Bungalow 135 sqm: Floor plan + windows

So, without a guest toilet... if needed, you can also fit the second toilet. The recessed terrace is intended to provide some structure, which the open-plan room lacks. Also, to create a place for a TV.

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Hello, sorry, I was traveling and didn’t want to just answer briefly on my phone. But now I’m back at the computer:

So, without a guest toilet... if needed, you can also fit a second toilet.
The recessed terrace is meant to provide some structure, which the open space lacks. Also, to get a place for the TV.

Thank you very very much for your efforts. I actually like it quite a lot. Especially the hallway access... even though it comes with some compromises (the utility room is smaller – and I definitely don’t want to start putting my drying racks into the bedroom in winter again, that has to be possible in the utility room , the bedroom is minimally smaller). More important, however, is that my boyfriend doesn’t like it this way He would like it if, while building his model tank in his separated “men’s corner,” he could still talk to me (while I sit in the living room). So we will only adopt some details from your suggestion:

[*]I will try to arrange the bathroom roughly like this in our floor plan. I find the idea very nice.
[*]We will straighten the bedroom
[*]We will make the hallway wardrobe wider
[*]We might also move the storage room upstairs so that it can be accessed from the kitchen. But I’m not yet 100% sure about this

One more question about your design: You have now moved the TV wall to the east – currently it is on the south side for us. Is there a particular reason to place it rather on the east? Wouldn’t the TV get sunlight from the south side all day? And in the evening from behind from the west? Or is it better from a floor plan perspective to give the south side more windows instead of half of it being the TV wall? (I hope you understand what I mean).

We have now become uncertain about the guest toilet – if we can still find a place that doesn’t ruin our entire loft-like floor plan, we will add it...

Regarding the floor plan in the initial post, I would implement it as follows: utility room 76/126; hobby rooms 2x 76/126 with 24 cm post between; open space (normal parapet) each 3x 76/126; kitchen and bedroom (towards the corner of the house) likewise triplets; bedroom (between the triplets) again a double; bathroom again a triplet. Accordingly, the floor-to-ceiling elements in the open space 176/213, so exactly as wide as the doubles. The building authority manager will think that Mr. Schinkel himself whispered this to you in a dream.

Each of the openings can be single-leaf, due to size without any dividing nonsense, the terrace doors are not street-side. With the triplets, there is a view-through instead of posts at the middle view windows, all regulations are met and yet ugliness avoided.

One more question on this: In your suggestion, I come to 18 windows (we only planned 11, which means there will be extra costs for us because of this stupid regulation). Furthermore, the regulation states:

[*]Windows and doors must be executed in a vertical format. Windows in knee walls and basements may also have horizontal and square formats.
[*]Street-side window openings must be structured from 1 sqm. When installing single-leaf windows, posts and transoms must be formed as glass-dividing elements.

“When installing single-leaf windows, posts and transoms must be formed as glass-dividing elements” – does this mean that single-leaf windows need a post regardless of whether they are 1 sqm or smaller? And does this apply to all windows or only those facing the street? That would mean that single-leaf windows 0.76 wide still require a post? And then it doesn’t matter whether I make the windows larger than 1 sqm or not – I need a post anyway. Then I could also install a two-leaf window 1.50 wide and 1.60 high, correct?

Basically, I don’t think this vertical format is bad. I could also well imagine something like this:



However, I also don’t want to unnecessarily drive the costs up because of a few more windows, if it might also be feasible otherwise...

My proposal considers the single-leaf window of the utility room as a basic module and adjusts its size 76/126 accordingly to stay below the 1 sqm limit. Therefore, the windows in my proposal do not require further subdivision. I would not take the 24 cm wide masonry sections between the twins or triplets as a reason to count them as two or three windows. From my point of view, there remain eleven windows. I do not see them becoming significantly more expensive due to their subdivision.

Then I could also install a double-leaf window 1.50 wide and 1.60 high, correct?

However, that would need to be subdivided – but how? – it is specifically stated only for single-leaf windows (although in my opinion nonsensical, since on the one hand, the spirit of the regulation is probably to avoid landscape-oriented windows, but the horizontal division by the transom makes any format appear somewhat more landscape-oriented than it actually is).

that I could talk to in the separated men's corner (while I am sitting in the living room).

And what if you are lying in the bathtub or busy in the bedroom?
He should get used to coming to you if he wants something. Or if a conversation is taking place, then exclusively, please. Just because a man turns back into a child while tinkering doesn't mean the house has to be built accordingly.

Is there a particular reason to place that rather in the east?

That’s because even a loft should be structured. And if the kitchen is wider (than your holiday kitchen), there will be no space left for sofa and TV. And yes, there should definitely be a large window on the south side, from which the rest also benefits. The reading lounge should rather have space for books (possibly under a window).

Don’t you get sunlight on the TV from the south side all day?

No idea, when the sun shines, we are all outside

And in the evening from behind, from the west?
No idea, when the weather is nice, other things are done in the evenings or the roller shutter is closed

We have become uncertain about the guest WC topic now - if we still find a place here that does not ruin our entire loft-like floor plan, we will include it...

My proposal considers the single-leaf window of the utility room virtually as a basic module and adjusts its size 76/126 accordingly to stay below the 1 sqm limit.

Well, that is precisely the question whether it only concerns windows larger than 1 sqm: “When installing single-leaf windows, posts and transoms must be designed as glass-dividing elements.” To me, that sounds fundamentally applicable to single-leaf windows regardless of size...

From my perspective, these remain eleven windows. I don’t see them becoming significantly more expensive due to their subdivision.

Well then, I’m curious if my general contractor sees it the same way. In the case of this triplet, there are still three roller shutters in the end, right?

That would then have to be subdivided – but how? –

Isn’t the subdivision already made in this case by the two sashes?

Well, that is precisely the question whether it only concerns windows larger than 1 sqm: "When installing single-leaf windows, posts and transoms must be designed as glass-dividing elements."

They must be divided from 1 sqm, according to my proposal therefore none at all. Single-leaf windows larger than 1 sqm would have to be "divided" with the described fake multipartness. In the case of multi-leaf windows, I would see the division given by the genuine multi-leaf structure; the only ones affected here are the window doors on the rear, i.e. not the street side. But to me, the regulation seems to lack both clarity and comprehensibility here. The colleague from the legal department was probably already tired when he proofread it.

Well then, I am curious whether my general contractor sees it the same way. In the case of this triple window, there are ultimately three roller shutters etc., right?

First of all, I don’t see any roller shutters there...

Shutters are to be made only of wood. Their connection is also permitted on running rails.

... and secondly, I would accept the roller shutter box, i.e. two or three "armor" on one continuous shaft.