Planning a single-family house with approximately 175 m², your assessment?

Without knowing the legal framework conditions of the property (what is allowed to be built, building envelope, etc.), I consider the planning not very successful. I first looked at the pictures, then read, and was surprised that so many square meters are used up, and so little comes out of it. On the ground floor, the living room as a walk-through room is uncomfortable, furnishing is difficult. On the sofa, one is oriented more towards the interior of the building than taking advantage of the beautiful view towards the forest. An office as a trapped room is also rather unfavorable. On the upper floor, the dressing room is the trapped room, also unfavorable. Anyone who wants to change clothes disturbs the sleeper. I like the utility room on the upper floor, that makes sense. Overall, I would plan the building as a bar parallel to the forest, i.e. the building becomes longer and narrower than it is now, the garage is placed in front of the building. If the external dimensions do not allow a bar shape, then at least efficient inside. Then there is also the storage space that you actually wanted after leaving out the basement. How do you actually build? On the one hand, you draw plans, then you want to discuss a detail (sliding door) with an architect. Is it your architect (commissioned planning) or the architect of a developer (in the worst case a rubber-stamper who praises your design to the skies in order to minimize his own work effort, and later unloads errors in the planning / use on you). Regards Wanderdüne

In the ground floor, the living room is unpleasant as a passage room, the furnishing is difficult. On the sofa, you tend to orient yourself more towards the inside of the building than to make use of the beautiful view towards the forest.

I have to agree with that. Somehow, no coziness comes into the living room.

An office as a trapped room is also rather unfavorable. On the upper floor, the dressing room is the trapped room, also unfavorable. Whoever wants to change clothes disturbs the sleeper.

I see it completely relaxed and quite differently. Whoever does not necessarily need an office to work, uses it today more or less as a computer "playground" and library. The three folders from the house construction hardly play a role. Therefore, it is nice if you don’t have to run up to the attic just to look up something on the internet. It rather belongs to the living room. Well, and the fact that the dressing room adjoins the bedroom is obvious. So if I’m not working shifts, it is relatively indifferent if my partner wakes up with me. On the contrary... :cool: Regarding the stairs: Just still okay – as suspected. Rise about 19.1 and tread width about 23.9. If you have a staircase somewhere now, measure it there for comparison. So our stairs have planned 26 cm tread surface and a rise just over 18. It’s just for slowpokes. Athletic people take one like yours. ;)

Hello everyone,

unfortunately, we only have 22 m in width.
- 6.5 m garage
- 3 m minimum distance to the neighbor to the east
-> 12.5 m maximum house width (we planned 12 m)

Furthermore, there is a regulation that the garage must be at least 5 m away from the property boundary to the north. However, we want to move the house as far north as possible due to the shadow cast by the trees in autumn/winter and the fact that we will never use the property to the north (minimum distance: 2.5 m) – it is almost a dead-end street, so there should be no noise disturbances from the road.
Therefore, we have designed the house somewhat wider on the east side. Alternatively, the garage would have to be moved forward to the south. But that might mean more shadow in the kitchen in the morning.

Living room: actually, we would like to orient the couch towards the forest. But where would we put the TV then? Directly in front of the window on the south side? That way we would have a compromise: the TV would be mounted on the slope including a swivel arm, and with a view to the right you can look outside. But maybe someone has another idea?

Best regards,
Felix

How do you actually build? On the one hand, you draw plans, then you want to discuss a detail (sliding door) with an architect. Is it your architect (commissioned planning) or the architect of a developer (in the worst case a rubber-stamper who praises your design to the skies to minimize his own effort and later unloads errors in the planning/usage onto you).

The crucial question is still open, and the problems of the design remain. Whoever plans the house must plan until it really fits. You are far from this; essential goals have been missed with the design. (space, view, living quality) I think that involving an architect and commissioning performance phases 1 and 2 would make sense here so that you can break away from this design that does not do justice to the property and the beautiful view. Alternatively, take a look at rather narrow floor plans with cooking, dining and living in a row, take a straight staircase, etc. Regards WD