Floor plan design - Two-family house / Single-family house with a granny flat

It would be nice if we stay under €500,000, but I think that is hardly feasible. Therefore, the cutbacks such as no garage, no frills like gable/dormer, no basement, no carport, possibly no clinker, etc...

You are certainly right, the plot and location to the street are important (attachment):
Street in yellow at the top, goes off to the top left and top right
Right is only field
Left is the farm complex
For size orientation: the space on the left is 20m wide.
We have to end up in the red box, currently we want to plan WE1 towards the farm, WE2 towards the open field with both entrance doors facing the street, which is still a few meters away then.

There are no neighbors in the immediate vicinity. The next noise source is the space on the left.

By the way, north is exactly at the top in the picture.

The windows are in there for now because we want it as bright as possible, but I realize that windows in the showers are basically rather pointless. That is a good hint. Also, the upstairs shower is certainly not optimal given the available space upstairs.

At first glance, the rooms seem very carelessly put together.

In the granny flat: The living room would be too small for me. Open living kitchen not an option? Does it have to be such a small walk-in closet? What is the advantage compared to the old-school variant of a wardrobe in the bedroom?

Is it desired that the two terraces are right next to each other? Possibly in the granny flat to the east?

Upper floor: Here too, the walk-in closet would be too small for me. If you only need 1 office + 2 children's rooms, then I would also plan that way and make all the rooms a bit larger.

Yes, that is exactly my impression too. Everything somehow seems put together side by side, without working homogeneously if you will. I also find an open living kitchen much better in the granny flat, but a separation of kitchen and living room is strictly desired here. I wouldn’t have planned the small walk-in closet there either, but its size corresponds to the currently available one and is therefore probably intended that way.

The terraces should be separated as much as possible! Separate entrances are not so important, but definitely the terraces!

Which 3D room planning software can you recommend? I would like to transfer the floor plan and then bring the rooms to life in 3D.

It feels to me as if you have the chance to build a house on the plot and around the future occupant of the EW2. The configuration is just as important for the architecture as an idea of how daily life is supposed to be shaped. What is already "too much" or "too little" space. The rooms would be too small for me, especially the living kitchen and children's room. Are children above the ELW2 a future source of trouble due to special noise? If yes - better to put the offices there.

It seems to me that you have the chance to build a house on the land and around the future resident of EW2. The constellation is just as important for the architecture as an idea of how daily life should be designed. What is already "too much" or "too little" space. The rooms would be too small for me, especially the living kitchen and children's room. Are children above EW2 a future source of trouble due to particular noise? If yes – better to put the offices there.

It is supposed to be the classic replacement new building with a senior division. This means two "courtyard generations" then live in this shared house. Therefore, it is also the shared land that is used for this.

The constellation would be:
EW1: courtyard succession + partner (+ 1 or max. 2 children in the future)
EW2: parents

I know that such a constellation is often advised against here for understandable reasons. But the decision to build the shared house is made. In what form and design... well, among other things this thread is supposed to help :)

Edit: And yes, somehow that is also true. A ground-level granny flat is almost mandatory. And everything around it can basically happen. Nothing is set in stone yet, I would also be willing to completely rethink it from the ground up.

Quickly:

The current idea with the attached plan is to remove the pantry and simply add it to the kitchen, as well as give 1sqm from the bathroom to the kitchen. This pushes the kitchen a bit further back and it no longer extends so much into the living/dining area (and then there will be an additional door from the hallway to the kitchen).

Good idea! I would shorten the hallway a bit and possibly make the storage room under the stairs accessible from the kitchen, if it is to serve as the replacement pantry.

However, we still find the just under 62sqm downstairs a bit small, so we’re considering at least going to 10.99 x 17.11 in favor of our WE1. But that intensifies the problem that we will become even bigger on the upper floor.

I would solve that on the ground floor with a bay window on the house side, so the house is bigger downstairs but without building over.

On the ground floor in the bathroom a shower (outdoor area: You often come into the house dirty)

Is that so? Lol... Boots are taken off downstairs, then you go to where new clothes are waiting, and opposite is already the bathroom for showering.

It would be nice if we stay under 500,000€,

For both units? :eek:

Which 3D room program can you recommend? I’d like to transfer the floor plan and then bring the rooms to life in 3D

Try Homebyme, it works quickly over the internet.