ᐅ Bungalow Floor Plan with 140 sqm – Is the Storage Space Sufficient?
Created on: 23 Feb 2023 13:38
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EinmalimLeben
Hello! I would like to share our plans with you and would appreciate any suggestions or improvements, more specifically further down. First of all:
Development Plan / Restrictions
- Plot size: 707 sqm (7,609 sq ft)
- Slope: no
- Site coverage ratio: -
- Floor area ratio: no development plan, same as neighboring buildings
- Building window, building line and boundary
Edge buildings: 3 m (10 ft), building encumbrance considered
- Number of parking spaces: 2
- Number of storeys: 1
- Roof style: hipped roof
- Architectural style: bungalow
- Orientation: driveway on the south side, terrace on the north side
- Maximum height / limits: -
- Other requirements: -
Owners’ Requirements
- Style, roof type, building type
Small but cozy floor(s) 😉 No stairs (for husband), bungalow / country house style, no basement, attic not usable
- Number of people, age: 2 adults, 2 children (2 and 5 years old)
- Space requirement: 140 sqm (1,507 sq ft)
- Office: family use or home office: both teachers, so necessary, but one desk is enough
- Overnight guests per year: grandmother often (about every other weekend), otherwise irregular visits from friends or family members
- Open or closed architecture: both
- Traditional or modern construction: both
- Open kitchen, kitchen island: yes, already purchased
- Number of dining seats: 6
- Fireplace: no
- Music/sound system wall: no
- Balcony, roof terrace: no
- Garage, carport: carport planned later
- Utility garden, greenhouse: children’s play equipment, some garden for vegetables, more of a natural garden
- Additional wishes / special features / daily routine, including reasons for choices: our plot is quite narrow; a bungalow was our dream and fits well on the lot, although it is quite far from the driveway and parking spaces. We prefer a country house style; the house will have red facing bricks with an anthracite-colored roof. We all spend a lot of time on hobbies and gardening in the afternoons, but the children also want their fun... The large building to the east on the neighboring plot will soon be demolished and replaced by three large buildings with senior apartments. The distance to us will then increase somewhat, but these are three storeys and part of our street will be used. So there are quite a few changes happening around here. The village has many supermarkets, a drugstore, an outdoor pool, and schools, but no train station or grammar school. Those are located in the nearest larger town (15 minutes by bus/car).
House Design
- Who designed the plan: planner from a construction company with us
- What do you particularly like? Why?
The layout, bathrooms, separation of living and sleeping areas, open kitchen
- What don’t you like? Why? Possibly too little space in the utility/technical room and for storage cabinets?
- Price estimate according to architect/planner: Plot 80,000, house price 321,000 without flooring and painting but tiled in kitchen, baths and utility room, we signed in April 2022 and financed at the same time, rural Lower Saxony plot but located between three large cities, additional costs for the plot paid so far 16,500 (property taxes, tree removal, surveying...), planned further 30,000 for construction road, extra cost for deeper excavation, drainage. Kitchen (Bristol style) from Häcker in L-shape with island already purchased and stored, 14,000 Euro as it is a display kitchen and only slightly modified.
- Personal price limit for the house including fixtures and fittings: flooring 5,000, painter, electrician, tiles... 10,000, kitchen 14,000, furniture included, new sofa 1,000 and a few new cabinets: approx. 360,000 Euro without exterior works and additional costs.
- Favored heating technology: we are installing geothermal heat
- If you had to give up some details or fittings, which ones? I think we have already given up on a lot of unnecessary things. Carport for now
- Things you can’t do without: open kitchen, children’s bathroom with shower, shutters on the south side
- Why is the design as it is now? Developed together with planner
- Which wishes were implemented by the architect? Bungalow, children’s room 14 sqm (150 sq ft), children’s bathroom with shower
- What do you think makes it particularly good or bad? Everything on one level, wishes were implemented, possibly too little space for stuff?
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan in 130 characters?
We like the floor plan as it is and have already obtained building permit/planning permission for it. I would like to know if the space in the utility room is sufficient and if there is enough space for cabinets. We currently live on 73 sqm (785 sq ft) and have rather little; even the basement only stores a bit of Christmas decoration, children’s clothes for the younger one to grow into, and my husband’s workshop items, which will eventually go into a shed/workshop. The children currently share one room (11 sqm (118 sq ft)). If it is then split into two rooms in the house, that should be plenty. Still, there is sometimes some concern since many here plan much larger and allocate more storage space...
Would you change anything else or are we overlooking something? We have no load-bearing walls and could still make some adjustments before construction starts (even if it costs more).
