ᐅ Floor Plan Design for a Single-Family Home of Approximately 170 m² on a Narrow 750 m² Plot
Created on: 16 Mar 2021 11:35
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Development Plan / Restrictions
Plot size: 750 m² (8,072 sq ft), 18 x 42 m (59 x 138 ft)
Slope: no, flat
Floor area ratio (FAR): 0.25
Plot ratio: 0.5
Building envelope, building line and boundary: 3 m (10 ft) from all sides
Edge development:
Number of parking spaces: minimum 2
Number of floors: 2
Roof type: gable, hip 25-45°
Architectural style: modern
Orientation: no requirement
Maximum heights / limits: 10 m (33 ft) according to development plan
Other specifications
Requirements of the Homeowners
Style, roof type, building type: solid construction, modern, gable roof, single-family home
Basement, floors: no basement, 1.5 floors
Number of occupants, age: currently 2 (both 32)
Space requirements ground floor (GF), upper floor (UF): 90 + 80 m² (970 + 860 sq ft)
Office: family use or home office?: home office upstairs
Occasional overnight guests: rare
Open or closed layout: open
Conservative or modern construction: mix
Open kitchen, kitchen island: open kitchen, no island planned so far
Number of dining seats: minimum 6 seats
Fireplace: light masonry heater
Music / stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: planned, at the rear of the property
Utility garden, greenhouse: preferably a utility garden behind the house
Additional wishes / special features / daily routine, including reasons for choices or exclusions:
- Large open living/dining area with southern exposure.
- Large terrace at the front of the house, accessible from kitchen/dining area.
- Garage not in front of the house to preserve sunny space 🙂 — driveway located north beside the house instead.
- Minimum roof pitch on the upper floor.
- Possibility to reduce living room size later to create a bedroom (planned door in front of guest WC).
- TV area rather small, as we’re not typical couch potatoes :-D
- Office with dormer window.
House Design
Designer:
- Do-it-Yourself: based on a prefabricated house provider’s plan template
What do you particularly like? Why?
- House set back 10 m (33 ft) from the street, large living area due to frequent visits from a large family.
What do you dislike? Why?
- Possibly the kitchen is too small.
- Possibly insufficient storage space.
Price estimate from architect/planner: appointment pending
Personal budget limit for house including fittings: 350,000 (planned DIY for electrical, flooring, heating, plumbing)
Preferred heating technology: geothermal heat, possibly solar thermal support
If You Have to Give Up Something, which details/features
- can be foregone:
- direct access from living room to outside
- cannot be foregone:
- terrace access
Why has the design turned out as it is? e.g.
- Everything was placed on the ground floor with the option to create an additional room later by adding a wall in today’s living room (door in front of guest WC in living room).
- Large terrace at the front of the house is important and there is enough space.
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan summarized in 130 characters?
Are there issues with the size of the utility room if washing machine, dryer, technical equipment, and storage space are included?
Is the guest WC with shower sufficiently large?
Do the room sizes appear reasonable?
Plot size: 750 m² (8,072 sq ft), 18 x 42 m (59 x 138 ft)
Slope: no, flat
Floor area ratio (FAR): 0.25
Plot ratio: 0.5
Building envelope, building line and boundary: 3 m (10 ft) from all sides
Edge development:
Number of parking spaces: minimum 2
Number of floors: 2
Roof type: gable, hip 25-45°
Architectural style: modern
Orientation: no requirement
Maximum heights / limits: 10 m (33 ft) according to development plan
Other specifications
Requirements of the Homeowners
Style, roof type, building type: solid construction, modern, gable roof, single-family home
Basement, floors: no basement, 1.5 floors
Number of occupants, age: currently 2 (both 32)
Space requirements ground floor (GF), upper floor (UF): 90 + 80 m² (970 + 860 sq ft)
Office: family use or home office?: home office upstairs
Occasional overnight guests: rare
Open or closed layout: open
Conservative or modern construction: mix
Open kitchen, kitchen island: open kitchen, no island planned so far
Number of dining seats: minimum 6 seats
Fireplace: light masonry heater
Music / stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: planned, at the rear of the property
Utility garden, greenhouse: preferably a utility garden behind the house
Additional wishes / special features / daily routine, including reasons for choices or exclusions:
- Large open living/dining area with southern exposure.
