ᐅ Single-family house floor plan, 133 sqm, plot size 850 sqm

Hello everyone,

We are planning to build a single-family home in the near future. We have already purchased a plot of land and are now considering the layout and appearance. I have put our initial ideas into a floor plan and would appreciate your feedback, suggestions, and critiques.

Here is the information from the questionnaire:
Development plan/restrictions
Plot size: 850 sqm (9,151 sq ft)
Slope: no
Floor area ratio: 0.3
Floor space index: 0.6
Building envelope, building line and boundary: 3 m (10 ft) from the street, 3 m (10 ft) from the neighbor, maximum 18 m (59 ft) from the street
Edge development: allowed for garages
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of floors: 2
Roof style: gable roof
Architectural style: modern
Orientation: north - entrance, south - living/dining area
Maximum heights/limits: for houses with roofs between 21-45 degrees, 10 m (33 ft)
Other requirements: -

Owners’ requirements
Style, roof type, building type: gable roof
Basement, floors: basement + 2 floors
Number of occupants, age: 31, 31, 3, 0
Room requirements on ground floor and upper floor: a study on the ground floor, otherwise 2 children’s rooms, a master bedroom with dressing room, 2 bathrooms, and the living/dining area.
Office: home office for two people
Guest bedrooms per year: few
Open or closed architecture: open
Traditional or modern design: modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island: open kitchen
Number of dining seats: 6
Fireplace: no for now, but a chimney should be included in advance
Music/sound wall: -
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: garage
Utility garden, greenhouse: -
Additional wishes/special features/daily routine, including reasons for preferences: double garage built on the boundary. In the floor plan, it is shown with a basement but this is not mandatory.

House design
Who created the plan: DIY
What do you like most? Why?: all rooms are accommodated within the footprint, orientation with garden to the south, the two projections on the ground floor
What do you not like? Why? Children’s rooms are a bit small.
Price estimate per architect/planner: -
Personal price limit for house including equipment: -
Preferred heating technology: ground source heat pump (brine-water heat pump)

If you had to do without, which details/extensions could you skip
- can be omitted: basement under double garage
- cannot be omitted: basement

Why did the design turn out as it did?
Designed and drawn by ourselves. Originally based on a floor plan from a house catalog but heavily modified. Walls were aligned vertically as much as possible, as well as bathrooms. Furniture was added to verify that everything fits; otherwise, the ground and upper floors have only as many square meters as necessary.

What is the key/fundamental question about the floor plan in 130 characters?
What do you think of the room sizes? Have we missed any furnishings? Does enough natural light enter the house? Is the front door width with adjacent window sufficient? Is there enough storage space in the living/dining area?

03C0MalDaumen schrieb:

Personal budget limit for the house, including fixtures and fittings: -

Please provide or update the budget limit.

How does the orientation fit with the floor plan? Please draw the house on the site plan. Thank you.

03C0MalDaumen schrieb:

Walls were attempted to be stacked one on top of the other,

Unfortunately, for the exterior walls of the living room and probably the study, you have deviated from this commendable concept and are now planning costly openings in the frame. By the way, your site plan excerpt is almost useless for providing context to the participants. Do yourself a favor and separate the house and garage; this will also allow you to orient the house better. Where do you actually want to place it? Is the lot really as flat as shown?

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Thank you for the feedback. The uploaded part of the building permit is actually not very helpful 🙂 I will try with my hand drawing in the hope that it will be clearer there.

@ypg: My cost estimate would be 500,000 for a house with a basement, with additional costs for the garage. That is also the budget limit.

@11ant: I suspected that the extra corner on the ground floor is an expensive request. Can you give a rough price range for how costly that might be?
I like the idea of considering the house and garage separately 🙂 I have already included that in my drawing.
The plot slopes down about 1 meter (3 feet) from the street in the north to the south over approximately 35 meters (115 feet).

03C0MalDaumen schrieb:

My price estimate would be 500,000 for a house with a basement, plus the cost of the garage. That is also the budget limit.

Okay, with that budget you can also get 160 sqm (1,722 sq ft) with a basement in the Rhineland-Palatinate region. However, this does not include additional building-related costs.
What is the basement intended for?
It doesn’t appear in the room layout, and no rooms are labeled. So why do you need 80 sqm (860 sq ft) of usable space? Or do you want living space in the basement? Then you will exceed 500,000 euros.
About the design:
Yes, the architecture is not cheap; this already approaches the price limit if you want anything stylish. Why the offset? Was the house too small initially and then simply enlarged in that area? 🤨
Personally, I don’t like the design at all.

Neutral points:
- The entrance/hallway will need to be filled with wardrobes because there is no dedicated cloakroom. This reduces the passing space to a maximum of 110 cm (43 inches).
- The placeholder rooms of about 3.00 x 3.50 m (10 x 11.5 ft) for kitchen and dining are not well thought out—hardly practical for furnishing in the kitchen, and the dining area is too tight.
- The living room as a walkthrough room is not suitable if you want quiet or a retreat there.
- The garage blocks the entire west side with the afternoon and evening sun.
- The angled walls are not great… caused by the difficulty of placing good rooms with access on the upper floor 😉
- What is the space between the bathroom and bedroom?
- Bathroom itself: the shower gets a tiny window, the toilet remains in the dark…
- From the elevations, I see that there are still canopies planned. This will make the living room very dark… as well as the dining area.
- With the garage, you almost have as much usable space as living space… that would make me, as a draftsman, concerned 😉

Actually, I wanted to compliment you on the north arrow… until I just noticed that it points in different directions on the drawings and the cardboard collage. So where is north exactly (the one with the polar bears, the penguins are on the other side)?