czumplanen
2024-10-23 21:57:21
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Best regards to the forum,
I want to build a 100-110sqm house with a children's room and a smaller room that can at least serve as an emergency children's room for a few more years. I like big windows, I will spend a lot of time in the living room due to my job, so I don’t want to save space there. Am I overlooking something major as a layperson or are my ideas realistic?
Context of my situation:
I have a plot of land where building may be possible in 2026-2027, but so far there is no guarantee that it will ever happen.
However, since I want to move out of my parents’ house (or actually from my partner’s apartment for a few months now) and I don’t think building will become much cheaper, I would now like to first buy and build on a roughly 1000sqm plot where a development plan already exists. This will not be my dream house; there is always a compromise somewhere, and finding it currently gives me a headache.
My options would now be:
No matter what I do, the future may show me in each case that I made a mistake looking back—which is why I’m currently leaning toward option 3 as a middle ground. I would then like to finance the costs of my dream house by selling the temporary house, but to sell it, it has to be something that others can make use of.
I didn’t really like the proposed floor plan from the builder, so I came up with my own layout which, after 15 hours of pushing and pulling, I now find quite okay. The professionals among you will laugh that I’m using home.by.me, but if you have absolutely no idea, it’s incredibly helpful to fill rooms with furniture in 3D to get a first impression of room sizes. The furniture itself isn’t meant to be exactly like that—I was just concerned about the dimensions, like how far a cabinet projects into the hallway.
Driveway and carport should be roughly like this; everything else on the plot, including the lovingly placed swing, serves me only as a reference for the size of the remaining plot, and the terrace is just roughly positioned. I naively set the walls to 170mm inside and outside out of ignorance.
About the rooms:
The hallway might be 20cm narrower at the expense of a narrower house width or slightly larger children's rooms, but that shouldn’t make a huge difference now.
Bathroom 1 is relatively small compared to the bathroom in my parents’ house but I think it has everything you need. The shower is a bit larger than my current 80x80 at 90x90, allowing about 100cm passage between sink and shower. It’s not huge but I think it works. This requires the door to open into the hallway.
Bathroom 2 is tiny but exactly the size of our current guest toilet.
The utility room has everything you need with 5.7sqm if I haven’t forgotten anything; I read a minimum size of 6sqm on the internet.
The bedroom is rather minimum size; one more wardrobe would definitely not hurt, maybe I’ll put taller cabinets to the left and right of the TV.
I have absolutely no sense of scale for the kitchen. Are kitchen modules standardized in width or do you just have the walls as you have them and build the kitchen accordingly? If I do have to enlarge Bathroom 1, I would most likely take space from the kitchen for that.
For the living room, I don’t know how to combine a nice view of the plot, a TV and a fireplace all in one glance. But I find these corner windows very cool (if the statics allow it) and you can always rearrange somehow. It’s important to me not to regret later having too little space or windows in the wrong place. I quite like the recessed wall to the kitchen to have at least some separation between kitchen and living room despite an open kitchen, especially if there is stuff lying around.
Orientation: The upper edge of the draft points northeast-east
Attached is the list; I have deleted what has already been answered or does not apply:
Development plan/restrictions
Plot size: 1000sqm
Building window, building line and limit: Corner plot, the only neighbor is 9 meters behind the plot boundary in the direction of the carport
Number of parking spaces: Probably 2 in a row and whichever car is parked in front is driven
Number of floors: 1
Roof type: No preference
Style: No preference
Client requirements
Basement: No basement
Open kitchen so the living room appears larger
Carport: Yes
House design
Planner: Do-it-yourself
Personal price limit for the house: €275,000 for 106sqm, without kitchen, without furniture, without carport, without terrace, without hedge (represented as a fence in the design)
Preferred heating technology: Heat pump
Why did the design turn out the way it did?
What do you consider particularly good or bad about it: I hope to have placed the rooms reasonably on the space, but as an amateur I have no sense of it. I therefore really appreciate any comments; better to be criticized now than waste money later because I missed something.
I want to build a 100-110sqm house with a children's room and a smaller room that can at least serve as an emergency children's room for a few more years. I like big windows, I will spend a lot of time in the living room due to my job, so I don’t want to save space there. Am I overlooking something major as a layperson or are my ideas realistic?
