Floor plan bungalow 125 sqm conical plot

Hello everyone,
we currently have a plot of land reserved and would like to purchase it in the next few months. However, the house construction is planned for next year, as we first need to sell our existing property. The plot is located in Lower Saxony in the Südheide.
All further information can be found below.

Development plan/Restrictions
Plot size: 739m²
Slope: no
Floor area ratio 0.3
Floor space index 0.3
Building window, building line, and boundary: 3m all around the plot
Edge development no
Number of parking spaces 2
Number of floors 1
Roof type 25°-45° pitch
Style: no high-gloss roof tiles, roof tiles in red or anthracite
Orientation no specifications
Maximum heights/limits at least 3m eaves height
Further requirements

Requirements of the builders
Style, roof shape, building type: it should be rather classic but modern, clinker brick. Roof type: hipped roof 25°, the garage should also have a hipped roof (integrated into the overall roof, the roof of ancillary buildings may be flatter); building: bungalow
Basement, floors: no basement, 1 floor, the attic is to be used as storage space.
Number of persons, age: 2 persons, both 40; no children, not planned for the future either.
Space requirements on the ground floor: approx. 120-125m² (as much as necessary, as little as possible); in the attached floor plan I come to 125m²
Office: family use or home office?: office for home office for one of us is necessary
Overnight guests per year: very rarely to never
Open or closed architecture: living area open, the rest closed
Conservative or modern construction: rather conservative but not old-fashioned, definitely no experiments
Open kitchen
Number of dining seats 4-5
Fireplace no
Garage is a must, as well as space for the equipment.

Further special features:
We have a dog (Labrador), therefore a second entrance via the garage/laundry room is necessary and thus the garage is so large inside (6.4m, so you can walk around the car in the garage)
Storage: laundry room is planned large, but essentially needed. The drawn-in cupboards are only examples.
Next to the dining table there is a window seat, as a seating place for the dining table and to look outside
KfW 55 (only what is legally required).
The ceiling in the small hallway by the bedrooms should be suspended and equipped with air conditioning (does not have to be immediate, but everything must be prepared for it).
Photovoltaics are also to be installed or conduits provided, the photovoltaics will be installed later.

House design
Who designed it: Do-it-Yourself
What do you particularly like? Why?
What do you not like? Why?
I am not sure if the entrance area is too convoluted.
Laundry room seems oversized, on the other hand storage is needed
Bedroom on the south side seems oversized, but I can’t sensibly make it smaller.

Price estimate according to architect/planner: none so far
Personal price limit for the house, including equipment: 500,000 EUR total (plot, incidental building costs, garden, terrace, etc.) The plot costs 73,000 EUR fully developed. Own contribution is not an option for time reasons.
Preferred heating technology: air-to-water heat pump

The plot is not ideal to build a bungalow with garage on it. On the west, north, east the house is just 3m from the boundary.

If you have to give up, which details/extensions
-can you do without:
-can you not do without:
Basically: on the one hand it should be built as cheaply as possible, on the other hand a few things are important to us (garage, clinker bricks, air conditioning, storage space (laundry room, equipment)).
I would like to bring the living space to 120 sqm, however it is not easy to implement this sensibly.

Thank you already in advance for your suggestions

Hello first of all,

here are a few comments on your statements and food for thought

The plot is not ideal for building a bungalow with a garage on it. On the west, north, east sides the house is just 3m away from the border.

Of course it is ideal. You just have to plan _with_ the plot and not against it, which is what you are doing.
Instead of planning elegantly in length and using the area, you go into the plot width and hit the boundaries. So much so, that a reasonable terrace in the west is no longer possible. The south garden is not included at all, the terrace access in the south gets lost.

No edge development

Are you sure the garage is not allowed to be built at the edge? Is that stated in the development plan?

Definitely no experiments

Well, I call the whole house a do-it-yourself experiment.

I am not sure if the entrance area is too convoluted.

Yes, it is. It does not invite you to enter the house. It has no lively and bright line of sight into the living area. It narrows and you look into the dark hallway.
Furthermore, there is no meaningful zoning between sleeping and living. The bathroom is excluded from the private rooms.
But what is a big no-go: the utility room is far too small, and the supply lines must _not_ be built over. That means: utility room on the outer wall and please somewhat larger, at least twice as large for the DIY design, so that a craftsman can work there.

Utility room seems oversized, on the other hand storage space is needed

Do you really need more than for a family of four? However, I find 12/13 sqm still okay if it includes almost everything.

The ceiling in the small hallway by the bedrooms is to be dropped and equipped with air conditioning

Before I plan something like that, I would not place the bedrooms in the south or west!

Window seat, as a seating area for the dining table

A window seat should always be a nice addition, but not necessary at all to be able to occupy the dining table seats

and to look outside

Where exactly is the view?

I find the open plan overall very uninspired and not functional – kitchen too small, island too narrow, dining area cramped, chill area in the passage. Also no space for the west terrace. The almost square design makes zoning and furnishing difficult anyway.

If you have to do without, which details/finishes
- can you do without:
- can you not do without:
Basically: on the one hand the house should be built as cheaply as possible, on the other hand a few things are important to us (garage, brick facade, air conditioning, storage space (utility room, equipment).

What do you particularly like? Why?
What do you not like? Why?

What stands out is that nothing is mentioned with "I like". Only the ancillary rooms seem important...

The design is missing quite a few dimensions anyway. Because of the built-over utility room, a restart is needed. Overall, I do not see any approach now to improve anything except roughly the location of the individual rooms. I have quite a few bungalow designs on my hard drive that should fit (in terms of requirements and location/plot). Also Kerstin should have some. She tends to do the closed style, I design rather open.

Hello ypg,
I feared that we had lost track... Thank you for the suggestions and valuable tips.

A few thoughts on the current floor plan and the location on the plot:
- The house should be positioned as far up as possible so that we still have as much land as possible below. Among other things, I forgot to mention that rainwater must infiltrate via soakaway trenches on the property. That "costs" land.
- Currently, the terrace with approx. 28 sqm is at the bottom by the living room, which means the terrace would be poorly visible from the right neighbor. Privacy is important to us.

Boundary construction is allowed with the right neighbor. I had excluded it for myself because in Lower Saxony you are allowed to build a maximum of 9 m continuously on the border. For the current garage, it would not fit. Alternatively, the garage must be smaller and about 15 sqm of storage room must be considered in/at the house.

Bay window seat: Previously, the table with 5 chairs was planned there in a classic way, then the idea came to swap the chairs for the bay window seat. It just happened naturally. The bay window seat is not a must. It is simply relaxing to look outside when you design the garden there to be attractive for birds.

I can understand all the points regarding the open space. Somehow I already had a feeling something was off, but I didn’t find a solution for it.

I have become curious and would be interested in alternative plans. If I understood correctly, the plot would be used more lengthwise?

Thanks again for the suggestions

Is there really no development plan?

But there is a development plan, see attached. In the development plan, there are also a few textual stipulations: - Eaves height min. 3m max. 4.5m ridge height max. 9m - Access to the property is to be limited to 5m - Surface water is to infiltrate through the ground surface (area or swale infiltration) - Non-built-up area is to be landscaped as green space - Permanent outdoor lighting is only permitted in the traffic area. Lighting must be with LED type warm white Local building regulation: - 2 car parking spaces - Roof pitch 25-45° subordinate buildings are exempt from this - Roof covering must not be high gloss, color: red to reddish brown or anthracite

This is just a placeholder. Why not place it at the border with the garage. The room layout works much better.