Plot with cut-in power station / L-shape - idea search

Here is the development of the planning. Single-family house with basement approx. 200 m².
2 children, 1 guest room, 1 home office. Currently planned with basement.



Currently planned ground floor. Garage driveway on the side, house layout transverse, garden area maximally to the south (approx. 10m from the house).


Currently planned upper floor. Parents’ area arranged with dressing room, bathroom, bedroom. 2 children’s rooms, 1 guest room/multipurpose room/gaming corner/studio upstairs, storage room and small 2nd shower-WC for children. Balcony as shading and for children.



Section. Ground floor ceiling height 2.85m, upper floor 2.65m knee wall, roof open at the top.



Development: The office on the ground floor should be made large enough so that it could later become a parents’ bedroom on one floor, barrier-free, or if the house is divided into 2 separate living units for the two children, e.g. 1 upstairs 1 downstairs. Because my wife wants a utility room and pantry the kitchen moves to the southeast and we have a large room in the south. We also found out that the room with 4.50m is too narrow and does not work, i.e. we want to reach about 5.50m.



Idea: We put the kitchen in the northwest and you can look out from the kitchen towards the front of the house and we make the living room extend from north to south and have windows and terrace opening to the west. The issue is that we want the living area to be wider, otherwise it doesn’t work, 4.50m is too narrow. With the layout it will be critical with utility room and pantry and the office area would probably have to move to the southeast. Or we leave the room around the corner in one piece and can separate it when we are older. Possibly the living-dining area would then be too spacious? In that case I definitely have to move the office to the basement.



In the upper floor the question still arises whether we can somehow rotate the parents’ area, then we could align the 3 rooms completely to the south and be flexible, the parents’ room would then be in the south, and upwards it would be decoupled in case I snore loudly at night or something.



View south with balcony. Is this done like this for shading? Planned are somewhat taller windows, around 2.30m approx.


View north driveway. The positioning of the garage would be directly in front, the garden will then be a bit smaller, approx. 9m left to the boundary. The driveway is just possible like this.

We would be happy about suggestions or things you notice that we have not seen.
I look forward to ANY idea or input and I’m already looking forward to the 2nd and 3rd time building a house ;)

Regards Markus

Section. Bottom story height 2.85m, top knee wall 2.65m, roof open at the top.

These dimensions are not the story heights but the clear raw construction room heights without insulation, screed, and flooring. You should deduct about 20cm from your measurements for insulation, screed, and flooring. Then the finished basement will also not have 2.5m but rather about 2.3m.

These dimensions are not the ceiling heights but the clear raw construction heights without insulation, screed, and flooring. For insulation, screed, and flooring, you should deduct about 20cm from your measurements. Then the finished basement will not have 2.5m either but rather around 2.3m.

Thank you for the information, building for the first time, I will check again.

Hello, we are moving forward, we have developed some variants and are still torn back and forth regarding the positioning of the garage / driveway and the arrangement of the kitchen towards the front or the entire living-dining area. Since it is raining anyway today, I am uploading the current development and look forward to comments or ideas :)

Best regards Traufgänger

I am amazed by two things: first, the long planning period, and second, that I apparently had not yet asked in this thread what material is being used here. On the one hand, I see exterior walls in the classic solid construction caliber 365, but on the other hand, then unusual interior wall thicknesses and dimensions that deviate from the norm.

In the floor plan design, I get the impression of being trapped, infatuated with the visualization of a design that has not yet succeeded, whose "spirit" is somehow supposed to be preserved, and in which a room layout Tetris is played for this purpose. This is a typical phenomenon with draftsman planning. Presumably, the supposedly higher fee investment in an independent architect would have already paid for itself twice by avoiding the interim increases in construction costs.

I recommend a relaunch and fresh start with professional planning methodology. A patchpatchpatch, as the exact opposite of clean code, leads to a dramatically increased likelihood of construction defects due to complex connection details at every corner. And with the further distillation of the design on the unsuitable path and increasing desperation, rather than the power of prayers cutting the Gordian knot, the wine increasingly turns to vinegar.

I think it's good, for now, that the building line is being adhered to. Perhaps that was a reason for the delays?