First of all, thank you very much for the many responses and especially the effort that some put in here.
To give you some more suggestions. Attached is our first draft. Now just imagine the fireplace gone. Move the hallway door as far down as possible and enlarge the pantry aka technical room and the guest WC. The drawing is based on an 11m x 8.25m footprint.
I don’t think the floor plan is bad, but it’s not quite suitable for us because we don’t want the stairs in the living room area. If we planned a hallway there, it would be tight again. Also, the "pantry aka technical room" would still be too small.
1.10 is the hallway on the ground floor... that’s far too narrow. We had more like 1.30 in the terraced house, but even that was too narrow for comfortable in and out.
That’s true, the hallway would really be too narrow. In our apartment we currently have 1.25 m in width. We thought that 1.10 m might somehow work, but I think in the long run we wouldn’t be happy with it, especially when there are four of us.
Shower on the ground floor is for what?
We thought it would be an alternative option in case everyone wants to shower at the same time.
First of all, the 100% super good thread opening must be praised here. Everything one usually asks for is really together in one place. And then it’s also fun to test something.
Thanks, I did try
Technical room .. what all should go in there, the door is unfortunate there.
We really need quite a bit of space in the technical room: technology, washing machine, dryer, extra freezer, vacuum cleaner, maybe later a power storage. So it can’t be much smaller...
Upper floor .. both kids' rooms facing south would be better and the master bedroom so that a wardrobe etc. could still fit.
We will probably swap the children’s rooms with the master bedroom like that.
For that, space under the stairs for vacuum cleaner and the like and storage planned.
We want to keep the stairs open (for aesthetic reasons, even if that means losing storage space... you just have your ideas...)
I gave the upper floor bathroom a narrow window and swapped the shower/WC.
Do you mean that otherwise it would get too dark?
Yes, the hallway is still quite narrow in my version as well. Therefore the entrance to the office was planned with a glass door to the office. But 10 cm more would do the hallway good, then it would slowly be about 133 cm or so .
Yes, it definitely needs to be a bit wider.
The maximum boundary development to a neighbor by privileged structures (carport, tool shed) is 9m in Bavaria and is exceeded here. Are there really no building limits and no minimum distance from the street for the carport?
Well, the carport is also drawn somewhat too big in the first sketch. Since the carport is usually not used as additional storage space for garden tools, bicycles, etc. (there is the tool shed for that here), 6m should be enough (even high-end vehicles are rarely longer than 5.5m). Then another 3m for the tool shed (also very comfortable) and the maximum boundary development is complied with.
That’s right, I did make a mistake there. The carport is 6m. Plus 3m for the tool shed, so we come to 9m.
The house is planned on the building boundary to the street, with the carport set back a bit.
Without a basement, the office on the ground floor will be difficult.
We’re thinking that too now. That’s why we’re currently considering dropping the office on the ground floor and instead making the dressing room on the upper floor into an office. It would also be worth considering making the house 25 cm wider, so 8.74m instead of 8.49m. That should be possible according to the development plan, though we would still have to clarify that. It would cost a bit more, but money shouldn’t be the deciding factor... better than regretting the tightness for a lifetime. Then we could make the hallway more spacious and the living room would get a few more centimeters, and upstairs the children’s rooms and office would also be a bit larger. What do you think about that?