Floor plan "House for in-between" for 2-3.5 persons

Why should one lock the utility room?

You are right, I saw a non-existent door to the garden there and considered the utility room as a dirt lock, so that one could also enter the utility room from outside and then into the bathroom. But that does not make the design overall any less "special".

- Technical room not present, not integrable into 5m² utility room

What is the difference there? When I google "technical room vs utility room," the first result is "The utility room is therefore often also called a technical room," and the second "Technical room/utility room," in prefab house plans the same?

>When you enter the living room, you immediately stumble over the furnishings
Do you mean the armchair? To open, I only planned the door on the left side of the plan; the other side can simply be a large window or a door with a window that you never open

>Corner window in the living room (fashion trend) is blocked by the TV. Depending on the orientation (not checked) watching TV will be a pain in some seasons because the sun shines from behind the TV through the window
I prefer to have the window and, in the worst case, block half of it (and ideally have nothing in front of the window) rather than not having a window there at all from the start. Very good point about the opposite sun... I'll consider whether an awning on the outside can counteract it or whether the room still has enough window area outside with half-lowered blinds.

>Hallway long and dark
Don’t you think doors with appropriately large windows bring in enough brightness there? Once from the living room and once from the front door?

>Hallway furnished so that furniture is already planned in front of the double door to the living room. Either wrong furniture or wrongly planned hallway.
Definitely wrong furniture, thanks

>Window with patio door in the child’s room planned so that practically no wall is present – means it needs some kind of support, so it’s more expensive than necessary
Do you mean structurally?

>View from the sofa into the kitchen becomes restless due to the protruding corner of the bedroom
I’ve seen some floor plans where the living room and open kitchen are arranged L-shaped; I assumed it’s intentional so that you don’t always have the entire kitchen in sight. Or does it work better if the corner goes deeper toward the bottom of the plan?

So you have another property whose buildability for 2026/27 seems questionable. I find that hard to imagine considering we are already in autumn 2024. Any potential impossibility of creating building rights should already be becoming apparent in such a short time. Or is the municipal will already there, but the initiation process hasn’t started yet (because a rare variant of stone louse is rumored to nest there)?

However, the house design shown here would be more of a contamination than a use of the property discussed here, and as a "neither fish nor fowl" a formidable waste of money. Instead, build an "intermediate house" that performs well on the market as such, i.e. develop the property as far as permissible with a semi-detached house, or find a family interested in the second half. Considering the shape of the property, perhaps as fraternal twins, see .

A detached apartment unit the size of a spare bedroom is nonsense without any real value. In the design, I see several reasons to assume that this would create a slow seller, yet nothing that makes me guess why you even made your own planning efforts. Because nothing about it is "unique" or "difficult to fulfill with catalog models." Wouldn't the house from at least be debatably suitable (even if it only weakly utilizes the property here as well)?

If the top of the plan is more north, I would try to position the house as far to the east as possible (shorter driveway), maybe also the front door more to the right on the plan (and thus possibly a smaller hallway). To open up the garden towards the south/west, also the terrace.

My thought here was the furthest possible sightline from the living room into the narrowing corner of the property. So when sitting on the couch you can see the farthest when looking across the property towards the swing. I placed the front door at the top of the plan because I want to give the other rooms on the south side most of the light. >All users who want to go from their bedrooms to the bathroom have to pass by the front door. Not very visible from the property layout, but somehow uncomfortable. I'm surprised that someone could see that as a problem; I can't really imagine it, but that's what I'm here for.

that I would simply consider a plain existing property as a new build instead of a transitional house. Just move in and live, and if needed (or desired, if it fits with the desired plot), build the "real" house.

That would be my dream too, I agree with you, but without exaggerating, unfortunately, that doesn’t exist here without headaches. I have been searching since 2020 and either there are “handyman properties” which come without land, or there are apparently arbitrary steps throughout the house between the hallway and living room, etc.—there’s always something. There’s generally always something, but here it’s always something serious. Three years ago there was a house I regret not having bought because back then I still thought I could build the way I wanted. It should also be mentioned that I live in a small town, not a big city where new properties come onto the market daily. Anecdote: This year there was exactly one house for which I would have gladly paid 50k more because so much fit and it was move-in ready (freshly moved in couple, who then separated immediately), and right at the viewing some problems with the right of way suddenly came up. Probably all unfounded; the right of way exists according to the land register, but if you meet a neighbor like that in the first minute, you don’t need enemies anymore. The neighbor is probably a nice person and maybe just wanted to spoil the sale for the current owner, but I don’t want to bear the stress that these two may have had with each other in the past, and so unfortunately that was it for the house.

What is the difference? When I google "technikraum vs Hauswirtschaftsraum" the first result is "The utility room is therefore often called the technical room" and the second "Technical room/utility room", same for prefabricated house plans?

Sure, you can plan utility room and technical room together. But with some luck only the technology for heating, connections, etc. will fit in your room and that’s it.
A utility room is actually meant for washing clothes and similar tasks and for that you don’t have any space in your room.

>When you come into the living room, you immediately stumble over the furniture
Do you mean the armchair? For opening, I only thought of the door on the left side of the plan, the other side can then simply be a large window or a door with a window that you never open

Why? Why are you planning a door that you will open for me? When I have guests, I want them to be able to use the house without having to consider that they cannot use things because I blocked doors (already during planning).

>Corner window in the living room (fashion trend) is blocked by the TV. Depending on orientation (not checked) watching TV in some seasons will be a pain because the sun shines from behind the TV through the window, causing glare
I prefer having the window and in the worst case blocking it halfway (and in the best case for the window having nothing in front of it) rather than having no window there from the start. Very good point about the opposing sun… I’ll consider whether an awning outside can counteract that or if the room still has enough window area to the outside with the blinds half lowered.

Exactly the same here: you are planning a window that you intentionally block. Also, the blinds are already half lowered in the planning... Please contact a real architect if you want to continue, because your whole approach is unfortunate.

>Hallway long and dark
Don’t you think doors with windows that big will bring in enough brightness? So once from the living room and once from the front door?

Sure you get some light in there. But due to the length of the hallway and the living room in front of the hallway doors it will be significantly less than you might think now. Alternatively, you could use a skylight, but even that should be properly planned by an architect.

>Window with terrace door in the children’s room is planned so that practically no wall is present – means it has to be somehow supported, so it’s more expensive than necessary
Do you mean statically?

Yes

>View from the sofa into the kitchen becomes restless due to the protruding corner of the bedroom
I’ve seen some floor plans where living room and open kitchen were arranged L-shaped, I assumed that was intentional so that you don’t always have the whole kitchen in view. Or does that work better if the corner goes deeper towards the bottom of the plan?

Yes, you can do L-shaped, but what you have is not L-shaped, it’s rectangular with a small protruding wall nose.
That will look unfortunate in implementation.