ᐅ Floor Plan – Design of a Single-Family Home with Two Full Stories – Urban Villa
Created on: 12 Nov 2020 06:19
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Development Plan / Restrictions
Plot size: 550m² (0.14 acres)
Slope: approximately 1 meter (3.3 feet) incline from the street to the back of the property
Floor area ratio: Garage on boundary line, terrace 2.5m (8 feet) from neighbor - otherwise unrestricted, see attached plot plan
Plot coverage ratio: 2 full stories
Building envelope, building line and boundary: very flexible, see attached plot plan
Number of parking spaces: 1 large garage
Number of stories: 2 full stories
Roof type: hipped roof
Architectural style: modern urban villa
Client Requirements
Style, roof type, building type: urban villa with hipped roof
Basement, floors: with basement and 2 full stories
Number of occupants: 2 persons, mid/late 20s, planning for 2 children
Room requirements on ground floor and upper floor: see floor plans
Office: family use or home office? office/home office
Guest bedrooms per year: -
Open or closed layout: -
Conservative or modern construction: 70% conservative - 30% modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island: open kitchen without island
Number of dining seats: 8
Fireplace: none
Music / stereo wall: none
Balcony, roof terrace: none
Garage, carport: double garage
Utility garden, greenhouse: ornamental garden
Additional wishes / special features / daily routine, including reasons for choices or exclusions
House Design
Planner:
-General contractor (GC): general contractor of a construction company
-Architect: none
-Do-it-yourself: floor plan partially self-designed according to personal preferences
What do you like most? Currently nothing to criticize
What do you dislike? Front canopy not flush with hallway window upstairs - unfortunately not feasible otherwise
Estimated cost according to architect/planner: fixed price $450,000 (excluding land and additional construction costs)
Personal budget limit for house including fixtures: $450,000 (excluding land and additional construction costs)
Preferred heating technology: air-to-water heat pump + controlled mechanical ventilation
If you have to give up something, which details or add-ons
-Can give up: budget reached, no further cutbacks or simplifications needed
-Can’t give up: see above
Why is the design the way it is now? e.g.
Standard design from the planner? Compared roughly 100 floor plans and, in coordination with our current GC, created the dream layout ourselves
Which requests were implemented by the architect? all
A mix of many examples from various magazines: yes 🙂
What makes it particularly good or bad in your eyes? very practical and conservatively executed, child-friendly, enough parking/storage space inside, yet modern
What is the most important / fundamental question about the floor plan in 130 characters?
As I am very active here in the forum and like to help others with topics like floor plans, financing, etc., I would now like to share our project here and hear your opinions. I hope you like it too. Perhaps there is still a serious flaw or something that could be quickly improved, if it appeals to us.
We have invested a lot of time in planning. Since March/April 2020 we have been actively planning—from a prefab home supplier with about 120m² (1,292 sq ft) to a current regional solid builder with 160m² (1,722 sq ft). A lot of effort went into our planning and we hope it pays off during construction and upon completion.
We will sign the contract in the next 2-3 weeks and will release the offer as well as the floor plan and our revised building and service specification to prepare everything for contract signing.
We are building with solid construction through a regional general contractor. Construction start: May 2021.
Plot size: 550m² (0.14 acres)
Slope: approximately 1 meter (3.3 feet) incline from the street to the back of the property
Floor area ratio: Garage on boundary line, terrace 2.5m (8 feet) from neighbor - otherwise unrestricted, see attached plot plan
Plot coverage ratio: 2 full stories
Building envelope, building line and boundary: very flexible, see attached plot plan
Number of parking spaces: 1 large garage
Number of stories: 2 full stories
Roof type: hipped roof
Architectural style: modern urban villa
Client Requirements
Style, roof type, building type: urban villa with hipped roof
Basement, floors: with basement and 2 full stories
Number of occupants: 2 persons, mid/late 20s, planning for 2 children
Room requirements on ground floor and upper floor: see floor plans
Office: family use or home office? office/home office
Guest bedrooms per year: -
Open or closed layout: -
Conservative or modern construction: 70% conservative - 30% modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island: open kitchen without island
Number of dining seats: 8
Fireplace: none
Music / stereo wall: none
Balcony, roof terrace: none
Garage, carport: double garage
Utility garden, greenhouse: ornamental garden
Additional wishes / special features / daily routine, including reasons for choices or exclusions
House Design
Planner:
-General contractor (GC): general contractor of a construction company
-Architect: none
-Do-it-yourself: floor plan partially self-designed according to personal preferences
What do you like most? Currently nothing to criticize
What do you dislike? Front canopy not flush with hallway window upstairs - unfortunately not feasible otherwise
Estimated cost according to architect/planner: fixed price $450,000 (excluding land and additional construction costs)
Personal budget limit for house including fixtures: $450,000 (excluding land and additional construction costs)
Preferred heating technology: air-to-water heat pump + controlled mechanical ventilation
If you have to give up something, which details or add-ons
-Can give up: budget reached, no further cutbacks or simplifications needed
-Can’t give up: see above
Why is the design the way it is now? e.g.
Standard design from the planner? Compared roughly 100 floor plans and, in coordination with our current GC, created the dream layout ourselves
Which requests were implemented by the architect? all
A mix of many examples from various magazines: yes 🙂
What makes it particularly good or bad in your eyes? very practical and conservatively executed, child-friendly, enough parking/storage space inside, yet modern
What is the most important / fundamental question about the floor plan in 130 characters?
