Development Plan/Restrictions
Plot size: 775 m² (8,340 sq ft)
Slope: No
Floor area ratio: 0.25
Gross floor area ratio
Building window, building line, and boundary: 3 meters (10 feet)
Edge development
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of floors: 1 full floor
Roof shape: none
Architectural style: none
Orientation: none
Maximum heights/limits: ridge height 8.50 m (28 ft), eaves height 6.50 m (21 ft)
Other requirements
Homeowner Requirements
Architectural style, roof type, building type: Friesenhaus
Basement, floors: 1 full floor
Number of occupants, age: 2 adults, 2 toddlers
Space requirements on ground and upper floors: total net 123 m² (1,324 sq ft)
Office: family use or home office? Family
Number of occasional guests per year: 2
Open or closed architecture: rather open, i.e. open-plan living kitchen
Conservative or modern construction: classical
Open kitchen, kitchen island: L-shaped, open
Number of dining seats: 6
Fireplace: no
Music/sound wall: standard TV wall
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: double carport with shed planned
Utility garden, greenhouse: no
Additional wishes/special features/daily routine, reasons for preferences or exclusions
House Design
Planner: jointly created by us and the builder
Favorite features and why: hallway with niches
Disliked features and why: none
Price estimate according to architect/planner:
Personal price limit for house without fixtures: 230,000
Preferred heating technology: gas heating KfW 55 standard
If you have to give up certain details or extensions:
-can you give up:
-cannot give up:
Why is the design as it is now? Our wishes
Standard design from planner? No
Hello
We are planning to build our dream house in summer 2019 – a solid Friesenhaus with approximately 123 m² (1,324 sq ft) according to the WofV (Housing Space Ordinance).
We developed the floor plan from many different impressions, reference visits, internet research, etc. Important to us were:
- Open-plan living kitchen
- Small niche in front of guest WC for an open coat rack
- Guest WC with window
- Only one window on each side of the front façade
- Heating to be installed in the niche of the utility room
- Niche under the stairs for a built-in closet with slatted doors for shoes, jackets, etc.
I am uncertain about the width and visual effect, as it extends under the stairs and should not directly touch the wood. Currently planned: 120 cm (47 inches) wide, considering reducing to 100 or 80 cm (39 or 31 inches).
- In the kitchen, three tall kitchen units nearly reaching the ceiling will be placed on the wall with the protruding niche: a fridge-freezer combination, oven, and broom cupboard, then the kitchen continues in a U shape.
For the upper floor, it was important to us that plenty of light falls into the shower (with a shower tray), the washbasin is on the shower wall, and that there are niches in the shower and above the bathtub.
We debated for a long time whether to have a dressing room or an office/guest room in the center upstairs or two equally sized children’s rooms in the upper area...
We decided that the two small rooms are sufficient for the children and that we prefer to have one larger room with an “open” dressing corner on the left and a desk under the skylight.
The upper floor hallway will not have a balcony area and also will not be fully built up to the Friesen gable; it will remain an open gallery, which we find very appealing. The argument that this reduces storage space is not important to us because the house is large enough.
Do you have any suggestions for improvement or concerns that any of these ideas might not work as well in reality as we imagine?
Thank you in advance for your advice and tips.
Best regards
The prospective homeowners
Plot size: 775 m² (8,340 sq ft)
Slope: No
Floor area ratio: 0.25
Gross floor area ratio
Building window, building line, and boundary: 3 meters (10 feet)
Edge development
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of floors: 1 full floor
Roof shape: none
Architectural style: none
Orientation: none
Maximum heights/limits: ridge height 8.50 m (28 ft), eaves height 6.50 m (21 ft)
Other requirements
Homeowner Requirements
Architectural style, roof type, building type: Friesenhaus
Basement, floors: 1 full floor
Number of occupants, age: 2 adults, 2 toddlers
Space requirements on ground and upper floors: total net 123 m² (1,324 sq ft)
Office: family use or home office? Family
Number of occasional guests per year: 2
Open or closed architecture: rather open, i.e. open-plan living kitchen
Conservative or modern construction: classical
Open kitchen, kitchen island: L-shaped, open
Number of dining seats: 6
Fireplace: no
Music/sound wall: standard TV wall
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: double carport with shed planned
Utility garden, greenhouse: no
Additional wishes/special features/daily routine, reasons for preferences or exclusions
House Design
Planner: jointly created by us and the builder
Favorite features and why: hallway with niches
Disliked features and why: none
Price estimate according to architect/planner:
Personal price limit for house without fixtures: 230,000
Preferred heating technology: gas heating KfW 55 standard
If you have to give up certain details or extensions:
-can you give up:
-cannot give up:
Why is the design as it is now? Our wishes
Standard design from planner? No
Hello
We are planning to build our dream house in summer 2019 – a solid Friesenhaus with approximately 123 m² (1,324 sq ft) according to the WofV (Housing Space Ordinance).
