ᐅ Building a House Without a Garden Access Path

Created on: 27 Oct 2015 12:08
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D3N7S
We have a plot width of 19 meters (62 feet) and want to use it fully: house 11.5 m (38 feet), garage 7.5 m (25 feet)! This means there would be no passageway to the garden, which is usually common. I would like to hear about your experiences. Who has built like this before? Would you build this way again? Or do you regret it in hindsight? How did you manage an alternative access route to the garden?

The drawing is only the architect’s first floor plan. The heating system will be installed in the attic. The rear garage door will be positioned closer to the house.

2D-Grundriss eines Hauses mit Garage, Küche, Essbereich, Wohnzimmer, Flur und Schlafzimmer
D3N7S28 Oct 2015 09:31
The garden is approximately 150 sqm (1,615 sq ft), so apart from a terrace and maybe an inflatable pool for the kids later on and a barbecue area, there won’t be much more space for other things.

The garden can only be accessed from the driveway side shown in the drawing because there is a building gap, and the other houses have stood there for 30 years.

Option 1: Garage 7.5 m (24.6 ft) with direct access to the garden

Option 2: Garage 6.5 m (21.3 ft); passage between house and garage 1 m (3.3 ft)

I imagine one meter is quite narrow?!
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Manu1976
28 Oct 2015 17:28
Option 3: fully cover the 7.50 m (25 feet), but build only about 3.50 to 4.0 m (11.5 to 13 feet) as a garage, and use the rest as a carport, leaving the back open so you can drive through. This would probably make the most sense to me.
Weimy28 Oct 2015 20:46
Hello,

we now have a semi-detached house without garden access. We never missed having direct garden access because everything went through the garage. Our new detached house will not have it either. We have planned for a wider garage door. But what could be so large that it wouldn’t fit through the garage? In the last 15 years, we had no need for garden access.
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nordanney
28 Oct 2015 20:53
You are not familiar with a passageway, so you don’t miss it either.
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ypg
28 Oct 2015 21:07
nordanney schrieb:
You aren’t familiar with a corridor, so you don’t miss it either

But this also shows that it is possible to manage without a “standard” entrance.
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nordanney
28 Oct 2015 21:09
ypg schrieb:
But that also shows that it is possible without an access point.

Of course, it is possible – but with a third child and no passage (in the last house), it really strained the nerves a lot. Opening and closing the garage, then back to the door, and so on, o.O