ᐅ Floor plan of a single-family house, feedback requested

Created on: 20 Jun 2025 15:58
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Ganneff
Hello,

I have been reading along for some time now and finally dare to share a floor plan here.
First, here is the list of questions:

Zoning Plan / Restrictions

Site plan with blue building structures, green areas and trees


Plot size: 576 sqm (6,200 sq ft)
Slope: Yes, slight. According to the site plan, the top "right" corner is at 295.4 meters (970 feet), lower at 293.88 meters (964 feet), left side goes from 295.17 meters (968 feet) to 293.43 meters (963 feet)
Floor area ratio: 0.3
Building envelope, building line and boundary: Applies to house number 16

Site plan of a building plot with parcels, building areas and street details.


Surrounding buildings
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of stories: 2 full floors required, plus optional recessed floor (setback floor)
Roof type: Flat roof, max. 5° pitch
Maximum height/limits: Max. 10 m (33 ft) high
Additional requirements: Equipment (heat pump) must be integrated, not external. Maximum of 2 residential units. Specific exterior colors required, rainwater should infiltrate (soil report says this is unlikely). Roofs must be greened. No oil or gas heating allowed.

Client requirements
Style, roof type, building type: Actually, none specified.
Basement, floors: No basement, 2 floors.
Number of occupants, ages: 4 people — 2 adults, 2 children
Ground floor space needs: Daily life (living, kitchen, dining, technical room, guest room)
Upper floor: Family (2 children's rooms, master bedroom, separate bathrooms), home office
Office: Home office, second workspace for occasional use such as a work window sill for example in the bedroom
Guests per year: Currently few.
Open or closed architecture, conservative or modern style: Either is fine.
Open kitchen, kitchen island: We are still considering. Initial wish was separate pantry like in the floor plan. An island would be nice if space allows.
Number of dining seats: Normally 4, rarely up to 8.
Fireplace: None.
Music/stereo wall: Multi-room audio with central unit in technical room.
Balcony, roof terrace: Neither.
Garage, carport: 1 garage
Other wishes: Central vacuum system, laundry chute, smart home (KNX) (I am mostly doing this myself, yes, I am a certified electrician, can program, but will also get additional help)

House design
Who designed the plan:
- Planner from a construction company: Correct, with some input from us. Based on an existing plan.
Price estimate by architect/planner: approx. 485,000 € (euros) for the house, approx. 210,000 € for the plot including basic services (survey, soil report, etc.)
Personal price limit for the house including features: approx. 800,000–850,000 € (including land)
Preferred heating technology: Heat pump

If you had to give up, which details/extra features could you skip:
- Could skip:
- Cannot skip:

Why is the design like it is now? For example:
Standard design by the planner? Yes, with minor wishes from us (wall between study and child’s room 2, T-walls in bathrooms, porch roof, conservatory, pantry)
What do you find especially good or bad about it? So far it seems to fit; apart from possibly the pantry/dining room, we don’t see major issues yet. But that’s why I’m here now.

Floor plan of a house with rooms, furniture, outdoor area and dimension lines.

Floor plan of a single-family house: parent’s/children’s rooms, study, hallway, bathroom, garage.

Floor plan: green flat roof, conservatory above, garage on the left, VELUX windows in the center, dimension 10.96 m (36 ft).


Edit: The furniture shown in the floor plans can be safely ignored. Planners seem to like adding these.

Best regards
Ganneff

Two-story house with green flat roof, PV system, garage and upper floor windows, dimension lines.

Modern single-family house front view with flat roof, large windows, terrace and garage.

Modern flat roof house view with large windows and glass terrace to the right.

Architectural front view of a modern house with garage, entrance door and windows.
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Ganneff
11 Dec 2025 00:36
11ant schrieb:

We are talking about the design release status from post #208, and by the side panel you mean the side wall of the porch roof?

Correct. The wall and the support of the porch roof are not acceptable as planned for the building permit / planning permission (the entire house would need to be shifted so that this wall remains fully within the building envelope, but that causes other issues). It will now be a cantilevered porch roof.
11ant11 Dec 2025 22:05
Ganneff schrieb:

The wall and the support of the porch roof are not approvable as planned (the whole house would need to be shifted so that this wall fully stays within the building envelope, but that causes other issues).

It is generally known here that roof overhangs of more than half a meter (about 1.5 feet) count towards setback or building envelope requirements — and that porches are undisputedly considered part of the house as well.
Ganneff schrieb:

It will now be a cantilevered porch roof.

You will have to hurry, though: after the Siemens air hooks were stuck in the Suez Canal for ages, rumors say they may only be used for construction projects started before February 30, 2026. At the very least, they will become more expensive due to a new special tax (the exact name of which is not yet known).
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Ganneff
11 Dec 2025 22:31
11ant schrieb:

However, you’ll need to hurry: after the Siemens air hooks were stuck in the Suez Canal for ages, rumors say they can now only be used for construction projects started before February 30, 2026. At the very least, they are becoming more expensive due to a new special tax (name unknown).

Narf.
Of course, it’s still attached to the house on one side... It’s just that it has no support "in front." (How the builder attaches it to or in the house doesn’t concern me; that’s not my job—I trust they’ll figure it out.)

And, surprise, search engines and many websites have no problem calling it exactly that. Okay, alternatively cantilevered or self-supporting. That’s probably why the builder and everyone involved in the process I’ve heard from call it that...

Anyway, here it is: a canopy without additional supports, walls, or posts.