- Large terrace at the front of the house, accessible from kitchen/dining area.
- Garage not in front of the house to preserve sunny space 🙂 — driveway located north beside the house instead.
- Minimum roof pitch on the upper floor.
- Possibility to reduce living room size later to create a bedroom (planned door in front of guest WC).
- TV area rather small, as we’re not typical couch potatoes :-D
- Office with dormer window.
House Design
Designer:
- Do-it-Yourself: based on a prefabricated house provider’s plan template
What do you particularly like? Why?
- House set back 10 m (33 ft) from the street, large living area due to frequent visits from a large family.
What do you dislike? Why?
- Possibly the kitchen is too small.
- Possibly insufficient storage space.
Price estimate from architect/planner: appointment pending
Personal budget limit for house including fittings: 350,000 (planned DIY for electrical, flooring, heating, plumbing)
Preferred heating technology: geothermal heat, possibly solar thermal support
If You Have to Give Up Something, which details/features
- can be foregone:
- direct access from living room to outside
- cannot be foregone:
- terrace access
Why has the design turned out as it is? e.g.
- Everything was placed on the ground floor with the option to create an additional room later by adding a wall in today’s living room (door in front of guest WC in living room).
- Large terrace at the front of the house is important and there is enough space.
What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan summarized in 130 characters?
Are there issues with the size of the utility room if washing machine, dryer, technical equipment, and storage space are included?
Is the guest WC with shower sufficiently large?
Do the room sizes appear reasonable?
icandoit schrieb:
Garage facing the street. Is it allowed for the garage/carport to be built on the property line with the neighbor? Is there a required setback from the street?
Building the garage up to the property line is possible, but we want to keep a 1m (3.3 feet) gap for maintenance. The setback of the garage from the street is 5m (16 feet) for perpendicular driveways and 1.5m (5 feet) for parallel arrangements. That was also our initial idea with the garage in front, but it blocks access to the back of the house and takes up a lot of space in front, for example with a parallel paved driveway.
icandoit schrieb:
The idea of stacking the two bathrooms is commendable, but the design is impractical. It could be done better, at least more advantageously for the living room.
How could an alternative to the bathrooms look? Would an adjustment only on the ground floor to make the living room larger be enough?
icandoit schrieb:
With your square meters, you are quite generous. Then the budget won’t suffice.
It can be smaller and much better. That way it could work within the budget. Are two children planned?
We are assuming two children.
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Myrna_Loy16 Mar 2021 13:10Then you also have a 30-meter (98 feet) long and 3-meter (10 feet) wide paved area as a driveway for the garage on the property. Essentially, a road.
Myrna_Loy schrieb:
But then you also have a 30-meter (98 feet) long and 3-meter (10 feet) wide paved area as a driveway on the property. Basically a road. Unfortunately, that is the downside of this design. We also want to try not to seal the driveway, so we plan to use something like ecological paving.
Only if the garage is in front of the house do we have less sunlight inside and limited access to the back of the house. Due to the narrow layout, having the garage in front, in our opinion, restricts too much.
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Myrna_Loy16 Mar 2021 13:38Why don’t you build the garage attached to the house? That way, you could also have a door from the garage directly into the utility room.
Myrna_Loy schrieb:
Why don’t you attach the garage to the house? Then you could also have a door from the garage directly into the utility room.Then we wouldn’t be able to get behind the house if the garage is located at the back of the house :-). I also think it would be too tight for driving in. We will ask during the meeting with the architect about the minimum turning radii required for cars.
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Myrna_Loy16 Mar 2021 13:58Why don’t you have access behind the house? What about the southeast side?
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