ᐅ Bungalow floor plan approximately 16 x 9.5 meters (exterior dimensions) on a 1000 m² plot with existing structures
Created on: 25 Jun 2019 09:14
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micric3
Hello forum community,
after gathering a few more ideas—and having received and tried to incorporate good feedback from previous posts—I would like to ask for your feedback on the current floor plan and your general opinion of the bungalow on our 1000m² (10,764 sq ft) plot with existing buildings.
The floor plan was created with RoomSketcher. I have tried to include quite a few pieces of furniture (kitchen is still missing) as references. The windows for the bedrooms and bathroom are not yet finalized, as I don’t have ideas for them yet.
Attachments:
1.) Plot image + orientation
2.) Original building permit/planning permission (BU) after I designed/modified the draft
3.) My draft (with RoomSketcher)
Zoning plan / restrictions
Plot size: 1000m² (10,764 sq ft)
House dimensions: 15.87 m x 9.50 m (52.1 ft x 31.2 ft) (specified by BU to keep price close)
Slope: No
Parking spaces: 0
Number of floors: Bungalow (single story)
Roof type: Hip roof or gable roof (BU includes hip roof in price)
Orientation: Entrance west, living room southeast facing, dining room southwest facing
Maximum height / limits
Other requirements: must adapt to existing buildings
Owners’ requirements
Number of people, ages: 4 people (2 x 40 years, 2 x 3 years)
Office: In the outbuilding
Guests per year: Max. 2
Open or closed layout: undecided
Conservative or modern style: doesn’t matter
Open kitchen, kitchen island: sliding door, probably L- or U-shaped kitchen
Number of dining seats: 4 in kitchen, possibly 6-8 in living room
Fireplace: possibly a wood-burning stove
Garage/Carport: along the access driveway
House design
Who planned it: based on the Bungalow 131 floor plan by Town & Country. Draft designed by myself using RoomSketcher
- Planner of a construction company
What do you particularly like? Why?
- Access from the west
- simple and compact
Price estimate according to architect/planner: 215,000
Personal price limit for the house, including equipment: 250,000
Preferred heating technology: air-to-water heat pump (either Vaillant aroSplit or Vaillant recoCompact)
If you had to give up some features or expansions, which ones?
- Can give up: size of the living room
- Cannot give up: 2nd bathroom
Why is the design the way it is now?
- Position on the plot
- Location relative to existing outbuilding
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan, summarized in 130 characters?
- Is the west orientation of the children’s rooms better than east orientation?
- Is the bedroom too narrow considering the ~2 x 2 m (6.6 x 6.6 ft) bed?
- Should the kitchen have its own small dining area?
- Size and number of windows for the living room with southeast orientation
- How should the living room furniture be arranged?
- Should the living and dining rooms be swapped? (SE <-> SW orientation)
--> Dining room faces southwest to see who is arriving
- Is it better to have one floor-to-ceiling window (which size?) or two windows in the children’s rooms?
after gathering a few more ideas—and having received and tried to incorporate good feedback from previous posts—I would like to ask for your feedback on the current floor plan and your general opinion of the bungalow on our 1000m² (10,764 sq ft) plot with existing buildings.
The floor plan was created with RoomSketcher. I have tried to include quite a few pieces of furniture (kitchen is still missing) as references. The windows for the bedrooms and bathroom are not yet finalized, as I don’t have ideas for them yet.
Attachments:
1.) Plot image + orientation
2.) Original building permit/planning permission (BU) after I designed/modified the draft
3.) My draft (with RoomSketcher)
Zoning plan / restrictions
Plot size: 1000m² (10,764 sq ft)
House dimensions: 15.87 m x 9.50 m (52.1 ft x 31.2 ft) (specified by BU to keep price close)
Slope: No
Parking spaces: 0
Number of floors: Bungalow (single story)
Roof type: Hip roof or gable roof (BU includes hip roof in price)
Orientation: Entrance west, living room southeast facing, dining room southwest facing
Maximum height / limits
Other requirements: must adapt to existing buildings
Owners’ requirements
Number of people, ages: 4 people (2 x 40 years, 2 x 3 years)
Office: In the outbuilding
Guests per year: Max. 2
Open or closed layout: undecided
Conservative or modern style: doesn’t matter
Open kitchen, kitchen island: sliding door, probably L- or U-shaped kitchen
Number of dining seats: 4 in kitchen, possibly 6-8 in living room
Fireplace: possibly a wood-burning stove
Garage/Carport: along the access driveway
House design
Who planned it: based on the Bungalow 131 floor plan by Town & Country. Draft designed by myself using RoomSketcher
- Planner of a construction company
What do you particularly like? Why?
