ᐅ Optimizing the Floor Plan of a Detached Single-Family Home, 155 sqm

11ant schrieb:

What I mean is: I see walls depicted here and examples of furniture and sanitary fixtures that seem to have been just barely, but successfully, fitted in mathematically.

I have a different view here. I have already furnished the apartment in various versions using a tool and was satisfied with the options.

11ant schrieb:

I would rather put it the other way around: omitting the controlled residential ventilation is compensated by a misleadingly low price reduction of 13k. Without controlled residential ventilation, there is no heat recovery, but instead heat loss ventilation – which in my opinion undermines the upgrade to EH40 instead of the Building Energy Act.

Honestly, we are also bothered by the absence of controlled residential ventilation. We have already had to cut back in several areas for cost reasons. The house was once about 170sqm (1830 sq ft) and had to be planned smaller. Due to your criticism, we are currently recalculating whether we can still scrape together the 13,000 euros from savings in other areas.

11ant schrieb:

So he is already working full time now, and soon both of them will, without disturbing each other. From three keywords (data protection, discretion, concentration), in my opinion each one alone is reason enough not to compete for the resource of a guest room as two people working from home.

I don’t work from home because my employer lives 5 minutes away. Also, I’m not really the type for home office; this will only change in an absolute emergency. My wife will not work full-time either, but only 20 to 25 hours per week. The house financing is based solely on my income.

11ant schrieb:

My impression is that the OP has been tinkering for – who knows how long – and now views his masterpiece with satisfaction.

On the contrary. I have given up the idea of creating the perfect floor plan where everything is thought through down to the smallest detail and every piece of furniture already has its fixed place. It should contain no major flaws, and so far I don’t see any. However, I do take your criticism seriously and will reconsider some points.

Regarding cost savings for controlled residential ventilation:
Yesterday we thought of removing three windows and one door to save costs. One window each in the bedroom and bathroom facing north less. The guest/office room window facing north. And the utility room door can be replaced with a window. This is not enough to cover the costs yet, but it would be a start.

11ant schrieb:

I’m probably unnecessary here:

Why are you taking this so personally? The original poster (OP) is planning their own house, not yours. Therefore, participants need to accept that advice or lengthy arguments do not have to be followed or acted upon.
It is up to those responding in the forum, including yourself, whether to repeat the same points multiple times or to persistently try to convince the OP of something. But, simply put, it is their house, their money, their decision.

11ant schrieb:

So he already works full-time,

The OP clearly writes “without home office.” This has been quoted multiple times, yet you still haven’t read it correctly.

We are currently on holiday at Lake Constance, staying in a newly built house from 2022 without a controlled ventilation system. The condensation on the windows is the lesser problem, but airing out the rooms at -4°C (25°F) is really unpleasant. It should be done for at least 15 minutes in the morning, and of course again in the evening and after cooking, etc. The children need to be dressed warmly because otherwise, they get cold. Opening windows and leaving the room is not practical and feels like a waste of energy. Somehow it works, but it’s no longer up to modern standards.

At home, thanks to the controlled ventilation system, you don’t even have to think about it—it runs automatically. I think it was one of the best investments in the house. Especially when I see how often people have problems with mold. Yes, I also had issues in my first apartment because my schedule and shift work made regular airing impossible.

I’m not sure how relevant this is, but our wall construction is vapor-permeable. It is a timber panel construction with wood fiber insulation as the external thermal insulation composite system (ETICS) and cellulose insulation in the cavities. At least the moisture issue should be somewhat mitigated by this.

Of course, it is still airtight and we need to ventilate.

JoschNeubau24 schrieb:

I’m not sure how relevant this is, but our wall construction is vapor-permeable.

Since I can’t answer with just one word, I’ll put it in one sentence: no relevance.

Oh, I must have had a bit too much sparkling wine in my orange juice on New Year’s and misread the keyword “home office” with the wrong preposition (“in” instead of “without”). The original poster could have pointed that out when they treated my mathematical comma like a syntax issue. Well, at least we started the new year with proof of my fallibility. That’s how it should be.

tomtom79 schrieb:

Maybe you should be straightforward for once instead of always sounding so arrogant, condescending, and beating around the bush. Your sentences are often endlessly long without adding value.

I am always happy to exceed the minimum post length; I neither want nor can I deny that perception. However, any arrogance or condescension must be misunderstandings. In real life, I come across as kinder than just through text.

JoschNeubau24 schrieb:

On the contrary. I have let go of the idea of drawing the perfect floor plan where everything is thought through down to the last detail and every piece of furniture already has its fixed place. There should be no major flaws, and so far I don’t see any. But I take your criticism seriously and will reconsider some points.

Unfortunately, I still don’t understand how the shown design came about or what it is based on. For amateurs doing DIY work on floor plan development, I always give the advice: 1. only start drawing after successfully allocating the room program across the floors, 2. first draw the current apartment to identify problem areas and formulate improvement strategies, 3. begin the actual drawing on the upper floor, 4. develop the staircase from the (upper) landing side, 5. avoid taking inspiration from much larger reference buildings, and 6. if you want to add rooms compared to the reference (classic examples: a walk-in closet that is not separate there or increasing the number of rooms in the child/guest/office group), choose correspondingly smaller reference buildings.

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