Preliminary floor plan for single-family house

Hi Baufie,

yes, of course, the additional construction costs will naturally be added on top. Unfortunately...

We don’t have controlled residential ventilation, maybe a "Bluemartin" budget version will be added, which then costs around 7-8 k€. Heating is a gas boiler with solar thermal system and underfloor heating. We are building with a waterproof concrete tub and flood-proof basement windows and have raised the basement and the ground floor. About 25-30 k€ in extra costs are involved in that and in the chimney.

The carport will be built later separately and is deliberately not included in the building application now. (Building regulations are just stupid, if I include it in the building application now I have to adhere to the building window because it then counts as "a necessary parking space." If I simply designate two parking spaces in my driveway, I can later build additional ones wherever I want, since those count as "not necessary additional parking spaces." Totally crazy....)

Best regards,

Andreas

One should not respond in the forum during a phone call:

It must of course say:
If I simply designate two parking spaces in my driveway, I can later build an additional carport wherever I want, as it is then considered a "non-essential additional parking space."

Me man, me no multi-tasking...

Hello community,
I haven’t posted anything for a while now. I am currently in the planning phase and would like to present my floor plan to you.
I hope for your criticism! Please no budget discussions
The garage will have a flat roof. The house will have a gable roof at 18°.

The following questions:

[*]Entrance hallway to kitchen: Would a sliding door be possible here? The advantage would be that I could push the tall kitchen cabinets against the wall and possibly even place the side-by-side fridge, which currently just awkwardly stands in the room, into this corner.
[*]Kitchen/dining: I want to keep the option open to install a room divider with sliding elements later on. Is there anything to consider here? Do you have experience with folding doors?
[*]Fireplace: It fits pretty well on the ground floor, but upstairs it just looks strange... What do you think?.. I wanted to have a fireplace or a Swedish stove (Cera Faro) on the ground floor.
[*]What do you think about the garage/house door? I can’t imagine being able to pass by properly if two cars are in the garage.
[*]Bathroom upstairs: I want a T-shaped bathroom. Does the shower work here... or wouldn’t it need to be longer so the water doesn’t splash out?
[*]What would you recommend for a staircase? Concrete stairs or stairs with steel stringers?
[*]Are the hallway widths sufficient? Upstairs I could take a bit from the kids’ rooms. It would be harder on the ground floor.
[*]Is the width of the walk-in closet enough? Additionally, I want to put a wardrobe for winter jackets etc. in the storage room upstairs.

I am grateful for suggestions and do not take criticism badly.
FIRE AWAY

Morning!

*Attack!*

I have to keep it short right now:

Still very large and long hallways, not really my thing, but it has to please you, not me.
The dimensions are missing, so it's hard to estimate, but on the ground floor the hallway next to the stairs is narrower than the stairs themselves. That would mean about a meter or less, which will look very narrow.
The fireplace always looks strange and is always in the way. But you can also integrate it into the wall.
Your structural engineer will hate you and your general contractor will love you. You have no walls stacked on top of each other, which makes it structurally difficult and technically expensive.
The shower doesn’t work like this. If you don’t want a door in front of it, you need at least 1.3, better 1.5 meters depth so you don’t flood everything.
Shower on the ground floor, how do you want to open the door there? The toilet is in the way...

Best regards,

Andreas

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[*]The thing with the long hallways is also my concern. We have always liked the straight staircase best. The hallway has a width of 2.3m --> staircase 1.0m --> hallway approx. 1.3m. That's why the questions about the staircase. I think an open staircase doesn't "press" too much.
[*]The fireplace is terrible. I still have an appointment with the fireplace builder today to check if I can leave the fireplace in the upper floor and just connect the flue pipe with ceiling passage in the ground floor.
[*]I had feared the thing with the shower. I definitely have to see the bathroom planner.. but it should somehow work on the 16sqm.
[*]The thing with the shower in the ground floor seemed strange to me myself. But apparently my planner has done something like that before. I will ask him if I can see it live.

Best regards

What I am still considering now is whether it makes sense to place the cooktop on the peninsula if the option of installing a partition wall later is to remain open?

Regards Sigi