Hello dear forum,
I’ll approach this from the other side and am looking for suggestions for floor plans. After successfully purchasing a plot of land, we plan to build as follows:
Ground floor: shower bathroom, living and dining room, kitchen, office (small, up to 9m² (97 sq ft)), utility/technical room
Upper floor: bathroom, master bedroom, two children’s bedrooms
The total area should be around 130-135m² (1,399-1,453 sq ft).
I have already browsed many websites, but nothing fits perfectly yet, and even our own ideas for the layout keep failing due to some unforeseen issue. The knee wall should be a maximum of 1.50m (5 feet), with a gable roof.
Do you have ideas or any concrete floor plans that we could use as orientation?
Thank you very much
I’ll approach this from the other side and am looking for suggestions for floor plans. After successfully purchasing a plot of land, we plan to build as follows:
Ground floor: shower bathroom, living and dining room, kitchen, office (small, up to 9m² (97 sq ft)), utility/technical room
Upper floor: bathroom, master bedroom, two children’s bedrooms
The total area should be around 130-135m² (1,399-1,453 sq ft).
I have already browsed many websites, but nothing fits perfectly yet, and even our own ideas for the layout keep failing due to some unforeseen issue. The knee wall should be a maximum of 1.50m (5 feet), with a gable roof.
Do you have ideas or any concrete floor plans that we could use as orientation?
Thank you very much
Provide me with the building and planning regulations, and I will create a preliminary design/design proposal along with the respective cost calculation. Your basis is your spatial program, your usage relationships, your specific site conditions, and your budget; my basis is the fee structure for architects and engineers (HOAI) and the belief that architecture originates through a process.
Floor plans or building designs are therefore not taken from a drawer but are developed individually for each client. Except for prefab house suppliers or general contractors who prefer to profitably sell their standard house models by the dozen. This is also what you typically see in new housing developments: repetitive designs. I would not want to pay a respectable six-figure sum for that.
Floor plans or building designs are therefore not taken from a drawer but are developed individually for each client. Except for prefab house suppliers or general contractors who prefer to profitably sell their standard house models by the dozen. This is also what you typically see in new housing developments: repetitive designs. I would not want to pay a respectable six-figure sum for that.
Although this almost sounds like an advertisement, I have to agree with Wpic in this case – floor plans rarely fit the plot and intended use ideas perfectly.
We visited Stand&Land, VBrock, and Elma – and today, out of boredom on the train, I looked again at the floor plans we received from the three… truly awful. At the time, we found them acceptable – the salespeople more or less uncritically moved walls around. At the design studio VBrock, we ended up with a 24 square meter (258 square feet) bedroom including 2.5 wardrobe spaces; at Elma, a bedroom with wardrobes under a sloped ceiling; and at Stadt&Land, a house that fragmented the plot, with a master bathroom that you had to walk through the front door and bedroom to access (just to name a few highlights).
What else did we do? Drew a lot, sketched, and had ideas. We also saw two architects. I once posted the floor plans from one architect (Heinze) in the green forum – they were torn apart. The other architect specialized in timber frame construction and said she rarely had single-family houses as projects. To make matters worse, friends worked with the first architect up to design phase 4 (?) only to find out that the bank wouldn’t finance the architect’s concepts. Among colleagues and friends, many built their homes themselves, planned themselves, or worked with general contractors or project managers—there were plenty of failures, bad luck, and mishaps.
In the end, we designed our floor plan ourselves and now have a practical, modest gable roof house. It was built by a local general contractor—not without some small disasters either.
All in all, though, we are quite satisfied.
I am curious what the house would have become and cost if we had chosen the architect. But well - they say you build three times, right? 😉
We visited Stand&Land, VBrock, and Elma – and today, out of boredom on the train, I looked again at the floor plans we received from the three… truly awful. At the time, we found them acceptable – the salespeople more or less uncritically moved walls around. At the design studio VBrock, we ended up with a 24 square meter (258 square feet) bedroom including 2.5 wardrobe spaces; at Elma, a bedroom with wardrobes under a sloped ceiling; and at Stadt&Land, a house that fragmented the plot, with a master bathroom that you had to walk through the front door and bedroom to access (just to name a few highlights).
What else did we do? Drew a lot, sketched, and had ideas. We also saw two architects. I once posted the floor plans from one architect (Heinze) in the green forum – they were torn apart. The other architect specialized in timber frame construction and said she rarely had single-family houses as projects. To make matters worse, friends worked with the first architect up to design phase 4 (?) only to find out that the bank wouldn’t finance the architect’s concepts. Among colleagues and friends, many built their homes themselves, planned themselves, or worked with general contractors or project managers—there were plenty of failures, bad luck, and mishaps.
In the end, we designed our floor plan ourselves and now have a practical, modest gable roof house. It was built by a local general contractor—not without some small disasters either.
All in all, though, we are quite satisfied.
I am curious what the house would have become and cost if we had chosen the architect. But well - they say you build three times, right? 😉
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Bauexperte9 Feb 2016 00:29BeHaElJa schrieb:
Well, they say you build three times, right? 😉 Often: the first house is built to impress others, the second to try to forget the mistakes from the first, and the third time, a house that truly meets your actual needs 😀
Regards, Bauexperte
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