Floor plan for a single-family house with 200m² with a separate apartment 75 + basement 140m² + garage 56m²

The physical strain was not about the risk of injury. If you carry a few tons of stones, then you know what I mean. Or lugging mortar bags up the construction stairs in the height of summer. That is something different from working a little in the garden or helping out with a move...

Thank you, this is the fourth mistake in my draft,

the fifth: windows! Windows on the upper floor on the eaves side (I assume, hence my suspicion of two-story construction and assumption that something is wrong there) ... and windows on the gable side. Are they standing on the floor with you? You will not be able or allowed to build any of these windows like that (parapet protection 90cm).. Dormers, in turn, reduce the allowed 2/3 negatively. I will show you where there are problems with the parapet and upper line regarding dressing room/wardrobe:

Where is my error in thinking here?

You don't know the woman (women) ;) Otherwise, I would also like to say something positive: You at least now have the approach of a house with separate apartments and garden shares as well as garden relation in general. The execution pearl chain is not commendable. Tip: the adjacency of bathrooms or water routes is completely overrated, as the concept of the water pipe is simple and does not play a financial role.

@Koehler I played Tetris and Blockout obsessively over 30 years ago, speed and two- or three-dimensional imagination were important. Building a house and floor plan is about a bit more than that.

Unfortunately, I have now become aware of that too, but I am glad to have had the experience.

If you have another person (best friend?) to whom you trust to give an honest, blunt opinion about the project, now would be a very good time to ask that person!
Anonymous forum participants can theoretically be anything, the worst lunatics :cool:
(Spoiler: not all of them)

Thank you very much for the hint, I will bring it up again.

And here too, you seem not to understand what almost everyone has written to you so far: Go to an architect. Without your draft. Just with a list of your requirements. Let the architect draw up a plan. A draftsman is not an architect!!

And what do I need to go to an architect? Exactly very concrete ideas, and I’m currently pulling plenty of those out here. Not how the finished structure should look, but whether it is even theoretically possible and whether my goal is feasible given the space requirements. K A T J A, st3lli83, Gregor_K, and y.p.g have helped me a lot with this. Without these comments, I would have stayed in my (harsh but honest) dream world and demanded the impossible from the architect, who then would have somehow put it together and I would have been disappointed afterward. I would have asked why this and that wasn’t done and would have wronged him.

[*]a basement is not possible within budget
[*]I basically have to recalculate financially
[*]I have to deal more with the workload and probably have a part of the work done by companies
[*]I understood that two small hallways are bad and a large hallway fits better
[*]I understood that there are building codes that some in the forum understand differently than I did
[*]I understood that the devil is in the details and some consider a width of 115cm far too small
[*]I understood that I should not insist on the hip roof if it is too expensive and a gable roof would also do
[*]That I absolutely only need living room, dining room, kitchen, and bathroom on the ground floor
[*]That every change in the building plan does not have only 2-dimensional effects like in Tetris but 4-dimensional ones (height, width, top/bottom, and the comfort factor [the hardest point for me])
[*]That I do not need a separate laundry room
[*]etc.
[*]Addition by y.p.g regarding parapet height (my god, is that a &$)§/"%)

the fifth: Windows! Windows on the upper floor eaves side (I assume, hence my guess about the two-story nature and assumption that something is wrong there) …and windows on the gable side. Are they sitting on the floor for you? You will not be able to build or be allowed to build any of those windows like that (parapet safety 90cm).. Dormers, in turn, reduce the allowed 2/3 negatively.
I’ll show you where there are problems with parapet and upper line

Sorry, but I thought that with a hip roof or gable roof you don’t need gables, my big apologies.
The note about the 90cm parapet safety — is that a general requirement? My exterior wall would have been almost 1.50m high (That is parapet height, right?)
I wanted to do it like in the image below but with a higher wall (like in my first submission)

I thought a lower roof pitch automatically results in a larger area for windows. :)
Thanks again for the info, is that regulated by the federal state or where can you get that information?


Just for a draft for 3 children's rooms and an office, but unfortunately without a granny flat, which I unfortunately lack.
But here I have also adopted a few new principles again.

Have you ever looked inside a room that has a window with a sill height of about 70-90 cm, and where the window ends at a maximum height of 150 cm? You enter the room and cannot see outside because the window (and that is the frame, not even the glass) ends at about chest height.

So you should also check again and look at model houses.

Just for a draft for 3 children's rooms and an office, but unfortunately without a granny flat which I unfortunately miss. But here I have also adopted a few new principles again.

Apart from the fact that I also find it a pity to take away any say from the possible future wife - a user had attached a mother-in-law bungalow to his normal house. I thought that had charm, so you have the floor plan of a normal house and still a granny flat on the ground floor. Your plot is not small after all.

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I had something similar in mind once. (Is that from the Schwörerhaus catalog?) Luckily, a representative talked me out of it. You can only see inside through the windows, not outside. That only makes sense if you care about the external appearance. If you want something for yourself, either build a proper full floor or invest the money in skylights.

Apart from the fact that I also find it a pity to take away any say from the potential future wife -

I don't see it that critically now. She will get to know him that way and will decide for or against it ;)