Kazazi
2014-01-06 12:27:14
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Hello dear ones,
the planning for our construction project is slowly becoming more concrete, so we would be very happy to receive suggestions regarding our floor plan ideas. I have attached our first floor plan idea below. Windows, doors, etc. have not been precisely thought through yet; it is primarily about the rough spatial layout. The square meters probably don’t quite add up yet either, as now, after we have already (I think!) deducted slanted ceilings, it amounts to about 150 m2, which we probably cannot afford, but the shape and layout of the house roughly correspond to our vision.
The given parameters for us are:
Building window 10x10 m, 1.5-storey construction. The plot is about 575 m2, approximately 30 m east-west, approximately 20 m north-south. The placement of the house is planned in the northeast corner, ridge direction east-west (not sure if it must be that way, but it makes sense, right?).
We are a family of five with grandparents far outside our place of residence (Berlin) and therefore wish for:
at least: living-dining-cooking area, large utility/storage room (HAR), 1x shower bathroom, 1x family bathroom, 4 bedrooms plus ideally: another room (office/guest) and/or habitable fallback space in the attic
All this as cost-effectively as possible, as the budget for the house alone is 190,000 EUR.
According to the , we would at least like to have a staircase to the attic built in, even if a complete finish may not be affordable yet.
After we looked at a 134 m2 (net living area) model house of the well-known Stadt & Land manufacturer over the weekend, we found that the 6 living rooms we wanted were actually accommodated with “flair,” but it was a bit cramped.
So we tried a floor plan that makes the house overall a bit bigger, allowing for a shower bathroom and a somewhat larger extra room on the ground floor, as follows:
[ATTACH alt="grundrissideen-fuer-efh-140-m2-56290-2.jpg" type="full"]2067[/ATTACH][ATTACH alt="grundrissideen-fuer-efh-140-m2-56290-1.jpg" type="full"]2066[/ATTACH]
The middle bedroom on the upper floor works because it is completely in a dormer. We actually like this layout very much, and a house with such a dormer also looks very good from the outside. Our concern, however, is that the dormer might become too expensive and/or that even with somewhat more square meters than in the model house we visited, the rooms might still be a bit tight.
The alternatives we are considering are as follows:
First, to do without the 4th room on the upper floor and instead place three equally sized rooms plus a bathroom there in the classic way. Then, however, a resident would have to vanish into another room during grandparents' visits or the attic would have to be prepared as a fallback space. It would also be important that the extra room on the ground floor is large enough to serve as a fully functional private room (which we have already tried to achieve in the ground floor plan).
Second, if we cannot afford the dormer, we have made an attempt to maximize the space on the upper floor by moving the bathroom to the middle, so that all four bedrooms still have decent windows. This resulted in the following:
[ATTACH alt="grundrissideen-fuer-efh-140-m2-56290-3.jpg" type="full"]2068[/ATTACH]
Apart from the fact that the “feeling of crampedness” remains here as well, what bothers me about this version is that, unlike the dormer version, it would later be difficult to create 2-3 well-cut rooms from it, which is actually an appealing option for the time when the children have moved out.
That’s how far we are for now! Tomorrow we have an appointment at the architect’s office, into which we would like to go with as clear ideas as possible, so we would be very glad to receive feedback today that helps us to refine and improve the ideas listed here. Many thanks in advance for your suggestions!
Kind regards,
Kazazi
the planning for our construction project is slowly becoming more concrete, so we would be very happy to receive suggestions regarding our floor plan ideas. I have attached our first floor plan idea below. Windows, doors, etc. have not been precisely thought through yet; it is primarily about the rough spatial layout. The square meters probably don’t quite add up yet either, as now, after we have already (I think!) deducted slanted ceilings, it amounts to about 150 m2, which we probably cannot afford, but the shape and layout of the house roughly correspond to our vision.
The given parameters for us are:
Building window 10x10 m, 1.5-storey construction. The plot is about 575 m2, approximately 30 m east-west, approximately 20 m north-south. The placement of the house is planned in the northeast corner, ridge direction east-west (not sure if it must be that way, but it makes sense, right?).
We are a family of five with grandparents far outside our place of residence (Berlin) and therefore wish for:
at least: living-dining-cooking area, large utility/storage room (HAR), 1x shower bathroom, 1x family bathroom, 4 bedrooms plus ideally: another room (office/guest) and/or habitable fallback space in the attic
All this as cost-effectively as possible, as the budget for the house alone is 190,000 EUR.
According to the , we would at least like to have a staircase to the attic built in, even if a complete finish may not be affordable yet.
After we looked at a 134 m2 (net living area) model house of the well-known Stadt & Land manufacturer over the weekend, we found that the 6 living rooms we wanted were actually accommodated with “flair,” but it was a bit cramped.
So we tried a floor plan that makes the house overall a bit bigger, allowing for a shower bathroom and a somewhat larger extra room on the ground floor, as follows:
[ATTACH alt="grundrissideen-fuer-efh-140-m2-56290-2.jpg" type="full"]2067[/ATTACH][ATTACH alt="grundrissideen-fuer-efh-140-m2-56290-1.jpg" type="full"]2066[/ATTACH]
The middle bedroom on the upper floor works because it is completely in a dormer. We actually like this layout very much, and a house with such a dormer also looks very good from the outside. Our concern, however, is that the dormer might become too expensive and/or that even with somewhat more square meters than in the model house we visited, the rooms might still be a bit tight.
The alternatives we are considering are as follows:
First, to do without the 4th room on the upper floor and instead place three equally sized rooms plus a bathroom there in the classic way. Then, however, a resident would have to vanish into another room during grandparents' visits or the attic would have to be prepared as a fallback space. It would also be important that the extra room on the ground floor is large enough to serve as a fully functional private room (which we have already tried to achieve in the ground floor plan).
Second, if we cannot afford the dormer, we have made an attempt to maximize the space on the upper floor by moving the bathroom to the middle, so that all four bedrooms still have decent windows. This resulted in the following:
[ATTACH alt="grundrissideen-fuer-efh-140-m2-56290-3.jpg" type="full"]2068[/ATTACH]
Apart from the fact that the “feeling of crampedness” remains here as well, what bothers me about this version is that, unlike the dormer version, it would later be difficult to create 2-3 well-cut rooms from it, which is actually an appealing option for the time when the children have moved out.
That’s how far we are for now! Tomorrow we have an appointment at the architect’s office, into which we would like to go with as clear ideas as possible, so we would be very glad to receive feedback today that helps us to refine and improve the ideas listed here. Many thanks in advance for your suggestions!
Kind regards,
Kazazi