ᐅ Floor plan single-family house 155 m², no basement, 3 children's bedrooms, 1 office
Created on: 17 Dec 2024 12:18
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h28smbh
Hello everyone,
We have been planning the floor plan for our future home for a few months now. Naturally, we have some uncertainties, so we are interested in opinions from others who are also involved with this topic.
Attached are the plans as images.
The furnishings are only examples.
I look forward to any criticism and tips!
Development plan / restrictions
Plot size: 614 m² (6,605 ft²)
Slope: slight incline
Site occupancy index (floor area ratio): 0.4
Floor space index: 0.8
Building window, building line and boundary: 3 m (10 ft)
Edge development: open construction method, boundary garages up to 9 m (30 ft) allowed
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of storeys: max. 3 full storeys
Roof types: gable roof up to 35°; hipped roof up to 35°; shed roof up to 20°; flat roof, pyramid roof up to 35°
Style guidelines:
- Paint in very dark or very bright colors is not permitted
- To maintain a calm appearance of the building structure, the variety of materials used should be limited
Orientation: -
Maximum heights / limits: max. 6.5 m (21 ft 4 in), with shed roof max. 7.25 m (23 ft 9 in) at the ridge
Additional requirements:
- Exterior walls must be constructed to allow maximum energy savings
- Excavations and embankments up to max. 0.5 m (1 ft 8 in) allowed
- Retaining walls are not permitted
Homeowner requirements
Style, roof shape, building type: ecological timber construction, gable roof
Basement, storeys: 2 full storeys
Number of people, age: currently 2 adults + 1 child (2 years old) + 2 additional children planned
Space requirements on ground floor and upper floor:
- Storage space desired, since no basement
- Office should be reasonably large as sometimes two people will work there
- Children’s rooms should have a practical size > 12 m² (130 ft²) and be as similar in size as possible
- Bathroom can be smaller
Office: 1 part-time home office + 1 full-time home office
Overnight guests per year: 3-10
Open or closed architecture: rather open
Conservative or modern style: somewhere in between – modern country house? Definitely wood.
Open kitchen, cooking island: open kitchen
Number of dining seats: 8
Fireplace: no
Sound / stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: preferably a large garage for one car, some bicycles (plus trailer), a workbench and some storage
Kitchen garden, greenhouse: 2-3 raised beds + 4-5 tomato plants + 1-2 fruit trees
Additional wishes / special features / daily routine, including reasons why or why not for certain features:
- Minimum ceiling height 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in). Otherwise, especially in open rooms, it looks oppressive.
- Technical equipment preferably in the garage to keep noise “outside”
- Ground floor should potentially function as an accessible apartment later (office becomes bedroom, ideally large shower in the ground floor bathroom)
- Hallway with ample storage for jackets and shoes (e.g. large built-in closet)
- Pantry is nice to have but not a must
- Walk-in closet is considered unnecessary
- Bedroom should have enough space for a bedside crib
- Ideally kitchen/living/dining arranged around a corner
- Children’s rooms facing south
House design
Designed by: Do-it-Yourself
What do you particularly like? Why?
- That technical equipment does not take up space in the house
- That the utility room is partially under the stairs, making good use of space
- That the office could later be used as a bedroom
- That a lot of light comes in on the south side
- That there is a terrace door to the kitchen
- Technical/sanitary/pipework concentrated in one corner of the floor plan
What do you not like? Why?
- The layout of the ground floor bathroom is not ideal, but we couldn’t manage a rectangular bathroom
- Possibly the house “slides” too far south due to the wide garage
- Kitchen/living/dining does not wrap around a corner
Price estimate according to architect/planner: for a comparable floor plan with 10 m² (108 ft²) less living space and without a wood facade, we received a turnkey offer from a prefab house company for 505k. I estimate this floor plan at about 550k.
