Optimization of Angle Bungalow 108 by Town & Country

Please keep in mind that your measurements are shell measurements, i.e. about 2 cm of plaster per wall will still be deducted. When I look at the hallway with 100 cm shell measurement, I wonder if about 96 cm finished measurement is not a bit tight. In addition, all the walls seem very thin to me. How thick are they? 11.5? Regardless, your technical room seems much too small, especially since two doors are also planned there. Where is the building technology supposed to be? Where will the washing machine and dryer be placed?

Cows only accessible through the hallway.

Pigs and sheep too *SCNR*

So we worked through all the floor plans from Town & Country and Heinz von Heiden.

At least to educate oneself about what is possible according to one's ideas – but actually also to find enough proposals for implementation – I find that too little: after all, the filter "suitable house size" ultimately leaves only a handful of proposals per house type from bungalow to city villa. Inspiration should be sought more broadly, even on the other side sometimes – ultimately every prefabricated house proposal can also be realized as a solid construction.

The more standard the house type is, the fewer critical points it contains. Therefore, I would not mentally stick so closely to the catalog house as is expressed, for example, in "turning the bathroom into a guest room." Non-load-bearing walls can be moved quite freely. And with the same building volume, a different design does not cost significantly differently from the catalog house. At least for about thirty years now, since the era of standard model houses is already history. They are all just construction proposals – only the catalog models (and consequently their costing) are rehearsed a little more often.

I started from a different draft that you published earlier. The second draft with the attached garage and the no longer recessed entrance portal is good. Just take the technology out of the utility room, which is actually a bit small, and put it into the so-called chamber. So the boiler, the storage tank, the fuse box, the fiber optic modem. This way, you really have space for a washing machine and dryer and a pantry or something similar in the utility room. Karsten

Hello everyone,
thank you very much for the many tips!

So the measurement 1.00 refers to the width of the shower. The two side arms of the hallway are 1.26 cm wide.

The walls are drawn at 12 cm, according to Town & Country no load-bearing wall is required inside. This is also evident from the documents they gave me.

I also searched the web for other floor plans (Google search "Winkelbungalow Grundriss" --> images only...), but with the specification of 110 sqm it gets pretty tight if you want a large children's room and no open-plan kitchen. It felt like 90% of the suitable houses always had an open-plan kitchen. The rest of the houses only had children's rooms with 10 to 12 sqm. This is an annoying trend that you even find in 150 sqm houses! Simply dreadful. As a child I had 20 sqm, that was a dream! And that was not a luxury hut, but a new build apartment!

It is very uncommon nowadays to build a house with only 3 living rooms (living room, children’s room, bedroom). We think that 108 sqm is enough for 3 people. We currently live on 80 sqm and are very satisfied with it.

I think if we only access the kitchen from the hallway, our first problem is solved.

The second problem is still the bathroom or the utility room:

The utility room does indeed look quite small. Town & Country even planned it with only 4.5 sqm. But we once visited a presentation of the shell construction (Town & Country occasionally does this with houses that are close to handover), and we were amazed at how big it was. Sure, every wall is filled with some kind of utilities, but our washing machine still fits in there comfortably. We don’t have a separate dryer; it’s integrated into the washing machine. This has the following advantage: you put the dirty laundry in and program it for 7:00 or 17:00. That means you can take the laundry out dry right after breakfast in the morning or after work. This is very comfortable and time-saving!

We will store drinks and recyclables, etc. in the garage, so the utility room should be sufficient. In my opinion, it doesn’t make sense now to narrow the entrance; then you can't put things down anymore.

Combining the pantry and the utility room also doesn’t help, as that would create an L-shaped hallway with a long leg. The T-shaped hallway is better.

If I want to make the utility room sensibly bigger, I could put the shower into the bathroom. But then the bathroom looks small again. Besides, I want a shower with as little glass as possible (cleaning effort).

By the way, the bathroom still worries me a lot. The shower should be as large as possible (preferably 1.5x1.0 or 1.8x1.0 m) and I absolutely need space for a cabinet! The showroom bathrooms in all the magazines are not really usable. I don’t want a mirrored cabinet, I always bump my head on it when washing my face...

I have already tried to plan the bathroom with the planner from Villeroy and Boch, but somehow the plan and the 3D image don’t arrive by email.

Do you know another bathroom planner? It can also cost something!

Best regards, Andreas.