Building plan 160m² living area and gable roof - suggestions for improvement?

Hello everyone,

what do you think of our plan?

Bebauungsplan/Einschränkungen

Size of the plot
548m² - 19m wide, 24m long
Slope
no
Floor area ratio
0.40
Floor space index
1.0
Building window, building line and boundary
5m from the street
Edge development
Number of parking spaces
2
Number of floors
2 full floors
Roof shape
Gable roof 35°
Style
Orientation
doesn’t matter
Maximum heights/limits
7.30m high
Further specifications

Anforderungen der Bauherren
Style, roof shape, building type
Gable roof, 2 full floors
Basement, floors
no basement - 2 full floors
Number of persons, age
4P - 2x 32 years, 2x 3 years
Space requirement in ground floor, upper floor
80m² per floor because of L-Bank
Sleeping guests per year
3x
Conservative or modern construction
modern
Open kitchen, cooking island
yes, yes
Number of dining seats
6
Fireplace
yes - prepared for it
Balcony, roof terrace
Terrace, roof terrace on garage
Garage

Hausentwurf
Who created the design:
- Planner of a construction company
What do you particularly like? Why?
Technical room not in the house, more space for living area
What do you not like? Why?
Bathroom, wanted to include sauna, but then only 66 cm passage between washbasin and tub (see attachment 3)
Price estimate according to architect/planner:
not yet
Personal price limit for the house, incl. equipment:
430,000
Preferred heating technology:
Heat pump

If you have to do without, which details/extensions
- actually can’t do without anything, as already heavily cut down

Why is the design the way it is now? For example

The house was drawn based on a larger one by my sister together with the planner. It was simply reduced to 160m² living space.

What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan summarized in 130 characters?

We are financing with L-Bank, so it can only be 160m² living space. We tried to include everything we wish for.
What do you think about the design? What can be changed or better distributed?

The bathroom with sauna is in the third attachment, but the passage is difficult. Do you possibly have ideas how to design the bathroom so everything fits?

We are unsure which terrace windows to choose, therefore the alternatives are shown above.

The terrace faces the garden and west.

Many thanks in advance

The plan is compact and basically looks quite good and happily livable to me. The narrow sauna door would not bother me (and I am not exactly small). I have gladly used similar solutions in holiday homes in the Netherlands and Denmark. In the kitchen, I would miss workspace. How to make the dining area, which is very open, cozy and ensure that it does not stand in the way of daily walking paths remains to be seen. I always find sitting with your back to the windows a bit unfortunate. Suggestion: Place the sofa where the TV is currently marked, move the dining table closer to the kitchen and wall, swap the glass sliding door and windows. The TV can either be directed towards the seating area with a clever wall mount or use a projector and motorized screen. You see, I don’t consider TV very important – of course, it’s a matter of preference. When it comes to saving, I would look at the garage (unless you have a vintage car worth protecting). Slightly enlarge the utility room so that bicycles fit inside. I once asked BMW – they say that the car also lasts a long time if parked outside. For winter, there are parking heaters. In any case, we leave all cars outside first and only build a roofed area for the motorhome.

- What should the white partition walls look like?
- How big is the passage from the kitchen to the storage?
- Is the technical equipment outside the thermal envelope or how is that planned?
- Hallway downstairs dark like at night -
- The bend for the bathroom door on the upper floor takes away the light from the hallway and brings hardly any benefit to the bathroom - get rid of it.
- Bedroom door opens the wrong way
- Please post the elevations - is there any concept for that?
- Door from garage to hallway is nonsense - better extend the house entrance canopy up to in front of the garage.
- Garden area behind the technical room is lost. With this plot size every meter counts. Better to enlarge the garage and level it off.
- Quick access to the technical room will leave you short on storage space

Can you also upload the site plan? What is the orientation? I believe that if there are no longer edge surcharges for masons, they will be reinvented for this house. The worst thing is that most corners and slanted walls are not necessary at all. They are not a gain and probably stem from the fact that a layperson downsized a larger design...

The house was drawn based on a larger one by my sister, together with the planner. It was simply reduced to 160m² of living space.

... and apparently the planner did not find it necessary to eliminate these flaws. Bedroom and bathroom doors can also be on straight walls. My eye strain plays a minor role here; the problem will be masonry, keeping angles, and later furnishing. Also, the "independent" utility room puzzles me, because it must be within the thermal envelope, which does not apply to a garage.

- What should the white partition walls look like? - what exactly do you mean? - How big is the passage from the kitchen to the storage? - the passage will be quite narrow, but that's due to the plan to do it like in the attachment - Is the technology outside the thermal envelope or how is that planned? - yes, is that a problem? - Corridor downstairs dark like at night - - a very high window is planned at the stairs - Bend for the bathroom door on the upper floor takes the light from the corridor and hardly benefits the bathroom - remove it. - Behind the door there should be a small cabinet or towel dryer. Otherwise, we lack the space. - Bedroom door opens the wrong way - true, thanks - Please post the views - is there any concept? - I don’t have any yet, as soon as they are there I will post them - Door from garage to corridor is nonsense - better to extend the house entrance canopy up to in front of the garage. - I have to think about it, I actually find it practical not to let all the cold in through the door. - Garden area behind the technology room is lost. With this plot size every meter counts. Better to enlarge the garage and bring it to the same height. - I wanted to, but I’m not allowed, because the garage may be max. 9m long if it stands on the neighbor’s boundary. - Quick access to the technology room, you will miss for storage space - don’t understand what you mean Otherwise, thanks a lot! This is quite matter-of-fact here, in another forum you almost get insulted

I just noticed: the statics in this design have also been somewhat thoughtless: I think you can save a five-figure amount of money with a standard design of a BU without sacrificing quality.