On which of these floor plans can we continue to build?

The idea from would look something like this. And then part of the corner terrace is actually between the garage of house 9 and your own house. And the garage of house 10 could theoretically be pushed further.

Aren't you house 10? I don't really understand what you find so negative about a neighbor’s garage wall. It’s a free windbreak and a stationary element in the garden that you can make good use of. However, I don’t agree with your drawing... If you squeeze your 9-meter-long garage in there on the west side, you won’t have any chance to get a bicycle or anything else from the rear area, which extends into your garden and is much denser than neighbor 9’s garage, out beside one of the cars. I see the risk that you’re putting a tube facing west that can’t really be used properly. Sure, it’ll be a garage for the car, but I definitely don’t see access from the front garden to the rear part. The garage would need to have an access to the garden and the space would be more for garden tools and furniture, not for a fleet of vehicles.

This is the one I meant; it’s more suitable as a basis.

Still, I have to say: Your arguments to reject the slimmer house shape with carport, such as the argument about the neighbor's garage, I rather see exactly in your proposals: you are planning your garage into the garden, you are planning a useless strip of garden on the east side, you are planning it so that your garage blocks the sun in the darker seasons. You are planning that no window can be placed on the west side. You are planning that you can’t get to your kids’ fleet of vehicles if the car is in front of or inside the garage.

Would you place the carport/garage on the east side?



I wouldn't do it like in the screenshot. The carport is way too far back. For the carport, you don't need to keep 6 meters of free space in front, which is advisable for a fully enclosed garage, but you can skip that for a carport.

Would you put the carport/garage on the east side?

If the driveway is 5m wide, even the clumsiest lady will probably make the turn? Besides, the driveway on the west side is drivable straight in, but then I’m always violating traffic rules, right? I have to drive against the traffic. As far as I know, we still drive counterclockwise. And if they paint a street, that is the oncoming lane, or am I wrong?

Aren't you House 10?

Yes, that's the plan.

The garage does have an exit to the garden.

That is our dilemma. If the garage is on the west side, then no window on that side is possible on the ground floor. But you can drive in straight. If the garage is on the east side, then it stands on the bad side and the living room can have a window on the west. However, the driveway is narrower, especially if House 11 should put up a fence.

With a carport, you don't have to keep 6 meters of space in front, that is usually suggested for an enclosed garage, but for a carport you can do without it.

OK, learned something new again. My thought was that cars could still be parked in front of the carport... the kids will grow up eventually. Then you could completely save an optional parking space on the east side.

but then I am always breaking traffic rules, right? I have to drive against the traffic.

The turning circle, the dead end is a residential street. Why shouldn't I be allowed to drive straight in there? House 9 also won't turn right into the turning circle to then turn right into the garage.

With the idea from , it would look something like this.

Yes and no. I just wanted to show you with a corner terrace what is possible. Since you already have more seating in the garden anyway, this version offers the possibility to also sit on the side. At least there is a terrace door installed there. Whether you use it is another matter. You don’t have to do anything at all.

If the garage is on the east side, then it is on the bad side and the living room can get a window on the west side. However, the driveway is narrower, especially if house 11 decides to build a fence.

No. Only if you insist on 10m house width. And one thing I can promise you: your neighbor will put up a fence, on both the left and the right.