Floor plan of an accessible bungalow

There are also subsidies for barrier-free construction. Have you already informed yourself about this? However, they place requirements on the room design.

There are also subsidies for barrier-free construction. Have you already informed yourselves about that? They do, however, impose requirements on room design.

Thank you for the hint. Yes, it is underway. From NBank 50,000 € Maximum living area for us 140 sqm Single room min. 10 sqm Double room min. 15 DIN 18040-2 must be complied with Min. 15% of total construction costs as equity. etc. From the nursing care fund there is also a 4,000 € subsidy.

Hello everyone,
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Thanks kbt09 for your great floor plan.

I would like to stick with the angled bungalow and hipped roof, but the house in general needs to be adjusted in length and width.

I need to explain a few things,

1. In the current plan, the hallway is 1.76 m or 1.51 m wide, meaning that the curves have at least a 1.5 m bending radius.

2. My son is not passive but also not active in the wheelchair, so at the moment he has to be pushed, but I hope he will continue to make progress over time (no prognosis). Currently, he can move a few centimeters in the wheelchair.

There are a few points:

1. We planned to make all doors (except the guest WC) 1 m wide, but I also think it makes sense to install sliding doors for Child1, living room, shower-WC, and the terrace.

2. For the floor (with underfloor heating) I am still considering whether to use tiles or vinyl. Vinyl is soft and not as cold as tiles in summer and comfortable to step on (also for the little one when rolling from his play mat onto the bare floor).

3. BU planned a 3.5 m wide carport (for which he even made the house 0.5 m narrower, to make the carport a bit wider) but I will try to make it 3.75 m wide and the dimensions must be from the brickwork to the boundary and not from the shell, which I am not entirely sure about at the moment. Unfortunately, we have no more space (optimal would be 4 m as a single carport).

4. It might be sensible to swap the positions of KZ1 and our bedroom. This way my son will have ground-level windows anyway, he can better access the terrace and also benefit from the midday-afternoon sun (south-west).

We can even make the entrance area a bit smaller and thus KZ1 slightly bigger. On the other hand, we can make the bedroom (in floor plan 1 it is Child 1) a bit smaller (in the end it is only used for sleeping, but there should be at least a 3 m long wardrobe placed there, which is missing in floor plan 1), so maybe the bathroom can be planned a little bigger, which also seems a bit small to me in floor plan 1.

5. A water connection with a hose in the entrance area seems sensible to me.
6. I initially gave up on the bathtub, but I would possibly like to put it in after all (bathing alleviates the pain for people who have spasticity).

What do you think about my changes - improvements?

I will meet with the architects from BU at the end of this week to revise the planning.

Thanks again for your ideas and opinions.

Regardless of what the floor plan eventually becomes, I would generally prefer to provide a wheelchair parking spot either only against one wall or in a corner, rather than a proper niche. An additional wall might be restrictive for transferring. Plan an outlet there right away, in case you haven’t already done so. If I remember correctly, this is being planned for a self-driver, right? Sliding doors would be nice for the bathroom or children’s room. Especially for self-drivers, the bathroom door might otherwise be cumbersome to open. How wide is the hallway to the bathroom, Kerstin? It’s hard to judge that on a phone.

Outlet definitely, but isn’t it the case that the niche is used as a storage place for the wheelchair and at the same time as a wardrobe?

One more thing, I would plan the carport with storage room but will build it afterwards. That way I can better imagine what I exactly need. Above all, I still find the offer from BU for the carport and storage room without painting work for €12,000 too expensive. I can manage it cheaper later. Should I take something into account now during the planning in order to build a carport with storage room there later?

If you just want to park the wheelchair in the niche, that should definitely be possible. But I don't see much space in the niche, for example, to transfer from the wheelchair with wet wheels to the dry therapy chair.

Regarding point 4: Which floor plan were you actually referring to above when swapping the children's room and bedroom and reducing the size of the study? Is that the one in the other thread? I also have trouble assigning the cardinal directions. Something doesn't quite add up there. What do you mean by BZ?

Topic floors: I personally find tiles too cold to sit or lie on in the children's room and living area. Vinyl or parquet is more comfortable there.

Bathtub and water connection are good ideas.