Floor plan house with granny flat - improvement suggestions?

Garages/carports must have a 5m distance from the street (at least in our development area).

To build a roof for bicycles in the distance area to the street as shown – I would ask about that first.

That applies “generally” to the driveway parking area (Ca/Ga)… if the house may be built 3 meters from the street, then a shed or similar here would normally also be allowed to be built with normal distance rules.

Otherwise, this design would in my opinion be approvable.

But honestly: I don’t find it nice. The seniors wind along the corridor, is their bedroom upstairs or on the ground floor? 2-meter closet giving little walkway to the bed. The bathrooms are also rather guest bathrooms. Altogether 5 bathrooms...

Here is my suggestion. Yes, there is a room missing downstairs,

That doesn’t cover any described need of the OP or the granny flat at all. Privacy for a family of five is zero. I’m working on it as well. However, I’ll probably wait for all the OP’s answers first… because a decent utility room plus student flat plus well-being of all permanent residents also cannot be created in one day even with compromises. For me, definitely the occasional permanent guest is a proper space waster. However, they are simply there...

For me, the sporadic regular guest is definitely a significant space waster. However, he is there after all..,

The sporadic regular guest wastes less space than the unnecessary staircase. And you can hardly tell his parents: "give me something added to the house, but throw my brother out".

But honestly: I don’t find it nice. The seniors snake along the hallway, is their bedroom upstairs or on the ground floor? A 2-meter closet that leaves little space next to the bed. The bathrooms are also more like guest bathrooms. A total of 5 bathrooms..

Oh, I didn’t think it was that bad. I also find 5 bathrooms somehow too many, but that comes from the wish list of the OP.

I’m working on it too.

:cool:

For me, the occasional permanent guest is definitely a considerable space waster. But he’s just there..,

Unloved troublemaker, that one... :D

I picked up the idea from again and aimed for the two-family house, where the spry parents were accommodated upstairs as suggested. Once the children have moved out, one could imagine the grandparents moving back down for care or just for the sake of it, and renting out the upstairs would then be quite simple. It would even be possible to separate the ground floor into two apartments.
Unfortunately, I can’t straighten the top wall of the plan without losing too much space. That’s why the kink remains.

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I picked up the idea from again and targeted the two-family house, with the sprightly parents accommodated upstairs as suggested. If the children eventually move out, one could imagine the grandparents moving back downstairs for care or just like that, and then renting out upstairs would be quite simple. It would even be conceivable to separate the downstairs into two residential units. Unfortunately, I can't get the upper plan wall straight without losing too much space. That's why the kink remains.

Super, I like this floor plan best of all. It is compact and prepared for most possible eventualities in the future. However, there are unfortunately two decisive disadvantages that you couldn't have known. 1. The utility room must be on the ground floor and accessible from the street. This is a requirement from the municipal utilities here because of the cold local heating network. 2. My parents would like to live on the ground floor. They currently live on the first floor and no longer want that. I think with increasing age, more will want to live on the ground floor. Otherwise, the floor plan is great! What is also good is that the roof of the parents' bedroom could also be used as a roof terrace for the apartment on the first floor.

I got myself a different floor plan of our house, with furniture and new views. Maybe this floor plan will make some things a bit clearer and perhaps give a better sense of space. I hope, after seeing the first drafts from Katja and Sunshine (many thanks to you both), it will be clear what a difficult task we were facing a few months ago and why the planning took a bit longer. I also have to say that I am slowly getting the feeling that, for example, the very harsh criticism of our floor plan was perhaps a bit exaggerated here and there. Please don’t misunderstand me, some of the criticism is justified and I also acknowledge that the living room of the granny flat turned out a bit too small. But the floor plan is by far not all bad.

But I agree with you that the OP is planning a house here that will be hard to sell. When all the children have moved out (which is foreseeable), it will be a monster that is hardly rentable. The entire upper floor will then be like a haunted house.

I do not quite agree with this - 1. We are currently planning the construction of our house and are (not yet) thinking about selling and do not want to do so. 2. If the children move out of the house, we could move into the granny flat (then we will certainly be at an age where we want to live on the ground floor) and rent our apartment to a family with 2 or 3 children.