ᐅ Single-family house with approximately 150 sqm floor area – how to plan the staircase?

Created on: 15 Oct 2017 20:12
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manyyuu
We are currently in the middle of planning our dream house and have now finished the initial drafts. We would greatly appreciate any suggestions, critiques, or improvement ideas. Our main priorities were a large, bright, and open living/dining area, a home office on the ground floor that can also accommodate a pull-out sofa bed, two showers—one being a walk-in shower upstairs alongside a bathtub—and two children's bedrooms of approximately equal size.

We are still uncertain about the following: a separate dressing room (advantages: my husband leaves for work earlier in the morning and can get dressed in a separate room, plus more sound insulation to the children’s room, which will later be a teenager’s room), a small pantry behind the kitchen and whether it should be open or have a narrow sliding door, and whether the staircase should be open or closed with space for a wardrobe underneath. We are also open to general advice on other aspects.

The house will have a gable roof with a 44° pitch and a slightly projecting captain’s gable. The knee wall (kniestock) will be about 1 meter (3 feet) high. Attached are the floor plans for the ground floor and upper floor, as well as the ground floor with the dimensions and outlines of the plot, terrace, and carport. Thank you very much!

Development plan/restrictions
Plot size: 600 m² (90 m² of which is driveway, due to rear development)
Slope: none
Site coverage ratio: 0.3
Floor area ratio: no specification
Building line and boundary: building line on the north side is 5 meters (16 feet) from the property boundary
Boundary setback: 3 meters (10 feet)
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of floors: 1 full floor
Roof type: gable roof
Architectural style
Orientation
Maximum height/limits: 8.50 meters (28 feet)
Other specifications: none

Owner requirements
Architectural style, roof type, building type: captain’s house
Basement, floors: no basement, 1.5 floors
Number of residents, ages: 4 people, two adults, 2 children aged 3 years each
Space requirements on ground floor and upper floor
Office: family use or home office: home office once per week
Guest sleepers per year: 3
Open or closed architecture
Conservative or modern design
Open kitchen, kitchen island: open living-dining area with kitchen island
Fireplace: no
Carport
Additional wishes/special features/daily routine, including reasons why certain features are included or excluded

House design
Planner: Do-it-Yourself
What do you especially like? Why? The open and bright living area.
What do you not like? Why? The hallway, not enough space for the wardrobe, floor plan not optimal
Personal budget limit for the house including fittings: 300,000 euros (including development but excluding other additional construction costs and land), building in Schleswig-Holstein.
Preferred heating technology: gas boiler with solar thermal for hot water

If you have to do without, which details/features could you forego: pantry, separate dressing room

Why has the design developed the way it is now?
A mix of many examples from various sources.


Floor plan of a residential house: kitchen with island, dining area, living room, stairs, bathroom.

Floor plan of a residential house with master and children’s bedrooms, bathroom, dressing room, and hallway.

Floor plan of a house: living room, kitchen, dining area, hallway, workroom, utility room, WC, stairs.
RobsonMKK16 Oct 2017 07:26
An additional 1.5–2 cm (0.6–0.8 inches) of plaster will be applied to each wall.

Another question: Does the development plan require a single-storey building?
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manyyuu
16 Oct 2017 07:38
A full story... but I actually assume that with a 1 m (3.3 ft) knee wall, despite the captain’s gable, we won’t reach a second full story, or am I mistaken?
RobsonMKK16 Oct 2017 07:39
Unfortunately, I can’t see where you are building in Tapatalk, but I find it hard to believe that your house wouldn’t be considered a two-story building.
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manyyuu
16 Oct 2017 07:48
Schleswig-Holstein
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manyyuu
16 Oct 2017 07:50
The definition from the state building code is as follows: Full storeys are above-ground storeys that have a height of at least 2.30 m (7.5 ft) over at least three-quarters of their floor area. A top storey that is set back from at least one exterior wall of the building, or a storey with at least one pitched roof surface, is considered a full storey if it has a height of at least 2.30 m (7.5 ft) over at least three-quarters of the floor area of the storey below; storey height is measured from the top edge of the floor to the top edge of the floor of the ceiling above, or, in storeys with roof surfaces, to the top edge of the roofing material.
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kbt09
16 Oct 2017 07:59
The sloping roof sections are not shown in the upper floor plan.