ᐅ Floor Plan Design with an Existing House

Hello Ronny,
if your main entrance faces south and is also the street side, I wonder why you use a kind of standard layout when planning your future floor plan? Do you want to buy a typical house and then adjust the layout to fit your planned garage? Or are you aiming for a custom-designed house?
But it doesn’t really matter, since houses can also be rotated and mirrored.
What I’m getting at is this: you are positioning your south and west sides with the garage and planning an expensive roof terrace, even though your plot is 2000m² (0.5 acres). No one will really use this terrace, but your garage will eventually get wet.
Since we don’t know the exact dimensions or building regulations of your plot, it’s hard to say much for sure, but I can say that a much better floor plan would be possible in “your” building zone if you reconsider placing your garage on the prime spot (a hobby room and workshop can still be combined with a garage, just not like this).
Your plan looks like a farmyard that has been enlarged and patched together over 50 years and no longer serves its purpose.
I think if you draw on graph paper using millimeters and can quickly erase and redraw, you will get further than with free software. Please send us a scanned copy of your plot plan...

Best regards,
Yvonne

Yes, I can work on the site plan tomorrow.
This was not a standard house; I planned it entirely myself, with no specifications given.

How could the garage get wet? Why would that happen? Are there no proper waterproofing measures in place?

Best regards,
Ronny

ronnystritzke schrieb:

It wasn’t a standard house; I planned it all by myself, with no predefined plans.

How could the garage get wet? Why would that happen? Aren’t there proper waterproofing measures?

Best regards, Ronny

Yes, it shows that no professional was involved.
But judging by the exterior dimensions, it seems you want a house like that and attach your garage to it.

A flat roof, especially one that is walkable, is always a potential problem area that requires ongoing investment...

Hello,

ronnystritzke schrieb:
Well, anyone familiar with the software probably knows that it’s not that impressive and there are limits to what a freeware program can do

Putting aside the fact that I find the floor plan quite poor, to be honest, you should first practice using the software or try drawing by hand. As it stands, it really doesn’t work... Then furnish all the rooms and use the correct symbols. It’s hard to evaluate anything when you have to disregard so many elements or imagine things differently.

So first draw a proper floor plan and share it here again.

Regards

ronnystritzke schrieb:
Well, anyone familiar with the program probably knows that it’s not that impressive and that there are some limits to free software

Actually, it can be better! Most building components can be entered flexibly, allowing windows and doors to have custom widths.

ronnystritzke schrieb:

The bathroom on the ground floor should only have a toilet and a washbasin; it can even be smaller—I’ve seen that often when working as a heating and plumbing service technician.

Of course, it can be smaller. But not in the way you planned it. Then the door would have to open outward.
There won’t be any space for a washbasin or toilet behind the door, nor directly in front of it, because otherwise the door won’t open. The only option left is the wall on the right. But you still can’t fit both fixtures there.
Additionally, you need to add 15 cm (6 inches) for the installation wall. Then it becomes really tight!

Hello, here is an aerial photo of the property. The house is still standing as shown; the extension on the front right should be removed and then rebuilt as indicated in the plan above. The shed on the left is also still there and has been modernized.

Best regards, Ronny