Hello dear community,
We currently have three general contractors (GCs) shortlisted for our house construction.
We basically like all three floor plans and they are quite similar in principle.
Nevertheless, each floor plan has its small strengths and weaknesses, and I would be interested to know if you have a preference or see any points we may have overlooked.
Homeowner Requirements
Basement, floors: No basement, 1.5 floors
Number of people, ages: 5 people; 31 years, 31 years, 4 years, 2 years, 0 years
Office: 1x home office (100%)
Annual overnight guests: Rarely or never
Open kitchen, kitchen island: Open and modern
House Design
Planner: Designer from a construction company
What do you particularly like? Why?
FP1: Staircase not directly in the entrance
FP2: Well-designed upper floor bathroom, master bedroom facing northeast
FP3: Quite balanced overall, but not our preferred GC
What do you not like? Why?
FP1: Office a bit small and awkward; upper floor bathroom too large under the sloped ceiling (since we don’t need a bathtub)
FP2: Upper floor bathroom not located above the utility room, causing some issues with the drainpipe
FP3: ---
We currently have three general contractors (GCs) shortlisted for our house construction.
We basically like all three floor plans and they are quite similar in principle.
Nevertheless, each floor plan has its small strengths and weaknesses, and I would be interested to know if you have a preference or see any points we may have overlooked.
Homeowner Requirements
Basement, floors: No basement, 1.5 floors
Number of people, ages: 5 people; 31 years, 31 years, 4 years, 2 years, 0 years
Office: 1x home office (100%)
Annual overnight guests: Rarely or never
Open kitchen, kitchen island: Open and modern
House Design
Planner: Designer from a construction company
What do you particularly like? Why?
FP1: Staircase not directly in the entrance
FP2: Well-designed upper floor bathroom, master bedroom facing northeast
FP3: Quite balanced overall, but not our preferred GC
What do you not like? Why?
FP1: Office a bit small and awkward; upper floor bathroom too large under the sloped ceiling (since we don’t need a bathtub)
FP2: Upper floor bathroom not located above the utility room, causing some issues with the drainpipe
FP3: ---
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WilderSueden26 Oct 2023 13:32ypg schrieb:
Here is an example of how it could look. I don’t see any problem with the parking spaces then.You have marked a 50sqm (538 sq ft) driveway, but I don’t see a paved parking space yet (you might be able to use gravel pavers here as a workaround), and especially no terrace. With 50sqm (538 sq ft), the floor area ratio of 0.2 would also be fully utilized.hanghaus2023 schrieb:
@ypg I think I can still gain 10 m² (108 sq ft) on the ground floor here.Yes, you can make the house 20 m² (215 sq ft) larger as well. You can also plan a 209 m² (2,250 sq ft) house. But why? I implemented the design exactly as the general contractor provided, no more, no less.
WilderSueden schrieb:
Now you’ve drawn in a 50 m² (540 sq ft) driveway,Yes, as a symbol to show where it comes from. As far as I know and from what can be seen here, a much longer driveway was planned. By rotating it, about a quarter less length is needed. WilderSueden schrieb:
but I don’t see any paved parking space here yet (maybe you could use grass pavers as a trick)You can still park something there, though. The image is just an idea, not a building permit / planning permission submission. Maybe God will give me the time to remove every second paving stone from the driveway and replace it to create a parking spot 😉 :p
I consider the original poster clever enough to put more thought into it themselves.
I deliberately left out the carport, but I could well imagine placing it where the car is symbolically shown.
(And I intentionally avoided gender-neutral language, in case that too gets criticized here :cool 🙂
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Schnubbihh26 Oct 2023 15:05ypg schrieb:
Yes, you can also make the house 20sqm (215 sq ft) larger. You could even plan a 209sqm (2,250 sq ft) house. But why?
I have implemented the exact design from one of the general contractors, no more, no less.
Yes, as a symbol of where you come from. As far as I know and what can be seen here, the plan included a much longer driveway. By rotating it, you save about a quarter of that length.
However, you can still park a vehicle there. The image is just an idea, not a building permit / planning permission application.
Maybe God will grant me the time to remove every other paving stone from the driveway and use the space as a parking spot 😉 :p
But I consider the original poster clever enough to put more thought into this.
I deliberately left out the carport, but I could well imagine placing it where the car is symbolically shown.
(Gender-neutral language is deliberately not used here, in case that also becomes a point of criticism :cool 🙂 Thank you very much for the interesting comments and ideas! I am now more convinced to move the house closer to the street, keep the driveway as short as possible, mirror the floor plan, and place the parking spot next to the utility room, possibly adding another side entrance here (from the carport into the utility room).
In that case, we would have a south/east-facing garden, which might not be a bad thing considering rising temperatures.
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WilderSueden26 Oct 2023 15:09Of course, this is only a draft. But within 50sqm (540 sq ft), the driveway from the property boundary, parking spaces, and terrace all need to fit. This will be a very tight squeeze. And even though parking a car in the carport isn’t absolutely necessary, the building permit / planning permission requires official spaces, not on the lawn.
ypg schrieb:
I intentionally left out the carport, but I could easily imagine placing one where the car is symbolically shown.
(I am deliberately avoiding gender-neutral language here, in case that would also be criticized :cool 🙂The word "car" is neutral and therefore already correctly gender-neutral; I have never come across a term like “carportin” (or is it “carpörtin”?)https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
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11ant schrieb:
I haven’t come across a term like “Carportin” (or is it pronounced “Carpörtin”?) yet. P.S.: However, we do know a non-binary structure: a “garage without a door / walled carport with a window”: https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/hanghaus-in-der-suedwestpfalz-unser-hausbau-2-0.44121/page-135
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