Hello everyone, there have already been lively discussions here, which makes me happy!
Unfortunately, I can't read the dimensions of the property. Can you please state them again?
Gladly, the property measures exactly 18.5 x 49.8m, with the short side facing the street.
With so much space I would never be so stingy planning the front of the property.
The development at the front was intended because the supplementary statute stipulates the building window on the first 20 meters (measured from the street), and we cannot use the last 7.5 meters at the back as a garden since we have to plant hedges and trees there as a compensation area.
I’ll try to attach an excerpt from the statute. The partial areas are still marked there, but maybe it will show better what I mean. Up to the blue line are 20m.
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Therefore, the idea was to plan the house as far forward as reasonable so that a large garden would be created, even if we plan a terrace at the house. Of course, I am open to other suggestions.
What I have already noticed when reviewing various floor plans is that many houses with rather elongated rectangular layouts are unfortunately not oriented like our property, but are planned so that presumably the long side is meant to face the garden (living-dining room), which I don’t find so nice for our property.
The parking spaces to the right of the house were also only planned like that because the driveway will start directly at the right edge of the property. Then you just have to drive straight through and have short distances for shopping, etc. On the left in front of the house (then with the house entrance facing the street) would definitely also be possible. (Or completely different, but then you have a lot of "wasted space" facing the street – for example, we wouldn’t want to sit or stay on the street side.)
Moving the workshop into the garage is not a good idea, in my opinion. As you have rightly noticed, it is cold and uninsulated in winter, but that is exactly when you are often there. That is not comparable to the occasional wrench who vacuums the car in summer.
What might be worth considering is moving the technology to the upper floor so that you can better use the space below.
Never! Honestly, we have learned this from experience. You won’t heat a workshop to 15 degrees in 10 minutes if it is 0 outside. And it can’t be as small as a phone booth if you want to get at least 2 bikes in and out. Moreover, the OP requested a connection to the shower.
I’m afraid you are too much guided by your own ideas of cycling. To me, this sounds like two sports fanatics who spend most of their free time in the saddle.
It depends on what you do with the bike.
If you just want to oil the chain quickly, you can do this quickly in the cold room.
Anyone who does a lot of bike maintenance will appreciate a consistently tempered room. The tools are not ice-cold, and you ventilate a disc brake best only when the oil is at room temperature. Maybe you also build a frame completely new. Yes, you have to want and be able to afford this, but a hobby is never a rational thing. I personally would enlarge the technical room a bit and put the workshop in there.
These are exactly our considerations, and I’m glad to hear some first real experiences. It shouldn’t get too cold because you do sit longer sometimes when bigger modifications/conversions on the bike are pending. Or just for cleaning and oiling the chain, where you naturally handle water and cleaning solution. It certainly doesn’t need 20 degrees for that, but 0 degrees is too little, especially since the cold also rises from below. The advantage of the garage/carport solution, of course, is that you don’t have to carry the bikes laboriously through/into the house if they don’t hang on the wall there anyway. (Which the house husband finds nice but the house wife rather finds inconvenient.)
The large technical room would be great, of course. Warm enough, you can also quickly go wash your hands properly, etc. Then there would also be a place so that the future housewife doesn’t have to hang her dirty stable clothes in the hallway. Unfortunately, only riders find stable smells pleasant. The downside remains, as usual, that we would have to build larger than otherwise "necessary."
Additional tinkering, soldering station, etc., could also be accommodated in the house husband’s study; children’s rooms are usually larger than needed for the home office.
I have also already seen that a larger technical room was attached to the house like a bay window or was completely separate and "outside." Then the whole house would not have to be bigger but only this part.
You are still young. Are children planned?
No.