Floor plan approx. 170 m² single-family house, without basement with carport

Yes, if I’m planning my dream house for half a million, somehow yes. But it’s always relative. In a house with a footprint of 9x8, it would be perfectly appropriate. But not with your size. The width can’t be seen independently of the length of the room. The tube-like feeling when entering the room feels uncomfortable and also wastes space.

I can understand that argument. We’ll have to reflect on that again.

Calling the strip on the left and right of the house a garden – ok, there would be 6.5 m left if you build all the way to the east. That’s not nothing, but I wouldn’t plan a terrace there. Whatever the neighbor says, I would anticipate that a house could be built there in the west.

Well, to be honest, we planned a corner terrace in the west/north corner.
We are aware that 6.5 meters is not much. But we also don’t see any way to realize a significantly wider garden – except in the north. Although the maximum there would probably be about 8–9 meters. The garden then just extends more in length – not optimal but as mentioned, we don’t see what other choice we have.

Did I miss something?

Sorry, I made a mistake. Of course, I meant it’s always shaded in the north and sunny in the west until late in the evening.

Yes, it’s difficult in the hallway when mom and dad constantly have to dance around the Matchbox cars.
What for? Certainly enough space to play on the phone. But I see no chance for the Carrera track.

That’s true.

Of course a west garden would be nicer. The question is, when does a garden begin and where does a green strip end? If the plot in the west actually remains undeveloped for a while, you could consider planning a terrace there as well. Basically, I would assume that the terrace ends up in the north – simply because the space directly at the garden fence with 2.5 m to the neighbor wouldn’t be very private once something is built.
To be more specific: I would always plan my house so that the contiguous garden area is as large as possible, so that you have a nice green area around the terrace and maximum distance to all neighbors. But I admit this is debatable with 477 sqm and a north orientation. :D

Our plot isn’t huge. We always have the issue that it won’t be very private. But on the other hand, when I look at new development areas, it is sometimes even more extreme ;). If we had 6.5 meters of garden in the west and a terrace with a width of 3 meters there, for example, there would still be 3.5 meters of distance to the neighbor’s fence. Not the greatest, but honestly, if the terrace is only in the north, then we really miss the sun.

I would personally probably build entirely on the east side and more or less make use of the 14 meter length.

But that would then also mean that the garden would be on the west and north, right?

Or entirely in the north in a transverse position. Then make the house as narrow as possible. A lot of passion has to go into the planning! You probably won't be happy with a standard solution just like that.

Could you please explain what you mean by that? Where would you put the driveway then?

There is a neighboring thread from , who has basically the same problem with a similar orientation

Thanks for the hint, I will take a look there.

and in the west, there is sun until late in the evening.

If there is a house there, there is exactly 0 sun. The sun sets in the west and is low - don't forget.

That is true. A house would take away a lot of sun. But in the north there is generally little sun and we consider it difficult to realize the garden in the south because of the 2 parking spaces that we want to have side by side.

A little experience report from my side about the north garden. I grew up in a house with a north garden or rather north-northeast (ridge roughly in west-east orientation, just slightly rotated). About the first 4 meters from the house actually get no sun. After that, it depends on the season, but in summer you basically have sun there almost all the time. First because it is so high above and then because it looks past the house to the west. I think there is a small time window in between where the house is actually in the way. The advantage of a north terrace is definitely that you can avoid shading. But of course it also always depends on the neighboring buildings. If there is a house in the way to the west, of course no sun will come through there.

Well, 5 meters to the north definitely means there can never be a house to the west, because that's how it's laid out in the development plan. But that would mean there's never any sun on the terrace. I don't know if I like that idea.

Another question:
How do you assess it if the carport extends over the front door and the cars then basically stand next to the front door? Does anyone have that? Is it problematic? Of course, from the south side, no light can fall into the house where the carport is...
Unfortunately, we can't think of any other idea to realize the carport. Maybe someone else has an idea.