ᐅ Single-family house on a sloped site with a large plot of land

Thanks for the tip, I think we’ll do that in the fall as well.

How do you plan to get out onto the roof from the staircase in the attic? Are you adding a dormer, or do you have such a high knee wall that you can stand upright?

Hello Solveigh,

I really like your floor plan as well. No wonder—it is very similar to our house, which we built 14 years ago.

However, we have three children’s rooms upstairs. Your library is my home office.

I’d like to share a few notes from our experience:

Galleries in the children’s rooms: They stopped being used as sleeping areas just a few months after moving in and were used more as play or workspaces. Our children wanted to be able to see the sky or garden when falling asleep and waking up, so they moved their beds back to the lower level. Plan for bed spaces that are 1.40m (55 inches) wide in every room. Sooner or later, this might become necessary.

It’s also quite warm upstairs in our home. We didn’t plan roof windows either. Today, I would choose a shed roof and use north-facing windows to light the galleries—these would also be great for ventilation on warm days.

Consider placing the office next to your bedroom wall to create a sound buffer from the children’s rooms. We sleep wall-to-wall with our now 17-year-old son, and neither he nor we find it very comfortable.

I’m looking forward to your further plans. It will surely be a beautiful house!

Good luck...

The offset shed roof provides window areas facing south as well as light from the north, and it is a gable roof.

Solveigh schrieb:
Thank you for the tip, @ypg, then this should not be a problem from a building regulation perspective. I will keep you updated, also regarding the costs!!

Any news about the costs? We are starting the initial meetings with two (out of six) architects this week and are excited...

Today we had a conversation with a well-established architect who has a solid reputation in the area (as far as I know) but tends to build standard designs and isn’t particularly creative. She quoted us about 460 euros per cubic meter (around 460 cubic yards), plus earthworks. I don’t think you can get below 2000 euros per square meter (around 2000 square feet) anywhere around here.

What do your architects say are the main cost drivers (apart from size)? Because 2400 euros per square meter (around 2400 square feet) is quite high, but I guess the earthworks aren’t cheap either, right?

Solveigh schrieb:
Then your architect is not entirely wrong: I come to a total of 1,429.07 m³ (50,454 ft³) of renovated living space in the house at 657,372.20 euros. Excluding the garage.

The main cost drivers for us are definitely:

- the size of the building and the garage
- excavation
- wooden house construction
- KfW 40+ standard (heat pump, controlled ventilation system, photovoltaic system, battery storage)
- wood-aluminum windows
- external blinds on all windows
- wide plank parquet flooring throughout the building including bathroom and WC
- details like flush baseboards, flush doors, recessed curtain tracks, window seats, folded truss staircase (the client’s little quirks :cool

We already requested kitchen offers: the price range is from 40,000 to 78,000 euros. Honestly, I didn’t want to buy two houses!

Including additional construction costs etc.?

So everything (really everything) included?