Context of my situation:
I have a plot of land where building may be possible in 2026-2027, but so far there is no guarantee that it will ever happen.
However, since I want to move out of my parents’ house (or actually from my partner’s apartment for a few months now) and I don’t think building will become much cheaper, I would now like to first buy and build on a roughly 1000sqm plot where a development plan already exists. This will not be my dream house; there is always a compromise somewhere, and finding it currently gives me a headache.
My options would now be:
[*]Stay put for 3 more years and then maybe be disappointed that I might not be allowed to build on my dream plot even then
[*]Build a house the size of an apartment (around 80sqm) and then be annoyed about the size when children come before I’m allowed to build my bigger dream house
[*]Build a 100-110sqm house that is nice to live in but will become too small by the second child at the latest
[*]Go all in and build my dream house now on a plot that isn’t my dream plot (location, layout, size)
No matter what I do, the future may show me in each case that I made a mistake looking back—which is why I’m currently leaning toward option 3 as a middle ground. I would then like to finance the costs of my dream house by selling the temporary house, but to sell it, it has to be something that others can make use of.
I didn’t really like the proposed floor plan from the builder, so I came up with my own layout which, after 15 hours of pushing and pulling, I now find quite okay. The professionals among you will laugh that I’m using home.by.me, but if you have absolutely no idea, it’s incredibly helpful to fill rooms with furniture in 3D to get a first impression of room sizes. The furniture itself isn’t meant to be exactly like that—I was just concerned about the dimensions, like how far a cabinet projects into the hallway.
Driveway and carport should be roughly like this; everything else on the plot, including the lovingly placed swing, serves me only as a reference for the size of the remaining plot, and the terrace is just roughly positioned. I naively set the walls to 170mm inside and outside out of ignorance.
About the rooms:
The hallway might be 20cm narrower at the expense of a narrower house width or slightly larger children's rooms, but that shouldn’t make a huge difference now.
Bathroom 1 is relatively small compared to the bathroom in my parents’ house but I think it has everything you need. The shower is a bit larger than my current 80x80 at 90x90, allowing about 100cm passage between sink and shower. It’s not huge but I think it works. This requires the door to open into the hallway.
Bathroom 2 is tiny but exactly the size of our current guest toilet.
The utility room has everything you need with 5.7sqm if I haven’t forgotten anything; I read a minimum size of 6sqm on the internet.
The bedroom is rather minimum size; one more wardrobe would definitely not hurt, maybe I’ll put taller cabinets to the left and right of the TV.
I have absolutely no sense of scale for the kitchen. Are kitchen modules standardized in width or do you just have the walls as you have them and build the kitchen accordingly? If I do have to enlarge Bathroom 1, I would most likely take space from the kitchen for that.
For the living room, I don’t know how to combine a nice view of the plot, a TV and a fireplace all in one glance. But I find these corner windows very cool (if the statics allow it) and you can always rearrange somehow. It’s important to me not to regret later having too little space or windows in the wrong place. I quite like the recessed wall to the kitchen to have at least some separation between kitchen and living room despite an open kitchen, especially if there is stuff lying around.
Orientation: The upper edge of the draft points northeast-east
Attached is the list; I have deleted what has already been answered or does not apply:
Development plan/restrictions
Plot size: 1000sqm
Building window, building line and limit: Corner plot, the only neighbor is 9 meters behind the plot boundary in the direction of the carport
Number of parking spaces: Probably 2 in a row and whichever car is parked in front is driven
Number of floors: 1
Roof type: No preference
Style: No preference
Client requirements
Basement: No basement
Open kitchen so the living room appears larger
Carport: Yes
House design
Planner: Do-it-yourself
Personal price limit for the house: €275,000 for 106sqm, without kitchen, without furniture, without carport, without terrace, without hedge (represented as a fence in the design)
Preferred heating technology: Heat pump
Why did the design turn out the way it did?
What do you consider particularly good or bad about it: I hope to have placed the rooms reasonably on the space, but as an amateur I have no sense of it. I therefore really appreciate any comments; better to be criticized now than waste money later because I missed something.