Development Plan / Restrictions
- Plot size: 707 sqm (7,609 sq ft)
- Slope: no
- Site coverage ratio: -
- Floor area ratio: no development plan, same as neighboring buildings
- Building window, building line and boundary
Edge buildings: 3 m (10 ft), building encumbrance considered
- Number of parking spaces: 2
- Number of storeys: 1
- Roof style: hipped roof
- Architectural style: bungalow
- Orientation: driveway on the south side, terrace on the north side
- Maximum height / limits: -
- Other requirements: -
Owners’ Requirements
- Style, roof type, building type
Small but cozy floor(s) 😉 No stairs (for husband), bungalow / country house style, no basement, attic not usable
- Number of people, age: 2 adults, 2 children (2 and 5 years old)
- Space requirement: 140 sqm (1,507 sq ft)
- Office: family use or home office: both teachers, so necessary, but one desk is enough
- Overnight guests per year: grandmother often (about every other weekend), otherwise irregular visits from friends or family members
- Open or closed architecture: both
- Traditional or modern construction: both
- Open kitchen, kitchen island: yes, already purchased
- Number of dining seats: 6
- Fireplace: no
- Music/sound system wall: no
- Balcony, roof terrace: no
- Garage, carport: carport planned later
- Utility garden, greenhouse: children’s play equipment, some garden for vegetables, more of a natural garden
- Additional wishes / special features / daily routine, including reasons for choices: our plot is quite narrow; a bungalow was our dream and fits well on the lot, although it is quite far from the driveway and parking spaces. We prefer a country house style; the house will have red facing bricks with an anthracite-colored roof. We all spend a lot of time on hobbies and gardening in the afternoons, but the children also want their fun... The large building to the east on the neighboring plot will soon be demolished and replaced by three large buildings with senior apartments. The distance to us will then increase somewhat, but these are three storeys and part of our street will be used. So there are quite a few changes happening around here. The village has many supermarkets, a drugstore, an outdoor pool, and schools, but no train station or grammar school. Those are located in the nearest larger town (15 minutes by bus/car).
House Design
- Who designed the plan: planner from a construction company with us
- What do you particularly like? Why?
The layout, bathrooms, separation of living and sleeping areas, open kitchen
- What don’t you like? Why? Possibly too little space in the utility/technical room and for storage cabinets?
- Price estimate according to architect/planner: Plot 80,000, house price 321,000 without flooring and painting but tiled in kitchen, baths and utility room, we signed in April 2022 and financed at the same time, rural Lower Saxony plot but located between three large cities, additional costs for the plot paid so far 16,500 (property taxes, tree removal, surveying...), planned further 30,000 for construction road, extra cost for deeper excavation, drainage. Kitchen (Bristol style) from Häcker in L-shape with island already purchased and stored, 14,000 Euro as it is a display kitchen and only slightly modified.
- Personal price limit for the house including fixtures and fittings: flooring 5,000, painter, electrician, tiles... 10,000, kitchen 14,000, furniture included, new sofa 1,000 and a few new cabinets: approx. 360,000 Euro without exterior works and additional costs.
- Favored heating technology: we are installing geothermal heat
- If you had to give up some details or fittings, which ones? I think we have already given up on a lot of unnecessary things. Carport for now
- Things you can’t do without: open kitchen, children’s bathroom with shower, shutters on the south side
- Why is the design as it is now? Developed together with planner
- Which wishes were implemented by the architect? Bungalow, children’s room 14 sqm (150 sq ft), children’s bathroom with shower
- What do you think makes it particularly good or bad? Everything on one level, wishes were implemented, possibly too little space for stuff?
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan in 130 characters?
We like the floor plan as it is and have already obtained building permit/planning permission for it. I would like to know if the space in the utility room is sufficient and if there is enough space for cabinets. We currently live on 73 sqm (785 sq ft) and have rather little; even the basement only stores a bit of Christmas decoration, children’s clothes for the younger one to grow into, and my husband’s workshop items, which will eventually go into a shed/workshop. The children currently share one room (11 sqm (118 sq ft)). If it is then split into two rooms in the house, that should be plenty. Still, there is sometimes some concern since many here plan much larger and allocate more storage space...
Would you change anything else or are we overlooking something? We have no load-bearing walls and could still make some adjustments before construction starts (even if it costs more).
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hanghaus202325 Feb 2023 09:36EinmalimLeben schrieb:
Of course! Thanks a lot for the drawings! Please
EinmalimLeben schrieb:
I prefer the layout with the guest room opposite the front door a bit more, even if the children's rooms become a little more spacious that way. Why do you want to prioritize the guest room that is rarely used like that?
Sorry, the square meters in my draft aren’t accurate. I just measured them from my copy. However, the rooms feel less awkward. The children’s rooms got a bit smaller.
EinmalimLeben schrieb:
The many doors in the bathroom and bedroom bother me, as we would keep disturbing each other, and the extra recessed walls are a bit too much for me. Adding that one more wall does make sense. That way, you can be sure to sleep undisturbed in the bedroom when your partner is using the dressing room and bathroom. Of course, you can leave out the wall, and then you have exactly as many doors as in your design.
In my opinion, the fewer awkward corners are an advantage and should also have a positive effect on costs.
The bathrooms can still be optimized; these are just placeholders.
EinmalimLeben schrieb:
Of course! Thank you very much for the drawings!
I prefer the layout with the guest room opposite the front door a bit more. @EinmalimLeben,
so far, I like the design by @hanghaus2023 the best.
