Hello everyone,
The time is slowly approaching. Our municipality will be selling building plots in the new development area starting mid-March. Since we are a family with two children, we have a good chance of securing a plot.
I have been thinking about this for a long time and now need your opinion. Since I am a teacher, I definitely need an office. My husband is also working more and more from home, so the room could be a bit larger. The house is planned to be an energy-efficient house standard 40/40+. Maybe it would be better to build a separate apartment for the office right away? That way, we might benefit twice from the subsidy. Of course, a separate apartment costs more (50,000? 100,000?), but it also offers more flexibility...
Does anyone here use a separate apartment as an office? How large should the unit be? What is clear: bathroom + kitchenette + separate entrance. A room size of 16–20m2 (170–215 sq ft) would be completely sufficient for us (+ WC with shower + small kitchenette (2m2 / 21.5 sq ft)).
What do you think?
The time is slowly approaching. Our municipality will be selling building plots in the new development area starting mid-March. Since we are a family with two children, we have a good chance of securing a plot.
I have been thinking about this for a long time and now need your opinion. Since I am a teacher, I definitely need an office. My husband is also working more and more from home, so the room could be a bit larger. The house is planned to be an energy-efficient house standard 40/40+. Maybe it would be better to build a separate apartment for the office right away? That way, we might benefit twice from the subsidy. Of course, a separate apartment costs more (50,000? 100,000?), but it also offers more flexibility...
Does anyone here use a separate apartment as an office? How large should the unit be? What is clear: bathroom + kitchenette + separate entrance. A room size of 16–20m2 (170–215 sq ft) would be completely sufficient for us (+ WC with shower + small kitchenette (2m2 / 21.5 sq ft)).
What do you think?
P
pagoni202017 Jan 2021 13:10Kati.com schrieb:
In older age, you would still be more flexible and could, for example, offer separate living space to a caregiver (instead of moving directly into a care home). Of course, you can keep all this in mind, but it does limit you today, whether through significant additional costs or restrictions when planning the current main living area. In the end, you might end up building something that you might not actually need or that doesn’t fit because life changes in other ways.
It’s absolutely possible, but in my opinion, it should go hand in hand with a concrete life plan that reflects the actual circumstances. Simply building extra space in the hope of possibly using it later would not be my approach for the reasons mentioned above.
Based on your description, a spacious office with two separate workstations could also be a solution, provided the work and interaction allow for it.
Of course, everyone is right who says that you don’t necessarily have to plan only for the future. It would be pointless to build an “add-on” apartment just for the sake of subsidies.
I just thought, since I need an office anyway and a guest bathroom downstairs anyway, why not plan for a shower, a kitchenette, and a second exit door...
I will talk to the architect. Maybe something practical can be planned after all...
I will update here again once I secure the contract for the specific building plot.
Thanks for your tips.
I just thought, since I need an office anyway and a guest bathroom downstairs anyway, why not plan for a shower, a kitchenette, and a second exit door...
I will talk to the architect. Maybe something practical can be planned after all...
I will update here again once I secure the contract for the specific building plot.
Thanks for your tips.
P
pagoni202017 Jan 2021 20:28Kati.com schrieb:
If I need an office anyway, a guest toilet downstairs as well, then what’s the problem with planning a shower, a kitchenette, and a second exit door?Of course, you can do that, and if you like what the designer comes up with, then all the better. In the end, you can always find pros and cons, so it’s important that it suits your needs. Still, critical advice is valuable; the final decision is yours anyway. Perhaps consider installing separate connections for electricity, heating, water, etc., from the start, in case it will be rented out later.W
WilderSueden17 Jan 2021 21:06Kati.com schrieb:
In our apartment building (same municipality, built in 2012) there are double parking spaces in the underground garage. The cars (owned by the same apartment owner) are parked one behind the other and block each other’s exit. Couldn’t it be a similar situation? You should check with the local authorities to see how they handle this. In the end, they have to approve it anyway.
I usually only know double parking as stacked parking, which is already quite a compromise since you can’t just get in and drive off if the other car is parked the wrong way. Cars parked one behind the other that completely block each other only really make sense if it’s about fulfilling a parking space requirement for an apartment that will never be occupied.
BauPaar schrieb:
Sounds interesting, may I ask what became of it?I’ll throw the question back at you ;-)https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/kleines-grundstueck-passt-uns-das.17794/page-2
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