ᐅ Home Construction: Bungalow, Villa, or Single-Family House? Looking for a Starting Point in Self-Planning
Created on: 13 Jun 2015 23:26
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knock88
Hello,
we want to build a house.
The basic facts: family with one child, potentially two in the future.
Total net income: 4600 (civil servant)
Problem:
The dilemma of choice. Which type of house? Bungalow, villa, single-family home? Energy saving? Attached garage? What happens when the children move out? When we are old? How much money should I spend so that in the end I don’t regret the hassle with the mortgage?
Where would you generally start thinking?
So far, we often look through catalogs and say yes or no, but when it gets more concrete, it becomes difficult to decide.
Thanks
we want to build a house.
The basic facts: family with one child, potentially two in the future.
Total net income: 4600 (civil servant)
Problem:
The dilemma of choice. Which type of house? Bungalow, villa, single-family home? Energy saving? Attached garage? What happens when the children move out? When we are old? How much money should I spend so that in the end I don’t regret the hassle with the mortgage?
Where would you generally start thinking?
So far, we often look through catalogs and say yes or no, but when it gets more concrete, it becomes difficult to decide.
Thanks
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Bieber081515 Jun 2015 21:20knock88 schrieb:
Where would you generally start thinking? Even if it seems repetitive, here it is again: 1.) Budget (The loan installment, term, and equity make up the budget for the entire project. From that, subtract additional costs, fees, “the kitchen,” the garden, and much more; what remains is the budget for the house and land. At the beginning, I would round the available budget down to the nearest 50,000 euros (about 55,000 USD), but only after calculating honestly.) 2.) Location 3.) Plot of land (honestly, this is where it can fail, or you go back to 2. Going back to 1 only makes sense in case of a career change, inheritance, or lottery win). 4.) House (and garage, shed, etc., whatever you want/need) either from an architect or a developer. Or 3.) House and land from a developer. “Developer” can also mean a prefab house provider, but it doesn’t have to.Hello knock88!
Perhaps our planning experiences, which we have shared in our building blog, might be helpful to you:
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You won’t find a construction diary that describes every single detail of our daily experiences as individual homeowners. Instead, we have tried to filter out the aspects that, from our layperson’s perspective, we believe could be interesting for other home builders.
Best regards
Perhaps our planning experiences, which we have shared in our building blog, might be helpful to you:
link removed by moderation
You won’t find a construction diary that describes every single detail of our daily experiences as individual homeowners. Instead, we have tried to filter out the aspects that, from our layperson’s perspective, we believe could be interesting for other home builders.
Best regards
ypg schrieb:
[...]visits bathroom exhibitions[...] You and your bathroom. 🙂
Regarding the topic: If you can afford it and the building regulations / planning permission allow, then avoid partial floors under the sloping roof. Besides the reduced usability, the lack of thermal mass can also lead to overheating in the summer.
And if you consider a reasonably decent knee wall height of 1.60 to 1.80 meters (5 ft 3 in to 5 ft 11 in) and a gable roof, the extra cost for 2.60 meters (8 ft 6 in) knee wall height and a hip roof is not that much more.
Whether to choose a bungalow or two full floors is something you should decide for yourselves!? I would... [...]
So first the floor plan, and then there are roughly about 20 trades where you need to decide what you want. 🙂
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