Your own work is admirable, but I strongly recommend handing over the planning completely to a professional. You shouldn’t risk building such a big house incorrectly.
In my opinion, the budget is worryingly low.
The interested reader will probably be very skeptical about your manpower. You can’t do something like this alone, and even with family and friends it can become a bottomless pit. What exactly do you want to manage yourself with 275sqm + 140sqm basement?
Many thanks for your honest criticism. This is currently my own draft, and I definitely won’t do the construction planning myself. A technical draftsman/future architect is planned for that.
The budget really isn’t very high, so I wanted to know if I should cut some things right away from my plan; you can’t just add a basement.
Family would help with groundwork, water/sewage and roofing; I would do the masonry, electrical work (myself, trained), flooring and painting. I haven’t found anyone for the rest yet and those would have to be done by companies.
The floor plans are catastrophic.
No need to discuss the details because unfortunately nothing works.
You have about 30 small rooms, 100 corners, and only doors, passages, and tight spaces everywhere.
No offense, but this belongs in the round filing bin and then be re-planned.
Unfortunately, I don’t understand your argument? Which rooms can I leave out? I find the rooms very well sized for 200sqm, and I don’t know anyone who builds a room without a door? Normally every room has 4 walls—or should I build round rooms everywhere? Sorry, but I must respectfully say that your answer lacks further information. The only room with many doors is the dressing room. On the lower level, I even have an open kitchen and an open living room—that means 2 walls less? Where can I leave out a wall?
Should I lie and claim that the Mrs. Rights of this world find already finished nests attractive, or play it with an open hand?
That a "hipped gable roof" is somewhat born out of a requirement to fit into the surroundings, we haven’t discussed here as far as I recall. Constructively it is not trivial and probably expensive.
I was told that a hipped gable roof is almost as complex as a gable roof with two dormers, but here I don’t know enough myself.
Due to a possible divorce, a prenuptial agreement would be absolutely necessary.
I want to build my dream house as well as possible; I have to make compromises everywhere, but I can’t afford a plot with 5000sqm and a villa on top.
Example that there’s no perfect: if you don’t want to see the parents, they should live at least 10 km away, and if you need them (babysitter), they should live at most 1 km away, so I just build a 5-kilometer-long wall around the property and open the door if I need them—very interesting approach, really.
You apparently understand children’s rooms differently than I do; when the children leave home, will a part of the house be torn down after each child?
The children’s rooms could also be a fitness center, office, guest room, library, storage, home cinema, reading room, lounge, lab, workshop, rehearsal room, etc.
I’ve had very different experiences in my circle of friends than you (the negative sticks longer ...):
Both plan a house, and in a separation only some money is burned.
Both start building, and in case of separation the loan is split, and the house remains a ruin.
Both finish the house and then quarrel; the house is foreclosed -> no house, lots of nerves lost and still in debt since foreclosure is below the loan.
Both build a house and planned for two children and now have four children.
If children are involved in a separation, things get even more complicated (usually the house is only a side issue).
Consequently, I can plan whatever and however I want; it always turns out differently. Most of my friends, where it went well, either bought/inherited a house, built before, or still rent; there is no royal road for the future.
I want to stop the thought game of a Lego house because it simply misses the point of my floor plan topic.
As I said, the plot belongs to my mother. What I haven’t mentioned before, but is obvious to me, is that we both want access to the street, a large garden, a living room facing the street (south side), sorry, I hadn’t mentioned that before, but in other parts this planning error was always criticized.
It is more likely the building code requirements of the state that you have to comply with.
The other way around: only 2/3 of the floor area in the roof may be 2.30m or higher. Check yours: did you manage that? At first glance at the small boxes, it looks more like you planned a two-story.
We should make it clear that YOU are asking and want an honest answer. So if you pretend your needs are different, you get a false answer you can’t use. It is simply not matching your situation if you only plan empty rooms: even the basement is full of placeholders... You are basically vacuum packing your desired future into a house.
In short: it’s not yet time for you to worry about building a house.
1. currently it’s financially not calculable and more of a risk
2. building a house is nest building, which should bind a _couple_ closer together
3. the budget is completely miscalculated and doesn’t fit the house
4. the design is not mature
Orientation with the garage in the southwest is questionable. Was there any outdoor planning at all, or was it omitted? Where do the terraces go? They are not included in the plan at all. Orientation of rooms, forecourt, terraces, integration of these, subdivision of the plot into two private areas... everything looks slapped on.
I can’t make much sense of the grid used by the program, so I can’t judge the draft itself. But the dressing room stands out negatively as well as the too small technical/utility room, dark dining area without windows, dark kitchen in the granny flat... with these room sizes many dark areas emerge in the middle of the house anyway.
A slightly larger Google Maps excerpt would be useful since you have to adapt to the neighboring buildings.
I would have probably rotated the house, put a shed and terrace of the granny flat in the back, the garage in front, driveway on the east side, and a terrace and garden for the main unit in the southwest. Then start house planning.
Thanks very much for the comment about the empty rooms; I expected that one. The basement is only full of empty rooms because I don’t “need” it, but I’d really like to have it to ease the situation upstairs a bit: two offices, a hobby room for me and one for my wife, sauna, bathroom, relaxation room, storage, fitness center, laundry room, pantry, etc.
I thank you sincerely for your four arguments in response to two of my questions. That is very tough but honest criticism. At least now I know that I won’t build a basement or garage at the start due to financially very unlikely calculations. Thanks, I gladly accept exactly such comments, no matter the direction.
For the outdoor planning, I added a larger image excerpt; there is no terrace planned yet (financially), and everything should be green first, then we will see where we like to stay most. A small terrace was planned behind the house and between the house and the garage, but that will come much later.
No one plans 3 children's rooms voluntarily... ;) I have been looking for good floor plans for 3 children’s rooms for about half a year now and it’s really not that easy. Since I have 3 children, I have no choice. In my opinion, you are still at the very beginning and should first consider your own needs. For 2 people, such a big house is unnecessary in my view.
Honestly, I don’t really understand your statement? Did you build a house when you were two, then another with the first child, and then another house with the second child? And now you are building the next house for 3 children? In my family and circle of friends, we plan first and then build. The number of children’s rooms then determines the end of child planning. Of course, only if nothing unplanned happens (which always happens).
General:
I will now stop with the topic of family planning here because you have different experiences and have now shared them with me. Of course, I would be happy about further comments on what can be improved, but despite the objections, I will continue to plan with 3 additional rooms (children's rooms) because I don’t earn enough money to afford another plot and house someday.
I hope the further input has helped now.
