House and garage - How best to place them on the properties?

Ok, such (sorry for the word) "trifles" are rather secondary for most homeowners. But I understand that. Without my trellis on the garage, I don’t want to live either.

But maybe you really lack a bit of imagination here. I know side entrances with, for example, curved outside stairs and wrought iron railings as well as elegant house entrance canopies, they are so inviting, compared to that your little porch is rubbish.

We are also just at the beginning of the planning. Maybe in the end, it will look completely different anyway. We are currently looking at many catalogs or pictures on the Internet to see what we like and what can be done. We ourselves cannot say exactly how it will turn out in the end.

We still have a bit of time.

Shortly, the development work on the plots will begin.

Please keep in mind that the terrace must lie within the building envelope. Just read this again today in another thread.

Please keep in mind that the terrace must be within the building area. Just read this again today in another thread.

Today I spoke with the land seller and the city, the building limit applies only to the house, not to the terrace.

...I have never seen a house where a garage is placed the wrong way around to the house entrance. I somehow can't imagine such a variant either. Everyone places their garage with the garage entrance facing the house entrance. Either on the side or from the front but never the wrong way around.

That is not correct. I have seen many things: under the house, on the side, behind the house, at the other end of the property... A colleague has a narrow piece of land with the house entrance + one parking space at the front, the double garage (with 2 cars) at the back. In between there are 25m of covered walkway and a very nice garden. There is a solution for almost everything.

It also depends on priorities. Of course, it is nice if you can go directly from the garage into the house. But only if it is planned sensibly. It’s more like an additional hole in the house. Most people don’t want to admit it, but in almost every floor plan, a sensible garage access generates additional square meters. However, no one is willing to pay for that since it is "just a garage access." On the other hand, it also doesn’t make sense to carry groceries completely around the house once. I am a fan of "form follows function." Afterwards, you can still think about how to make the practical things look a bit nicer.

Just talked today with the land seller and the city, the building boundary only applies to the house, not the terrace.

It’s usually not that simple, because this only applies to terraces founded on existing ground (i.e., no earth movement), that have no roofing, and depending on the federal state, it plays a big role whether they are directly adjacent to the house (in which case setback distances often still apply).

We find it hard to imagine other variants somehow. We have already looked at dozens of floor plans in catalogs and on the internet. Somehow, a floor plan in this direction appeals to us the most. Of course, we might still adjust something here and there, but I wouldn't know what could be made significantly more beautiful/better.

Then you should clarify that. The arrangements "rooms inside the house" and "house on the property" are interconnected. If you already indulge in the luxury of loosening the belt a bit for the property, you shouldn't take that back with a submissive attitude towards the "fate of the floor plan." As I said, I believe you can see from the floor plan that it originally did not come from a townhouse design. I wouldn't have found it bad enough anywhere to advise you against it, if that is your wish. But if it is only the result of running out of breath while browsing Pinterest, then you should pick it up again there.