New construction planning - single-family house 160 sqm without basement - floor plan, costs, etc..

I don't really find the floor plan successful either. The guest bathroom seems too narrow to me. Even if the sanitary fixtures are not final yet, how else do you want to do it? Because of the window at the end of the room, you are very limited regarding the position of the shower. The bay window doesn't bring you anything – as many others before me have said! You don't really need it downstairs, and upstairs two rooms get a small corner of it. The upstairs bathroom is HUGE!!! And yet all the fixtures are pushed into the corners. You could rather dance tango in there. East sun for the children's room is also not very successful, in my opinion. In the mornings, the kids are usually in kindergarten or school and then come upstairs to play in the afternoon. But then there is no sun anymore; it gets dark. In our old rental apartment, our son had the window facing north, and in winter we often had to turn on the light in the afternoon. It won't be much different for you either. The hallway upstairs feels much too narrow! How big is it? If two residents meet there, they have to squeeze past each other. Ask your architect for a completely different alternative and be surprised.

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3. The technology should completely disappear into the basement - however, due to the immense additional costs, the basement was dropped,
so there was no longer any space for the utility room - this was then cobbled together behind the entrance hall, which I on the other hand found
a good solution, because here, for example, you have a direct exit to the outside to take your laundry directly out, for example.

I forgot this earlier. Basically, I also think this idea is great! Here in the development area, the technology room was installed behind the garage or carport in one house. The carport is now slightly in front of the house. That might possibly be another alternative. This way you could get to the technology room from the back of the garage.

Hello Jaydee, I had already thought about relocating the access from the garage to the utility room instead of the WF, which would free up space in the WF again for the wardrobe, however, this would of course eliminate the usable area in the utility room and you would always have to go through the "laundry room" into the house when coming from the garage... (hm, tolerable?). I can well imagine extending the house to the north to accommodate both rooms (WF/wardrobe and utility room) at the same time, which would also gain space on the other side (kitchen). However, with this ridge direction, the roof pitch naturally becomes smaller; it must not be less than 38'.

We approached the matter by first thinking about what we wanted ourselves... made a sketch and a wish list and then went to the architect with it. You can see the result.

You often speak of an architect, but also say that no service phase has been completed. However, the shown result corresponds to a (not successful) performance within phase 3, i.e. two phases would have been completed.
From the result, I also suspect that this is not a freelance architect commissioned by you, but one who works for a house provider. That doesn’t have to be bad, but it often will not lead to individual living.
Maybe you should reconsider this approach.
You need to develop a design (with whomever) that is also optimized in terms of costs. In other words, for the money of the unusable bay window and the external utility room, you can create more comfort inside or save the money.
And with your young offspring, a children's bathroom and at least utility room functionality related to laundry in the upper floor area is desirable.

WD

Hello Chris,

We went to the architect with a self-made design that we adapted to the plot, which he almost adopted one to one.

Honestly - I would change him as soon as possible. I expect more from an architect than the mere adoption of amateurish drafts

The house now measures (including extensions) 165 sqm living space (605 cbm enclosed volume in the house, approx. 218 cbm in the extension). Construction will be according to the latest status in solid construction with 24cm Unipor T14 and 16cm ETICS (PS20 WLG035). Exterior plaster with paint, no clinker.

We have our clear favorite for the construction execution, but we are legitimately still getting comparison offers. As a rough guideline, the turnkey house is at 230k, the extension (living space, utility room, garage) at 50k..., plus own finishing costs for kitchen, flooring, stove, interior fittings and attic finishing (35k), the plot (35k - yes, it’s still cheap in that small town) as well as the exterior facilities (10k) and incidental construction costs (5k). All in all, that makes 365k initially on the table, which we still have to fine-tune as much as possible with the muscle mortgage

The rough compilation of costs seems to be there ... except for the incidental construction costs. Mathematically, you have TEUR 39 available for this chunk; on the other hand, you also write about “own finishing costs for kitchen ...etc.” and include these in the total sum of TEUR 365. That probably hardly adds up

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The construction company is a property developer. The architect himself is the senior manager and planner, the junior manager (personally known to me) is responsible for the execution. The company employs the executing personnel for the entire shell construction – even the trades are coordinated by the property developer. Everything under one roof with a central contact person. That was exactly what appealed to me and has so far resulted in exclusively positive experiences with many acquaintances who have built with the same company.

I didn’t want to run around, first going to a freelance architect, then to the mason, then to the carpenter and roofer and each individual trade, and then take care of having them all on site just in time – and if something goes wrong, having to deal with each one individually, who then shift the blame to the other.

Hello Wanderdüne, in this case we are probably at service phase 3. We have a concrete offer available.

Hello Bauexperte. I think my cost breakdown is complete, but just presented here somewhat unordered.
1. Incidental costs for the land (property transfer tax, notary, registrations) are included in the 35k land price
2. Financing costs (closing fee, etc.) are not yet included, only counted as a buffer in the 35k for "own expansion" (wrong allocation)
3. Construction preparation (surveying included in the 35k land price, construction water and electricity, fees and insurance included in the 5k)
4. Earthworks are included in the 230k for the house
5. House connection costs (gas, water, nonsense) are partly included in the 35k for the land as well as the 35k for "own expansion costs" (wrong allocation, I will then assign these to "additional construction costs")
6. Fees (this was my actual point "additional construction costs" including insurance)

I will simply revise my list in terms of allocation once again.