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

You can put the office on the ground floor if you have a basement. But technology, pantry, and office on the ground floor is just too much. Despite 160 sqm, space in the open plan room becomes tight. You need to set priorities.

However, I don't quite understand why this should be a law of nature - if that were the case, no one would build with a basement anymore.. ;) The linked house shows that you can definitely manage a work/guest room and kitchen+living on the ground floor. Of course, then it’s no palace hall..

My cousin even has that on significantly fewer square meters. But then the all-purpose room only has a good 30 sqm left... For this house, I find the all-purpose room simply too small for such a large house, and the ground floor bathroom as well. The pantry takes up workspace in the kitchen. You could possibly fit everything if you handle it more cleverly. Staircase along the wall, pantry under the stairs, smaller utility and laundry room without a second entrance door, and so on. The floor plan still won’t be spacious, but at least appropriate for the size of the house.

Hello everyone,
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That’s exactly the situation, in a few years there will simply be more salary.


We are not attached to the central staircase at all, we are quite indifferent about it. The pantry should be underneath, as you say, but you can’t really see that well in the drawing. But if you move the staircase, it just has to go somewhere else again... Exactly what you mean by "cleverly manage," we hope to achieve that through the conversation with the draftsman.


We have seen both private and model houses. The latter from such small (or not internet-savvy?) companies that you can’t see them online. Our fairy godmother wouldn’t be able to do much with the current apartment; it is really different from the plan in every respect.


I already said that we don’t want the seven rooms at all, but would rather save one upstairs. The room on the ground floor is already planned as multipurpose: office and guest room. Upstairs there are two children’s rooms, one of which in case there is no second child can be used as sports/hobby/play/storage room. And we actually want to get rid of the small extra room. 500,000€ is the absolute pain threshold. We budget 400,000€ for the house, 40,000€ for the development, 20,000€ for the kitchen, and then there are still 40,000€ left for all other costs. That may be peanuts for building in southern Germany, but for us it is a frighteningly large sum.


Well, "have" is a big word, we don’t have it, we borrow it :D We don’t dream of 7 rooms the size of a castle, I don’t find 12-14sqm for a children’s room "castle-sized".


Our previous experiences with architects were a bit poor. Always kind of a "yeah... you can do it like that" and not the creative idea you’d expect from someone who does that professionally. The anecdote from your cousin reinforces my belief that it has to be possible somehow, because 160sqm is really a lot.

It is an amount that, given the size of your house, freely planned by the architect, will not be sufficient with the 2 outrageously expensive KaLeun gables.

Especially if it is the absolute pain threshold and not "well, we still have 10, 15% as a reserve."

And no hard feelings. I can understand it. It doesn't exactly fill me with pure joy either when I walk up to my Seat in the morning. I would much rather have a Porsche there or at least a 535i. But I just can't afford that. Once you've accepted that, you do feel a bit happy about the Seat. Because that's 100 times better than having no car at all.

I’m even happy about my 23-year-old Volvi (V70) that I bought as a construction vehicle for 1000 bucks (by the way, totally the wrong car as a construction vehicle) and actually more than about the rickety Zoe next to it, even though it’s a super modern EV...