House design with SweetHome3D - Thank you for your feedback

We are planning a house:

Plot 1078 m2, flat.
Development plan: red gable roof, knee wall max 50 cm, 35-45 degrees, eaves height 3m, 2 full floors (2nd must be located in the roof), floor area ratio 0.5, site occupancy index 0.3, building line is the blue line in the plan, ridge direction not specified.

Our requirements: lots of light (very important), a studio, living on one level, no frills, rather minimalist equipment. Separate bedrooms, open-plan kitchen living room.

We are: two persons, children out of the house, we are building for ourselves, not for guests, although there will be some occasionally.

The house in timber frame construction, wood outside, simple shape, roof tiles. Heating with gas, underfloor heating on the ground floor, wood-burning stove, possibly solar thermal.

I played around with a program (SweetHome3D). I cannot draw a roof with it and some things are certainly rather inaccurate. The roof has 40 degrees and no knee wall and should have no overhangs. The house is positioned at an angle facing south. I thought about having the sun in the house all day long. The house has a living area of about 112 m2 on the ground floor. There is only one neighbor to the north, and that will remain so. To the south, street, adjoining agricultural land. To the west agricultural land, to the east street, then an orchard.

A suitable design? Or not? Did I forget something? What is absolutely not acceptable? ....

Please fill out the pinned requirement catalog and upload the information...

Regards, Yvonne

Guest toilet... still working on it. If it is really used, you won’t get rid of odors. No window, nothing.

Otherwise, briefly: The kitchen-living room is too small with a table that is too small drawn in. Cozy with 3 doors is not the case either. Bathroom access is simply unpleasant, a toilet without a window can be avoided. The bedrooms are small chambers: even if no more space is needed, room sizes affect the feeling of well-being and resale value. The hallway will transmit many noises. For more, dimensions are missing. Gallery with just under 1.60 m is too narrow for a workspace. How is the second full floor above supposed to be realized as a full floor like that? I believe there are now translation errors from the development plan -> should be checked! Regards, Yvonne

Guest WC... still pondering that one. If it is really used, you won’t get rid of odors. No window, nothing.

Yes, I don’t like that very much either. I was thinking of a fan and for light, glass in the wall to the utility room. I think you can see it on the plan.

Could you please fill out the pinned requirements catalog and post the information...

Regards, Yvonne

I’ll see what else is missing.

Otherwise, briefly: The kitchen-living room is too small with a table that is too small drawn in. Also not cozy with 3 doors. The bathroom access is just ugly, a toilet without a window can be avoided. The bedrooms are small chambers: even if no more space is needed, room sizes influence well-being and resale value. The hallway will transmit many noises. For more, dimensions are missing. Gallery with just under 1.60 m is too narrow for a workspace.

How is the second full floor upstairs supposed to be realized as a full floor like that? I believe there are now translation errors from the development plan -> needs checking!

Regards, Yvonne

Kitchen-living room too small? It’s almost 20 m². There are two of us. One door under the stairs could be left out, that’s true. The table is 160x80. That should be enough for 4?

And they are actually more sleeping chambers than rooms. Although I have seen smaller sleeping (children’s) rooms. And unlike children, we only want to sleep and maybe dress in the rooms, not play. For that, we have the house. For playing. Should one build a bigger house because of the resale value?

What is the reason for the excessive noise transmission in the hallway? And which noises are meant?

I erased the desk on the gallery; it really doesn’t belong there.

The upstairs floor is not a full floor, the development plan speaks of a maximum of 2 full floors. But since a pitched roof must go on top, I planned the studio there. Otherwise, I would have realized that in an outbuilding and built a flat roof.