Floor plan / planning of a single-family house with a granny flat on the upper floor

It is not primarily about the father, it is about the client.

Ah yes, that was not readable in the initial text, I just found it on page 3. THAT is then something that could be anticipated regarding emerging physical necessities, since a wheelchair may be needed. The issue with the father comes in addition to that. We have a wheelchair user in our private environment and therefore I would definitely want to see these structural things - live - now if possible, in order to also better assess them.

Among other things, I was concerned with funding and construction measures.

We had not yet had a 2-generation house with a handicapped builder.

Among other things, I was concerned with funding and construction measures.

The thread was this one:

Thanks for your text. Even though it targets my father more than my wife, it still gave me some courage, and what you wrote isn’t wrong anyway.
I also have a wheelchair user in the family. We will definitely have conversations and seek advice or criticism.


Yes, she does. Therapies at home are not planned. It’s hard to look into the future here. We don’t want to consider a room for that.
The extension somehow feels like a foreign body. I can’t really put my finger on it. I saw it and immediately felt rejection in my mind.


Thanks for the link. Those are homework assignments for tonight again.

We are planning first without funding measures or person-related funding measures. The handicap to be considered is not present yet, so all the "bureaucratic" things that would make funding accessible to us have not been done.
One could certainly push something forward, but we are deliberately not doing that at the moment.
We don’t want to wait too long with the house plans and have to do without some things.
Family building allowance would have been nice too.

Maybe we should completely discard our current status and design a new plan with an architect.
I just fear that our requirements are quite special and in the end our budget won’t be enough.
That’s why I was very happy when we received the offer for the current floor plan.

The thing with the funding is that Neja must first tuck his head under his arm; before that, there is no funding. Back then, we also renovated without funding. We would have had to wait until Father comes home and is classified. What happens in between does not matter.

Many things cost nothing in the planning. In our new building, it was cost-neutral
- Filling up the pre-installation for grab bars
- Wide doors
- Sockets placed high
- Turning circles (my gray hairs)
- The routing of the ventilation pipes

Small expenses
- Empty electrical cables in the pre-wall installation
- Floor-level entrance doors (more planning effort for the architect)

Things we would have taken either way
- Lift-slide door with a low threshold (completely without one gets really expensive)
- Straight staircase
- Floor-level shower

Saved
Abandonment of the dressing room

I thought so. A friend of mine also has it. Diagnosis is 14 years ago. Wheelchair rarely used during a flare-up. However, the needs are very individual. Some things are not rational and the disease does not follow a textbook pattern.

I would now dimension the rooms so that a walker/wheelchair is possible. Turning circle/wide doors, space next to the bed. Grab bars can be installed at the toilet, arrangement in the bathroom for wheelchair, sockets high, etc. Bending down, balance, weakness are constant companions. Normal bathtub, lift still works for a long time, in the kitchen the worktop lowered and made accessible from underneath in one spot so that she can sit on a chair while cooking.

For your father, I would consider turning circles, floor-level shower, as few slopes as possible.

How far along are you with the demolition. It has cost us over 1 year. The first offers were extremely high. In addition, no one wanted to clear out and gut it. That can still be done by yourself. You have a farmhouse that has to go