Floor plan house with granny flat - improvement suggestions?

I got hold of a different floor plan of our house, with furniture and new views.

Perhaps you should loudly recap for us which thoughts from the design in led to the planning status shown here in post #65.

But by far not everything about the floor plan is bad.

However, there is still no "right in the wrong." If a design is no good in the end result, you have to redo it N-E-W!
That means you go back in the conceptual discussion and rebuild it from there (that’s how the architect does it without quotation marks, because only that is goal-oriented). If, instead, you cut out "all parts that were not entirely botched" out of pure respect for their innocence (or whatever) from being thrown away and incorporate them into the (then just not really) "new" design (but obviously without being able to miraculously increase money, outer dimensions, or anything similar by now), then unfortunately that is misleading – and the result is inevitably a hopeless, desperate muddle (that’s how the "architect" aka draft servant does it). Therefore, even the parts that were not entirely botched must be radically and rigorously revised!

You love your parents way too much to feed them something like that. At least I wouldn’t do it.

I already hinted that the OP will wish for a hole to sink into the ground upon realizing the real dimensions in the shell construction. Neatly plotted, it doesn’t look so criminal at all, but in reality

and do they know they have to eat at the TV table?

(I couldn’t have put it better) the extent of regret will no longer be alleviated that the dice have been cast (too cramped). Maybe before crossing the Rubicon, one should still go to "full-scale floor plan" :) – that would certainly be my recommendation. WITH THE RESIDENTS OF the granny flat, mind you.

and please mark them in your plan

This is also simply overlooked and remains uncommented.)

This may be because this regulation does not always apply outside of the clearance areas or within the building envelope.

That may be because this regulation does not always apply outside the clearance areas or within the building window.

That would then also be a comment one would like to know.

Hello, I am following here with interest. We are also moving in with our parents. Therefore, each of the floor plans has a few corners that we, building freely, would not have planned that way, but we can live very well with it.

However, for us it will be an attached bungalow with a city villa. That was the only way in which we could fulfill almost all wishes. Of course, we also had this possibility with the property.

The most important for us were

- Parents on the ground floor
- Separate terraces. So not next to each other but around the corner.
- 100 sqm bungalow

We also considered a classic two-family house. But my parents did not want to be on the ground floor because of the garden, and we did not want to be on the upper floor. The garden just does not really belong to the living space with a child who has a balcony and stairs to the garden. Parents on the upper floor is also not acceptable. Due to the property and the current construction style, we have a north terrace but still plenty of other garden.

But my parents also have ideas and my mother would not have moved into such a small apartment. I would not have wanted that either.

I want to say that everyone maybe makes compromises in such a constellation, but the floor plan is really not that nice. I find it very small. Draw it out in chalk to the dimensions. To get a little feeling for it.

Good luck going forward!

I’m also throwing in an idea where there is only 1 staircase for 2 residential units on the upper floor. The brother’s room and bathroom could be used by the family or guests when the brother is not there. But since the brother also needs to eat somewhere, he probably always sits at the table with the parents, and that’s why the 70 cm table and the 200 cm kitchen unit certainly won’t work. There would be significantly more space here in the granny flat:

I’ll throw in another idea where there is only 1 staircase to 2 residential units on the upper floor. The brother’s room and bathroom could be used by the family or guests when the brother isn’t there.

Hehe, the suggestion is practically representative of the category "ideas for which the Zchenknecht has no balls" *ROTFL* *SCNR*