ᐅ Floor Plan Design for KfW 40 Single-Family Home in an Established Residential Area with Fully Finished Basement

hanse987 schrieb:

How large is the light well supposed to be?

11ant schrieb:

By the way, there’s something wrong with the file formats of your drawings—they try to download immediately but then can’t be opened.

11ant schrieb:

Infinite Monkey is very popular among the "CAD architect generation" and their clients, but in my opinion, it is not a recommendable design method; I prefer a preliminary design (only after the translation of the room program into a building volume has been conceptually "mathematically balanced" do I start drawing) as a clean code foundation. Starting directly with the design phase is basically like "starting off in third gear" and regularly produces quirks such as combined or completely omitted originally essential elements. To me, this seems like the work of a budget architect (design phases 1 to 3).
By the way, there is something wrong with the file formats of your drawings; they attempt to download immediately but are then unreadable.

Seriously, with a circle around it?

Arauki11 schrieb:

I haven’t calculated the area separately, but that is quite a lot of square meters, and I wonder if the costs will really match up.

In my opinion, 1.5 meters (5 feet) on such a small plot is already quite substantial, which will again increase the costs for the outdoor area. Have you considered that?
As with every one of these designs, I ask myself about the necessity of an expensive basement, especially since, as you write, you want to place it on an almost flat plot. The intended use has been discussed many times, and opinions differ widely just based on the huge size of 23.5 sqm (253 sq ft) for the technical room and the extra basement playroom or future use by the children.
At first glance, I can well imagine your needs being met in a house without a basement, especially considering the mentioned budget. In the floor plan, in my opinion, square meters are just thrown around and in the end, you get rooms that are large but difficult to furnish.
Please enter your actual furniture with measurements, and then you will already see some critical points. Surely you don’t want to furnish the living room as drawn.
Who prepared the cost estimate?
I personally wouldn’t like the endlessly long corridor at all.
The "T" in the bathroom is also commonly chosen, but here again it is rather disturbing.
I don’t know if it’s just because of the missing, real furniture, but to me it looks like a standard floor plan was simply stretched a bit to make it bigger, without any clear benefit to living comfort.
The island is more of a tiny island, and the currently popular pantry behind the kitchen cannot have come from a detail-minded architect. Place furniture with real dimensions and you will see.
Start with proper furnishing to see how it really feels!

ypg schrieb:

About the floor plan itself.
The classic layout usually works. However, I find the cloakroom niche for four people too small. The hallway feels too narrow to me. I would try to create a sense of openness in the living area to address this.
Upstairs, you could do without the hallway extension and still have doors for the children’s rooms.
If you definitely want to build a basement into the slope, you will need to reduce the floor area due to budget constraints, but it should be feasible.
I would plan the children’s floor upstairs and the parents’ floor in the basement. Upstairs, you could also include a small bedroom (guest, hobby), which for now, while the children are still young, can serve as the parents’ bedroom. The bathroom can be larger. The T-shaped layout is space-consuming here.
Regarding the toilets in the T’s, it should be mentioned that it’s not easy to care for a toddler with stomach flu or on other days.
Keep in mind that the row house on your south side has the driveway to the courtyard.

hanse987 schrieb:

Is the space in front of your garage even accepted as a second parking spot?