Personal price limit for the house including fittings: 650k
Preferred heating system: air-to-water heat pump
If you had to give up something, which details/extensions could you do without:
- Wood facade
Which you could not give up:
- Office
- 3 children’s rooms
Why did the design end up this way? For example:
- No washing machine in the bathroom desired – therefore utility room
- Technical room in the garage, because otherwise the ground floor footprint becomes so large that the house is no longer affordable for us
- No basement to save costs
We have been planning the floor plan for our future home for a few months now. Naturally, we have some uncertainties, so we are interested in opinions from others who are also involved with this topic.
Attached are the plans as images.
The furnishings are only examples.
I look forward to any criticism and tips!
Development plan / restrictions
Plot size: 614 m² (6,605 ft²)
Slope: slight incline
Site occupancy index (floor area ratio): 0.4
Floor space index: 0.8
Building window, building line and boundary: 3 m (10 ft)
Edge development: open construction method, boundary garages up to 9 m (30 ft) allowed
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of storeys: max. 3 full storeys
Roof types: gable roof up to 35°; hipped roof up to 35°; shed roof up to 20°; flat roof, pyramid roof up to 35°
Style guidelines:
- Paint in very dark or very bright colors is not permitted
- To maintain a calm appearance of the building structure, the variety of materials used should be limited
Orientation: -
Maximum heights / limits: max. 6.5 m (21 ft 4 in), with shed roof max. 7.25 m (23 ft 9 in) at the ridge
Additional requirements:
- Exterior walls must be constructed to allow maximum energy savings
- Excavations and embankments up to max. 0.5 m (1 ft 8 in) allowed
- Retaining walls are not permitted
Homeowner requirements
Style, roof shape, building type: ecological timber construction, gable roof
Basement, storeys: 2 full storeys
Number of people, age: currently 2 adults + 1 child (2 years old) + 2 additional children planned
Space requirements on ground floor and upper floor:
- Storage space desired, since no basement
- Office should be reasonably large as sometimes two people will work there
- Children’s rooms should have a practical size > 12 m² (130 ft²) and be as similar in size as possible
- Bathroom can be smaller
Office: 1 part-time home office + 1 full-time home office
Overnight guests per year: 3-10
Open or closed architecture: rather open
Conservative or modern style: somewhere in between – modern country house? Definitely wood.
Open kitchen, cooking island: open kitchen
Number of dining seats: 8
Fireplace: no
Sound / stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: preferably a large garage for one car, some bicycles (plus trailer), a workbench and some storage
Kitchen garden, greenhouse: 2-3 raised beds + 4-5 tomato plants + 1-2 fruit trees
Additional wishes / special features / daily routine, including reasons why or why not for certain features:
- Minimum ceiling height 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in). Otherwise, especially in open rooms, it looks oppressive.
- Technical equipment preferably in the garage to keep noise “outside”
- Ground floor should potentially function as an accessible apartment later (office becomes bedroom, ideally large shower in the ground floor bathroom)
- Hallway with ample storage for jackets and shoes (e.g. large built-in closet)
- Pantry is nice to have but not a must
- Walk-in closet is considered unnecessary
- Bedroom should have enough space for a bedside crib
- Ideally kitchen/living/dining arranged around a corner
- Children’s rooms facing south
House design
Designed by: Do-it-Yourself
What do you particularly like? Why?
- That technical equipment does not take up space in the house
- That the utility room is partially under the stairs, making good use of space
- That the office could later be used as a bedroom
- That a lot of light comes in on the south side
- That there is a terrace door to the kitchen
- Technical/sanitary/pipework concentrated in one corner of the floor plan
What do you not like? Why?
- The layout of the ground floor bathroom is not ideal, but we couldn’t manage a rectangular bathroom
- Possibly the house “slides” too far south due to the wide garage
- Kitchen/living/dining does not wrap around a corner
Price estimate according to architect/planner: for a comparable floor plan with 10 m² (108 ft²) less living space and without a wood facade, we received a turnkey offer from a prefab house company for 505k. I estimate this floor plan at about 550k.
