ᐅ Floor plan design for a single-family house on a hillside, with a separate apartment and a double garage
Created on: 15 Mar 2021 08:16
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Andreas94
Good morning, dear forum members,
We received the first draft of our single-family house over the weekend and are initially very pleased 🙂
We would like to share the first sketches here to get feedback from experienced homebuilders.
A few notes:
Due to the slope of the plot, we will build with a basement. It will house a separate apartment / my wife’s naturopathic practice.
A home office on the ground floor or attic is essential as I regularly work from home (even before the pandemic).
We are currently planning a house for 3 children. Additional space could be created by expanding over the garage.
The heating system will be a ground-source heat pump. Our plot measures approximately 1200 m² (0.3 acres).
Regarding the cost calculation, I want to provide some information. We received the following estimates from the planner:
KfW 55 house
Residential building: 1,145.917 m³ (40,462 ft³) x €350/m³ = €401,070.95
Garage: 511.66 m³ (18,060 ft³) x €175/m³ = €89,541.55
Additional construction costs: €30,000
The calculated costs for the residential building do not include expenses for interior fittings. Owner’s contributions are also not included.
I look forward to your feedback on the floor plans.
Critical comments are explicitly welcome 🙂
We received the first draft of our single-family house over the weekend and are initially very pleased 🙂
We would like to share the first sketches here to get feedback from experienced homebuilders.
A few notes:
Due to the slope of the plot, we will build with a basement. It will house a separate apartment / my wife’s naturopathic practice.
A home office on the ground floor or attic is essential as I regularly work from home (even before the pandemic).
We are currently planning a house for 3 children. Additional space could be created by expanding over the garage.
The heating system will be a ground-source heat pump. Our plot measures approximately 1200 m² (0.3 acres).
Regarding the cost calculation, I want to provide some information. We received the following estimates from the planner:
KfW 55 house
Residential building: 1,145.917 m³ (40,462 ft³) x €350/m³ = €401,070.95
Garage: 511.66 m³ (18,060 ft³) x €175/m³ = €89,541.55
Additional construction costs: €30,000
The calculated costs for the residential building do not include expenses for interior fittings. Owner’s contributions are also not included.
I look forward to your feedback on the floor plans.
Critical comments are explicitly welcome 🙂
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Myrna_Loy17 Mar 2021 11:32And the 1950s don’t have to be bad – back then, buildings were constructed very compactly. An open floor plan – the notorious all-purpose room – can quickly become outdated due to its disadvantages and often just masks very small floor areas. I would always keep in mind how rooms can be subdivided again if needed, without losing quality.
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Andreas9417 Mar 2021 11:37icandoit schrieb:
@Andreas94
You can clearly see the difference.
Just to be sure, is it allowed to run a business in the two-family house in your building area?
Also, in my opinion, KfW funding doesn’t apply to businesses?
Where are the parking spaces for the second residential unit? And/or for the business?
I just hope you don’t get a loan from the bank. Otherwise, there will soon be another shell structure on the market.
In my neighborhood, someone also runs a massage practice on the ground floor. They live upstairs. That can work financially for you too. But on a slope, that only works if you cancel the roof and garage or at least convert the garage into a carport.We have had this question answered by the responsible building authority and district office. We have confirmation that we are allowed to operate a “business” on our property. The land is not located in a designated building zone. It was originally used as a meadow and has been available for construction for over 20 years.
The KfW funding applies only to secondary apartments; yes, that is how we will initially declare our construction project and later integrate a practice.
As for parking, I see the possibility of parking two cars in front of the garages. Additionally, there is the option to provide more parking spaces between the street and the house wall. I think that should be sufficient.
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Myrna_Loy17 Mar 2021 11:47That’s not so simple – you need to provide evidence of parking spaces when applying for the building permit / planning permission. And I won’t say anything about subsidy fraud.
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Myrna_Loy17 Mar 2021 11:59Are the rooms in the basement actually wheelchair accessible? As far as I know, this is a requirement for approval as rooms for practicing a healthcare profession. The change of use must also be reported to the building authority (building permit / planning permission), and at the latest when filing the tax return, conflicts between KfW funding and workspaces can become complicated.
Myrna_Loy schrieb:
And about subsidy fraud, I won’t say anything.That’s exactly why it should be addressed. The original poster probably doesn’t realize this.
Why do you think I asked?
You can’t really be that naive.
I would like to help, but in this case, I’d rather stay out of it.