I would seriously consider swapping the utility room and guest room.
This would shorten the plumbing runs to the bathrooms for the utility room, and the guest room would have the entrance vestibule wall made of calcium silicate blocks and the wall to the open-plan living area constructed with drywall.
The idea is that when the children have moved out, the work/guest room moves into the children’s room, and the drywall separating the guest room is removed and incorporated into the open-plan living area.
Our fourth room was built without walls, meaning the large open-plan space can be divided again if needed.
Just some info on our floor plan.
EinmalimLeben schrieb:
Ok, got it! So we sent the architect an initial draft beforehand. During the planning process, we completely changed everything with her, and none of the rooms are like they were originally planned. We said we wanted an open kitchen, a bathroom connected to the master bedroom, and that the children’s bedrooms should be the same size (14 sqm (150 sq ft) each), which was important to us. But she designed and planned it, and we really liked it! That sounds like a creative architect at least, but probably one whose services are included by the construction company (?), so the dimensions probably didn’t originate from you, but from her. Unfortunately, it’s common nowadays that architects don’t receive proper education about brick dimensions and how they relate to practically buildable room sizes during their studies. This leads to problems on the construction site that unfortunately are not fed back to them (and ultimately get hidden under the plaster, which doesn’t make it any better).
EinmalimLeben schrieb:
We hired an external building supervisor from the Homeowners’ Protection Association because that makes me feel safer. But I will do my homework! Thanks for the clarification! The expert cannot fix the problems caused by poor workmanship allowances (“shoddy pockets”) that are already built into the plans. To do that, they would have to independently (and by taking on the responsibility) order changes to the masonry work on site that deviate from the approved building permit / planning permission documents. But that can’t really be desirable. What they can do is ensure, for example, that the mortar application is carried out professionally (although based on experience, I am skeptical when walls are so carelessly planned within a construction company).
hanghaus2023 schrieb:
The kids’ rooms ended up a bit smaller, Out of respect for the victims of the Holocaust, I think it would be better to avoid using this abbreviation for the children’s bedrooms.
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hanghaus202325 Feb 2023 13:11Nida35a schrieb:
I would seriously consider swapping the utility room and the guest room.You are absolutely right. The size is the same. There is no reason against that.
Alright, the old man here doesn’t just complain, he can also demonstrate. Of course, only partially within the scope of my local pro bono consulting session, using the example of the wall layout shown at the top of your floor plan. The window openings are fine as they are, so I only focused on the wall sections in between. “Brick” (also in plural, not “Brick[s]”) in my drawing refers to the unit of measurement. A physical brick in the construction of your masonry wall shell (i.e., the inner shell, which is planned here to be made of aerated concrete) is "50 cm" (20 inches) long including the dry joint gap, while the measurement unit “brick” equals 25 cm (10 inches). So one “brick” in the dimensions of my drawing is half a physical brick. In the example: between the dining area window and the kitchen window, a 65.5 cm (26 inches) wall section is planned, which equals one full and one cut brick (the leftover piece cannot be reasonably reused elsewhere in the brickwork pattern). Here I would therefore suggest 3 bricks (= 1.5 physical bricks), totaling 75 cm (30 inches). The facing brick shell has window rebates, presumably half a header brick (= quarter brick). Specifically in this example, the 75 cm (30 inches) inner masonry shell would be faced with a 87 cm (34 inches) long brick layer (24 cm (9.5 inches) brick length plus 1 cm (0.4 inch) joint gap, multiplied by three, plus a half facing brick, whose leftover starts the next course). This isn’t rocket science; no architectural degree or specific high school graduation is needed for this, it’s usually covered in math class by the third grade. That’s how much those with degrees should be corrected when they look puzzled here. The fantasy dimensions converted into bricks are marked in red, the corrected values are in green, always referring to the dimensions in the plan, thus most likely to the structural masonry shell. Since the wall thickness is based on the brick module, the brick saw must inevitably be used at the building corners—preferably on the structural shell since the facing shell is more delicate and should remain visible as aesthetic brickwork. At these two points, you can ignore my green figures (6 or 5.5 and 8 or 8.5), as cutting is unavoidable here.
So be clear about where you want to compensate for the wider wall section between the dining area and the kitchen window. I would recommend adjusting the total house length from 17.15 meters (56 feet 3 inches) to either 17.115 meters (56 feet 1 inch) or 17.24 meters (56 feet 7 inches). For the room dimensions, the architect needs to be less strict with her fantasy dimensions because in your case all interior walls are non-load bearing and will be addressed in a later stage (and, in my opinion, they are not yet final or ready to be built).
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So be clear about where you want to compensate for the wider wall section between the dining area and the kitchen window. I would recommend adjusting the total house length from 17.15 meters (56 feet 3 inches) to either 17.115 meters (56 feet 1 inch) or 17.24 meters (56 feet 7 inches). For the room dimensions, the architect needs to be less strict with her fantasy dimensions because in your case all interior walls are non-load bearing and will be addressed in a later stage (and, in my opinion, they are not yet final or ready to be built).
https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/bauen-jetzt/
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