axellent
2015-02-20 21:47:37
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Hello dear forum community,
Until now, I have only been diligently reading, but now I want to become a bit more active.
We want to build a house this year and have already had initial talks with developers, who are currently taking a lot of time to work out ideas. But due to the fact that ultimately only one gets the contract and the others thus do not refinance their preliminary work, this is understandable when choosing the path with a developer.
Therefore, we have been intensively dealing with different floor plans lately and have put together our “optimal” house ourselves. Since developers often plan our ideas 1:1, we are not sure whether there are any logical/practical mistakes in our planning. So I am happy to present our floor plan here for discussion.
Since I only worked with tracing paper and handwritten notes, I ask for some understanding if the usual quality criteria are not met.
The plot is a total of 970 m2 and has a slight slope (about 1.50 m height difference from east to west over approx. 24 m width, i.e. the west lies lower).
We have been promised an exemption from the development plan, allowing us to build the garage not in the south but in the north, if we maintain the 3 m boundary construction (or possibly build on the boundary line with the neighbor’s signature). Although we are aware that there is a difference between “promised” and approval, we would like to proceed with this plan.
On the site plan, I have drawn the desired placement of our house including the double garage. That means in the floor plans in the PDF, the top is south and the bottom is north.
Our thoughts on the plan:
We currently have no children, but if everything goes as planned, we will live in the house with 2–3 children. Since we want to separate the parents' area at least during the “teenage” years from the children’s area, we would like to plan two children’s rooms in the basement. Of course, a living room height and large basement windows that bring enough light into the room (so no light wells) are important. We currently think that this wish should be possible due to the slight slope with windows facing west. (Alternative A Basement)
Although this means losing the west terrace, we want to grant our children a separate children’s area if they want it. A toilet with a shower would initially be only on the ground floor but could be “retrofitted” in the basement if necessary.
I would not consider Alternative B in the basement for now.
The office/workroom on the ground floor is a room where possibly a child or, in senior age, the “old folks” could set up a bedroom.
As is also visible in the plans, we have planned a small gallery in the entrance area, as we personally do not like the floor plans where the attic basically consists of just a small corridor with four doors leading into the rooms, and we want a somewhat more open ambience.
The sizes of the rooms may vary a bit. We definitely want a large kitchen with a pantry and a small dining table possibility as well as a spacious living/dining room. A separation of dining room and kitchen is also very important to us.
Unfortunately, I cannot provide an exterior view at the moment, but that is only important to us in a second step.
We would place the air heat pump in the northeast, away from the parents’ and children’s bedrooms.
Whether we make a direct access to the garage in the north (in the form of a vestibule) will ultimately be a question of price but is of minor importance to us.
These are the essential points that came to my mind regarding our plans for now. Of course, I would be happy to answer further questions and now I look forward to your open feedback.
Best regards,
Axellent
Until now, I have only been diligently reading, but now I want to become a bit more active.
We want to build a house this year and have already had initial talks with developers, who are currently taking a lot of time to work out ideas. But due to the fact that ultimately only one gets the contract and the others thus do not refinance their preliminary work, this is understandable when choosing the path with a developer.
Therefore, we have been intensively dealing with different floor plans lately and have put together our “optimal” house ourselves. Since developers often plan our ideas 1:1, we are not sure whether there are any logical/practical mistakes in our planning. So I am happy to present our floor plan here for discussion.
Since I only worked with tracing paper and handwritten notes, I ask for some understanding if the usual quality criteria are not met.
The plot is a total of 970 m2 and has a slight slope (about 1.50 m height difference from east to west over approx. 24 m width, i.e. the west lies lower).
We have been promised an exemption from the development plan, allowing us to build the garage not in the south but in the north, if we maintain the 3 m boundary construction (or possibly build on the boundary line with the neighbor’s signature). Although we are aware that there is a difference between “promised” and approval, we would like to proceed with this plan.
On the site plan, I have drawn the desired placement of our house including the double garage. That means in the floor plans in the PDF, the top is south and the bottom is north.
Our thoughts on the plan:
We currently have no children, but if everything goes as planned, we will live in the house with 2–3 children. Since we want to separate the parents' area at least during the “teenage” years from the children’s area, we would like to plan two children’s rooms in the basement. Of course, a living room height and large basement windows that bring enough light into the room (so no light wells) are important. We currently think that this wish should be possible due to the slight slope with windows facing west. (Alternative A Basement)
Although this means losing the west terrace, we want to grant our children a separate children’s area if they want it. A toilet with a shower would initially be only on the ground floor but could be “retrofitted” in the basement if necessary.
I would not consider Alternative B in the basement for now.
The office/workroom on the ground floor is a room where possibly a child or, in senior age, the “old folks” could set up a bedroom.
As is also visible in the plans, we have planned a small gallery in the entrance area, as we personally do not like the floor plans where the attic basically consists of just a small corridor with four doors leading into the rooms, and we want a somewhat more open ambience.
The sizes of the rooms may vary a bit. We definitely want a large kitchen with a pantry and a small dining table possibility as well as a spacious living/dining room. A separation of dining room and kitchen is also very important to us.
Unfortunately, I cannot provide an exterior view at the moment, but that is only important to us in a second step.
We would place the air heat pump in the northeast, away from the parents’ and children’s bedrooms.
Whether we make a direct access to the garage in the north (in the form of a vestibule) will ultimately be a question of price but is of minor importance to us.
These are the essential points that came to my mind regarding our plans for now. Of course, I would be happy to answer further questions and now I look forward to your open feedback.
Best regards,
Axellent