Self-designed floor plan of a single-story building with a basement

Development plan/restrictions Size of the property: 931 sqm Slope: yes Development according to § 34 Building Code Number of parking spaces: 4 (two individually and two in front of the garage) Number of floors: basement and ground floor Roof type: hipped roof 22 degrees Style: classic Orientation: south/west

Requirements of the builders Basement: yes, due to sloped property Floors: 2 Number of people: 35 and 36 as well as two children: 0 and 2 years Room requirements on ground and upper floor Office: family use in the guest room and an additional room for home office Overnight guests per year: 5 Open architecture Conservative and/or modern construction Open kitchen, kitchen island Number of dining seats: 6-8 Fireplace: yes Balcony: yes, later terrace on south side on the roof of the planned prefabricated garage Garage: double garage as a prefabricated garage directly adjacent

House design Planned by: - Do-it-Yourself by you What do you particularly like? the large living/dining/kitchen area What do you not like? possibly the hallways Price estimate according to architect/planner: approx. 350K Preferred heating technology: heat pump

Hello dear forum,

we are posting our own design for the planned construction project here and would be grateful if you could give us a few honest opinions about it. We are generally very satisfied with it, but as often happens, one usually cannot see "the forest for the trees."

The basement level will be completely exposed at the front, so we want to enter the house at ground level or drive in through the garage. The other sides will almost disappear into the slope, hence the two planned light wells on the east side.

The rooms on the ground floor are planned so that we as parents will later move from the basement to the ground floor and thus leave the basement with bathroom to the children. Hence only the planned shower in the basement.

Many greetings and thank you very much!!!

Hello forum! Is there really nothing to "complain" about? Best regards

So, Kerstin wrote enough last week. You then had that deleted.

Honestly, I can hardly make anything of these SweetHome?-plans. They always look amateurish and are so 95% of the time.

For your sloping plot, the front is south, as I have read it, I would personally start my first drafts with the entrance and living areas with a terrace at the front in the basement, then bedrooms on the ground floor that do not necessarily require an outside exit. Also, the utility room on the ground floor, great for laundry where it occurs, as well as an outside door at the back.

And with little effort, you can avoid having an ugly long corridor :)

Thank you very much first of all!

Unfortunately, I couldn't read Kerstin's comment. So I don't know what criticism has already been made. After all, I had this thread deleted because unfortunately there were more problems with it.

Yes, it is a sloping plot and south is on the right side and west in front. Thought you could tell ;)

Maybe Kerstin can write again... :D

Best regards

It would be too much of a cave for me... just the hallway to the bedroom. I would get depressed just looking at the floor plan. A bedroom with a strip of light would not be for me. Children facing the street... well, it depends somewhat on the type of street and the view. All guests always have to climb stairs? Are there no grandparents? (purely from a practical standpoint) Half-turned staircase with 2.2 m is borderline. I would skip the balcony. Otherwise, elevations and sections wouldn't be a bad idea.

Ultimately, I also had this thread deleted, as unfortunately there were even more problems with it.

There were no problems with the thread. And the users here are reluctant to waste time – they do not get paid for the time and advice. From whom, anyway?! So naturally, the answers then also decrease.

Yes, it is a hillside plot and south is on the right side and west in front. Thought that would be clear ;)

Sorry, I haven’t looked at the plans anymore – looked at them enough last week and now posted from memory.