Improve floor plan single-family house 1 1/2 stories

first of all, two sentences picked out

I would initially plan a house as I would probably like to live in it in about 10 years

And at the very end you can calculate how you can get by with given or currently desired means, and whether there is potential for savings.

I just posted our wishes. And ideas on how money could be saved based on that. But so far I don't even come close to 200,000 euros. But maybe there are more money-saving ideas?

and regarding the question about terrace options, I have marked on the site plan where the car access points and parking spaces are located in the surrounding houses (gray) and where the seating areas / terraces are (ochre), in case anyone is interested.



and regarding the question about sheltered corners with shade: there are currently none (no hedges, no trees, etc.), the only place of this kind would be to the north in front of the house itself

I would really still be interested in what is wrong with the draft

Everything. As you can clearly see from the huge gap between

Our dream house: - Bungalow 180 m² (according to the living space ordinance) - Angular shape

and what has been drawn so far.

and what doesn’t work (except that it appears messed up, which can also be an important gut argument).

The only gut argument (pro) is that the draft pleasantly reminds me of my construction planning tinkering as a teenager. The counterarguments, however, are all head arguments – except that the spatial feeling throughout the house will be similarly twice-bent as the staircase. "Back to square one" is a wise conclusion.

I had also already considered an angular bungalow, with a guest wing for vacationers and a wing for long-term tenants.

Bungalows exist, even masonry ones, starting at about 90 sqm; in angular form starting at about 120 sqm.

Partial basements I usually do not recommend from a cost-efficiency perspective. Angular floor plans form an exception: it can be cheaper there if the basement is built as a rectangle (i.e., omitting the part protruding beyond one of the L-legs above).

- my partner does not want foamed plastic on the outside of the walls and actually no prefab house either

I already wrote in your other thread that this is solvable monolithically with aerated concrete in 36.5 cm; also with pumice (e.g. KLB, Bisotherm).

contra: - is very likely not allowed to be built on this plot

I can’t imagine that, if at the same time a "captain’s house"

pro: - may be built, the neighbors have it

as a rather Frisian building style is permitted in BW with §34 :)

Regarding a garage (which you want to use only in ten years), I would not worry about that in today’s budget. A utility room can still be integrated as well, and a broom closet too.

If you look back at your beginnings here: basically, you started the house building topic by looking for a wall structure where concrete on both sides acts like a Castor container for an insulation material unpleasant to one of your partners.

That so far "only" a holiday home with a Z-bent staircase has come out of it could have turned out worse. In the meantime, it has been explained to you that walls are also possible with simple, commercially available - and in the case of aerated concrete even to be processed by the cousin’s own work? - building materials. You can find lots of sample designs as a basis for suitable houses – also solid house providers who translate a WDVS design back into "monolithic". Many "building proposals" from WDVS solid builders actually go back to house types of an aerated concrete manufacturer.

You will also get closer to financing with any "more normal" draft: the envisaged super-special holiday witch house would definitely not have opened a banker’s heart – simply because of unusability.

Mh, if I had to build on a tight budget, if it's enough for me that the energy saving ordinance is just barely met, and I had no demands on the appearance, I would go to the planner in town who builds small, simple houses with a local bricklayer just two streets away. Four walls, pitched roof, done. Price-performance ratio fits.

Find a team like that. They also know everyone in the building authority. They know from whom and how to get approvals.

What do you really want later?
Just plan like that.
Why build a second shower that you don't need?
Why provide a second kitchen? Why a second front door?

Take a targeted look at floor plans for 2 people or about 100 sqm of living space.

- my budget of only 200000 (only for the house, excluding kitchen and furniture)

That sounds better than I only have 200000 available AI :)

I am currently saving just under 2000 euros per month

If you save 2000 per month, why wouldn’t it be possible, for example, to plan 230000 for a house?

- bungalow 180 m² (according to living space regulations) - angled shape - basement - double garage with adjoining room for car and garden accessories

Hehe, almost everyone has that wish and it’s kind of reaching for the stars, even if the wallet is well filled. But ok, so that you have a starting point that looks different from building a house to rent to relatives, and because the relatives have no money, a holiday apartment has to stand in. There is not a single one of your wishes to be seen there, except those of your cousin. And you don’t build a house just out of goodwill if you have to do the math yourself.

- 120 instead of 180 m² - omit garage unresolved: - you can’t omit the basement if you omit the garage. An alternative to the basement would be the attic, but in a bungalow attic there is no standing height and there are beams in the way and there is no daily usable staircase and there is simply no space for a normal staircase

Yes, you can. You can omit the basement and live well even without a double garage! However, we obviously don’t know how large your own family is planned to be in 10 years – I think we all here have the same thought, namely that planning is done without children. But I have the feeling that is not the case?! :oops: Please enlighten us, then better advice can be given :)

So, you can omit garages and basements, and there are bungalow roofs that can be used as storage space. There are even bungalows with gable roofs ;) You can do a lot, and even with little money plans with compromises work quite well. Afterwards you are not necessarily sad to have made compromises – rather the opposite.

Since you don’t have time anyway, I would postpone building the house in your place. With a low budget, some things can be done in EL... You can keep saving monthly and watch the interest rates.

If you build, then according to your feasible wishes – but not for others. If planning and doing it otherwise is not possible, you can rent out temporarily, but I would advise against temporary renters because that wears down the property.

Then it will probably actually be a solidly brick-built corner bungalow with very simple equipment and without a basement and without a garage