Corner plot with a granny flat

the more it has to be the east side.

Yes, then the granny flat gets the beautiful east side and southern sun, and the main apartment has a narrow garden divided into two parts. But the main apartment shouldn’t shift too much towards the west street side, otherwise there will be no privacy anymore.

So that we don’t forget the desired garage (actually there were 2). It simply fits only on the east side. You can’t get a proper driveway in the west corner. The granny flat needs a bicycle/storage room, which can then be placed in that corner (that’s a bit odd, we would always have to go to the other side of the house for the vehicles – but okay).

So I keep coming back to a rectangle with a max. width of 12 m and length of 11.5 m. A bay window/extension could only be made on the west or next to the garage – I have now deliberately left that out for possibly a side entrance to the granny flat? What do you think?



Exactly aligned north/south again.

I really saved a lot of sqm. The long hallway just has to be like that. For that, there has to be a window next to the front door and maybe an open room upstairs. But the upstairs is simply not the problem ... I’m out of ideas for the granny flat: my mother didn’t like the long narrow kitchen. She absolutely wants an open kitchen with a “counter” – in miniature! but preferably not right at the entrance again. A dining table for 4-6 people should have space and a small corner couch + TV wall. Also, she absolutely needs the small guest room. And I would plan the bedroom generously so that one day a large normal double bed can fit there. So emotionally I have enough sqm available for the granny flat.

For 2 apartments plus 4 parking spaces (of which 2 are garages) and a large sunny garden, the plot is simply too small and unsuitable. What you want is the square root of the circle... Either another plot or you stretch yourselves to the limit.

I am lacking ideas for the granny flat: The mother didn’t like the long narrow kitchen. She definitely wants an open kitchen with a "bar" - in a small format! but preferably not directly at the entrance either. There should be space for a dining table for 4-6 people and a small corner couch + TV wall. In addition, she absolutely needs the small guest room. And I would plan the bedroom in a forward-looking way, so that a large normal double bed can also fit there sometime.

Mother - she can decide even less. She simply cannot imagine something like that. And she is also less willing to compromise than I am.

Trying to get so many parameters to fit together and adding these mortgages on top will ultimately not lead to a satisfactory result. You have thought this through 87 times now, understandably everyone wants a nice equally sized piece of the Kosakenzipfel, which is why I find the objection from to be apt. Mother has a house, why should she settle for leftovers, and I understand the same from your side as well. Therefore, I wouldn’t shy away from openly discussing a separate alternative again, because any hidden or unspoken feelings end up in the hallway of the house later faster than one might imagine. Mother could live close by, fancy with a sun terrace in her own apartment, and still live close enough (or far enough) on both sides; thus no side would have to feel disadvantaged. This whole thing sounds somewhat forced to me.

So I always end up with a rectangle with a max. 12 m width and 11.5 m length.

Your pencil marks are also very patient. You don't have more than 5.5 meters of house width per unit available. So something like

And I would proactively plan the bedroom to be large enough to also fit a big standard double bed there.

. . is completely out.

The long hallway is just like that then.

Oh. All of a sudden.

Mother didn't like the long narrow kitchen. She definitely wants an open kitchen with a "counter" - in mini format! but preferably not right at the entrance again. Dining table for 4-6 people

Basically, you’d have to build a 90-100 sqm 3-room bungalow for your mother, but no granny flat!

So emotionally

Emotionally, nothing fits here anymore. The goal, house with granny flat, is somehow set wrong. I also constantly read something about several garages. When these are planned, dissatisfaction comes over the long hallway, the small garden, or whatever else. The priority is completely misfocused here. In the end, you have the desired garages, but hardly any garden left, an ugly hallway, and somehow nothing fits properly in 5.5 meters as it should.

So emotionally I have enough sqm available for the granny flat.

Not with your mother’s wishes. A kitchen counter, no matter how small, and a dining table for 6 simply take up a lot of space. The basis between you two may of course be there (I have a mother too . .), but it does not seem suitable here for building a house together. She gives money, but not just like that or taken for granted, rather she sees herself in the patron role quite well with a claim to demands. Now it’s probably like this that she doesn’t think about what’s possible and also has no knowledge of it. Because of that, you get into a situation that does not belong to house building and high costs. The apple does not fall far (completely without judgment) from the tree. You then don’t just easily get everything under one roof – at least not with satisfaction in planning, during house construction, and later after moving in. Nothing there is relaxing. You have to weigh whether you still see yourself in this project and if a house is more important than a relaxed relationship. But probably it was never so balanced, so one endures rather than is reasonable. It’s like the prioritization of the garages.

What does the house construction look like without an [Einliegerwohnung]? The plot is better suited for a single-family house.

The [Einliegerwohnung] will cost you 250k as planned. With mom's special requests probably 300k.

Does that still make sense for you?

If Grandma is too close, the brats get fed too many sweets anyway. And with the commotion [Oma] is brought home by her bowling or choir ladies, the kids can’t sleep at all.