We developed the floor plan from many different impressions, reference visits, internet research, etc. Important to us were:
- Open-plan living kitchen
- Small niche in front of guest WC for an open coat rack
- Guest WC with window
- Only one window on each side of the front façade
- Heating to be installed in the niche of the utility room
- Niche under the stairs for a built-in closet with slatted doors for shoes, jackets, etc.
I am uncertain about the width and visual effect, as it extends under the stairs and should not directly touch the wood. Currently planned: 120 cm (47 inches) wide, considering reducing to 100 or 80 cm (39 or 31 inches).
- In the kitchen, three tall kitchen units nearly reaching the ceiling will be placed on the wall with the protruding niche: a fridge-freezer combination, oven, and broom cupboard, then the kitchen continues in a U shape.
For the upper floor, it was important to us that plenty of light falls into the shower (with a shower tray), the washbasin is on the shower wall, and that there are niches in the shower and above the bathtub.
We debated for a long time whether to have a dressing room or an office/guest room in the center upstairs or two equally sized children’s rooms in the upper area...
We decided that the two small rooms are sufficient for the children and that we prefer to have one larger room with an “open” dressing corner on the left and a desk under the skylight.
The upper floor hallway will not have a balcony area and also will not be fully built up to the Friesen gable; it will remain an open gallery, which we find very appealing. The argument that this reduces storage space is not important to us because the house is large enough.
Do you have any suggestions for improvement or concerns that any of these ideas might not work as well in reality as we imagine?
Thank you in advance for your advice and tips.
Best regards
The prospective homeowners
Friesenhausen schrieb:
So, guests have to enter the guest bathroom from outside through the window. We hope that’s why they never stay long and we quickly get our peace and quiet back.A bush is enough for that.
Josephine248916 Dec 2018 00:24In our planning, both Frisian gables were no problem, and we immediately knew which rooms should go there. I wouldn’t say it’s that “set in stone” now... hmm...
Friesenhausen16 Dec 2018 08:18Good morning
This is not about where each room will be located, as mentioned in my first post, but about suggestions or improvements to our planned floor plans, especially regarding the key points I listed there.
Josepine, what is your actual knee wall height? From the outside, it looks quite pronounced.
Best regards
This is not about where each room will be located, as mentioned in my first post, but about suggestions or improvements to our planned floor plans, especially regarding the key points I listed there.
Josepine, what is your actual knee wall height? From the outside, it looks quite pronounced.
Best regards
Friesenhausen schrieb:
You would put a kitchen door under the stairs? No, most would place the kitchen next to the terrace. Also, they would give up the "only one window on the front facade" idea and increase it to two windows per side—just like in your profile picture, by the way. That way, it will also work better with the neighboring house, the restroom, the cloakroom, and the niche under the stairs is no longer necessary to prevent the living room from having an awkward angle visually.Friesenhausen schrieb:
Do you have any suggestions for improvement or concerns that any of this might not work out as well in reality as we imagine?But that brings us to...
11ant schrieb:
The forum (server / software ?) has had a cold for several days now (the reply box sometimes doesn’t open at all), I am very surprised that my post is now actually here. When I tried to submit it, it supposedly didn’t work at all (of course with einem n), I was shown an "unspecified error," and the post was not displayed either.
Friesenhausen schrieb:
So the guests have to enter the guest toilet through the window from outside, But please make sure they have climbed back out again before the engineer from Austria* arrives, who will brick up the toilet windows ;-)
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