- Access from the west
- simple and compact
Price estimate according to architect/planner: 215,000
Personal price limit for the house, including equipment: 250,000
Preferred heating technology: air-to-water heat pump (either Vaillant aroSplit or Vaillant recoCompact)
If you had to give up some features or expansions, which ones?
- Can give up: size of the living room
- Cannot give up: 2nd bathroom
Why is the design the way it is now?
- Position on the plot
- Location relative to existing outbuilding
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan, summarized in 130 characters?
- Is the west orientation of the children’s rooms better than east orientation?
- Is the bedroom too narrow considering the ~2 x 2 m (6.6 x 6.6 ft) bed?
- Should the kitchen have its own small dining area?
- Size and number of windows for the living room with southeast orientation
- How should the living room furniture be arranged?
- Should the living and dining rooms be swapped? (SE <-> SW orientation)
--> Dining room faces southwest to see who is arriving
- Is it better to have one floor-to-ceiling window (which size?) or two windows in the children’s rooms?
Good morning and thank you very much for the new ideas.
As already described and outlined in the initial post, here are the key points/conditions again:
- The existing building remains; only the extension on the existing building was demolished [blue X] (I am attaching a photo)
- The bungalow is shown in red as a rectangle, as this option seems best to me, building in front of the existing building with a southern orientation
- The utility lines come along the access path (marked in green) and meet the house on the southwest side
- Ideally, the entrance should also be on the west side, as one should not have to walk around the house
- The terrace will be on the southwest side
- The plot is 22m (72 feet) wide (east ←→ west) and 46m (151 feet) long (south ←→ north)
- The office will be in the existing building
- Number of occupants: 2 adults (40 years) + 2 children (3 years)
- Regarding the kitchen: we actually have no preference, but in the first draft the kitchen was too “long” and I liked the later layout better with a kitchen island. If the overall design fits, the kitchen can be U-shaped, L-shaped, or with a kitchen island.
@ypg: I quite like your design in #59; I had a similar idea and layout yesterday evening.
Room 1 is unfortunately too small for the utility room (there should possibly be an indoor air-source heat pump with a footprint of 1m x 2m (3 feet x 6.5 feet), dryer, washing machine, etc.)
I find design #60 interesting, but unfortunately the east/west view is not preferred; a southern orientation for the living room and kitchen is desirable.
As already described and outlined in the initial post, here are the key points/conditions again:
- The existing building remains; only the extension on the existing building was demolished [blue X] (I am attaching a photo)
- The bungalow is shown in red as a rectangle, as this option seems best to me, building in front of the existing building with a southern orientation
- The utility lines come along the access path (marked in green) and meet the house on the southwest side
- Ideally, the entrance should also be on the west side, as one should not have to walk around the house
- The terrace will be on the southwest side
- The plot is 22m (72 feet) wide (east ←→ west) and 46m (151 feet) long (south ←→ north)
- The office will be in the existing building
- Number of occupants: 2 adults (40 years) + 2 children (3 years)
- Regarding the kitchen: we actually have no preference, but in the first draft the kitchen was too “long” and I liked the later layout better with a kitchen island. If the overall design fits, the kitchen can be U-shaped, L-shaped, or with a kitchen island.
@ypg: I quite like your design in #59; I had a similar idea and layout yesterday evening.
Room 1 is unfortunately too small for the utility room (there should possibly be an indoor air-source heat pump with a footprint of 1m x 2m (3 feet x 6.5 feet), dryer, washing machine, etc.)
I find design #60 interesting, but unfortunately the east/west view is not preferred; a southern orientation for the living room and kitchen is desirable.
ypg schrieb:
Could you please answer this, @micric?
I would also be interested in seeing a site plan, drawn to scale. How wide and long is the plot? The old building remains. Is it yours? Will the office be located there? Do you have any space for storage? Photos don't help here.
Please upload a sketch of the plot/site plan.
@11ant Here is a good floor plan idea taken from YPG’s post #59. What do you think? (Framework conditions briefly summarized again in post #61)
@ypg: Thanks again. What is your general opinion about the overall layout?
What I like:
- The cloakroom is integrated into the entrance vestibule, avoiding the need for a separate walk-in wardrobe
- The entrance area (marked as hub) is larger and immediately connected to the “living” space
- Groceries can be brought straight into the kitchen
- Children’s rooms can stay on the south side, looking out onto the courtyard/garden
- The hallway is wider (1.40 m (5.5 inches) and much shorter, 4.80 m (16 feet) compared to the old overall design)
-- We also have a width of 1.40 m (5.5 inches) in the entrance area of our current apartment, which provides enough space
What I like less:
- The kitchen seems a bit small (storage space)
-- The south-facing kitchen window probably has to go to make more room
@ypg: Thanks again. What is your general opinion about the overall layout?
