Floor plan of a single-family house with an optional granny flat

  • Erstellt am 2025-05-24 12:41:05

Bauherr8899

2025-05-28 08:41:35
  • #1


Here now again separated between single-family house and two-family house, I hope this contributes to the understanding of the floor plan. In the two-family house version, the anteroom in TOP 2 is not illuminated from outside, that is correct and not ideal. Otherwise, on the 1st floor there is a door that illuminates the anteroom. Are the costs due to preparation for a two-family house so high that it is not worthwhile? From my point of view, the essential difference is only that the kitchen connections have to be extended upwards. A second electrical circuit as well as a second heating circuit should not be an issue, since these also exist in single-family houses, right? I only remember the comment from several relatives who say that the house has become too big for them without children and they have too much work, hence my idea. I do not find it "nonsensical" at all.
 

nordanney

2025-05-28 09:07:33
  • #2
What I find especially great is when you are just letting down a really smelly sausage with guests sitting right in front of you enjoying a delicious dinner...
 

haydee

2025-05-28 09:12:39
  • #3
If it is too big, there is also the option of selling and buying or renting something that suits your current life situation. Do you really want strangers in your house who also look into your garden? Consider why your own children do not move in nearby. Later you might have hobbies that require space, grandchildren who stay overnight, a caregiver who lives with you, etc. Even when renting out, you have to take care of the whole house. Just not cleaning one floor.
 

wiltshire

2025-05-28 09:51:42
  • #4
The considerations are understandable. Also the idea with the private staircase. From my point of view, the house that results neither supports the current nor a future living situation architecturally well. If you are thinking of a two-family house, then you need two floor plans that work individually. That is not the case here. In addition, the living routes in a single-family house are inconveniently long in practice. The children live "remote" in the "second apartment," which I would have considered suboptimal for my family especially up to teenage age. From my point of view, your plot and your budget do not offer the possibility to consistently carry out this line of thought. I would not build something "half-baked."
 

Arauki11

2025-05-28 11:03:27
  • #5

That sounds nice with the "decoupling," but depending on the room layout and also with a concrete ceiling in between, you will hear the roommates and especially even better if the relationship there is not good. You don't have a really large plot of land, and now several parties are also supposed to benefit from it in some way? So the jack-of-all-trades also continues to live outside?

These thoughts are basically not foreign to me, but back then my parents were there, who lived in the apartment for a long time. I am building a house for myself and for now in the version "nice and maximally comfortable" (really individual comfort).
Planning the future in this way seems less sensible to me and indeed more expensive than you might calculate here.
It is already showing that for cost reasons you will have to switch to a "simpler" version when choosing the controlled residential ventilation, and the same will happen to you at other equally important points, that the budget pinches. Why build for a naturally completely uncertain future while paying less attention to current needs?

Why, what situation do you want to cushion with that? I had it exactly like that at the time. The door(s) were expensive, never used, this was planned more in times of missing or weak extractor hoods or when you didn't want to see the working woman. You value guests and spending time with them, and then something like that?

Do you really read those books there and, very importantly, have you ever sat in such a place for a longer time? I would examine that very carefully, but I can understand the spontaneous wish alone. I just always find it a pity when money is then missing elsewhere and for truly comfort-giving things.

And then you voluntarily want to bring someone into the house?

The much-discussed, jack-of-all-trades here

Actually, I hear such plans again and again but despite somewhat older age I know no one who has done it that way.

Yes, that exactly is individual need in today's life and I would enable that as well. But why then separate the kitchen, especially then you want to be together and maybe even cook and chat.
Also the question whether I have to keep a separate apartment for that, especially if I have a manageable budget and limit myself otherwise. We have, for example, a multifunction room (not a junk room) where various guests sleep and directly opposite a bathroom that they can also use alone, otherwise this belongs to our daily life.

Such a separation not only causes considerable costs, but also somewhat limits free planning, which in turn negatively affects the present. For example, you outsource the staircase exactly for this reason, which otherwise would not be necessary and a nice staircase in the open plan area certainly doesn't have to be a disadvantage.

But that is rather small talk that usually wouldn't withstand a serious and open discussion (see here). There are also people who never or only under pressure change something in life but also people who adjust things in life to their new situation and take matters into their own hands when needed or circumstances arise. Foreseeing all this requires several crystal balls. Here you meet other people and the answers are different, but here costs and necessity are also carefully considered and discussed openly and clearly.

You are allowed to build that and certainly find a company that implements it and maybe even people in your environment who find it good. Having such thoughts with the first house I also consider understandable at first and useful within brainstorming. But at some point, you should stop insisting on these positions even against the most factual advice, because it can become very expensive and lead to a poor result.
I recommend you build a single-family house with a nice floor plan for you/you now and with room for children/hobby or a multifunction room also for guests. Then nice rooms for shared time with exactly those guests and family you mentioned. Then also enough space in the garden with privacy, and if you really have the money for it, then treat yourself to the air conditioning, the fancy terrace roofing, the comfortable garden furniture and much more.
Ergo: back to square one. We have done/had to do that countless times, and so far the result suits us quite well today.
 

wiltshire

2025-05-28 11:35:01
  • #6
I know these comments as well – and not just as something said in passing, but as an actual challenge. My father wanted to stay in the house; my mother moved out a few months after his death because she neither had use for nor energy to maintain the 200+ sqm, and in her view, it was an outdated waste of living space. Here in the village, there are quite a few single-family houses inhabited by couples or individuals that have become a burden due to their size. The village community offers an incredibly good community and quality of life. Nobody wants to move away from here anymore.

For this basic idea:

about the staircase: If you want to create the possibility of 2 residential units, you can also plan a hallway on the upper floor so that an outside entrance is possible later. This gives you more freedom for a floor plan that better meets the requirements now.

about the electrical system: The same applies to the electrical layout. You build separate circuits in a large distribution box, a good sub-distribution to the upper floor, and leave space here and there for what might be needed later, such as a second meter or three-phase current for the second kitchen.

about the heating: You install a heating system for a single-family house. In case of renting, the billing can still be solved commercially in a plausible way. The likelihood is not low that the heating system will have to be replaced anyway when it comes time that you want two residential units. Some foresight in planning the piping helps.

about the installation: Empty conduits are not expensive. Proactively lay pipes for water, sewage, and electricity where they might be needed later in the upper apartment.

about the structural engineering: Plan so that you already know today which walls can be removed later.

and: build primarily for the needs you have living with your family now. The rest will sort itself out when the time comes. With the above measures, you would already be quite well prepared without major additional costs.
 

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