Floor plan of a single-family house, feedback

In every garage (non-residential space) there are little creatures, cobwebs, etc., which you don’t want to be in constant contact with.

You also have spiders in basements quite a lot.

In a garage it smells like oil/gasoline and also tends to get dusty sometimes

Yay, electric only, there will never be a combustion engine in the garage. That old technology really isn’t fun to drive anymore.

It’s about suitcases for, e.g., vacations. But I admit: alternative, no vacation

Hey, we’re building a house. Vacation, what kind of word is that? (Yeah, yeah, kids school trips, club stuff and such nonsense, I know).

Space-wise, we (for now) have the advantage that we’re coming from an apartment which, including basement storage, is barely half the size of the new house. Since we have already marked quite a bit for “going away” (in whatever way) and otherwise pay attention that the (small, yes, compared to e.g. a large basement) storage space roughly provides what we had so far – at least the start with storing our stuff should succeed.

Although I have actually planned suitcases for the space in the garage, completely independent of the car parked there – they just go into a large plastic bag for protection, so I don’t care about little creatures anyway.

You do have spiders in basements though.

Will you have a basement?
Besides, there is also a difference BETWEEN inside the house and outside.
I myself also prefer not collecting and hardly buy anything, my advice was solely about honestly clarifying one's own feelings.

Yay, electric only, a combustion engine will never come into the garage. The old technology really isn’t fun to drive anymore.

We don’t have one either, yet a garage always smells different than the living house (at least it should). Outside there are shovels with soil, used buckets, opened bags with various contents, and much more.
No one here wants to missionize you, if everything is clear to you then that’s fine. I rather thought it makes sense to mention things before someone else forgets them and would have been happy to be reminded earlier. When I built my house this was the case for me, I just always looked at what I could use from it or what I might have not thought of or underestimated.

I know)

....you can tell, lucky you.

: Just courage, too little storage space. You seem confident yourself (see electrical planning) and ready to bear the consequences of your decision. We manage very well with very little storage space. An incomparability of our lifestyles is of course not excluded, but I can assure you that we do not live "spartan."

It’s about suitcases for vacations, for example. But I admit: alternative, no vacation ;)

Then why do you write about "stuff"?

Regarding the topic "suitcases" – it is a matter of vacation style, number of people, and travel frequency. In any case, I would not convert even a single square meter for x-thousands of euros just to store suitcases. The fact that we vacation without suitcases is not even the main reason – you can simply rent, borrow, or replace suitcases with a space-friendly travel bag. There are also suitcase systems that are very space-saving because they can be nested within each other. We gave away all suitcases except one in IATA size for my business trips when we moved into the new house. We haven’t missed them for a single day in 6 years.

By now, I only suspect what remained unpacked.

That was the case for us when moving from the apartment to the first house. We simply took a lot with us because there was so much more space. Sorting out felt "big," but still there were boxes that were never unpacked for the following 18 years. I then disposed of those unopened during the next move.

Will you have a basement?

It doesn’t look likely at the moment. I did ask for an estimated price (from those who will be doing my foundation/the base walls anyway, so they know the conditions well enough to quickly give a rough figure), but from everything I know so far, it’s rather not in the budget. Even if I made the house a bit smaller for it.

We don’t either, yet a garage always smells different than the living house (at least it should). Outside there are shovels with soil, used buckets, opened bags with various contents, and much more.

Yes, of course.

Nobody here I want to convert you, if everything is clear to you then it’s fine

The other way around: I think it’s great what input is coming here. There are plenty of things in there that one wouldn’t necessarily have thought of before and quite a lot is already in my notes for sampling, acceptance, and other phases still to come. (Not only taken from this thread here).

…you can tell, lucky you.

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It doesn’t really look like it at the moment. I did ask for an estimated price once (from those who will be doing my foundation/the base walls anyway, so they know the conditions to quickly give a rough guideline), but from everything I know so far, it’s rather not within the budget. Even if I were to make the house a little smaller for it.

A basement is economically either necessary or not, or the 11ant basement rule (a result of my experience, not an opinion) tells you which mix of necessary and luxury applies in the specific case. Making a house smaller to fit the budget would be complete nonsense. What you make smaller – and only to the extent of the demand already satisfied in the basement – is the “above-ground part” of the house. If the terrain-required measures for underpinning the ground floor are limited to the shown corner plinths, I do not see an economically justified or even necessary basement here. Is the rule still so widely misunderstood that I have to keep explaining it? The basement question must fundamentally be answered first before the room requirements are translated into a building structure in design phase 2!

A basement is economically either mandatory or not, or rather the 11ant basement rule (a result of my experience, not an opinion) tells you what mixture of necessity and luxury exists in the specific individual case. Making a house smaller to fit the budget would be complete nonsense. What you make smaller – and even that only to meet the already satisfied need in the basement – is the "above-ground part" of the house. If the site-required measures for underpinning the ground floor are limited to the corner superstructures shown, I see no economically justified or even mandatory basement here. Is the rule still so widely misunderstood that I have to keep explaining it?

The basement question should basically be answered first before converting the space requirements into a building volume in planning phase 2!

Among other things because of the rule (yes, I know it), I am pretty sure it won't be one because it will be relatively too expensive. But since the foundation walls came up and *I* don't even remotely know the price lists, I inquired about the costs of the basement (previous figures were very rough numbers that did not come from the basement builder) to make sure it still ends up as "too expensive." Otherwise, I would have annoyed myself for years for not having asked.

And I did not talk about "fitting the budget" but purely about what moves from top to bottom (all the technology, possibly a study, ...) so you can save that upstairs and make it smaller, and thus have a somewhat smaller gross floor area, while still having the same utility value.