Hello,
After a long period of reading and temporarily putting our building project on hold, a promotion has reignited our enthusiasm to take the next step.
The plot currently has our residential house (built in 1957) on it, and I have been living here for almost 18 years, my husband for 5 years. Three years ago, we considered building on the rear part of the property with subdivision. This was rejected after an initial inquiry. So now demolition and new construction are planned.
Thank you in advance
Development Plan / Restrictions
Plot size: 1800m² (19,375 sq ft) House No. 10 or parcel 21
Slope: No
Floor Area Ratio: no development plan available
Building envelope, building line, and boundaries: At the level of the current house
Number of parking spaces: 1; existing garage to remain
Number of floors: 1
Roof type: hipped roof
Orientation: south
Clients’ Requirements
Style, roof type, building type: Barrier-free, bungalow
Basement, floors: 1 floor, no basement
Number of occupants, age: 2 (him: 35, her: 45, no children planned)
Space requirements on ground floor and upper floor: 110m² (1184 sq ft), now managing with less
Office: Family use all year round; additional home office in winter
Guests per year: 0
Garage already present; unlike the current building, it should be possible to drive straight in
Additional wishes / special features / daily routine: We deliberately forgo a dining room. We simply don’t use it, although we have one. The table mostly ends up as a convenient dumping spot for everything we’re too lazy to put away immediately.
House Design
Who designed it:
The house floor plan comes from a builder’s company planner; room layout is DIY
What do you particularly like and why? Direct access from kitchen and bathroom to the terrace; bedroom in the center to avoid noisy neighbours’ children
What do you dislike and why? That the bathroom leads onto the covered terrace; I would prefer it to be on the kitchen side.
Price estimate according to architect/planner: Starting from 285,000 euros (summer promotion) plus finishes
Personal price limit for the house, including finishes: 375,000 euros
Preferred heating technology: geothermal, but financially likely air source heat pump instead
If you have to give up certain features or fittings:
- Can give up: geothermal, steam shower, colored window frames, electric shutters
- Cannot give up: secondary entrance to the utility room
Why is the design as it is now? For example:
The original house design from the promotion appealed to us a lot, including the room layout, until we realized the bedroom does not need a floor-to-ceiling window. Its location exactly corresponds to the current one, and the neighbours on that side are somewhat disruptive for sleeping in.
After a long period of reading and temporarily putting our building project on hold, a promotion has reignited our enthusiasm to take the next step.
The plot currently has our residential house (built in 1957) on it, and I have been living here for almost 18 years, my husband for 5 years. Three years ago, we considered building on the rear part of the property with subdivision. This was rejected after an initial inquiry. So now demolition and new construction are planned.
Thank you in advance
Development Plan / Restrictions
Plot size: 1800m² (19,375 sq ft) House No. 10 or parcel 21
Slope: No
Floor Area Ratio: no development plan available
Building envelope, building line, and boundaries: At the level of the current house
Number of parking spaces: 1; existing garage to remain
Number of floors: 1
Roof type: hipped roof
Orientation: south
Clients’ Requirements
Style, roof type, building type: Barrier-free, bungalow
Basement, floors: 1 floor, no basement
Number of occupants, age: 2 (him: 35, her: 45, no children planned)
Space requirements on ground floor and upper floor: 110m² (1184 sq ft), now managing with less
Office: Family use all year round; additional home office in winter
Guests per year: 0
Garage already present; unlike the current building, it should be possible to drive straight in
Additional wishes / special features / daily routine: We deliberately forgo a dining room. We simply don’t use it, although we have one. The table mostly ends up as a convenient dumping spot for everything we’re too lazy to put away immediately.
House Design
Who designed it:
The house floor plan comes from a builder’s company planner; room layout is DIY
What do you particularly like and why? Direct access from kitchen and bathroom to the terrace; bedroom in the center to avoid noisy neighbours’ children
What do you dislike and why? That the bathroom leads onto the covered terrace; I would prefer it to be on the kitchen side.
Price estimate according to architect/planner: Starting from 285,000 euros (summer promotion) plus finishes
Personal price limit for the house, including finishes: 375,000 euros
Preferred heating technology: geothermal, but financially likely air source heat pump instead
If you have to give up certain features or fittings:
- Can give up: geothermal, steam shower, colored window frames, electric shutters
- Cannot give up: secondary entrance to the utility room
Why is the design as it is now? For example:
The original house design from the promotion appealed to us a lot, including the room layout, until we realized the bedroom does not need a floor-to-ceiling window. Its location exactly corresponds to the current one, and the neighbours on that side are somewhat disruptive for sleeping in.
The garage is still there, extended from the shaded area.
The large dining table in the living room will not be included; that space will become the sports corner.
Having only one main entrance instead of a side entrance and a separate door for the mail carrier convinced us in the long run. The basis was the first proposal from @ypg, as we preferred the bedroom/dressing room/bathroom area much more.
The large dining table in the living room will not be included; that space will become the sports corner.
Having only one main entrance instead of a side entrance and a separate door for the mail carrier convinced us in the long run. The basis was the first proposal from @ypg, as we preferred the bedroom/dressing room/bathroom area much more.
Summer27 schrieb:
The large dining table in the living room will not be included; that area will become the workout corner instead. You don’t really want to put an ugly ergometer or treadmill in the living room, do you?
Bathroom facing south and gaming room facing north?
Summer27 schrieb:
which we really like except for the narrow floor-to-ceiling window in the bedroom. You could just leave that out.
Summer27 schrieb:
Only my gut feeling is uneasy, and I don’t know if this is just last-minute panic or if we’re overlooking something important or sensible.I can’t look into your gut, but mine is uneasy because of what seems like arbitrary dimensions running as a consistent theme throughout the floor plan. The walls practically have measles, with so many botched patches. I would strongly advise confronting the planner about this. Apart from that, the floor plans Rel. #17 and Rel. #16 are so extremely inconsistent that they clearly couldn’t have been created based on the same set of requirements. Infinite Monkey is not a valid method!
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Summer27 schrieb:
The garage is still there, extending from the hatched area.Which hatched area? You have windows and the main entrance door on the right side of the plan.Well, an exercise bike in the living room… great… sorry, not entirely serious. I could understand combining a gaming area and a workout space. But basically, gaming and sports would be two separate rooms, which in a standard bungalow could otherwise serve as two children's bedrooms.
11ant schrieb:
The walls clearly show defects, with many poorly done pockets. To my understanding, this only concerns the interior walls, right? And we are talking about the standard brick size with 12.5cm (5 inches). So the interior walls should be adjusted accordingly here.
ypg schrieb:
Bathroom facing south and gaming room facing north? Since we are considering adding a garden sauna in the future, we like the bathroom facing the terrace as it is. The gaming room facing north goes back to an earlier draft by @ypg. We can’t really imagine the bathroom facing south, as that would make us think about darkening the room instead.
Treadmills and similar equipment can be stored compactly. We only need space when in use. We have given up on the idea of having a dedicated home gym. If we lose interest in exercising, then we at least have a room that we don’t have a use for yet.
Summer27 schrieb:
To my understanding, this only concerns the interior walls, right? And we are talking about the nominal size of 12.5cm (5 inches). So the interior walls should be adjusted accordingly. "Or" is correct, because—even though I previously forgot to mention that the dimensioning is inconsistent—all walls are affected. Interior walls are the most flexible in this regard since the standard modular dimension can be disregarded in one direction. Besides, with a timber roof structure, the masonry interior walls won’t be too extensive anyway.
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