Hello everyone,
after reading here for a while, I would now like to ask for advice.
We are planning to build a bungalow. At the moment, we keep going in circles with the floor plan.
I will first answer the questionnaire
Development plan.....not available /restrictions
Plot size.....1000 sqm (12,000 sq ft)
Slope.....no
Floor area ratio.....0.4
Site coverage ratio
Building envelope, building line and boundary
Edge development
Number of parking spaces
Number of storeys
Roof shape
Architectural style
Orientation
Maximum heights/limits
Other requirements
Client requirements
Architectural style, roof shape, building type.....Bungalow with hipped or gable roof
Basement, floors
Number of people, ages....2 adults and two children (8 and 14)
Space requirements on ground floor, upper floor.....see floor plan
Office: family use or home office?.....will be a multipurpose room: guest, hobby, and office
Overnight guests per year
open or closed layout.....closed kitchen with dining area
conservative or modern construction style
open kitchen, cooking island.....cooking island
Number of dining seats.....6-10
Fireplace.....no
Music/stereo wall
Balcony, roof terrace
Garage, carport.....double garage
Utility garden, greenhouse
Additional wishes/special features/daily routine, including reasons for preferences or refusals.....storage room to replace a basement
House design
Who designed the plan:
-Builder's planner
-Architect
-Do-it-yourself....designed by ourselves
What do you especially like? Why?.....west terrace with access from the kitchen, children’s rooms with shower bathroom as one unit
What do you dislike? Why?.....kitchen may be too dark, cloakroom in entrance vestibule hard to implement, pantry without a window
Price estimate according to architect/planner:.....Builder approx. 1300 €/sqm (approx. $150/sq ft) plus painting, flooring, and landscaping costs
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/finishes
-can you do without:
-can’t do without:
Why is the design the way it is? For example
Standard design from builder?
Which requests were implemented by the architect?
A mix of many examples from various magazines...
What makes it, in your opinion, particularly good or bad?
Some key data about the plot: the south border (street side) is about 20 m (66 ft), the access road to the property must be here. The middle of the plot is about 21 m (69 ft) wide, and the northern border about 23 m (75 ft), surveying was done last week. The plot is bordered on the south and east by a wall; the other two boundaries will still be built. There is an opening in the wall on the east side leading to a lane, so we would like to create a short access path to the property and house there.
The floor plan was basically determined by the number of rooms, all of which must be included. However, I am concerned that the roof over the terrace and the narrow window will make the kitchen too dark. Otherwise, I would also like improvements in the entrance area and bathroom; I imagine a T-shaped layout rather than the current arrangement. The layout of the children’s rooms with the shower bathroom is more or less fixed, as is the distance between the parents’ area and the terrace.
Any ideas what could be changed? I keep going in circles. I have made a whole stack of sketches but keep returning to this layout. There is no development plan. We have submitted a building code pre-application; the land was previously classified as garden land, and building permission was granted under §34.
Thank you very much for reading, it got quite long.
Yvonne
after reading here for a while, I would now like to ask for advice.
We are planning to build a bungalow. At the moment, we keep going in circles with the floor plan.
I will first answer the questionnaire
Development plan.....not available /restrictions
Plot size.....1000 sqm (12,000 sq ft)
Slope.....no
Floor area ratio.....0.4
Site coverage ratio
Building envelope, building line and boundary
Edge development
Number of parking spaces
Number of storeys
Roof shape
Architectural style
Orientation
Maximum heights/limits
Other requirements
Client requirements
Architectural style, roof shape, building type.....Bungalow with hipped or gable roof
Basement, floors
Number of people, ages....2 adults and two children (8 and 14)
Space requirements on ground floor, upper floor.....see floor plan
Office: family use or home office?.....will be a multipurpose room: guest, hobby, and office
Overnight guests per year
open or closed layout.....closed kitchen with dining area
conservative or modern construction style
open kitchen, cooking island.....cooking island
Number of dining seats.....6-10
Fireplace.....no
Music/stereo wall
Balcony, roof terrace
Garage, carport.....double garage
Utility garden, greenhouse
Additional wishes/special features/daily routine, including reasons for preferences or refusals.....storage room to replace a basement
House design
Who designed the plan:
-Builder's planner
-Architect
-Do-it-yourself....designed by ourselves
What do you especially like? Why?.....west terrace with access from the kitchen, children’s rooms with shower bathroom as one unit
What do you dislike? Why?.....kitchen may be too dark, cloakroom in entrance vestibule hard to implement, pantry without a window
Price estimate according to architect/planner:.....Builder approx. 1300 €/sqm (approx. $150/sq ft) plus painting, flooring, and landscaping costs
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/finishes
-can you do without:
-can’t do without:
Why is the design the way it is? For example
Standard design from builder?
