Floor plan of a single-family house just before final design - Please provide tips and advice

I would like to replace the masonry stair wall with a glass wall to simply have a greater sense of space. Has anyone installed something like that and can share how it is?

Yes, we have such a glass wall at the stairs. It looks stylish and naturally gives a spacious feeling. However, it is complicated to clean and if I had small children, I would rather advise against it. You constantly have fingerprints on it.

Yes, the passage... That was my husband's idea, he definitely wants to go directly from the street/driveway into the garden. In the west, only the terrace is planned, after that comes an old driveway to the old garage. I will mark it on the plan, but can only post it later because I don't have it at hand.

For what, to get to the playground equipment? ;) So terrace and then another driveway that makes the "garden strip" even narrower? But please post so we know what it really looks like.

The neighbor to the west is my husband's sister, but I don't know if that's good or bad.

Well, I think the sister might eavesdrop more than a stranger who doesn't care about you.

Sorry, the planning of this house is, in my opinion, quite thoughtless, confused and rushed.

I fully agree with . I also said I would plan again. In my eyes, many things are really suboptimally solved.

Yes, we have a glass wall at the stairs. It looks stylish and naturally gives a spacious feeling. However, it is complicated to clean, and if I had small children, I would rather advise against it. You constantly have fingerprints on it.

And above all, it is very questionable if theoretically the tenant of the granny flat uses the basement stairs and thereby looks up into the landlord’s living spaces.

And above all, it is very questionable if, in theory, the tenant of the granny flat uses the basement stairs and looks up into the landlord’s living areas.

The granny flat is intended at most for my parents; no strangers will come in. Or maybe us in old age, if the children want to live in the house.

Look how much more Westgarten you get if you remove the passage and place the granny flat extension differently. If you are allowed to move the house further north, I would do that too.

The house will be 5m away from the street; we had to adjust it because of the building permit.

ypg, could you please draw that in when you have time?

Yes, I would do it if I had time. Possibly today, otherwise not until in a week :confused:

What about the stairs now? You have a floor height of almost 3m.

I would also check the stairs… how high are the rooms supposed to be again?

The granny flat is a disaster. I read somewhere that you were still unsure whether you would actually use it.

The granny flat is used as an office, the kitchen as a second cloakroom. The coats hang on the left side near the entrance. There will be a coat rack there.

Or maybe when we are old, if the children want to live in the house.

You’re not seriously moving in where your cloakroom and office are, are you?! You should keep some dignity in old age!!!

Words like fire protection walls, partition wall thicknesses, separate heating, separate electrical circuits, parking spaces, etc. come to mind. In theory, the effort is very high.

It’s not that bad with the regulations. It’s only a granny flat. But I thought the subsidies are no longer available? can you currently scale the uploaded floor plans correctly in homebyme? The application freezes for me so that I can only draw freely :( I partially agree with Katja. There is more to be made out of it.

A "normal" slope is about 18.5cm

The input plan states something like 18.526 if I remember correctly. But I will check again.

4m is the standard depth for the living room. That would be okay, although for this size it is already the lower limit. But you still want to move the plank wall downward according to the plan, I believe a cupboard should go there?

Yes, I have thought about that. Currently I have about 40 cm. A coat wall could fit there. My mother-in-law has one. You can sit down and there is space for a couple of jackets / keys. But if the enlargement comes at the expense of the feeling of space in the living room, I would forgo it.

Since you have already submitted the building application, you can only replan within the walls. That is surely still possible to some extent but of course not that much anymore. Above all, the question is how flexible you are regarding the arrangement of the living spaces?

Our building application may take a maximum of 3 months to be processed, after which it is considered approved. However, we have to start building in November, otherwise everything will become about 50k more expensive.

Besides that, the question is what your architect is willing to do.

I need to find a new architect. The current design comes from an architect at the construction company; I don’t think she is willing to invest more time in it.

Such cases often don’t take that long at the building authority, and between us, you can start building and get it approved later, provided the office already hints at approval during discussions.

I think we can't wait any longer until a second building application is approved again. Possibly a small change might go faster.
This is still connected to the KfW funding; I don’t know how flexible they are about that.
So I have to assume that the house remains as it currently is on the outside.

That makes me think of keywords like fire protection walls, partition wall thicknesses, separate heating, separate electrical circuits, parking spaces, etc.

All of that was taken into account during planning. The aim was a) to get the funding (even 26k is pleasant with current building prices) and b) possibly to accommodate my parents there (in case they need care).