Floor plan design of a bungalow on a narrow plot

Hello everyone!

We are currently planning to build a bungalow on our plot. Due to the rather narrow plot and the conditions, we have come up with the following floor plan.

Bebauungsplan/Einschränkungen
770m² plot
no slope
floor area ratio: 0.5
building window, building line and boundary: 5 m from the southern plot boundary

Anforderungen der Bauherren
Bungalow, hipped roof
basement, floors: no basement, 1 floor
number of people, age: man + woman (desire for children)
room requirements on ground floor, upper floor
office: family use
sleeping guests per year
open or closed architecture
conservative or modern style
closed kitchen, connection to the living room via sliding door over 2 m wide
number of seats at the dining table: 6
fireplace: yes
garage: yes, planned in the northeast corner of the plot, connected to the house through the study

Hausentwurf
Who designed the plan:
- architect
- do-it-yourself
What do you like especially? Why? Bungalow, want everything on one level
What don’t you like? Why? guest WC currently too small, should include a small shower
price estimate according to architect/planner: 200k€ (Thuringia)
preferred heating technology: air-to-water heat pump

We placed special value on the large living-dining area, as daily life takes place here. We do not want a large hallway, so we can live with the passage room.

What do you say? Any obvious planning errors to identify?

Due to the rather narrow plot and the conditions, we have come up with the following floor plan.

I do not yet see this as the final word.

We do not want a large hallway, so we can live with the passage room.

I see exactly the opposite: a divided hallway, the larger part of which is furnished as a multipurpose room.

Garage: yes, planned in the northeast corner of the plot, connected to the house through the study

The location of the garage would cost a lot of floor area ratio for the driveway. In my opinion, passage doors to the house are significantly overrated. A carport on the street side seems more advantageous to me. It could be close enough to the front door so as not to miss a passage.

The location of the garage would cost a lot of floor area ratio for the driveway. In my opinion, passage doors to the house are significantly overrated. A carport on the street side seems more favorable to me. It could be close enough to the front door so that you wouldn't miss a passage.

I should have mentioned that the western property will also belong to me in the coming years, but I am currently already using the existing driveway of that property. The 9x18m south of the house should remain garden, if possible.

I should have mentioned that the western property will also belong to me in the coming years, [...]

Yes, you probably should have. Accordingly, you are apparently on good enough terms with its current owner to now obtain a waiver of the boundary distance on this side and to rotate the house more favorably, which also allowed other floor plans. If the property then falls to you, you shift the boundary or even eliminate it.

Strange constellation ... that means the terrace is on the west (southwest) between the house and the long driveway to the garage? If the neighboring property should ever belong to you, then maybe you could agree not to have to put the garage all the way back in the corner. Think about snow removal when you have to get out there in the morning. Maybe place the garage on the neighboring property now so that it forms kind of a courtyard for the terrace of the house.

For a multipurpose room, I find the dining area quite uncomfortable and dark.

The utility/technical room would be at the nice south-southwest corner of the house? And the office in the north?

If someone is sick, they always have to go through the multipurpose room to get to the bathroom. Also, if one partner has guests, the other has to sneak past there somehow.

You don’t have children yet - right? At least in the toddler phase, a bathtub is quite practical. The guest bathroom is probably supposed to have a shower because of the children's rooms? A window would be nice too.

It always makes sense to include a north arrow on the floor plan.

This constellation: garage in the NE, entrance in the W next to the terrace.... just because there is already a driveway there. ?! I don’t understand at all. Why not have the garage as a boundary construction closer to the house entrance? Short distances! Short distances!

What is, however, a no-go and can be better gePLANned is that guests or everyone always have to pass by the children's rooms, so that they could be deprived of sleep if the guests come home a bit later. And everyone at the dining table more or less watches you while you pee... ok less, since there is the bathroom door (knee slap), then it remains in the imagination of the others when the gentleman excuses himself briefly and rumbling noises waft from the room to the dining table.

I don’t like it at all, the design. I wouldn’t want to buy it as a finished house either.