As I am very active here in the forum and like to help others with topics like floor plans, financing, etc., I would now like to share our project here and hear your opinions. I hope you like it too. Perhaps there is still a serious flaw or something that could be quickly improved, if it appeals to us.
We have invested a lot of time in planning. Since March/April 2020 we have been actively planning—from a prefab home supplier with about 120m² (1,292 sq ft) to a current regional solid builder with 160m² (1,722 sq ft). A lot of effort went into our planning and we hope it pays off during construction and upon completion.
We will sign the contract in the next 2-3 weeks and will release the offer as well as the floor plan and our revised building and service specification to prepare everything for contract signing.
We are building with solid construction through a regional general contractor. Construction start: May 2021.
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Alessandro17 Nov 2020 13:30All right. I’m neither offended nor do I reject other opinions or tastes.
I just wanted to warn you against fooling yourself.
Because if you’re honest with yourself, nobody likes going to the basement fully loaded with beverage crates or laundry baskets (except for strollers :p). Carrying things like that doesn’t keep you fit; it actually causes you to adopt poor postures that are really bad for your spine... especially with your quarter-turn staircase!
I just wanted to warn you against fooling yourself.
Because if you’re honest with yourself, nobody likes going to the basement fully loaded with beverage crates or laundry baskets (except for strollers :p). Carrying things like that doesn’t keep you fit; it actually causes you to adopt poor postures that are really bad for your spine... especially with your quarter-turn staircase!
Alessandro schrieb:
Alright. I’m not offended, nor do I reject other opinions or tastes.
I just wanted to save you from fooling yourself.
Because if you’re honest with yourself, no one enjoys going to the basement fully loaded with crates of drinks or laundry baskets (strollers aside :p). Carrying things like that doesn’t keep you fit; it causes poor posture, which is really bad for your spine... especially with your quarter-turn staircase! Let me worry about that—I manage to get down the 14 steps to the basement and put the crate down there just fine 🙂
When I think about how far and how often my dad had to carry things... You really don’t want to know. But you do get the benefits. You can’t store 4 crates of beer and 10 other boxes in your pantry 🙂 But like I said, to each their own!
And honestly, if I’m already coming from upstairs, is it really better to carry the laundry basket down one more floor instead of putting it in the “laundry room” that, for people without basements, is somewhere on the ground floor? 😀
I could start talking about a current social “problem” here... But I won’t, because then I’d get the hate of the century 😀
Live and let live <3
But that’s exactly my point. I have a completely different attitude than you, so what you call “mistakes” aren’t mistakes for us 🙂
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Alessandro17 Nov 2020 14:00I’ll leave that responsibility to you anyway...
And is your father happy with the carrying – as you yourself say? Probably, since it keeps him fit, right? 😉
You’re right. In addition to the boxes you listed, my pantry also fits a freezer, a long shelf, and a second refrigerator 😱
A basement is, as mentioned before, a great feature for storage, technical equipment, workshop, etc.
But when I think about how often I would have to go down there for things I need or do daily, and for errands my wife sends me on, I wouldn’t be happy with that now at 35, and certainly not at 70.
But go ahead... I wish you lots of luck and fun with your single-family house 😎
And is your father happy with the carrying – as you yourself say? Probably, since it keeps him fit, right? 😉
You’re right. In addition to the boxes you listed, my pantry also fits a freezer, a long shelf, and a second refrigerator 😱
A basement is, as mentioned before, a great feature for storage, technical equipment, workshop, etc.
But when I think about how often I would have to go down there for things I need or do daily, and for errands my wife sends me on, I wouldn’t be happy with that now at 35, and certainly not at 70.
But go ahead... I wish you lots of luck and fun with your single-family house 😎
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pagoni202017 Nov 2020 14:01Alessandro schrieb:
for which my wife is sending me ....typical planning mistake...uhm...not during construction
Alessandro schrieb:
For example, my father doesn’t want to go down to the basement every time just to return an empty bottle. [...] But hey, you’re probably the exception, always in perfect health and enjoying teaching your children to take unnecessary steps! I only ever carry two bottles of water up from the basement to avoid having to make a special trip for a third. Rather than letting minor aches turn into real pains, I prefer to keep myself unnecessarily fit ;-)
Good thing I’m not building — otherwise, I’d probably get a lot of pushback here for wanting to stick to my current arrangement of apartment, garage, and basement-alternative garage spread across half the village 🙂
Alessandro schrieb:
When I ask 10 friends or acquaintances about my floor plan, 9 say it’s great!
When I ask 10 strangers here in the forum, I get much better feedback and honest opinions. When you ask acquaintances, the number who are actually knowledgeable about building topics is usually much lower than here. Out of ten strangers in a forum, two — and in the finance section, in my experience, even four — tend to use anonymity to “fire off” criticism. And wasn’t it the case that you first secured your floor plan privately before sharing it here for us to see?
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Alessandro17 Nov 2020 15:18My floor plan was never up for discussion because my house was already almost built.
If I am confident with the floor plan, there is no need to adjust anything here. But that didn’t seem to be the case for the OP 😉
If I am confident with the floor plan, there is no need to adjust anything here. But that didn’t seem to be the case for the OP 😉
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