Realistic cost estimate: Single-family house with unfavorable development location

Before I build nothing at all, I'll just leave out the terrace for now - sure. However, the installments won't suddenly be less after 3 years and the terrace probably won't become cheaper. So where is the money supposed to come from? Therefore, it's better to plan smaller right away but with the must-haves.

Because maybe you have small children who will start school in 3, 4, or 5 years and want to enable the wife to work full-time again???

That easily means 1,200 EUR net for us if my wife can work full time again instead of 50%.

That's where the money will come from in 3, 4 years. Some people here are just so out of touch with reality, man oh man...

This "let them eat cake" mentality here really annoys me a lot too. Not everyone has as much dough as you or wants to get heavily into debt just because they can't wait 2 years for a terrace...

You can put the office on the ground floor if you have a basement. But technology, pantry, and office are simply way too much on the ground floor. Despite 160 sqm, the space in the open-plan area will be tight. You have to set priorities. Just like 4 gables and a central staircase do not make the floor plan any easier. As the very first action, I would put the stairwell into one of the captain’s gables.

It is often the desired straight staircase that swallows a lot of hallway space. On top of that, then a closed wall

Prime example see here:

We now live in under 90 like you @Winniefred and it doesn’t feel cramped to me either.

I always advise my coaching clients to draw their current apartment and mark the bottlenecks and other points about wishes for a good fairy in it.

Then I stand in real houses and it doesn’t feel like any room is really spacious, some even rather borderline small.

Unfortunately, the houses are not online,

Accordingly, you are talking about private houses, since show houses are usually known on the internet (?)

I found some quite interesting floor plans at "Buss Bauunternehmen" under Viergiebelhaus and at "die Planerei" (References/Viergibelhaus 151). If you want, you can give your two cents.

There are several called die Planerei, probably meant is the one in Edewecht (written without a hyphen). My two cents are known, as well as the undisputed effect of second and third captains on the available standing height.

Not everyone has as much cash as you or wants to get into debt up to their eyeballs because they can’t wait 2 years for a terrace...

Here, very few have enough cash to cover 160 sqm and more. If you save 10 sqm of living space, you can also afford the terrace and driveway that belong to the house. Man, man, always this "You are so rich, look at me, the poor craftsman" mentality.

The external dimensions are not fixed, the floor plans from the general contractor were just examples. That they are fixed must either be a misunderstanding or you are confusing us.

No, you wrote that you wanted to take a standard house as an example from the GC and then at some point posted the drawing with the dimensions...

I think it’s getting pretty tedious now repeating that 7 rooms are simply cramped if you can’t build on a large scale right away. Mr. Google or another house name won’t change that either.

that we manage to get reasonably nice room sizes and it doesn’t get much bigger than 160 sqm.

Yes, the office on the ground floor is hated here, but unfortunately it has to be.

The priority list and keeping in mind how rooms can serve multiple purposes obviously didn’t work!? Shame.
Wasn’t there a budget mentioned? 500,000€?

Because maybe you have small children who will go to school in 3, 4 or 5 years and want to enable the wife to work full-time again???

That’s easily 1,200 EUR net for us when my wife can work full-time again instead of 50%.

That’s where the money will come from in 3 or 4 years. Some people here are really out of touch, man, man...

This "let them eat cake" mentality here really annoys me a lot too. Not everyone has as much dough as you or wants to be in debt up to their eyeballs because they can’t wait 2 years for a terrace...

To be honest, we had much less money than the OP. And yes, if there is a prospect of wealth later on, you are absolutely right. But it was never really about the terrace or other optional outdoor facilities for me. I tried to make that clear the whole time. The OP’s money goes on development, and that’s why he can happily dream of 7 rooms in castle size. If the budget stays at 500k all in, it will even be only 140 sqm instead of 160. You just can’t do without water, electricity, and telephone. But maybe I’m exaggerating or misjudging the situation. I’m happy to be convinced otherwise.

Yes, that's true! We would also take one off the shelf immediately, but unfortunately there are so few with two gables :/ Do you have any smart source for that?

Anyone who wants to have 4 gables and can afford it should consider the way to the architect. It's hardly possible to have 4 gables any smaller.