Land planning / floor plan planning

Do you have tips for a general contractor who makes a better impression on you?

I would want KFW40+ – simply because I think that probably won’t be wrong in the long run. Wall construction and building materials don’t matter to me, which is probably because I’m not clear on the differences. So I need to inform myself much more. Can you recommend good literature for an aspiring home builder?

That’s great.
You have 2 priorities you can follow.
1. Kfw 40+, which rules out many already.
2. High-quality materials, which rules out the other half.
Well.. okay... a few still remain ;)

However, I wouldn’t get too fixated on 40+, but also consider 40 or 55 if everything else is right.

Then I would select 4-5 of the biggest Kfw40-house builders and have them send catalogs and the construction specification. Additionally, check out what your “neighbors” have built in your region. Go for walks on weekends and talk with the landowners over the garden fence. This also works with Corona. Check out construction sites – they have signs, sometimes builder signs with the client’s phone number ;)
Catalogs: Don’t let yourself be confused by wall philosophies, etc.
What’s important at first in the construction specification (without considering price-performance) is what quality they offer in the equipment: clay roof tiles, wooden instead of plastic doors, good sanitary products, brand names, possibly also innovative stuff.

I’m the kind of guy: I want something high-quality

see above.
By the way, the construction specification can be upgraded everywhere and with anything.
However, the more expensive home builders are only more expensive because they actually build of higher quality. Usually.

I will now also think fundamentally about the floor plan again.

Floor plans are almost all similar and can be divided into a few schemes. That’s initially unimportant.

The bed is still the simplest (waterbed 2.40 x 2.20).

Room program, exactly! And your bed again exceeds most average bedrooms...

if it’s up to her, 500 :)

That’s then a goal: just one more small room in the program. Viebrockhaus, by the way, specifically entices these women with their Jette house and the shoe bag room. The floor plan is the most modest I have ever seen professionally. But this room is worth its weight in gold :)

Oh, I see...
Book recommendation: I think the tiler is dead by Julia Karnick
Movie recommendation: Once in a lifetime, Familie Semmeling (does not exist

Oh, I see... Book tip: I believe the tiler is dead by Julia Karnick Film tip: Once in a life, Family Semmeling (does not exist

A mistake slipped in there: in the brackets, that does not apply. What I wanted to write: Director, Dieter Wedel

Thank you very much! I read "Den toten Fliesenleger" already a year ago! After that, I didn’t feel like building at all at first ;)

I have now had catalogs sent to me from other providers here in the region. They will all get in touch with me, of course.

We went through all the "desired rooms" again in our minds here and thought about how big they should probably be according to our ideas, how many we really need, and what it should roughly look like so that we feel comfortable. In the end, we added up the "gross floor area" and realized that we probably don’t need 180 sqm gross – especially not if the basement is added. We came up with 150 sqm... which would probably be around 130-140 sqm of living space. The house width would remain about 9.10 m because of the plot – but it would then be shorter, which would give more garden again...

We then drew a floor plan (I know, not so important yet, but we just feel like it :))... the plan was still based on the floor plan of the E430 at VBH, because after thinking it over several times we liked it... but we have somewhat smaller rooms, saved one meter in house length, a (in my opinion) better solution for the walk-in closet, no backup kitchen...

If you take a look at it now – always remember: I’m an amateur, but I want to make an effort :)

What do you say? Total crap? :D

What I don’t like yet:
- no idea if the stairs even fit like that
- the bathroom certainly isn’t ideally planned
- still a "dark hallway" upstairs, but hallways without windows upstairs aren’t that rare, or are they no longer done?

Oh and... forgot the north arrow, but you know it by now... north is approximately in the direction of the kitchen

I have now had catalogs from other providers in the region sent to me here.

Anyone who has a (especially also: print) catalog is usually not a regional provider, even if their headquarters happen to be in the region of the property!

We then drew a floor plan [...] the floor plan of the E430 from VBH was still used as a basis

Are all your drawing programs actually just black and white? - if the deviations where a catalog floor plan is varied were drawn in a different color, the variations could be checked much faster.

For the bathroom, I would definitely swap the toilet and the shower. You use the toilet more than once a day. And then you can hang the towels somewhere between the shower and the bathtub. One point that immediately catches my attention is the office. Are you going to put a dormer there again? How will the office be supplied with light? Another point is the roof slope, knee wall, and roof pitch. Where does the 2m line roughly run? In the [VBH], it goes quite a bit into the house, and in the bathroom, I’m having a hard time judging whether the walking paths are also fine or if you might hit your head. I would add a window in the dressing room.