Personal price limit for the house including fittings: 650k
Preferred heating system: air-to-water heat pump
If you had to give up something, which details/extensions could you do without:
- Wood facade
Which you could not give up:
- Office
- 3 children’s rooms
Why did the design end up this way? For example:
- No washing machine in the bathroom desired – therefore utility room
- Technical room in the garage, because otherwise the ground floor footprint becomes so large that the house is no longer affordable for us
- No basement to save costs
Hello,
Thank you very much for your tips and feedback
ypg schrieb:No, the 3D model and the floor plan are created by me.
But that is a picture from a sales offer. Is there an official site plan available to view?
ypg schrieb:With garage (without door), without slab/groundworks.
With or without the garage? With or without the slab?
ypg schrieb:Exactly, the builder also said the technical room needs to be inside the thermal envelope, but that it’s possible.
If that works with QNG? The technical room must be inside the thermal envelope; having it in an outbuilding makes insulation and supply lines more complicated. For us, covering the supply lines with a slab would not be permitted.
ypg schrieb:Thanks for the tip about the underside of the roof; I hadn’t paid attention to that so far.
You can hardly call that owner work anymore because 95% of builders (even the well-known ones, or especially the well-known ones) don’t include flooring in their turnkey offers. The same applies to remaining painting work. Nowadays you have to paint the staircase yourself and treating the underside of the roof is also not included anymore. Each company has its own scope of work description, where it’s not clear at a glance what is included in the “turnkey” offer and what is not. The 3000€/m² refers to a plastered standard house with plastic windows.
ypg schrieb:I’m a bit confused about the sales brochure—do you mean the zoning plan or the image from my 3D model? I guess you mean the layout shown in the attachment. Thinking it over, that makes a lot of sense. As RomeoZwo also mentioned, the green strip creates some distance from the upper neighbor.
And now about the design: I would position the house fully to the north to have the garden on the south and west sides. Then I would follow the slope of the land. This means the house’s ridge direction would be parallel to the street, as suggested by the sales brochure.
ypg schrieb:Yes, I’m also rather unsatisfied with the living room.
and then the living room with rather simple furniture options.
Thank you very much for your tips and feedback
hanghaus2023 schrieb:
Is the upper building line the same as the property boundary? Then you would still have to keep a distance (3m (10 feet)?) No, the green line marks the boundary. Setback distances must be observed according to the BayBO (Bavarian Building Code).
hanghaus2023 schrieb:
As already suggested, the house should be moved closer to the street.
This is the maximum you are allowed to build. Thank you for the visual explanation. That definitely changes everything.
hanghaus2023 schrieb:
Unfortunately, I just read that now. In that case, you can also use the image you referenced if the house is only 8m (26 feet) wide.
The basis is that the plot has been surveyed with detailed elevation data, especially around the house area.
It needs to be clarified in advance what is meant by excavation and filling, because then the image at the bottom right doesn’t apply.
Your interpretations of the development plan might also be somewhat inaccurate.Oh, okay, maybe I shouldn’t address the comments one by one but read everything first.
Thank you
h28smbh schrieb:
Oh ok, maybe I shouldn’t respond to the comments one by one but read everything first.Yes, that often makes sense. You can highlight the parts you want to reply to as you go and use the "+Quote" button instead of "Quote" to basically collect them. Then you can insert them all into your reply, or remove individual quotes from this collection if they’ve become irrelevant due to further posts.Once again, and regarding the order:
Of course, I am not asking if a floor plan or 3D model is a site plan. I am asking whether there is an official development plan or site plan because I assume you posted a picture from a sales offer in #2. Development plans rarely show plot reservation numbers or examples of building designs.
h28smbh schrieb:
Here is the plot in the development plan
ypg schrieb:
But that is a picture from a sales offer. Is there also an official site plan or location plan that can be viewed?
h28smbh schrieb:
No, the 3D model and the floor plan are from me.
Of course, I am not asking if a floor plan or 3D model is a site plan. I am asking whether there is an official development plan or site plan because I assume you posted a picture from a sales offer in #2. Development plans rarely show plot reservation numbers or examples of building designs.
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