ᐅ Floor Plan Design for a Gable Roof House (Knee Wall Height 2.20 m) Approximately 170 sqm
Created on: 2 Nov 2021 15:01
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Bauwunsch85
Hello everyone,
We would appreciate your suggestions and ideas on our first floor plan draft.
Please excuse the unprofessional sketches, but we are still at the beginning and have our first meeting with a potential construction company next week.
Zoning plan / restrictions
Plot size: 550 m² (5,920 sq ft)
Slope: no
Site coverage ratio (building coverage ratio): 0.3
Floor area ratio: 0.6
Building boundaries, building line, and setbacks: 3 m (10 ft)
Edge development
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of floors: 2
Roof type: gable roof
Style: modern
Orientation as shown in pictures (almost perfect north-south orientation)
Maximum heights / limits
Ridge height: 10 m (33 ft)
Eaves height at least 1.5 m (5 ft) lower than ridge height
Homeowners’ requirements
Style, roof type, building type: gable roof house with a high knee wall 2.20 m (7 ft 3 in)
Basement, floors: no
Number of occupants, age: 2 adults and 1 child planned
Space requirements on ground floor and upper floor
Office: family use or home office? Both home offices
Guests sleeping per year: negligible
Open or closed architecture
Conservative or modern construction style
Open kitchen, kitchen island
Number of dining seats: 6
Fireplace: yes
Music / stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: yes, garage
Utility garden, greenhouse: no
Other wishes / special features / daily routine, including reasons why or why not for these elements
- Passage from garage to utility room for bringing dry groceries / beverage crates into the house
- 2 office options as both work from home
- Passage in front of the bed is sufficient for us; currently we only have 40 cm (16 inches) in front of a dresser with TV
- Wardrobe to be under the stairs (possibly enclosed)
- Child 2 room to serve as office / sports room
House design
Who created the planning:
- Do-it-yourself
What do you particularly like? Why?
What do you dislike? Why? Preferably an additional storage room
Cost estimate according to architect/planner: €395,000
Personal price limit for house including fittings: €500,000
Preferred heating system: heat pump
If you have to give up something, which details / expansions can you do without?
- Can do without: fireplace
- Cannot do without: walk-in closet (storage for bed linen / towels for the house)
We would appreciate your suggestions and ideas on our first floor plan draft.
Please excuse the unprofessional sketches, but we are still at the beginning and have our first meeting with a potential construction company next week.
Zoning plan / restrictions
Plot size: 550 m² (5,920 sq ft)
Slope: no
Site coverage ratio (building coverage ratio): 0.3
Floor area ratio: 0.6
Building boundaries, building line, and setbacks: 3 m (10 ft)
Edge development
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of floors: 2
Roof type: gable roof
Style: modern
Orientation as shown in pictures (almost perfect north-south orientation)
Maximum heights / limits
Ridge height: 10 m (33 ft)
Eaves height at least 1.5 m (5 ft) lower than ridge height
Homeowners’ requirements
Style, roof type, building type: gable roof house with a high knee wall 2.20 m (7 ft 3 in)
Basement, floors: no
Number of occupants, age: 2 adults and 1 child planned
Space requirements on ground floor and upper floor
Office: family use or home office? Both home offices
Guests sleeping per year: negligible
Open or closed architecture
Conservative or modern construction style
Open kitchen, kitchen island
Number of dining seats: 6
Fireplace: yes
Music / stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: yes, garage
Utility garden, greenhouse: no
Other wishes / special features / daily routine, including reasons why or why not for these elements
- Passage from garage to utility room for bringing dry groceries / beverage crates into the house
- 2 office options as both work from home
- Passage in front of the bed is sufficient for us; currently we only have 40 cm (16 inches) in front of a dresser with TV
- Wardrobe to be under the stairs (possibly enclosed)
- Child 2 room to serve as office / sports room
House design
Who created the planning:
- Do-it-yourself
What do you particularly like? Why?
What do you dislike? Why? Preferably an additional storage room
Cost estimate according to architect/planner: €395,000
Personal price limit for house including fittings: €500,000
Preferred heating system: heat pump
If you have to give up something, which details / expansions can you do without?
- Can do without: fireplace
- Cannot do without: walk-in closet (storage for bed linen / towels for the house)
Good to see you're still here 🙂 Then use that one as a starting point. At least it can be built. Viebrockhaus houses work well.
They are also available as show homes you can visit.
With your design, you planned the staircase against the room layout. That would never have worked.
They are also available as show homes you can visit.
With your design, you planned the staircase against the room layout. That would never have worked.
Bauwunsch85 schrieb:
and there the floor plan of Maxime 700II would correspond to our ideas.Great! That’s already a good first step: you have now identified a catalog home that closely matches your "custom design" well enough to use instead. Now continue on this path to success! Step 2: look for builders in your region. Since a) you are not building near Viebrockhaus and b) there is a significant chance you do not want to end up with them for cost reasons, relying on their fully engineered design proposal with a different builder won’t help you much.
Step 3: search for suitable floor plans regardless of staircase type. You preferred a two-flight straight staircase and had also considered a single-flight straight staircase. This already increases the chances of finding appealing floor plans. Don’t only look for “urban villas” and designs with high knee walls: with the option for two full stories, you are in a comfortable position to also consider one-and-a-half-story designs as a basis. Turning a “country house” into an “urban villa” is structurally unproblematic (the reverse would not work well), resulting only in slightly larger rooms on the upper floor than in the “original” plan.
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Bauwunsch854 Nov 2021 15:0311ant schrieb:
Because a) you are not building near Viebrockhaus and b) there is also a quite valid possibility that you do not want to end up with them for price reasons Viebrockhaus would even be an option and lists a base price of 369,950 € (about $408,000) on their homepage. This is noticeably cheaper than the first offer (for a similar 160 sqm (1,722 sq ft) townhouse) from a local builder. Of course, both would still have additional costs for upgrades, ancillary construction costs, and utility connections.
The local builder’s offer is at 397,900 € (about $439,000) with few items included according to the scope of work description.
Thanks for the advice. We will proceed exactly like that and also consider managing some parts ourselves.
Bauwunsch85 schrieb:
and also consider taking on the project management yourself.Better to avoid that, as it poses too many risks for first-time builders—especially the risk of costs spiraling out of control. Tendering is a minefield for beginners. In gymnastics, mats are good but nail boards are not ;-)https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
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Bauwunsch854 Nov 2021 15:3011ant schrieb:
Better to avoid that, as it involves too many risks for first-time homebuilders—especially the risk of costs spiraling out of control. Tendering is a minefield for beginners. Mats are good for gymnastics, but nail boards aren’t ;-) I understand and fully agree with you. However, my father-in-law owns a heating and plumbing company and believes he can coordinate well with friendly companies from other trades. I think, though, that we won’t go in that direction, and if we do, it will only be with a construction manager and an architect.
Bauwunsch85 schrieb:
I don’t think we will go in this direction, and if we do, only with a construction manager and architect.Yes, it’s better to have a tender with an architect – who, in my opinion, should also manage the construction.https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
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