I would agree with that. Whenever there are special features and the standard floor plan does not fit, in my opinion, the way to go should be the architect. Special features are not supposedly "higher demands," but can be quite mundane, e.g., a difficult plot with a northern orientation/slope, a third or fourth child, two offices not next to each other, a home cinema room. Just to mention a few examples from recent neighboring threads.Exactly. For the standard wish "open living kitchen area, guest bathroom, utility room, three bedrooms, office and bathroom with floor-to-ceiling windows and a normal facade" you really don't need a custom build. That's modular construction. Even if you consider yourself individual, you actually are not when it comes to living needs below 1.5 million.
That is intentional and helps us move forward. We are still at the beginning of the process and, for example, don’t have your experience. Thank you for gladly sharing it. First of all, I think one should try to get the maximum out and then make compromises.
The T-wall will remain. That’s what we want and we also find it very nice with friends who have built it. The bathroom is now first placed on the northeast wall, since the bedroom also faces northeast (at least the view outside towards the sunrise). We would like the bedroom facing east. That’s what you always hear. Are there other arguments for other planning options? Of course, we are also trying to find alternatives with only one door, where the toilet faces towards the window. The shower or toilet will remain darker.
So a gable roof. With a rectangular body, I still find it very difficult to arrange the rooms properly. Switching to a gable roof would not be a problem if it brings advantages and the roof construction also becomes cheaper and we can arrange the rooms properly. Gladly.
Thanks, we will probably take the 60 cm depth into account.
Yes. Friends have built a townhouse monolithically with unfilled T10 Poroton bricks. Ground floor approx. 80-90 m2. They decided against ventilation. They have a great indoor climate. Many neighbors in the new development complain about dry air with decentralized ventilation and would never install it again. That would be a no-go for us. Decentralized is out anyway. Central ventilation is better, but we have already heard of dry air and poor installation in partition walls there too. I wouldn’t want to install a ventilation system there. I would like to see a well-founded and very convincing argument that convinces me of ventilation (whether central or decentralized), how to install it properly and what to pay attention to. Then preferably manual, as we live it now. We have always had our indoor climate under control.
It’s open and wooden. Please google "Gyrofocus" and "fireplace" together. Doesn’t have to be liked ;) We like it.
I’m not saying that either. I welcome the exchange of opinions. We are already considering where we can make savings. Bedroom, dressing room, and toilet have already become smaller.
Sorry. The windows were not finished yet. I first set the usual minimum widths per room here. They should be designed more uniformly. Is there a recommendation for the sill height for bathroom, HTR, utility room and dressing room? We are still considering 90 cm because of neighbors and privacy. Important to us are floor-to-ceiling windows in the living area and all window heights up to 35 cm below the ceiling.
So far my information was that one advantage of bungalows is that no load-bearing walls are needed. Is that due to our total area? Please explain again why this is stated so on the internet. Also please say why this is cheaper. I lack experience there.
A one-and-a-half-story house is our exit strategy if the bungalow doesn’t work at all, even with compromises. But then it would be a half-baked house. That was our first decision, that we want a bungalow. We want one level. If that would not be possible, we would build something we actually don’t want.
Now again about the floor plan and lighting conditions. Do I understand you correctly? You would (assuming you would want it) shift the cinema to the northeast side. More towards the lower corner by the HTR or up in the corner by the bedroom or in the middle by the bathroom/kitchen? Then I don’t understand where you would plan bedroom/bathroom/dressing room/technology. Downwards towards the southeast or on the northwest wall? Then you would probably plan dining area, fireplace and kitchen as an open living area in the complete southwest corner with sufficient window front. Wouldn’t that then result in a long corridor that feels very cramped? The office and utility room are then also questionable. Isn’t it advantageous to build these close to the kitchen and bathroom and to build the utility room as close as possible to the front?
You would make the house narrower but extend it in length and give it a gable roof?
Again about the neighboring properties. They don’t appear here. Our neighbor to the left builds with 3 meters distance to the boundary. His house starts at 4 m and goes about 9 m deep. That means I already have the neighbor’s house front or the fence in front of me at the southwest corner. I also don’t find it very nice if I now place the carport on the right side and then build only 3 m next to the neighbor to the left and then sit directly while eating, by the fireplace and cooking looking at the house and fence or hedge. Then I have no lawn in front of the terrace because it goes up to the garden fence. It is not important to me that the south sun doesn’t shine on the terrace directly. That’s too broiling for us in summer anyway. Our plot is almost 33 m long. There is already a place on the lawn to escape the now not so huge shadow of the bungalow. I prefer to enjoy the west sun on the top left and look in this direction while eating.
Switching the cinema room with the kitchen, rectangular layout, I am happy to be convinced, especially because the cinema currently prevents valuable light from entering the living area. But downstairs at the office, even if that is the brightest corner, I have either the neighbor’s boundary towards the southwest or the road towards the southeast in front of me. I could imagine nicer corners for my eye. Then I would rather take the brightness in the office/hobby room because my view of the neighbor’s house does not bother me as much there.