Which requests were implemented by the architect?
A mix of many examples from various magazines...
What makes it, in your opinion, particularly good or bad?
Some key data about the plot: the south border (street side) is about 20 m (66 ft), the access road to the property must be here. The middle of the plot is about 21 m (69 ft) wide, and the northern border about 23 m (75 ft), surveying was done last week. The plot is bordered on the south and east by a wall; the other two boundaries will still be built. There is an opening in the wall on the east side leading to a lane, so we would like to create a short access path to the property and house there.
The floor plan was basically determined by the number of rooms, all of which must be included. However, I am concerned that the roof over the terrace and the narrow window will make the kitchen too dark. Otherwise, I would also like improvements in the entrance area and bathroom; I imagine a T-shaped layout rather than the current arrangement. The layout of the children’s rooms with the shower bathroom is more or less fixed, as is the distance between the parents’ area and the terrace.
Any ideas what could be changed? I keep going in circles. I have made a whole stack of sketches but keep returning to this layout. There is no development plan. We have submitted a building code pre-application; the land was previously classified as garden land, and building permission was granted under §34.
Thank you very much for reading, it got quite long.
Yvonne
yvonnebo schrieb:
It will be added to the street directory specifically for us. What exactly is the advantage?
A pedestrian and driveway should be enough...
I just hope you’re not ending up paying more per meter for the same benefit...
yvonnebo schrieb:
Well, to my mind it’s hardly a corner bungalow anymore, with just 3m (10 feet) of extension. It’s enough for the complexity of the roof structure.
yvonnebo schrieb:
Don’t you think the window arrangement is well done? The exterior views are almost textbook examples of being unappealing.
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Driveway from the alley... how exactly? Please draw the garage in its intended position and especially show how the access and the garage door are designed.
The window layout is only one part of the exterior walls.
I’m a big fan of kitchen and dining areas, and I find the room, as you have planned it, difficult to furnish. Especially since cooking and dining were mentioned by you as a main focus, including for social gatherings with friends.
Also, I have pointed out other aspects that I don’t find successful.
Am I correct in understanding that the living area is approximately 200 square meters (2,150 square feet)?
The window layout is only one part of the exterior walls.
I’m a big fan of kitchen and dining areas, and I find the room, as you have planned it, difficult to furnish. Especially since cooking and dining were mentioned by you as a main focus, including for social gatherings with friends.
Also, I have pointed out other aspects that I don’t find successful.
Am I correct in understanding that the living area is approximately 200 square meters (2,150 square feet)?
kbt09 schrieb:
Then why don’t you show the furniture layout? We don’t know it after all. And I can’t really imagine the living area right now.coming up separately
kbt09 schrieb:
You must have had some idea for the kitchen as well. And the dining table right on the right? In the middle of the walkway to the living area? I’d call a cozy spot something else. The space is dark.We even already have a plan from the kitchen studio.
kbt09 schrieb:
By the way, the unexplained niches mean the odd niche behind the kitchen door.My husband is going to remove that from the layout. He has ideas, so he should have a say.
kbt09 schrieb:
In the entrance area / cloakroom, neither 60 cm (24 inches) deep cabinets fit on the right nor on the left.We won’t have cabinets. Floor-to-ceiling sliding doors are planned, with shoes and coats hidden behind them. Except my husband, no one here is a shoe lover. But I want to finalize this only after we move in.
kbt09 schrieb:
And connections can be relocated too.While we could negotiate with the municipality about the driveway, unfortunately the utility providers won’t budge. The sewer pipe only extends one installation length into the alley. So we can’t go any further without extending the alley at the homeowner’s expense, according to the administrator.