What I like:
- The cloakroom is integrated into the entrance vestibule, avoiding the need for a separate walk-in wardrobe
- The entrance area (marked as hub) is larger and immediately connected to the “living” space
- Groceries can be brought straight into the kitchen
- Children’s rooms can stay on the south side, looking out onto the courtyard/garden
- The hallway is wider (1.40 m (5.5 inches) and much shorter, 4.80 m (16 feet) compared to the old overall design)
-- We also have a width of 1.40 m (5.5 inches) in the entrance area of our current apartment, which provides enough space
What I like less:
- The kitchen seems a bit small (storage space)
-- The south-facing kitchen window probably has to go to make more room
micric3 schrieb:
Unfortunately, I don’t have a site plan, but I will attach a sketch of the boundary marking and a drawing. Google Maps is your friend.
I’m a silent reader here— I may have missed some details— but it’s still unclear to me which plot of land is being referred to and how the cabin is supposed to be positioned on the property. Did I miss that? Which of the cadastral parcels is it?
Yes, take a look... the design is already quite livable.
I would make a few small changes:
Yes, the kitchen window probably needs to go. That’s not a problem. Move the tall kitchen cabinets to the side with the toilet.
The WC still needs proper furnishing – your toilet space is far too small, and a pre-wall installation (cavity wall system) is also necessary.
Where should the TV go? Arrange the living room furniture properly first.
The load-bearing wall will probably be on the children’s room side. That’s fine, as it also helps with soundproofing.
The bedroom door needs to be moved so that the wardrobe fits behind it. The bathroom will require some more thought.
The passage to the utility room is unnecessary since that space is needed for storage. Or what about your old building? I had asked whether there are still storage options there.
Consider planning a door for the long corridor. It can be added later if needed. Still, it will probably be necessary for noise reduction when the children are active in the evening.
The corridor is too wide at 1.40 meters (55 inches); I would take about 10 cm (4 inches) from the bedroom side’s 3.10 meters (10 ft 2 inches). A width of 1.20 to 1.25 meters (47 to 49 inches) including plaster is sufficient.
Why does it have to be a bungalow?
By the way, I would have placed it crosswise on the plot!
Put at least three tall cabinets along the WC wall plus the niche in the corner. That will give you about 2.40 meters (8 feet) of tall cabinets, all the way up to the ceiling. That’s great! You can even fit a freezer in there. Since you only see the height from the side, it won’t be intrusive.
You would have 4 meters (13 feet) of countertop workspace, which should be enough. You could build a small rolling island yourself using kitchen manufacturer components or an Ikea hack – an 80 or 100 cm (31 or 39 inches) base cabinet or serving cart with the same countertop on top and castors underneath.
I would make a few small changes:
Yes, the kitchen window probably needs to go. That’s not a problem. Move the tall kitchen cabinets to the side with the toilet.
The WC still needs proper furnishing – your toilet space is far too small, and a pre-wall installation (cavity wall system) is also necessary.
Where should the TV go? Arrange the living room furniture properly first.
The load-bearing wall will probably be on the children’s room side. That’s fine, as it also helps with soundproofing.
The bedroom door needs to be moved so that the wardrobe fits behind it. The bathroom will require some more thought.
The passage to the utility room is unnecessary since that space is needed for storage. Or what about your old building? I had asked whether there are still storage options there.
Consider planning a door for the long corridor. It can be added later if needed. Still, it will probably be necessary for noise reduction when the children are active in the evening.
The corridor is too wide at 1.40 meters (55 inches); I would take about 10 cm (4 inches) from the bedroom side’s 3.10 meters (10 ft 2 inches). A width of 1.20 to 1.25 meters (47 to 49 inches) including plaster is sufficient.
Why does it have to be a bungalow?
By the way, I would have placed it crosswise on the plot!
micric3 schrieb:
- The kitchen seems a bit small to me (storage space)
Put at least three tall cabinets along the WC wall plus the niche in the corner. That will give you about 2.40 meters (8 feet) of tall cabinets, all the way up to the ceiling. That’s great! You can even fit a freezer in there. Since you only see the height from the side, it won’t be intrusive.
You would have 4 meters (13 feet) of countertop workspace, which should be enough. You could build a small rolling island yourself using kitchen manufacturer components or an Ikea hack – an 80 or 100 cm (31 or 39 inches) base cabinet or serving cart with the same countertop on top and castors underneath.
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