ᐅ Floor Plan Assistance: 216 sqm Single-Family Home with Granny Flat and Double Garage
Created on: 28 Feb 2022 13:59
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Hello everyone,
We have found a house near Frankfurt/Main where construction is about to begin. It is from a developer. Currently, there is an old house on the property which is being completely renovated. This will be converted into 3 condominiums. Our house will be a single-family home at the back with about 216 sqm (2,325 sq ft).
Two garages need to be integrated into the house, plus one parking space that we can purchase additionally.
Regarding the floor plan, apart from the external walls (a line with property boundary construction and 3.5 m (11.5 ft) to the neighbor) and the double garage, we have complete freedom. We have already modified the floor plan as we want to prepare the upper floor for potential rental at some point (an external staircase will probably not be approved). Hence the second internal staircase.
Basically, we are wondering how to best use the ground floor. Somehow I find it a bit small for cooking/living/dining. (Although I cannot verify the square meter figures, because based on the external dimensions and some calculations it should be about 49 sqm (527 sq ft) instead of approximately 44 sqm (474 sq ft), but I don’t know if the staircase is excluded).
Where is the best place to put a couch?
We also have questions about possible optimizations or mistakes we might have made. Does this all make sense? The architect implemented all of our requests without questioning whether they are practical or sensible. That makes us uncertain.
No basement, one garage for bicycles, and otherwise one room will be sacrificed.
We would like a kitchen island 🙂
The turnkey price is 769,000.
Thanks for your feedback!
Development plan/restrictions
Plot size 290 sqm (3,122 sq ft)
Slope no
Floor area ratio unknown
Building coverage ratio unknown
Building envelope, building line and boundary
Boundary construction see pictures
Number of parking spaces DG + parking space
Number of storeys 2 full + attic
Requirements from the homeowners
Number of people, age 2 + baby + one more eventually
Office: family use or home office? HO
Guests per year: few
Open or closed architecture: open
Conservative or modern style: modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island
We have found a house near Frankfurt/Main where construction is about to begin. It is from a developer. Currently, there is an old house on the property which is being completely renovated. This will be converted into 3 condominiums. Our house will be a single-family home at the back with about 216 sqm (2,325 sq ft).
Two garages need to be integrated into the house, plus one parking space that we can purchase additionally.
Regarding the floor plan, apart from the external walls (a line with property boundary construction and 3.5 m (11.5 ft) to the neighbor) and the double garage, we have complete freedom. We have already modified the floor plan as we want to prepare the upper floor for potential rental at some point (an external staircase will probably not be approved). Hence the second internal staircase.
Basically, we are wondering how to best use the ground floor. Somehow I find it a bit small for cooking/living/dining. (Although I cannot verify the square meter figures, because based on the external dimensions and some calculations it should be about 49 sqm (527 sq ft) instead of approximately 44 sqm (474 sq ft), but I don’t know if the staircase is excluded).
Where is the best place to put a couch?
We also have questions about possible optimizations or mistakes we might have made. Does this all make sense? The architect implemented all of our requests without questioning whether they are practical or sensible. That makes us uncertain.
No basement, one garage for bicycles, and otherwise one room will be sacrificed.
We would like a kitchen island 🙂
The turnkey price is 769,000.
Thanks for your feedback!
Development plan/restrictions
Plot size 290 sqm (3,122 sq ft)
Slope no
Floor area ratio unknown
Building coverage ratio unknown
Building envelope, building line and boundary
Boundary construction see pictures
Number of parking spaces DG + parking space
Number of storeys 2 full + attic
Requirements from the homeowners
Number of people, age 2 + baby + one more eventually
Office: family use or home office? HO
Guests per year: few
Open or closed architecture: open
Conservative or modern style: modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island
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Myrna_Loy3 Mar 2022 14:56You can fit everything in, but it’s definitely not a ballroom.
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Myrna_Loy3 Mar 2022 15:02Elokine schrieb:
Then ask @pagoni2020 if they are still around 😉
When you have such unusual conditions as here, you shouldn’t try to turn it into a basic, standard house. The space is available, and as I understand it, you have to purchase the square meters. I think @K a t j a’s suggestions are good. This is a completely different project. Why would you use premium living space, which is costly, for empty air, resulting in less usable area in the attic? This neither increases ground floor space nor makes the living areas upstairs more comfortable. It only makes things smaller and adds a “wow” factor that comes with poor acoustics. This is not an architect-designed villa, but a detached single-family house with an integrated double garage attached to a multi-family building.
Myrna_Loy schrieb:
You can fit everything in, but it’s definitely not a ball room.This is botched.
Katja’s suggestion is absolutely worth considering under THESE circumstances and presents an interesting alternative. In your criticism, you are always comparing to a plan from scratch. Of course, it would be better if the living spaces could be placed downstairs as well, but the constraints here are so tight that the alternative of moving them upstairs is more debatable than it would be with less restrictive constraints.
I also find the open space appropriate here because it partially restores the connection between the living area and the dining/kitchen area, despite being on a different floor.
Myrna_Loy schrieb:
You can fit everything in, but it’s definitely not a ballroom.Sort of. I’ve now spoken to an interior designer who said it might work if the stairs are positioned cleverly. However, you have to keep in mind that, for example, the table is about as wide as a bench set used for beer gardens... In reality, it would feel even tighter, as the scale of the floor plan is misleading.
Myrna_Loy schrieb:
You can fit everything in, it just won’t be a ballroom. Of course, you can set up an open-plan room on 37 sqm (398 sq ft). The furniture will just have to be somewhat scaled down. In your case, that’s the kitchen. The real question is whether you accept that for 800K—a tiny kitchen and entry area like in a budget hotel room?
Myrna_Loy schrieb:
Why would you use premium living space, which you pay a lot for, just for empty air, and then have less usable space upstairs? Because it looks nicer? I got the impression the original poster doesn’t need dozens of small or large rooms but is aiming for a liberating open-plan space.
Myrna_Loy schrieb:
That neither gains you ground-floor space nor makes the living area upstairs more comfortable. In my opinion, it exactly does.
Myrna_Loy schrieb:
Just smaller, with a wow factor that comes at the cost of poor acoustics. You’re right that acoustics should be carefully planned.
Myrna_Loy schrieb:
This isn’t an architect-designed villa, but a detached house with an integrated double garage attached to a multi-family building. And for that reason, it absolutely has to remain a small, cramped, standard house?
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Myrna_Loy3 Mar 2022 16:57And for the toilet, do you have to go either upstairs or downstairs? And upstairs you only have sloping ceilings, which are difficult to furnish? It’s like living on the stairs.
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