New single-family house in southern Germany

Sorry, but I can't make any sense of your plan at all. To me, it looks like it's more important to you to accommodate the vehicles on the property than the actual house layout. You already set the path to the house at 1m width, then you draw the front door at 0.50 m, and the entrance area is barely 1.50 m wide. The house has no windows, no room doors, no cloakroom area. Or you put the street shoes in the storage room, because at 1.50 m nothing works anymore. Unfortunately, I have to agree with 11ant, this is basically worthless at first. Pick floor plans from house catalogs and see if there's something suitable, or else get an architect. You can't do without one anyway. Or who is doing your approval planning?

I think you are misunderstanding something. The plan was never meant to design the interior of the house but rather to get a rough overview of how everything is situated on the property. The only thing that is to scale regarding the house are the exterior dimensions. For the house templates, we created one for each floor plan that was under consideration and sketched the rooms very roughly so you can imagine where the house would be placed or not, whether it makes sense to rotate it, whether the house fits between the garage and the garden shed or not. The outdoor areas are different; they have now outgrown the template stage because, on the one hand, they are relatively independent of the specific house, and on the other hand, there is considerably more freedom possible. As I said, we have mostly been working with finished floor plans so far, which I don’t need to trace completely; a rough room layout is enough to see if I have the carport right in front of the living room window or if the house abuts the garage and carport.

Whether the window in the study shifts a meter to the left or right or exactly where the shoe cabinet stands is still way too early. We haven’t even decided on a company yet, let alone whether the house will be solidly built or not.

I think you are misunderstanding something. The plan was never meant to design the interior of the house, that is still way too early.

No. That is actually one of the first and most important steps.

The only thing about the house that is to scale are the exterior dimensions.

Wrong order. Inside first... how do I want to live, the exterior then results from that.

The outdoor facilities are different, they have now outgrown the stencil stage.

You live INSIDE the house; that has priority.

Whether the window in the study is moved a meter to the left or right or exactly where the shoe cabinet is, that is still way too early.

Again.... You have it backwards. It is a RESIDENTIAL house!

Thank you for the explanation. I still don't really understand. You know the exterior dimensions of the house, but not the layout? For us, it was exactly the other way around. We adapted the house to the size of the rooms. Also, rotating the house sounds strange. You have to know which room should be on which side. Carport next to the living room window???? And whether the house fits between the garage and the garden shed? It somehow sounds backwards the way you're approaching this. The interior is more important than the exterior, because you live in the house.

I still don't really understand. You know the exterior dimensions of the house, but not the room layout?

As I said, so far we didn't have just one floor plan but looked at several providers to see what we liked and placed them on the plot. 10x10 is quite different from 8x12 or 9x9 with an extension. And even within the same exterior dimensions, there are often different floor plans in the same catalog.

As I said, so far we didn't have just one floor plan but looked at several providers to see what appealed to us and placed them on the plot. 10x10 is quite different from 8x12 or 9x9 with an extension. And within the same exterior dimensions, there are often also different floor plans in the same catalog.

That's exactly what you should change. The order of that......