ᐅ Floor Plan Comparison for a Single-Family Home: 3 Designs, Family Planning, Honest Opinions Requested
Created on: 17 Dec 2025 10:14
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NMarieKHI would like to ask for your opinion on these three floor plans – Floor Plan 1 and 2 take future family planning into account, Plan 3 does not (my partner and I would live in the first house). Please feel free to be completely honest about what you like and what you like less, and maybe also which floor plan seems the most practical and well designed to you.
Thank you in advance for your feedback!
Development Plan / Restrictions
between 550 and 650 m2 (5920 and 7000 sq ft)
no slope
Client Requirements
each with basement, ground floor, and upper floor
hip roof
for 2 people each (22 & 26, 26 & 27, 28 & 34)
open kitchen, kitchen island
balcony, roof terrace
garage, carport
utility garden, greenhouse
House Design
Who created the plan:
- Do-it-Yourself
What do you particularly like? Why?
What do you dislike? Why?
Estimated cost according to the designer: all houses 512k
preferred heating system: underfloor heating
Why is the design the way it is now? For example:
What makes it particularly good or bad in your opinion? Personally, I don’t like the somewhat claustrophobic hallway (the toilet will be added to the bathroom in the front) and the winding shape of the children’s rooms
Thank you in advance for your feedback!
Development Plan / Restrictions
between 550 and 650 m2 (5920 and 7000 sq ft)
no slope
Client Requirements
each with basement, ground floor, and upper floor
hip roof
for 2 people each (22 & 26, 26 & 27, 28 & 34)
open kitchen, kitchen island
balcony, roof terrace
garage, carport
utility garden, greenhouse
House Design
Who created the plan:
- Do-it-Yourself
What do you particularly like? Why?
What do you dislike? Why?
Estimated cost according to the designer: all houses 512k
preferred heating system: underfloor heating
Why is the design the way it is now? For example:
What makes it particularly good or bad in your opinion? Personally, I don’t like the somewhat claustrophobic hallway (the toilet will be added to the bathroom in the front) and the winding shape of the children’s rooms
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nordanney17 Dec 2025 10:28NMarieKH schrieb:
I would like to ask for your opinion on these three floor plans – Floor plan 1 and 2 take future family planning into account, plan 3 does not (my partner and I would live in the first house).
Please feel free to be completely honest about what you like and what you don’t, and maybe also which floor plan seems the most practical and best designed to you.
Thank you in advance for your feedback! Why not post the full questionnaire? Why discuss three different floor plans?
- Site plan
- Orientation
- Why the floor plan is designed as it is
- Position on the plot
- Rethink the budget limit – to get exactly 512,000 (great estimate from the planner = yourself), you have to be very lucky to get such a large house WITHOUT a basement with this architecture at all.
And so on.
I’ll refrain from commenting on the floor plans themselves...
In der Ruine17 Dec 2025 10:41NMarieKH schrieb:
512k is already the signed offer 🙂Excuse me? What did you sign?N
nordanney17 Dec 2025 10:51NMarieKH schrieb:
512k is already the signed offer 🙂 WOW. Which builder offers you a house that hasn’t even been planned yet for that price? In Germany? With a basement?
Basement roughly 80,000 to 100,000 euros (approximately 88,000 to 110,000 USD), since it’s a livable basement included in the thermal envelope
House 160 sqm (approximately 1,720 sq ft) roughly 500,000 euros (about 550,000 USD)
Garage roughly 30,000 euros (about 33,000 USD)
Additional construction costs roughly 50,000 euros (about 55,000 USD)
==> Total: 700,000 euros (about 770,000 USD)
Get ready for all the change orders...
I’m out.
Please submit the documents requested by Nordanny.
Regarding the floor plans:
The budget is not sufficient. Has it been signed? What is missing or included in the fine print? On what basis?
Please have the contract reviewed by a homebuilders’ protection organization or an expert.
I would not build these old-fashioned and expensive turrets and bay windows.
I don’t like floor plans 1–3. Where to start.
Starting with number 1, regardless of the site plan, here are some observations:
The layout of the toilets and bathrooms is confusing, with a terribly narrow shower. Why not have a guest bathroom with a shower, toilet, and washbasin all in one room, spacious enough to avoid cramped elbows?
There is a long path from the front door to the cloakroom for dirty shoes. Because of that, you have to walk with socks through a narrow, dirty hallway.
Has the open-plan living area been furnished with furniture and appropriate clearance space? I don’t see how this could be arranged attractively.
Upstairs again has a narrow shower. A structural size of 100 cm (39 inches) quickly reduces to 95 cm (37 inches). These are shower trays typical of small apartments.
The long children’s room will be dark.
No cabinets will fit in the walk-in closet—please measure carefully and add some buffer space.
Basically, start over.
Please draw in all furniture everywhere, either existing or desired, to scale and consider movement space.
Regarding the floor plans:
The budget is not sufficient. Has it been signed? What is missing or included in the fine print? On what basis?
Please have the contract reviewed by a homebuilders’ protection organization or an expert.
I would not build these old-fashioned and expensive turrets and bay windows.
I don’t like floor plans 1–3. Where to start.
Starting with number 1, regardless of the site plan, here are some observations:
The layout of the toilets and bathrooms is confusing, with a terribly narrow shower. Why not have a guest bathroom with a shower, toilet, and washbasin all in one room, spacious enough to avoid cramped elbows?
There is a long path from the front door to the cloakroom for dirty shoes. Because of that, you have to walk with socks through a narrow, dirty hallway.
Has the open-plan living area been furnished with furniture and appropriate clearance space? I don’t see how this could be arranged attractively.
Upstairs again has a narrow shower. A structural size of 100 cm (39 inches) quickly reduces to 95 cm (37 inches). These are shower trays typical of small apartments.
The long children’s room will be dark.
No cabinets will fit in the walk-in closet—please measure carefully and add some buffer space.
Basically, start over.
Please draw in all furniture everywhere, either existing or desired, to scale and consider movement space.
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