Our floor plan design for an affordable house

Aha!!!!

So what now? La.Schnute still had a cute country house in mind in the first post, also asked if the house as planned doesn’t look too massive for a country house, and meanwhile the focus has rather shifted to the modern look.
Just as unfinished, this is how some really good and well-founded advice is met here.

Then just leave it. You have an idea, do as you want.

I also mentioned at one point that I’m not exactly sure if “country house” is the right word, because under this term you often find clearly – as you say – “cuter” houses (in the sense of more ornate). I mean a modernly interpreted country house, to illustrate, here are two photos attached. And true: I know pretty well what I want. Which I basically think is good. So my main concern in this forum was about detailed questions, right. Not about the rough concept.

Whether this is feasible with our financially tight budget, you are welcome to express these worries. The good thing is that through the self-organized building (still with wholesale material prices) we can better adapt the planning during construction and react relatively flexibly. If it then doesn’t suffice for tile A or toilet B, it will simply be cheaper models. Also, I mentioned several times that in an emergency we would get a financial boost from family, which at the beginning is not planned in the 230,000. You are especially welcome and should express budget concerns CONCRETELY, i.e. referring to the design of individual areas. It will not be the missing walls in the open ground floor, nor the relatively small footprint, nor the rectangular building shape. Nor the fact that it should be “modern”. Modern doesn’t automatically mean expensive, but sometimes reduced and simple. It might be the windows. Therefore, I asked for concrete suggestions on that. Where would you save one? How would you arrange them? And yes, I hoped and still hope for suggestions in keeping the basic idea, as for example , , and some others have done. Many thanks again for that!!! By the way, the Lokstedt cost 250,000 €, which I find a very good price for the year of construction 2016. Honestly, I would have guessed higher.

What bothers me about the facades is only the Hanseatic rigid rhythm of the windows (and the numerical overdose of floor-to-ceiling ones).

Yes, you wrote something like this at the beginning. How would you loosen the rigid rhythm? I really can’t think of much anymore... Floor-to-ceiling, sure you can only do half-high windows upstairs. That will definitely not be at the top of our cut list if it gets too expensive, but also not at the bottom either. I will also consult my architect friend these days about window arrangement (and possibly savings) if we can still somehow meet and there is no curfew soon.

Otherwise: sigh, I’m really tired of eternal justifying... so, , I think soon it’s over and you can switch back to raw food or something. In two years I will either crawl to the cross (although that apparently only happens when the kids are teenagers and you have a long long living experience in a single-family house) or post my dream house here.

The only thing that bothers me about the facades is the Hanseatic stiff rhythm of the windows (and the numerical overdose of the floor-to-ceiling ones).

Maybe on the upper floor replace the two double French doors at least with single-leaf ones? Then you would have to pay less attention to symmetry and would save...

Windows, try to get Polish ones. Drutex? They are not so bad.
Stairs, der Stappen, Ludwigslust, makes good products at a good price.
The cheapest aerated concrete in my opinion is the one from Porith in Brandenburg.
Roof, there are binder companies that manufacture them semi-industrially. That saves money. Plaster and screed, talk to Estrichbau Nord in Lübeck if you are building in the Hamburg area.

Windows, try to get Polish ones. Drutex? They are not so bad.
Stairs, Der Stappen, Ludwigslust, makes good goods at a good price.
The cheapest aerated concrete in my opinion is the one from Porith from Brandenburg.
Roof, there are binder companies that produce them semi-industrially. That saves. Plaster and screed, talk to Estrichbau Nord in Lübeck if you are building in the Hamburg area.

I am already in talks with a Polish company. However, they only deliver. Do you perhaps have any experience values on how much one should roughly calculate for the installation (per window or m² or roughly overall)? I haven’t found any figures yet.

Brandenburg is just around the corner, Hamburg unfortunately less so... we are building in Berlin. Thanks for the tips!

No, I only know complete packages. Drutex does have installation partners. So your supplier doesn't?

Saving money: I remember a show from the series "Traumhäuser" on BR, where the builder, because she also had to save, chose an industrial roof. Maybe take a look there?

La.Schnute: in my eyes, the two pictures you showed are not country houses. That is a wooden facade, but that does not necessarily mean a country house. By the way, I like it, especially the first one. I'm not really a fan of clinker bricks, but in combination it looks great! However, I think your budget will get in the way again... These are great and above all very low-maintenance facades, but if money is tight, this will be difficult here.