ᐅ Planning a Modern Single-Family Home with Accessible Design, Ground-Floor Bedroom, Fireplace, and Photovoltaic System
Created on: 3 Dec 2025 12:55
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Darbo19
Development Plan/Restrictions
Plot size: approx. 1000m² (0.25 acres)
Slope: no
Site occupancy index: Paragraph 34
Floor area ratio: Paragraph 34
Building window, building line and boundary
Edge development: not applicable
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of floors: Paragraph 34
Roof style: Paragraph 34
Architectural style: Paragraph 34
Orientation: Paragraph 34
Maximum heights/limits
Additional requirements: none
Clients’ Requirements
Architectural style, roof form, building type
Basement, floors: rather modern, gable roof, no basement, 2 full floors, attic not developed.
Number of persons, age: 33, 29, and 1 year old, possibly another child in the future.
Space requirements on ground floor and upper floor
Office: family use or home office? Family use.
Number of overnight guests per year: none
Open or closed architecture: open
Conservative or modern design: rather modern
Open kitchen, cooking island: open with peninsula
Number of dining seats: 6–8
Fireplace: yes, with water jacket as firewood is regularly sourced from own forest.
Music/stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: garage already existing.
Utility garden, greenhouse: yes
Additional wishes/special features/daily routine, including reasons why certain things should or should not be included:
An important point for us when we get older is to have the possibility to live only on the ground floor.
House Design
Who created the design
- Planner from a construction company
- Architect: friendly architect
- Do-it-yourself
What do you like most? Why? The possibility to have a bedroom in the open-plan area for later in life.
What do you like least? Why? Staircase located at the front door.
Cost estimate according to architect/planner: 620,000 including demolition of existing outbuilding and all additional costs.
Personal price limit for the house, including fittings: 700,000
Preferred heating system: heat pump + photovoltaic system with battery storage and fireplace with water jacket.
If you have to give up something, which details/extra features
- Can you do without: lift-and-slide door, a few floor-to-ceiling windows.
- Cannot do without: bathroom with shower on the ground floor, possibility to set up an additional bedroom on the ground floor.
Why is the design like it is now? For example:
Standard design from the planner?
Which wishes were implemented by the architect?
A mix of many examples from various magazines: exactly this.
What makes it particularly good or bad in your opinion? The hallway feels quite large yet also narrow to me, but maybe I am mistaken.
Here is the first draft, partly with pencil markings for changes.
Plot size: approx. 1000m² (0.25 acres)
Slope: no
Site occupancy index: Paragraph 34
Floor area ratio: Paragraph 34
Building window, building line and boundary
Edge development: not applicable
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of floors: Paragraph 34
Roof style: Paragraph 34
Architectural style: Paragraph 34
Orientation: Paragraph 34
Maximum heights/limits
Additional requirements: none
Clients’ Requirements
Architectural style, roof form, building type
Basement, floors: rather modern, gable roof, no basement, 2 full floors, attic not developed.
Number of persons, age: 33, 29, and 1 year old, possibly another child in the future.
Space requirements on ground floor and upper floor
Office: family use or home office? Family use.
Number of overnight guests per year: none
Open or closed architecture: open
Conservative or modern design: rather modern
Open kitchen, cooking island: open with peninsula
Number of dining seats: 6–8
Fireplace: yes, with water jacket as firewood is regularly sourced from own forest.
Music/stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: garage already existing.
Utility garden, greenhouse: yes
Additional wishes/special features/daily routine, including reasons why certain things should or should not be included:
An important point for us when we get older is to have the possibility to live only on the ground floor.
House Design
Who created the design
- Planner from a construction company
- Architect: friendly architect
- Do-it-yourself
What do you like most? Why? The possibility to have a bedroom in the open-plan area for later in life.
What do you like least? Why? Staircase located at the front door.
Cost estimate according to architect/planner: 620,000 including demolition of existing outbuilding and all additional costs.
Personal price limit for the house, including fittings: 700,000
Preferred heating system: heat pump + photovoltaic system with battery storage and fireplace with water jacket.
If you have to give up something, which details/extra features
- Can you do without: lift-and-slide door, a few floor-to-ceiling windows.
- Cannot do without: bathroom with shower on the ground floor, possibility to set up an additional bedroom on the ground floor.
Why is the design like it is now? For example:
Standard design from the planner?
Which wishes were implemented by the architect?
A mix of many examples from various magazines: exactly this.
What makes it particularly good or bad in your opinion? The hallway feels quite large yet also narrow to me, but maybe I am mistaken.
Here is the first draft, partly with pencil markings for changes.
Darbo19 schrieb:
Garage, carport: garage already existing. This is probably what you call "putting the cart before the horse." An amateur plan—even from a so-called expert!—unnecessarily inflates the size of a house.
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