Floor plan single-family house 200 sqm with pitched roof, 2 full floors double garage

Congratulations on the plot. What does your budget plan look like?

Do you think 7 is enough with basement, garage, and additional construction costs? I rather see an 8

Haydee is right, currently an 8 is roughly estimated. Our budget is roughly in line with that, if I initially leave the "small" garden aside.

Haydee is right, it is currently estimated at just under 8. Our budget is roughly in line with that, if I leave the "small" garden aside for now.

We have just signed for pretty much all trades for 174 square meters on a slab and will certainly end up at 700k. Of which 520k accounts for the house. With a basement of over 200 square meters, I currently see about 900k without own work. A similarly sized property with a habitable basement in our residential area reportedly costs just under 1.5 million according to the builder, although I think that's a bit exaggerated. Don't get me wrong: If you have the necessary cash, then go for it! But I would still calculate with just under a million for such a project. Surely you don't want to end up with a run-of-the-mill Ikea kitchen in the house.

The children's rooms are almost too big, you can't furnish them cozily at all.

Yes, the children's rooms resulted from the space-consuming ground floor. Does anything over 18 sqm in a children's room no longer feel cozy?

Simplify your ground floor cloakroom at the front door, why have a pantry if you have a basement? If you redesign the ground floor, you get a few sqm less without loss of comfort.

Thank you. No one has ever told me so clearly about the pantry. The pantry was intended as storage space and less as a food storage, but yes - not necessary with the basement. I will work on that. The cloakroom at the back was intended as a dirt lock because most of the time you come through the garage. But at the front, something for jackets and shoes is really missing. The major problem so far lies in the garage entrance at the back to the house. I would have liked to relocate it because I know it from my parents' house and always found it very good there. However, it destroys the rest of the ground floor layout (corridor) or at least does not allow an economical floor plan. Do you have any ideas how the garage entrance can perhaps still be realized without too much compromise?

Don't get me wrong: If you have the necessary cash, then go for it! However, I would still calculate with just under a million for such a property. Surely, in the end, you don't want to have a run-of-the-mill Ikea kitchen in your house.

We are planning with a lot of personal effort. It definitely won't be turnkey.

We are planning with a lot of personal effort. It definitely won’t be turnkey.

A lot of personal effort with three kids in elementary school? - funny theory! Before I would do personal work, I would rather save the money through rightsizing already in the planning:

Who made the planning: - From a draftsman, not an architect, based on our hand-painted draft.

That’s what I thought; that’s what I thought; deviation in point three: there I would have suspected a planning done with my own computer painting program. I think I can recognize the following common beginner mistakes here: 1. skipped conceptual planning, went too early to the drawing level; 2. started with the total size, chose a size frame and then divided it; 3. began with the ground floor and then derived the upper floor from it instead of the other way around; 4. as a professionalizer chose a draftsman instead of a trained planner. As a result, one almost inevitably ends up with a botched design, which at least after conversion into a technically correct-looking drawing appears as "but actually everything was done right," so one first has to call in the audience joker Internet forum (because there are probably doubts / dissatisfaction, but the error can’t be found alone). A draftsman simply has not learned to moderate a planning process and model a design – and certainly not to wash the builders’ heads. With all four mistakes together you end up with about 40/45% too much size for the needs and budget; in other words, it would be possible (without loss of quality) to build about 30% more cheaply (just by refraining from personal effort in the planning!). For that you would already have the entire architect’s fee (that is both halves!) and the double garage including driveway, plus a family vacation on top. Reading tips: "A house-building roadmap, also for you: the HOAI phase model!" and "The upper floor has priority" (both external), as well as the forum search with the keywords "Gerddieter" and "Zeichenknecht".

To the door. If we were to plan again, our front door would be closer to the garage – similar to how it is with you – and the other one would be removed. For us, there is definitely one door too many. In large houses, this doesn’t make much of a difference.

Optimize the floor plan, what should go into the basement? For the excavation, disposal of the soil, and securing of the construction pit, you will get a nice technical room above ground. On the upper floor, you already have space for a small utility room. You need storage space with 3 children, no question, but an expensive basement.

2 coat closets don’t work. You will wear yourself out walking back and forth. Plus, you’ll intentionally spread “dirt” all over the hallway on the ground floor.