have your house (with all the changes included) offered by additional GCs.

Pinkiponk schrieb:

Yes.

I thought the original poster meant only from 100 m² (1,076 ft²) onwards

"Number of parking spaces: up to 100 m² (1,076 ft²) of living space 1"

Wandervogel85 schrieb:

The shower in the original bathroom feels a bit small to me; I would prefer a slightly larger one. The standard size is usually 90x90cm (35x35 inches), but I would like to go for at least 1.1x1.1m (3ft 7in x 3ft 7in).

A 90x90cm (35x35 inches) shower is by no means small, 100x100cm (39x39 inches) is definitely spacious, and anything larger would feel too big for me; I would definitely want to have a bathtub in the house, unless having adult or younger children is completely off the table. If it were just for myself, I might consider building a "shower temple." You are planning primarily for YOURSELF right now and it seems that enjoyable showering is important to you. So go ahead and install the kind of shower you like and in any case, choose a floor plan that fits it. I read about some uncertain future scenarios you want to allow for, but so far I don’t see much implemented for your PRESENT situation.

Wandervogel85 schrieb:

I would also like to add a door between the living area and the staircase to make the room look less huge and avoid the feeling of sitting inside the stairwell all the time.

Wandervogel85 schrieb:

A sliding door? Probably weird for the "main" door in the house. And no matter on which wall it slides, it limits how you can use the room.

At least in my experience, sliding doors are usually left open, and I often consider them more of a last resort and inconvenient to open. We currently have a wide glass door between the hall and living room that is open about 98% of the time. I’m not too concerned about heating issues either, and I would personally prefer not to walk into a cold area when going upstairs. With conscious design and decoration, you can also make the stairwell feel like part of the living space; perhaps you have only experienced cold, impersonal stairwells so far. I doubt you will find it huge. Maybe a nice curtain could work between the entrance area and hallway, closer to the front of the house, which you could use only in winter, for example.

Wandervogel85 schrieb:

I think that at my mid-thirties I am mature enough to say this not just out of youthful naivety. I was never really a “kid person” who wanted to hold and cuddle every baby...

Exactly, that’s a clear position, and I would base my house project on that. If things change unexpectedly, you still can’t predict whether a potential partner will bring three children, four dogs, or live in Timbuktu. So, plan for yourself but in a way that allows room for a partner who shares your lifestyle; if not, you can sell or rent the house and look for something new, knowing exactly what and where you want it to be. Currently, it sounds more like you are looking for the impossible “jack-of-all-trades,” a lazy compromise meant to accommodate everything but possibly neglecting your own interests. Have you looked at houses and floor plans from prefab or kit-home suppliers? I find those really good. From what I’ve read so far, I could imagine you might prefer a bungalow with some additional space upstairs as a gallery, like @Nida35a has. Right now, you would have three enclosed rooms upstairs, most likely unheated, with all kinds of stuff stored in them until someone maybe uses them someday.

The original floor plan is clearly more practical on the ground floor. You could install a sliding door (running inside the wall) to the kitchen, as well as to the utility room.