ᐅ Planning a Single-Family Home. Thank you for your feedback.

Hello everyone,

My wife and I are currently planning a new home for ourselves.
We bought our first house six years ago (built in 1966, 140m² (1507 sq ft) living space, 1700m² (0.42 acres) plot).
Now we want a new one, a slightly larger house with a smaller garden...
Something about the floor plan still bothers me, especially the staircase and the upstairs bathroom. We would also like to have a simple kids' bathroom.
The garden/kitchen/dining area faces west! On the left side, there is a half-timbered house used as storage, so we can’t put any windows on that side of the ground floor.
The building is right up against the boundary, wall to wall. The garage is tapered because it is also built on the border!
The attic is intended as an office and possibly for children later on. The windows on the gable are incorrectly drawn, as is the offset of the bedroom wall; the winter garden dimensions are also not yet fixed.
Unfortunately, we’re not making much progress and aren’t quite sure how to realize it. We’ll have to take up the drawing pen again! Our family will probably use the entrance through the garage as usual and use the front door less often.
We would appreciate any suggestions for improvement and any critiques.

Plot size approximately 750m² (0.19 acres)
No slope
Floor area ratio (FAR)
Site coverage ratio (building coverage ratio)
Building envelope, building line, and boundary
Adjacent development at property boundary yes
Number of parking spaces: 1
Number of stories: 1.5
Roof style: gable roof
Architectural style: country house
Orientation: gable facing the street
Maximum height/limits?
Additional requirements

Client requirements
Style, roof shape, building type: country house, gable roof, 1 dormer
No basement, number of floors
Number of people, ages: 4, 32, 31, 1.5 weeks
Space requirements on ground floor and upper floor
Office: family use or home office? Family
Guests per year sleeping over: 10
Open or closed layout: open
Conservative or modern construction: (not specified)
Open kitchen with island: yes, please
Number of dining seats: 8
Fireplace: yes
Music/stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage or carport: garage
Vegetable garden, greenhouse: no
Other requests/special features/daily routine

House design
Who designed it: us and architects
- Builder company planner: no
- Architect
- DIY by you: winter garden, windows, doors, furniture, drywall, floors except tiles
What do you especially like? Kitchen / winter garden
What do you not like? Staircase (would prefer a straight one) Suggestions?
Price estimate according to architect/planner:
Personal price limit for the house, including fixtures:
Preferred heating system: probably gas

If you have to give up anything, which features or expansions
- can you do without?
- can’t you do without?

Congratulations on your new addition 🙂

Best regards

ypg schrieb:
Congratulations on the new addition 🙂

Best regards

😀 Thank you very much!

Where is your technical equipment located? You don’t have a basement, right?

j.bautsch schrieb:
Where is your technical equipment located? There isn’t a basement, right?

Good question! Either under the stairs, possibly accessible from the storage room, inside the storage room itself, or in the garage. We have thought about it but haven’t progressed much yet.... Maybe someone here has some good ideas?!

So, there won’t be enough space under the stairs 😉 It definitely needs a few square meters (a few dozen square feet).