Hi, thanks for the feedback. Yeah sorry, I had forgotten to link the old thread. Thanks for adding it.
The house I was referring to wasn’t the normal Kiefernallee, but the one under "Aktionen" and then "KFW Sonderserie" and there the Kiefernallee house. The upper floor just got a second bathroom. Yesterday before going to bed we found the Aktionshaus Sanderau from Gussek Haus (you can find it directly by googling), which is almost identical in the layout on the upper floor (instead of a gallery, a third children's room) and on the ground floor the right side is more compact. We just don’t know if you can fit a shower bathroom, second office, and a windfang in there.
(or are the 12 sqm stairs included? Then it would be 42 incl. WF) The rest is like in a (badly cut) 150 sqm house.
The stairs are included in the calculation.
(270 sqm vs. 550k€ max)
How do you come to 270 sqm?
First, things need to be "cleaned up" or the goal defined.
There aren’t that many goals. We have 134.6 sqm area that we can cover with house and terrace. Upper floor: 1 bedroom, 3 kids’ rooms, 1 full bathroom, one “functional WC” where you can also put dryer and washing machine, and a small storage room. Ground floor: living kitchen and living room, shower bathroom, 2 offices (one of them as guest room) plus windfang. The kitchen should look out to the front, small office as well.
A similar layout has been discussed here already…
You don’t happen to know where?
Personally, it’s too closed for me. Too long a corridor to the living spaces.
That’s actually our pro argument. All those layouts where you can see the couch or living room table directly from the entrance are an absolute horror for us. Or going upstairs every evening practically through the front yard because the staircase is directly at the entrance, yuck.
The pantry with just under 60 cm depth corresponds to a tall kitchen cabinet
We know that, but we have one small like that here in the single-family house we live in and we find it great.
Bathrooms upstairs are probably disqualified due to the slope?
Knee wall is planned at about 130 cm and Velux windows will be above the toilets, so that should negate it.
What are those colored blocks in the windfang supposed to be?
They are small wardrobes for the kids, I think they are from Ikea.
Go to an architect, and WITHOUT this scribbling.
We contacted 15 architects in our target region in March with detailed requirements, 7 replies, 5 had no time until at least October, and of the two we had talks with, one complained we had too many specific wishes and the other just wasn’t a good fit for us.
Are you currently talking with Gussek Haus about the house as drawn here? From the Kiefernallee the bark is mainly still on the ground floor but inside the beetles have extensively changed things.
Not explicitly the draft now because it’s “new,” but the last ones yes. We haven’t signed yet, so no architect from them is looking at it yet; only once everything is signed does the fine planning start. The exterior dimensions are more important.
If the Aktionshaus then costs 450k that would be quite realistic, plus about 18 sqm more, surcharge for individual planning and some details like second bathroom. (Partial!) basement on top with BP modification. I think money will be tight at least.
Don’t worry about that, I already have 2 offers based on 2 concrete drafts, all within budget.
Bathrooms upstairs probably force sitting-to-pee, from a certain size sitting on the floor ;),
Knee wall is planned at about 130 cm and Velux windows will be above the toilets, so that should negate it, also bathrooms won’t be that big.
The arched window tells me an architect must come in here. How the garage is supposed to work I don’t get.
The arched window is only in there because we just want a big window there, and the tool doesn’t support anything else. We’ll have to see what it looks like in the sample selection; we’re going Friday for the preliminary selection.
If the garage reaches the boundary, is the fire department access for the neighbor to the north too narrow??
Hmm, good point. I have to talk to the neighbors. The driveway is 3 meters at the entrance and 4 meters in width, so it should actually fit.
We have already agreed with the neighbors for the driveway that we won’t put fences on a width of about 15 meters towards the path because otherwise, they wouldn’t be able to get into their driveways properly. That makes the driveway situation a bit more relaxed.
Kitchen and dining table look more than tight on the left in the drawing,
The table already exists, we tested it with the measurements, it fits.
Thanks for the feedback, but I find it hard to take out anything concrete here, except “go to an architect.”