Bungalow with gable roof, edge development, 8×17 meters

I like the L considerably better and it would be a variant that I would have tried next.

Why?

Because the living area basically takes in all the sunny sides. And, because you can also design it with terrace spaces all around up to the northwest.

And, the long hallway could be used to, for example, outsource the wardrobes of the rooms there .. a long Pax wardrobe wall or something similar.

What I still can’t mentally understand is why children’s rooms and the bedroom in your design are always so necessarily oriented towards the 6m wide green strip in the southeast.

Yes, very cool. Thanks for the pictures. Let's see how this fits into the overall calculation. Which parts did you do yourself? Insulation, presumably? And theoretically, (even if it's not our plan) it could still be expandable like this? You never know what the kids will make of the house someday...

What I still can't quite understand mentally is why the children's room and bedroom are always so deliberately oriented towards the 6m wide green strip in the southeast in your case.

On the one hand: there are houses to the north and west.
And to the east and south there is nature... The view simply...
That's how I grew up... We only had nature and tall beautiful old trees all around... Our yard was secluded and quiet on one side...
Everyone had their privacy and yes, we were good friends with the neighbors.

And besides, I think it's because I like being outside a lot. That's also why the caravan... Not because of the campsites... We also spent a lot of time with the caravan just somewhere out in nature...

I have always liked sleeping in the garden.
In my youth, with best friends, we also just slept somewhere outdoors. Not unplanned, not because we were drunk. No, we liked it
And woke up at night alert because we thought wild boars were coming, but it was just an empty stomach...

And basically, whenever it's possible, everything happens outside.
And almost always all windows and doors are open, and you are simply part of the living room and the children's room and the kitchen...

If it were possible, I would slide the entire front open in summer and basically live and sleep outside...

I don't know if one can understand that, but it's simply a "feeling"...

But the bedroom is not really a regular living area, it would ease the requirements if a north, northeast orientation is more conceivable here .. without a southern component. And under these conditions I especially find it very nice if the living area can benefit all around and is not cut off towards the southeast. And houses in the west .. with the size of the plot you can already have a lot of your own greenery in front of it .. and you're still planning your own garage in front, nicely landscaped.

Yes, I already wrote that in my earlier posts: You can plant trees in every corner of the property, at least along the edge of the property. Then you don’t see the neighbors, you have greenery outside the window or in the wider distant view, with lawn in between... You have all the possibilities to design the property. For that, it is long enough in the west and east. I would make sure that light gets into the living rooms, primarily the dining room, plus a terrace at the house that also benefits from it in summer. The bedroom can be in the north. Children can have very different dispositions, but they favor light from outside. That can also be east and/or west... some child will like it. However, I would always aim for a slim linear shape of the walls – few corners and edges, resulting in a visible spaciousness, even though it could be tighter than it is. I have to see if I can find my bungalows.

So that all sounds somehow logical. Of course, the view in the other directions isn’t bad either... but when I imagine it, ... I doubt... and think, no, better put everything on this side... But I’m also afraid that I’ll later wish I had built differently... That’s why we’re going through possibilities.

Regarding the idea, living room facing south, with windows to the east, south, and west, so as a bay window or L-shape: and the bungalow getting wider than the current railway carriage:

On paper there is enough space, but when we stand on the property, we feel like we take too much space on the long side, or somehow separate this "strip" there. (the poplar is about 3-4 meters on the property)

That’s why the living room ended up at the back facing east.

We “tried” to put ourselves on the corners of the house, and there the strip towards the ditch doesn’t feel like there is much space to build... and at the back facing east there is a nice large area which gets sun from all sides, at least as long as the trees to be planted don’t cover the property completely in shadow — which the poplar already does further forward now. (But it’s already agreed that we can at least prune towards the property. (it’s still open when)

If I put the L basically towards the back, turned. (so the bay window where the sofa is in the railway carriage) It will also get tight towards the ditch, right? I think we really need to stake it out with a tape measure... and then see where we end up.

We probably just have no idea of the "dimension"... How far the walls to the side then change the view and interrupt the space or no idea.

Or we set up a scaffold with tarps and cloths on the property for now. It’s really hard to estimate lengths and heights.



Edit, I’m standing here taking the photo, at the north/east corner