Floor plan: Single-family house 5.60 x 15.80m Do you have any ideas?

Hello everyone,

here again my question to you.
We have finally found a plot of land for building a single-family house. The whole thing is sold through a developer.
Since the houses on the right and left will remain, we have to comply with the required distances of 3m.
I have no idea yet whether the house might simply be too narrow for me in the end. Unfortunately, there are also not many model houses with these small dimensions.

I am happy to receive tips and suggestions for improvement.

Development plan/restrictions

Plot size: 425m²
Slope: no
Building window: 3m to the street, 15.60 m house length and 5.60 m width for the house and additionally 3m width on the left for the garage.
Number of parking spaces: 1 in front of the garage
Number of floors: max. 2 full floors
Roof shape: gabled roof 25-45 degrees
Style: any
Orientation: southwest
Maximum heights/limits: ridge height 9m, wall height max. 4.70m

Requirements of the builders
Basement, floors: no basement, almost 2 full floors
Number of persons, age: 2 persons
Room requirements on the ground floor and upper floor: 110 - 130m²
On the upper floor 3 bedrooms (1 bedroom to be used as an office)
Overnight guests per year: adults children
Open or closed architecture: open floor plan (open kitchen)

Garage, carport: garage

House design
Who designed it: first draft by the developer

[*]Garage access to the garden
[*]few hallway areas and still a wardrobe
[*]open living concept
[*]spacious bathroom

What do you not like? Why?

[*]small kitchen
[*]small bathroom

Why did the design turn out the way it is now?

We definitely wanted an open floor plan because our daily life actually takes place in the garden in summer and otherwise in the living room or kitchen.

What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan summarized in 130 characters?

[*]general opinion on the floor plan
[*]see "what is not liked" - optimization ideas welcome

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We finally have a plot of land in prospect for building a single-family house. The whole thing is being sold through a developer.

Well then everything is clear: let it be his worry whether he can build something sufficient for someone there, and you just keep looking. You'll find something better than such a tightly tied belt anywhere, if I may freely quote the Bremen Town Musicians

According to the property boundaries in the other thread, the neighboring building – apparently not a garage? – would be right on the boundary. That takes up space – specifically yours. Roughly estimated, you cannot build on 1/3 of your otherwise buildable plot because the neighbor (previous property owner?) is too close to the boundary. Actually, you wouldn't need to buy the rightmost 5 ... 6 meters at all – or at least not pay for them, since you can't do anything structural with that space anyway.

The planned width is even at the lower limit for row houses and would be unacceptable to me. Based on that, I find the floor plan okay, but it's far from beautiful.

I think it's good*... enough for planning without children, only with a guest and an office. *Apart from the kitchen wall, which I find completely unnecessary. But you can only say more when the orientation is known. Could you please add the plot again? And include the measurements right away? Thanks.

I will do it immediately. Thanks already for the feedback.

I find it a very charming house in terms of the layout (possibly replan the all-purpose room again to get a larger kitchen). In our city, there are plenty of houses that are 5.00m wide. And they are all very charming and beautiful inside. I even believe that I find smaller rooms (as long as they are still functional) somehow "nicer." I have never felt uncomfortable in any of the narrow houses. In larger ones, however, I have. Possibly some daylight can be brought into the ground floor through the roof (with a Solatube or something like that).

I do not find the bathroom small at all. Bath, shower, large washbasin. Everything there and still space to put things down and move around. I have never had a 9sqm bathroom. I currently have 7, and that is really sufficient for comfortable movement and placing everything.