Bungalow 148m² site planning / floor plan planning

The appealing thing about the bungalow is also that the interior walls are not load-bearing and can be rearranged colorfully.

Caution, this is by no means generally the case! – it also depends on the roof structure and actually only regularly applies in the 80 sqm class, where exceptions are rare. And as far as the statement basically means that there is no concrete ceiling to support on the upper floor, this applies analogously (again with the aforementioned restriction) to "town villas"; hence you often only find drywall interior walls there as well.

Who made the floor plan? Where you have the pull-down ladder, are you going to put a proper staircase there later or will it stay like that?

I quickly changed the floor plan a bit according to the wishes we have.
- larger children's rooms
- guest WC with shower
- slightly larger main bathroom
- office under the roof

I would change the room layout. Your bedroom has the best sunny location southwest, although you probably won’t use it for activities that require a lot of daylight.

The children will spend a lot of time during the day in their rooms at the latest when they are teenagers, reading, playing, doing homework there. Their rooms should therefore have a southeast or southwest window if possible.

I would place the bathroom and sleeping area in the northwest, which also results in shorter pipe runs for fresh and wastewater. Swap with the children's rooms and arrange them so that each has at least one southwest window. Possibly at the expense of the now very large living-dining area.

The guest WC needs to be a bit larger so that a shower fits well. I would not do without this shower, especially teenagers often spend a long time in the bathroom to get ready. When everyone wants or has to leave the house at the same time, it can get very stressful if one person blocks the bathroom for a long time and the next one needs just as long.

I would change the room layout. Your bedroom has the most beautiful sunny location southwest, although you probably won't use it for activities that require a lot of daylight.

The children will spend a lot of time during the day in their rooms at the latest in their teenage years, reading, playing, doing homework there. Their rooms should therefore ideally have a southeast or southwest window.

I would place the bathroom+bedroom to the northwest, which also results in shorter pipe runs for fresh and wastewater. Swap with the children's rooms and arrange them so that each has at least one southwest window. Possibly at the expense of the currently very large living-dining area.

The guest toilet needs to be a bit bigger so the shower fits well. I wouldn't do without this shower, especially teenagers often spend a lot of time in the bathroom getting ready. If everyone wants or has to leave the house at the same time, it can become very stressful beforehand if one person blocks the bathroom forever and the next person needs just as long.

We've been through all that before... we're on page 46! A lot of sweat has already been shed there.

I'm just wondering whether I'd rather be a child in your family or the washing machine. Because as a washing machine, I'd have a smaller room but also a sunnier southeast location.

The children's rooms are in the southwest in the last floor plan. That fits well.

The hatch is by the children's room doors. Later, when the kids have moved out (still easily 18 years from now, since the youngest just turned 1), one children's room will be opened up and the stairs placed there. The appealing thing about the bungalow is also that the interior walls are non-load-bearing and can be offset in a variety of ways.

Regarding your shifts:
The size of the children's rooms is really enough, hard to believe. You just have to be a bit creative with the furnishings during the children's years. But thanks to Pinterest and the like, it's really easy. With my son, I rearrange the furniture from time to time depending on what and how he prefers to play at the moment. Later, in the teenage years, they basically just need a bed, wardrobe, and desk. They don’t move around that much anymore.
You can forget about the shower in the guest WC. You won’t get it in. So far, we wouldn’t need it anyway. Even with guests, we never really got into tight spots.
You can leave the main bathroom size as it is. That's more than enough! I can gladly send you a photo of it.
You might want to reconsider the office under the roof. See if you can place it downstairs instead. That way you save yourself the stairs and a lot of wasted space caused by the stairs.
If you close off our kitchen "niche," you have your office. Then remove the partition wall in the living room and you can consider whether the kitchen should go on the office wall or where our living room is now. Some people like to look out into the garden while cooking. There is definitely enough space for that with our floor plan. Currently, we have our "office" on the backside of the partition wall towards the kitchen.
You can hardly make the bedroom smaller; otherwise, no bed would fit that you can walk around. Unless you’re so creative that you build your bed directly into the back yourselves.

By the way, you won’t get the stairs there. The space won’t fit unless you build a 20-meter-wide bungalow.

Edit: Oh, by the way, the floor plan was made by a construction company that was among our finalists. We altered it a bit for ourselves.

The office under the roof was the case in almost all of our floor plans, so I followed that here as well. We would save the stairs then, but the office is definitely bigger than the stairs. Regarding the shower in the guest WC, you’re right, it’s difficult. We don’t currently need the shower in the guest WC either, but maybe when the kids are older? I don’t know.... Currently, mine are still small. You do everything together anyway. Regarding the bedroom, I wouldn’t want it any smaller either.

The children's rooms are in the southwest in the last floor plan. That fits.

I was referring to the floor plan in #267. Isn't that the most recent one?
Your entrance is on the northeast side, and the children's rooms in #267 would therefore be on the northwest side? Or have you now placed the entrance on the northwest side by the street?

[A few wall dimensions you could provide ... and then hint at the furnishings in the rooms, e.g. in the 62 sqm living room with the kitchen as far away as possible from the terrace.

The bedroom looks tight in depth, as does the hallway width ... and space for a wardrobe?

And won't the living/dining room be pretty dark? West sun certainly won’t reach in there anymore - right?

Have you ever fitted the bungalow into the site plan? There shouldn’t be much passage on the street side on the right and left. See for example "my" corner bungalow in , which was actually planned the other way around.

I also liked the rectangular bungalow from and quite a few plans from Katja.
While skimming through I also noticed your subwoofer and noise concerns again.
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You’re right about the standard dimensions. It’s difficult like this, but I need a bit more time for that. I’m still not quite sure if the house will fit the plot in width. I’ll take a closer look at it over the weekend.

I also find the bedroom tight, and you’re right about the hallway. But if you want more there, you have to put some rooms on the second floor.

Thanks a lot for the hint that the living/dining area is dark. I wouldn’t have noticed that if you hadn’t said it.

[I would change the room layout. Your bedroom has the nicest sun exposure southwest, although you probably won’t use it for activities that require a lot of daylight.

The children will spend a lot of time in their rooms during the day by the time they are teenagers, reading, playing, doing homework. Their rooms should therefore have a southeast or southwest window if possible.

I would put the bathroom+bedroom to the northwest; this also means shorter pipe runs for fresh and wastewater. Swap with the children’s rooms and arrange them so that each has at least one southwest window. Possibly at the expense of the now very large living-dining area.

The guest WC needs to be a bit bigger so that a shower fits well. I wouldn’t do without that shower, especially teenagers often spend a long time in the bathroom to get ready. If everyone wants or has to leave the house at the same time, it can get very stressful if one person blocks the bathroom forever and the next one needs just as long.]

I would prefer the bedroom on the southeast side. In the last floor plan it is more south to southwest.

The children’s rooms are already in the southwest.

If you put the bathroom and bedroom to the northwest, you no longer have the utility room in the northwest. That means at the front of the plot. Does it necessarily have to be in the front? No.

We only have boys, and I also primped myself as a teenager but it never took more than 10 to 15 minutes. Having a shower is a safe bet, so the plan was to include one in the guest WC.