Somehow I feel the house lacks a concept, to be honest...
You want a granny flat, but it actually isn’t supposed to be rented out at first. You don’t want KfW either.
So why spend money on the granny flat? With KfW it makes sense because you can get the repayment bonus for two residential units. Well, if you’re planning a granny flat anyway, you take that along.
But if I don’t want a KfW loan and don’t actually plan to rent out this granny flat, why is it even being built?
To maybe open a cat breeding business far in the future? Although I wonder if the spatial concept of a granny flat is even suitable for that, but that’s a whole other question... To maybe have the mother-in-law as a subtenant someday???
Maybe, possibly, and under certain circumstances... It’s still not clear to me why the granny flat has to be there.
Personally, that’s too little for me to spend quite a lot of money on it.
You want a house for PLANNED 4 people without knowing if the hoped-for children will actually come. And what if the last child in the bunch is a twin? Then the spatial concept doesn’t fit again... Well, that applies here to many, and it always makes me a bit uneasy.
And then I see a house plan that fits better on a flat building plot and is now being squeezed onto a hillside. There are really cool hillside solutions!
I don’t want to go into details about the room layout etc. now; for me, the whole concept isn’t coherent. So I’ll just throw some points out there for you to think about, or not:
Hillside location! That’s a challenge, no question. But there are also quite creative solutions for that. Here I don’t see a single idea where the POSSIBILITIES of such a condition were even used remotely. For example:
- Gallery! Kitchen and dining area downstairs and via a gallery up to the living area. That would better do justice to the narrow floor plan than placing the living areas side by side. Moreover, you can optimally use the usually unobstructed view of a hillside location.
Possibly also plan children’s and parents’ areas on two different levels. Parents behind the living area, children behind the kitchen or downstairs, and maybe a small room with the parents that can be used as a toddler’s room and later as an office.
Dry construction offers many possibilities; I might not fully develop all rooms yet. A large room (or two) can first serve as a spacious children’s room that can later be divided. Depending on how many children come (or not). The advantage is that I can then plan the area completely differently if life writes a different diary (and instead of children maybe the cat breeding becomes a reality).
The same goes for the granny flat: if I don’t want to use it as such yet, I would only plan it in the layout but not fully realize it yet; if there end up being 2 times 5 children, I can rearrange accordingly and keep all options open.
Just a thought to consider.
I think the house doesn’t fit the plot now. It is narrow and steep. You have to take that into account to get the optimum out of it. This design is miles away from an optimum for me; but if your heart is set on it, then go for it.
To be honest, I don’t really understand why our desire to have children is being criticized like this. Of course, it might take a while before we have children or we might have to adopt. But should I only plan a bungalow because of that?
No, there is no cat breeding. Even though I actually find the idea quite nice. We both have jobs that fully occupy us. Honestly. The granny flat is rather secondary for us; the planning of the living floors was the priority. The family center should be downstairs with dining, balcony, etc. Upstairs the kids live with their own bathroom, “living room,” and their own space. If they turn out to be twins, they will probably share a room.
Regarding the rest: I don’t quite understand why you don’t like the concept or what exactly bothers you. Why should I build a narrow house? For what? We consciously decided to live on two floors. We tried a lot and discarded a lot.
P.S. We had also considered a gallery but decided against it consciously.