Hello fellow home builders,
we would love to benefit from your experience and would appreciate it if you could critically review our floor plan draft. The images are attached.
We recently found a plot of land and have started planning. In terms of the house shape and design, I fell in love with a house by Kitzlinger (reference house Erkenbrechtsweiler). This Cape Cod style in sandalwood or cappuccino color just looks great, in my opinion, and goes really well with white. Using a free software program, I copied the exterior dimensions and rearranged the interior walls and staircase completely to our taste. So this is just an amateur draft. Of course, I copied from other floor plans as much as possible.
The ideas behind it:
- We prefer a straight staircase even though it takes up a lot of space. However, it is not a must-have.
- The office/guest room (northwest side) should be on the ground floor, as my wife needs it for work and sometimes wants to take documents into the living room.
- The idea of a separable kitchen: An open-plan kitchen is great. But we would like the option to close it off. If you look closely, I left a gap in the wall between the pantry and kitchen. A slim, lightweight partition could be installed there as a sliding element, allowing the kitchen to be completely separated from the living room. I know that would be 4 meters (13 feet). Such a long sliding door would be a custom solution and the question is whether it can even be built.
Additional details:
- KFW 55 standard
- Solid brick house (which probably means the wall thicknesses in the floor plan aren’t accurate)
- Air-to-water heat pump with underfloor heating
Best regards
we would love to benefit from your experience and would appreciate it if you could critically review our floor plan draft. The images are attached.
We recently found a plot of land and have started planning. In terms of the house shape and design, I fell in love with a house by Kitzlinger (reference house Erkenbrechtsweiler). This Cape Cod style in sandalwood or cappuccino color just looks great, in my opinion, and goes really well with white. Using a free software program, I copied the exterior dimensions and rearranged the interior walls and staircase completely to our taste. So this is just an amateur draft. Of course, I copied from other floor plans as much as possible.
The ideas behind it:
- We prefer a straight staircase even though it takes up a lot of space. However, it is not a must-have.
- The office/guest room (northwest side) should be on the ground floor, as my wife needs it for work and sometimes wants to take documents into the living room.
- The idea of a separable kitchen: An open-plan kitchen is great. But we would like the option to close it off. If you look closely, I left a gap in the wall between the pantry and kitchen. A slim, lightweight partition could be installed there as a sliding element, allowing the kitchen to be completely separated from the living room. I know that would be 4 meters (13 feet). Such a long sliding door would be a custom solution and the question is whether it can even be built.
Additional details:
- KFW 55 standard
- Solid brick house (which probably means the wall thicknesses in the floor plan aren’t accurate)
- Air-to-water heat pump with underfloor heating
Best regards
4Motion schrieb:
What concerns do you have about a "solid brick house"?
I didn’t want to start a fundamental discussion about solid house or prefab house. My wife prefers a solid house because of its ability to store cold during summer. I "feared" exactly such emotional motivation, whose factual basis only partially applies. With the reduction of the wall thickness (if you build with external thermal insulation composite systems, ETICS, the wall thickness usually divides approximately half into the inner structural layer and the outer insulation layer, meaning it’s not homogeneous "solid" anymore), the differences in the properties of the wall structures/materials (and thus the wall’s "contribution" to the climate) become less significant.
4Motion schrieb:
Maximum heights/limits: total height maximum 518.80 meters This is an absolute elevation above sea level. Without knowing the reference height (the zero level), this information alone is not helpful since half of the data is missing.
4Motion schrieb:
Roof style: Preferably gable roof with dormer In your design/reference house, this is a cross-gable roof.
4Motion schrieb:
- We don’t like roof slopes if they are too steep at the edges of the house. Does this mean you want the angles at the eaves to be softened by knee walls (commonly also called "pony walls")?
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4Motion schrieb:
Maximum height may be 9.40 m (31 feet). So, 9.40 m (31 feet) ridge height, but from which point is this measured?
4Motion schrieb:
No knee wall, but a higher wall plate ( >1.60 m (5.25 feet)?) so that the roof slopes do not interfere. If the development plan only limits the ridge height and not the eaves height, an unlimited knee wall is often possible, but you should check.
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I find the living room far too narrow, if I’m reading it correctly, only 3.68m (12 feet) wide? I believe it should be at least 4m (13 feet) to prevent the living/dining area from feeling like a long, narrow corridor. I suggest reducing the width of the study (for example to 3m (10 feet)); that would provide the extra centimeters needed.
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