Floor plan design townhouse with a gable roof

If you think of islands for the kitchen etc... then consider combining eating/cooking. Then a nice island where 4 to 5 people can comfortably eat together and a real dining area and all with good terrace access. Living with TV/sofa/reading then somewhat separated. Budget Then also write down the appropriate amount What is there to consider? Heat pump and photovoltaic on the roof, that should be planned, just like a wallbox for the car etc. -- is that already in the budget?

What do you mean by combining with the island? The kitchen should still be closed. We don’t like smells and noise from the kitchen. Yes, thought of that hybrid gas heating H2o or something... No, but I think we will take a heat pump photovoltaic on the roof (not yet mandatory for us) from 2025 onwards. And wallbox MHH do not have an electric car... but basically we have to achieve energy standard 40 anyway because we are considering applying for funding.

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Except that I don’t make sense of it, do you mean? I see there (from left to right): neighbor’s house attic, neighbor’s house ground floor, a blurred pencil drawing of a single ground floor, a variant of the ground floor of the design from the beginning of the thread. What is that supposed to tell me? It seems to me that you are lost / locked in fixated on wanting to improve the initially presented design at all costs, even though you were told repeatedly that it is not really worth saving and why. I will check in about a week whether you have gotten off this dead horse by then. For now, I am unsubscribing from this thread and its offshoots.

Hello,

maybe I can help you a little. We are currently in the phase of obtaining offers and come to about 3000 €/m² for our 174 m² house with slightly upscale equipment (Q3, 3 m HS door, central ventilation system with heat and enthalpy exchanger, covered entrance with fixed elements, plastic-aluminum windows, aluminum shutters) – without a floor slab. With a gable roof and without optical frills (brick, wood cladding, bay window, etc.).

What I mean is: you get 3 children's rooms and about 170 m² built on a floor slab. If you are economical with the equipment, the floor slab is still included. Then we would be at 510,000 € for the bare house turnkey plus ancillary construction costs. Your planning does not fit the budget at all. Please listen to my predecessors.

Yes, that's true. I forgot to mention above that we will award everything individually to the trades.
This way we hope to keep construction costs between €2600 and €2700.

But awarding individually isn’t cheaper?!
Only in trades that you do yourself or without invoicing within family can you save something, so own contributions.
Furthermore, building a house with an architect at a higher standard can save something because no astronomical prices have to be paid to general contractors and subcontractors.
Your advantage is Lower Saxony, where building is somewhat cheaper.

What do you mean by the island together?

Whether open or closed kitchen: an island creates a work surface where none exists due to lack of wall. It also generates storage space as well as the possibility to structure a large room.
Your kitchen resembles old kitchens without built-ins, where you had to resort to the corner bench and then peeled potatoes sitting down: single-row (possibly still L-shaped) plus single cabinets, but unconnected. Surely the kitchen planner might be tearing his hair out looking at the plan because now he has to turn sh*t into gold. That’s why it should be planned now. Whoever prepares the food at your place will thank you. You can’t feed children with an empty center. Have you ever been to a kitchen showroom?
As mentioned several times: the room sizes are not proportional to the benefit you get from them: two parallel dining areas, a kitchen with several distributed wall openings.
I would also definitely plan an exit from the kitchen to the terrace.
Maybe get used again to a separation between living room and kitchen/dining and create a large closed eat-in kitchen from dining and kitchen?

Here is the house on the property. North is at the top.



Normally, blue is the building envelope. Why did the architect assume a line along the street?

Is there no site plan?

Here's a suggestion from me. Only the ground floor. The step down can be omitted. But a bit more ceiling height in the living and dining area is definitely nice.



The blue line can be a glass folding element to separate the living/dining areas.