Floor plan "HOUSE FOR TWO" of approximately 150 sqm presents itself

Just a question, if you have such a large property, why does the upper floor have to be the same size/shape as the ground floor? Why can't the ground floor be larger, and the upper floor, for example, only have a master suite with a dressing room and bathroom? The roof can be a gable roof, but part of the living/dining area with a flat roof and skylights?

....one should not accept anything from strange women.....that’s what I was taught as a youngster; because it can be dangerous.

Boy, boy, that is obsolete in times of equality. Well, more left for me. Just google Nullbarriere. There you will find bathrooms and sleeping rooms. If you plan with case X it should also fit. By the way, turning areas etc. for wheelchair/walker can be planned without obviously looking like a hospital or nursing home. Be sure to have the pre-wall installations reinforced at the toilets for grab bars and place an outlet. Interior can be adapted if needed. I’m not sure if I wouldn’t swap the sleeping and gallery. When do you get the most from the lake view? With closed eyes or while enjoying a glass of wine, coffee, cigar, chatting with friends? If you swap, then swap sleeping with guest and the age discussion becomes irrelevant.

When planning renovations for the case of decreasing physical agility, you don’t have to think of the interior walls as they will stand in the coming years (decades).

[*]A inclined platform lift for wheelchairs fits in the place of the stairs. [*]The bedroom can be moved forward to the mezzanine, then a wall is simply built—or not, if someone bedridden still wants to participate in life—or else it can be variably opened and closed. [*]The bathroom can then be enlarged into the current sleeping area—as long as the walls are not load-bearing, this can be planned structurally. [*]A normal elevator would also fit into the house.

Therefore: lay some strong electrical lines at the appropriate locations and consider whether you can run water and sewage to a place that is not currently needed but likely to be used for later renovations. An open house like yours has a certain plasticity. Just plan for this and that’s that.

as if the way to the bathroom was short and all....

At some point you have to face the facts

guest WC exclusively for random visitors without overnight stay entitlement; poorly feasible upstairs again.

That was just a scenario from us, the principle of taking the best for yourself and making the guest crawl.

Entry works, I did it exactly here once

not with the toilet in front of it!

many possible scenarios.

And that’s exactly the point: not to plan possible scenarios later with renovations, tearing down walls, installing technical equipment (let’s see what comes), but to build it optimally now for us older generations. I am truly not a fan of houses built by young families planning every eventuality of ailments. But if a senior and a soon-to-be senior build a house FOR TWO, then you can plan it elegantly without later remodeling measures and build it right away.

West sun sure.... but there are neighboring houses etc.,

Neighbors are everywhere, but what are light strips and hedges for?

As already said: Our house is also a HOUSE FOR TWO, with twice the living space downstairs than upstairs.... but the mentioned (switching guest/bedroom) we unfortunately did not implement consistently, and that can annoy me. And you will still remember my words, you know that.

No, that didn’t necessarily have to be the case, but we were also consciously quite close to the development plan, after being informed beforehand which things would definitely be accepted. And within that framework we moved and still had more than enough room for imagination. If there was something we absolutely wanted, we would apply for that exception.

The longer I read this, the more I wonder whether I should just go to the nursing home right away.... In principle, every house builder should actually build barrier-free, since they are building their house for old age as well (at least that is the predominant intention). I believe one must know and be prepared to make a new decision depending on the situation, without regretting the previous one. From our own diverse experience, we know that structural measures only cover a small part of this issue and are the most changeable. We don’t like harakiri but do like comfortable living. Where life must necessarily be changed, it is changed. I believe this willingness is more important than the most delicate structural measure in anticipation of a very specific physical limitation. But I quite often experience that especially young people do not want to deal with necessary changes at all. Wommmmmm.
Swapping bedroom and gallery also has something special, especially with the option to move the living room upstairs and gain a small relaxation/rest area around the fireplace on the ground floor.
The many inspiring suggestions lead to the final consideration to rethink the areas once more (except kitchen + dining) and see if this could mean a gain in living quality for us. So your idea absolutely has potential; just like the idea of looking at the lake early in the morning already buzzed with red wine and a steaming cigar. How romantic. Since at the moment we have a super great natural view from the bed, we might be too fixated on restoring that. We are thinking it over......


A very good approach, which we have similarly in mind. Things can be realized through lightweight walls and a few empty conduits, among other things. I worry less about that overall, since I have already implemented it several times according to necessity or preference. I believe I also enjoy remodeling. Somehow I have already mentally remodeled or extended the house several times depending on the imagined situation and therefore know that there are options.

Many thanks for the new inspiration.

I can only agree with Yvonne, that is why I had sketched the layout .