Ground floor bungalow approx. 115m² for 2 persons

Hello,

After a long time of reading and temporarily putting our construction project ad acta, an offer has now inspired us again to take the plunge.
The plot is currently built with our residential house (built in 1957) and at least I have been living here for almost 18 years, my husband for 5 years. Three years ago, we once considered building on the rear part with land subdivision. This was negatively responded to upon preliminary inquiry. So now demolition and new construction are planned.

Thanks in advance

Development plan/restrictions
Size of the plot: 1800m² House No. 10 or parcel 21
Slope: No
Floor area ratio: no development plan available
Building window, building line, and boundary: At the height of the current house
Number of parking spaces: 1, existing garage should remain
Number of floors: 1
Roof shape: hip roof
Orientation: south

Requirements of the builders
Style, roof shape, building type: barrier-free, bungalow
Basement, floors: 1, no basement
Number of persons, age: 2 (he: 35, she: 45, no children planned)
Space requirement on ground floor, upper floor: 110, we can now manage with less
Office: family use year-round, additionally home office in winter
Overnight guests per year: 0
Garage already present, in contrast to the current building, one should be able to drive straight into the garage.
Other wishes/special features/daily routine: We consciously do without a dining room. We simply don’t use it, although we have one. The table is mostly used as a willing storage area for everything that one is too lazy to put away directly.

House design
Who is the plan from:
House floor plan comes from the planner of a construction company, room distribution is do-it-yourself
What do you particularly like? Why? Direct access from kitchen and bathroom to the terrace, bedroom in the middle because annoying neighbor children
What don’t you like? Why? That the bathroom leads to the covered terrace, I’d rather have it on the kitchen side.
Price estimate according to architect/planner: From 285,000 euros (summer promotion) plus equipment
Personal price limit for the house, including equipment: 375,000 euros
Preferred heating technology: geothermal energy, but financially we think more likely air heat pump

If you have to do without, which details/extensions
-can you do without: geothermal, steam shower, colored windows, electric shutters
-can you not do without: side entrance to the utility room

Why did the design turn out as it is now? For example
The original house design of the promotion appealed to us very much. Actually also the room layout. Until we noticed that the bedroom doesn’t really need a floor-to-ceiling window and that its location exactly matches the current one and the neighbors on that side are somewhat annoying for sleeping in.

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The original house design of the promotion really appealed to us.

What exactly appealed? Which promotion from which home builder? What is the original floor plan?

and the neighbors on that side are somewhat annoyingly disruptive to sleeping in.

Which neighbors on which side?

covered terrace

Where would that be?

That the bathroom leads to the covered terrace, I would prefer on the kitchen side.

The bathroom or the covered terrace?

Room distribution is do-it-yourself

Yes, honestly: you can tell. On the one hand, the entire zoning is wrong, on the other hand the orientation of the rooms is off. Furthermore, due to the location of some doors, the usable area of the rooms is minimized (at least in kitchen, office, dressing room). Dimensions do not work for their use (at least kitchen, dressing room). The windows do not meet the DIN standard. And anyway: where is the openness and generosity that characterizes a single-family house? As already mentioned: the initial draft is interesting (not only floor plan, but whole house)

Building type: barrier-reduced,

What do you understand by that? I do not see barrier reduction at first glance; there are too many walls, small rooms, and narrow corridors. Once furniture is drawn in, bottlenecks become apparent. An easy and obvious example: once a wardrobe is in the dressing room, it will become cramped! Regarding zoning: it’s bad to have to go through the whole house from the pantry passage. It is bad to plan the living room as a passage room. Might not be serious without children, but the layout is not nice.

Living space as the living room is significantly smaller in relation to the bathroom or bedroom.

What do you understand by that? I don’t see barrier-freedom at first; there are too many walls, small rooms, and narrow hallways. Once furniture is drawn in, bottlenecks become visible. A simple and obvious example: once a wardrobe is in the dressing room, it becomes tight!
Regarding zoning: it’s bad if you have to go through the entire house from the TK passage.
It’s bad if the living room is planned as a passage room. Might not be serious without children, but the layout isn’t nice.

Fits...

Are there dimensions of the property and existing house?

Is the garage on the boundary? Is the noisy neighbor in the east or west?

What was addressed? Which action from which home builder?
What is the original floor plan?

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That was the promotional floor plan from Öhaus.
What appealed to us was the private area with bedroom/dressing room/bathroom. Additionally, the covered terrace area adjacent to the living area. Although we also considered swapping the living area and kitchen here. As well as two other spare rooms.

Where the dining table is drawn, we had considered that area as free, I don’t want to say wasted. As mentioned at the beginning, we do not use the current dining room either.

Which neighbors on which side?

They are the neighbors on the west side. The time window in which the engine is running, car doors are slammed thousands of times, and the children scream is between 5:00 am and 7:30 am. Since the existing building has the oldest windows in the current bedroom upstairs on that side (also a reason for the demolition), we found it sensible to relocate to the middle. Especially since I can never rule out having the same fun again with new neighbors on the east side. In the living area, which in the current house on the ground floor is on the same side, we hear the j

Yes, honestly: you can tell.

I didn’t expect anything else. I just put windows somewhere so that the room would have one at all. I did not believe that I have an undiscovered natural talent for something that requires several years of study or at least an apprenticeship as a draftsman.

By barrier-reduced, we currently imagine being able to get around well in the house even with a walker hopefully for more than 30 years. The existing property, on the one hand, has a staircase and, on the other hand, doors only 75 cm wide.

Furthermore, due to the positioning of some doors, the rooms get the least usable area (at least kitchen, office, dressing room). Dimensions do not work in their use (at least pantry, dressing room)

Can you explain that again? I honestly don’t understand that right now. Thanks.

Is the garage on the boundary?

The garage is at the property boundary on the east.

Regarding zoning, I completely agree with you. We have not considered that at this stage. The current living room is also in the same corner with northwest orientation on the ground floor. Generally, for us, it’s also a factor that we are both gamers. That means after dinner, over 80% of the evenings we are then in the office. The remaining 20% we spend in the living room or now in summer in the garden.

Are there dimensions of the plot and existing house?

The plot is about 24mx75m. I would have to measure the current house.

Thanks anyway already for the answers