Floor plan design single-family house with basement and double garage on 540 sqm

This is the current width we have at our parking space.

However, a parking space has no walls around it, meaning: you can open the doors beyond the 5.5m. This is not possible in a garage. Better to build a single garage with enough space and a parking spot. Or completely forgo the garage and build a double carport. It's enough to avoid scraping in winter, but since the side walls are also missing here, it requires less space than a garage.

One more comment on the orientation of the house.
- To the south, the neighbor’s garage will be built.
- To the west is the quiet location of the house (towards the creek). On the other side of the creek, there is no house directly.
- It should be considered that the waterbody edge strip (west - 5m) is planted (may not be changed) and we want to have enough lawn area between the terrace and the waterbody edge strip. That is why we have oriented the house north/south so far. What use is a large space facing south if there is only a view of the neighbor’s garage. However, the distance to the neighbor should not be too small (at least 4-5m).

Such a whole bunch of stuff can hardly be remembered here by anyone. It’s best if you put something like that into a sketch with labels. Where is the creek, where boundary buildings, where the terrace, etc.?

I would first be interested in the budget – did I overlook that? 180m², basement, double garage plus the usual ancillary building costs.. that’s well over 500K. Is that planned for?

Why then the huge office? Plan the living space so that the living room can be separated in old age (which already works with the current floor plan anyway)

As I said, the office will be made smaller. Separating the living room is a good idea. We hadn’t even had that on our radar yet.

A parking space has no walls around it, meaning: you can also open the doors over the 5.5 m. That is not possible in a garage. Better to build a single garage with enough space and a parking spot. Or completely do without the garage and build a double carport. That is enough so you don’t have to scrape in winter, but since here, too, the side walls are missing, it requires less space than a garage.

We currently have an average parking space. I already meant and also measured the distance from our car to the parked neighbor’s car. But I agree with you that it’s tight.

Hardly anyone can remember all that stuff here. It’s best if you put something like that into a sketch with labels.

You’re right... Sketch attached. Please note!! The plot sketch is now oriented to the north! As an example, the 9x11 house is drawn in with a double garage 9x6.
With the double garage (5.8 m wide) and an 11 m house, 4 m remain towards the south.

I would first be interested in the budget – did I overlook that? 180 m², basement, double garage plus the usual additional construction costs... you are well over 500K here. Is that planned?

We are budgeting max. 600K for the house, additional construction costs, double garage, outdoor facilities, and kitchen. Financially, we would also have some room to maneuver. I don’t want to go into details here, that would be a separate topic in the construction costs forum. For now, I see that the house will probably be smaller than 180 sqm.

Whether 3 or 4m distance to the neighbor doesn’t make a difference. I would take 3m and enlarge the garage instead. Even 6m is still very tight. They will also deduct masonry and possibly some driveway width.

What is in the north? Maybe you could post an aerial photo sometime?

Whether it's 3 or 4m distance to the neighbor doesn't really make a difference. I would take 3m and enlarge the garage instead. Even 6m is still very tight. The masonry will be deducted from that, and possibly some driveway space as well.

The advantage of having a bit of distance would be that you could extend the terrace around the corner to have breakfast there on summer weekends...

What's to the north? Maybe you could post an aerial photo?

We are building in a new development area. New houses are being built to the north and south. I actually thought the construction to the north wouldn't be that interesting for us. The plot to the south is relatively narrow; the neighbors will build a carport/garage on the property line.
If an aerial photo still makes sense, I can have a friend take a picture with a drone.