Floor plan of a single-family house with approximately 150 sqm on a rear lot

I once tried to start with the foundation. But the location of the house seems to be perfect. In my opinion, it is not.

Hello,

enough has already been listed.

[*]The hallways are dark caves, the glass doors hardly change that
[*]The bathroom on the ground floor is a dark cave
[*]The dining room has no space for guests without blocking the kitchen
[*]There is no decent bathroom for a family of four, on the ground floor you cannot even enter the bathroom without colliding with the washbasin, and it is barely possible to sit on the toilet
[*]The kitchen's only window faces the neighbor's garage wall and is dark
[*]Child 2 is large but there is not even space for a large youth bed with 140 cm width without creating unnecessary tight spots again
[*]Parent 2 is a storage room, if the wall is moved there will even be two storage rooms (although there is not enough space to place a wardrobe), not to mention the beds that cannot be properly accessed
[*]There is no connection to the garden at all, which is obviously so important to you
[*]You cannot turn the car around
[*]The garage is narrow and tight
[*]The corridor between the house and garage is a dark, damp and dirt-prone corridor

The house will surely be approved for you as is, I don’t see any structural problems either. You can build it exactly as you have planned.

Best regards

I once tried to start with the foundation. But the location of the house seems to be perfect. In my opinion, it is not.

I agree. The problem here, however, is that the connection must be made from the west. With the length of our driveway, we are somewhat in the area where the municipal utilities would still just lay the connections to the house. If we push the house to the east, we would have the problem that the handover would take place at the property boundary. This in turn means that a meter box or similar would be standing in the driveway (our neighbor to the north needed something like that because he has the driveway in the south, but of course the house stands in the north and is therefore too far for the municipal utilities). Another big issue here is surface sealing. There was a delay of one year in a construction project we were interested in because the city and the general contractor could not agree on the position of the garages for a few townhouses. However, I do not know on what grounds our neighbor to the north was able to move his garage to the back. For another property, I also once inquired at the city, and they said it was not possible. So driveway across the entire property. Possibly, with our neighbor, it depends on the general layout and the position of the driveway.

In my proposal, the driveway is shorter. The house is only 1 m further east. Then the [HAR] goes to the west and the lines are much shorter if that is really a criterion.

Absolutely not. The way you react so rigidly, you neither do this professionally nor do you have practical experience with different room sizes or uses.

I never said anywhere that I do "this professionally." And just as a tip: as an absolute newcomer in a forum, it is not very smart to make up stories about long-standing members who know each other well.

Hello,

enough has already been listed.

[*]The hallways are dark caves, the glass doors hardly change that
[*]The bathroom on the ground floor is a dark cave
[*]The dining room has no space for guests without obstructing the kitchen
[*]There is no decent bathroom for a family of four, on the ground floor you can’t even enter the bathroom without colliding with the washbasin, and you can hardly sit on the toilet
[*]The kitchen’s only window faces the neighbor’s garage wall and is dark
[*]Child 2 is big but there isn’t even enough space for a large youth bed with 140 cm width without creating unnecessary tight spots again
[*]Parent 2 is a storage room, if the wall is moved there will even be two storage rooms (and there isn’t even space to put a wardrobe), not to mention the beds that can’t be accessed properly
[*]There is absolutely no connection to the garden, which is obviously so important to you
[*]You can’t turn the car around
[*]The garage is narrow and tight
[*]The corridor between house and garage is a dark, damp, and dirt-prone corridor

The house will surely be approved as is, I don’t see any structural problems. You can build it as you have planned.

Best regards

Now don’t exaggerate..

- Hallways: Upstairs, yes, it will be dark. Downstairs… it’s not really unusual that hallway lighting comes through glass doors. I’d estimate about 80% of floor plans are a disaster in this regard. The window could be bigger, that’s true. Of course, you could consider putting the coat rack on the other side, leaving the stairs completely open, and thus getting light in from the side of the stairs.
- Bathroom ground floor: Yes, there is still an old draft in there and I didn’t like it either. In my opinion this one is better, but still improvable.
- But the dining room has enough space. That’s a 2m table. If I move it 1m away from the south wall, there is still 1.42m to the nonexistent line toward the kitchen. Even if someone is sitting there, you can still get past. That is definitely a place where you could spend a few more centimeters.
- Yes, the kitchen is not flooded with light.
- 1.50m bed. I don’t see any tight spots or what advantage a rectangular room should have for e.g. adding a desk and so on.

- Putting a wardrobe is possible, the boxes marked with an X are wardrobes (0.6 x 1) the narrow ones are our bookshelves. But that is just an example. The beds are by the way 1.3 and 1.7 wide.

- I don’t understand. What should a connection to the garden mean?
- Yes, you cannot turn around and that’s fine. We move our car maybe once a week. I don’t need to turn around.
- The garage has standard dimensions, if it even becomes a garage. Possibly just a carport.
- Yes, that’s probably true.

q.e.d.

Don’t get me wrong, I can understand some arguments, but a few are a bit far-fetched. Is it a representative villa with a light-flooded entrance, a kitchen that invites dinner parties and a bedroom where I play Bach to my beloved on my grand piano in the evening… no… Do we want that? No... We need a plain single-family house with 4 bedrooms, an office and a bathtub. Neither do I want nor need a roof terrace to stare at the rows of trees next to my house. If I want to see trees, I ride my bike 10 minutes to the forest. I just lack the romantic gene to wrap myself in a warm blanket at my window seat with a cup of tea and let my thoughts wander.