Floor plan of an accessible bungalow

Kneewall height, stairs, insulation, possibly dormer, electricity, water, sewage, etc.) and later only finishing it with drywall, then I’m looking at over €30,000 more investment. (It affects almost all trades) and if the ground floor were a bit smaller, it wouldn’t make much difference price-wise.

For your angled bungalow with the pitched roof.

Keep in mind that my last floor plan is about 15 sqm smaller, the gable roof doesn’t need a kneewall:

The stairs can then be installed instead of a fold-out attic ladder.
Water and toilet can be extended right away at the guest WC.

You want to use the attic anyway, at least for storage – right?

And, why are you so eager for the access from the utility room?

And, if you want everything downstairs … how likely is customer visit?
I also refer again to post 170 with


134 sqm living space
and the simpler cheaper roof and still the option for an attic conversion
and the easy straight path from child 1 through kitchen to terrace
[B]and the easy participation in the kitchen, e.g. refrigerator access
and the wider driveway for car etc. with covered entrance for everyone
and the wider green strip in the south
and the possibility to still make the terrace cozy with the saved costs

What exactly am I supposed to plan, please? A Ferris wheel and carousel in the living room or a mini hospital.
I find parts of your writing quite good with neutral evaluation but unfortunately other parts are nonsense.

Do whatever you want. I’m just pointing out that this whole planning with “we take a bungalow and make the hallway and doors ‘barrier-free’” for a family member in a wheelchair who also has other disabilities besides motor skills, is basically nothing.
And because all of this doesn’t add up, we’re even extending the hallway.

I don’t have to live there, I just feel sorry how you’re fixated on trivialities and thus so much living quality is taken away from your child and your family life.

Accessible floor planning starts somewhere else entirely, namely in the mind.

And yes: the financial limit is set, that’s why the suggestion to possibly expand something upstairs step by step in five years could be taken more into consideration and to focus first on an accessible layout on one level.
Every wall, every door, and every corridor pipe counters that somewhat.
I’m not the only one here who thinks that.

I don’t need to be told that it’s nonsense, so with that said I wish you good luck with your house construction. I’m out [emoji20]
Be glad you no longer have to read the honest truths.

I myself grew up in a bungalow (one-story) and live in an apartment again without stairs. I see a staircase going up like a long hallway but somewhat more difficult, since you still have to climb. Isn't that so?

Accessible floor plan design starts somewhere completely different, namely in the mind.

I agree with that, but unfortunately I am practically alone in the place. Talking is easy and whoever argues almost everything well is not always right. So far I have taken note of the positive hints and have read the strange remarks but later forgotten them again. All good

Zizzi does not want a rectangular gable roof bungalow. We should accept that. Personally, I also find Kerstin’s version more practical. An additional room could certainly be accommodated with the appropriate adjustments. But Zizzi wants an angled bungalow with an additional utility room entrance. We can’t change that. I tried to optimize Zizzi’s plan a bit. I would completely remove the niche wall of the wheelchair parking space. I think functionality is more important than privacy screening. Then you have a much larger turning circle in this everyday important corner. I would move the door to the main room downwards so that it comes just after the utility room, at the height of the worktop. Then a 1.50m cupboard fits on the wall of Child 1 in the hallway in front of it. In the main room itself, a tall cupboard wall (3x 60 cm cupboards, with a raised oven) can then be placed behind the door on the side of Child 1. This way you would have much more free space in the kitchen and even more kitchen cupboards. Move the study door a bit towards the front door so that a cupboard fits behind it. You also plan that in the utility room. Hope it’s understandable. Unfortunately, I can’t upload my sketch. Don’t you have a height difference between the carport floor and the floor height in the utility room? Usually there is a step there...

Don’t you have a height difference between the carport floor and the floor height in the utility room? Usually there is a step there...

Anitra .. that’s exactly what I wrote several pages ago regarding wheelchair access .. no conclusive answer. The question about the absolutely necessary access I have not found answered so far either ... but, *sarcasm on* "the utility room in the corner bungalow has more square meters than the utility room in my plan" *sarcasm off* ... unfortunately it does not offer more space.