How to place the house on the property?

Alright. I am teachable. This is my first house plan. And hopefully the last one ;)! Questionnaire is coming! Thank you very much!!

However, I do wonder if I can still afford it in the end. :rolleyes:

A few larger windows in the right places and a more open floor plan also make a small square footage feel less cramped. You are not building in the typical cramped 420m2 house next to house new development, but on a really large plot that also gives you complete planning freedom. Use this advantage; it can also be done very budget-efficiently. Some standard floor plans would even work well depending on the requirements.

I understand what you mean and will get started on the questionnaire. However, I wonder if I will still be able to afford it in the end. :rolleyes:

This is not about blowing your budget or anything like that, but about making the best out of the given circumstances.

No one here is interested in brushing you off with a run-of-the-mill floor plan and making "easy" money.

Development Plan/Restrictions
Size of the plot: 1304 sqm (parcels 19/452 and 19/448)
Slope: no
Plot ratio: 0.4 (however, due to the development plan of 1962, this applies "only" to the main house)
Floor area ratio: 0.4
Building window, building line and boundary: see documents
Edge development: ?
Number of parking spaces: 2 (at least 1 carport, street parking is possible)
Number of storeys: 1.5
Roof shape: open (anything except flat roof)
Style: undefined
Orientation: west or south
Maximum heights/limits: ?
Other requirements: none

Builders' Requirements
Style, roof shape, building type: wooden house, ecological, no "city villa"
Basement, floors: no basement
Number of persons, age: currently 3; 38, 30, 0 + 2 dogs (2nd child still to come)
Space requirement on ground floor and upper floor: at least 135 sqm total as a minimum, 150 sqm would be great, cost-dependent
Office: family use or home office: family use, home office unclear, my wife is still studying, no home office for me
Guests sleeping per year: 0
Open or closed architecture: open
Conservative or modern construction: ?
Open kitchen, cooking island: open kitchen, cooking island nice but not essential
Number of dining seats: 6-8
Fireplace: desirable
Music/stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: 1 carport (if possible double carport)
Utility garden, greenhouse: utility garden
Other wishes/special features/daily routine, also reasons why this or that should not be: We would like a dormer on the upper floor facing the garden, furthermore the shape of the plot and the adjacent dead-end street gives us the possibility to divide it again and possibly build again later or sell part of it. We are still undecided whether we might want a third child at some point. Possibility to extend then?

House Design
Who designed the plan:
- Planner from a construction company: yes
- Architect: no
- Do-it-yourself: no
What do you like most? Why? Lots of floor space at acceptable costs, it is a Swedish house, which we find very nice
What do you dislike? Why? "Standard floor plan"
Price estimate according to architect/planner: 300,000
Personal price limit for the house, including fittings: We have a total budget of approx. €500,000 for the entire building project. After deducting the land, €400,000 remain. We would like to manage with that. That means everything included (construction costs, incidental costs, outdoor facilities)
Preferred heating technology: air-water heat pump, photovoltaic system or at least preparation

If you have to do without, which details/extensions
- can you do without: walk-in closet, underfloor heating upstairs (except bathroom), fireplace, heat pump technology, photovoltaic system, exterior door utility room, bathtub, additional office in addition to 3 bedrooms. Furthermore, in an emergency we would split the plot and sell approx. 500 sqm, leaving about 800 sqm for us. The 500 sqm would probably bring us approx. €60,000-70,000.
- can you not do without: 12 real sqm per child’s room, dormer on the upper floor, utility room of acceptable size (10-15 sqm), additional shower in guest WC, a large garden for our animals

Why did the design turn out the way it is now? E.g.
Standard design from planner? Yes, possibility of another bedroom on the ground floor was taken into account
Corresponding/which wishes were implemented by the architect?
A mix of many examples from various magazines...
What makes it particularly good or bad in your eyes?

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

We want to make the best and most efficient use of the building plot in an old stock because we are limited to a €500,000 total budget. A large garden is the most important for us. The house should therefore be only as large as necessary without "wasted" sqm.

also reasons are welcome,

we want a dormer on the upper floor facing the garden,

Why an expensive dormer?

Yes, the possibility of another bedroom on the ground floor was considered

Where and for what? If it is supposed to be the bedroom for old age: turn your focus to the ground floor shower room - it is not suitable for old age. Only conditionally suitable for everyday use.

you can’t do without: 12 real sqm per kids’ room, dormer on the upper floor, utility room of an acceptable size (10-15 sqm), additional shower in the guest WC, a large garden for our animals

In case of emergency split the plot and sell about 500 sqm, so that about 800 sqm would remain for us. The 500 sqm would probably bring in about €60,000-70,000.

How many sqm did the architect plan there? I don’t see your price target, so I’ll keep it brief: first sell part of the plot, now choose the prime piece and build more relaxed right away.

It is not about blowing your budget or anything like that, but about making the best out of the given circumstances.
Nobody here is interested in settling for a generic floor plan and making “easy” money.

However, it can easily happen at model home exhibitions that, besides walking through 08/15 houses, you also go through 4711 houses and develop expensive tastes there. I also don’t believe that such exhibitions are always good: you can’t learn planning skills there, but only see examples (which can be of little use without the planning sense). Quite often, builders leave full of infatuation with straight stairs, captain’s gables, fireplaces, etc., and then the banker bursts that balloon. Once the shock has passed, they go to a general contractor, have at least a Flair symbolically remodeled into a Jette, and, to put it kindly, haven’t gained anything in the process.