11ant schrieb:
What exactly is the advantage?
A single walkway and driveway should be enough...
Not that in the end you pay more per linear meter for the same use...We don’t have that in our village.
11ant schrieb:
The exterior views are almost perfectly unappealing.I’m a fan of symmetry.
PS: where can I actually find the smileys?
kbt09 schrieb:
Driveway from the alley… how exactly? Please draw the garage as it is supposed to be positioned, especially showing the driveway and the garage door.
The window layout is only one part of the exterior walls.
I’m a big fan of kitchen and dining areas and simply find the room, as you planned it, difficult to furnish—especially since cooking and dining were highlighted by you as priorities, also for social gatherings with friends.
And I’ve also pointed out other issues I don’t find successful.
Am I correct in understanding that the living area is around 200 sqm (2,150 sq ft)?According to the area calculation, it is 175 sqm (1,884 sq ft). However, the building permit / planning permission states only 159 sqm (1,712 sq ft). But that doesn’t match when considering the difference in the utility room / service areas (HAR).
The plan currently shows only our furniture arrangement in the living room, the rest is from the general contractor. Yes, the sofa is placed in front of the patio door. Since we don’t use that door as an exit and currently have it like this, my husband insisted on this arrangement. I would have preferred to maintain the symmetry of the windows.
Yes... now the kitchen/dining/living area shows exactly what I feared.
A 30sqm (323 sq ft) kitchen, but no space between the cooktop and the sink.
The passage to the living area is more like a slalom course, and that with a table only 150cm (59 inches) long.
Why isn’t the customer storage room attached to the garage, which in the latest plan is apparently a double garage with an already included ancillary room (I assume for garden tools, etc.)?
I don’t understand that—is an in-law or separate apartment going to be created? Why not place this customer storage room somewhere in that area, towards the garage?
Will the children and their guests never use the kitchen? And having their own area can also be arranged otherwise. Yvonne had already hinted at this at the very beginning.
Right from the start:
You now write about sliding doors behind which everything in the wardrobe will be hidden. But one has to realize there will probably be a three-part sliding door, which will protrude about 10cm (4 inches) for operation. So, definitely no space to hang coats on hangers side by side, which remains the most practical way to hang outerwear.
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Of course, you don’t have to take all of this on board, and yes, the building permit / planning permission has already been submitted, but building permits can be changed. Once construction has started on the house, changes will be difficult.
A 30sqm (323 sq ft) kitchen, but no space between the cooktop and the sink.
The passage to the living area is more like a slalom course, and that with a table only 150cm (59 inches) long.
Why isn’t the customer storage room attached to the garage, which in the latest plan is apparently a double garage with an already included ancillary room (I assume for garden tools, etc.)?
yvonnebo schrieb:
The storage room won’t be the classic storage space (decorations, winter clothes, etc.) as one might expect. It’s intended to be a cellar substitute for the head of the household, as I think I mentioned somewhere.
yvonnebo schrieb:
because the children/guest area will later be separated
I don’t understand that—is an in-law or separate apartment going to be created? Why not place this customer storage room somewhere in that area, towards the garage?
yvonnebo schrieb:
The children would like to have their own area far away from us, because of visitors we have or they have.
Will the children and their guests never use the kitchen? And having their own area can also be arranged otherwise. Yvonne had already hinted at this at the very beginning.
Right from the start:
yvonnebo schrieb:
What don’t you like? Why? …..the kitchen will probably be too dark, the wardrobe in the entrance area is difficult to realize,
You now write about sliding doors behind which everything in the wardrobe will be hidden. But one has to realize there will probably be a three-part sliding door, which will protrude about 10cm (4 inches) for operation. So, definitely no space to hang coats on hangers side by side, which remains the most practical way to hang outerwear.
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Of course, you don’t have to take all of this on board, and yes, the building permit / planning permission has already been submitted, but building permits can be changed. Once construction has started on the house, changes will be difficult.
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