Hello everyone, thank you very much for the many tips and suggestions. Some answers are below.
We have adjusted the floor plan (at least the interior walls and a bit of the exterior) again. We are now much more satisfied with it, but of course I would still be interested in your opinions. Pictures attached. Since I don’t have an architecture program, it was planned in Sketchup. Doors etc. can therefore only be seen in the angled top view.
The more I look at the open area, the less I like it. It is already so unplanned in the entrance area with half the kitchen area.
If it should remain like this, I would at least move the kitchen into the bay window, meaning the conservatory, and make the dining area the center of the house.
The kitchen was not properly drawn in that layout. Now it should be understood rather schematically. I made the bay window larger, so the table fits sideways.
Exactly, and a more experienced zoning plan reader immediately thinks of building a straight-walled upper floor instead of the knee wall-180 attic and roofing it with a single-pitch roof either at 22° pitch (analogous to the maximum at PD/ZD) or e.g. 27° pitch.
[...] the nonsense is then squeezed by a gable roof for photovoltaic plus an upper floor chopped to a knee wall attic out of premature obedience to the zoning plan.
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Therefore my advice: don’t fall in love with any accidentally non-covered detail, but redo everything. Reengineering doesn’t mean that every agreement with the old plan should be eliminated - what is by chance the same as before may gladly "stay" (just not what stayed the same by retention).
The advice regarding the possible exception to the zoning plan is very good. Otherwise, we did not want a gable roof because of the photovoltaic but for aesthetic reasons. Shed and pyramid roofs are unfortunately not an option for us.
We have at least done the re-engineering inside so far. -> Different staircase, different section on the upper floor, and mostly in the basement. In our impression much tidier and clearer.
I want to ask the following again:
You have a 16m wide plot with a maximum house width of 11m. You have drawn a spiral prefabricated garage with under 3m width and 7m length. If the family car actually parks there, I see this very negatively. Where will bicycles, scooters, tricycles, lawnmowers, and so on for 5 people go? Or are there 2 parking spaces in front of the house planned and the garage is only for junk?
There is about 2m of space behind the car; the idea was that the bikes stand in front or behind (we had it like that before as well). Aren’t 3m standard for a garage? Lawn mowers etc. go to the basement, there is an external staircase for that.
Is the garage allowed to be built directly on the street? The rule that there must be at least 5m distance to the street seems not to apply (4m in your current plan). Of course, it could be that your garage must also comply with the building line.
I wouldn’t block the west side with the evening sun, so better place the garage in the northeast. As an option maybe a double carport directly on the street in the NE corner, behind the border half of this a storage room for bikes and then the house on the plot?
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The garage may come up to 3m to the street; this was planned but not yet in the plan.
Since the neighboring plot is just as narrow, I expect their house will also be quite close, so in the evening there won’t be much sun anyway. On the other hand, there is a large property on the east side where I expect more distance, so the view is rather directed there.
Well, I don’t really know. It’s neither fish nor fowl. The narrow living room, the kitchen lost in the room, the worm-shaped extension in the south, upstairs bedroom 2 so annoyingly narrow, no space for car, bikes & co, and all this for 580K???
Ok, the plot is not easy. Actually it should be 2m wider for your wishes. If it were mine, I would bury some of your wishes and build a rectangle.
It would look like this then (top of the plan is south):
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Maybe I would move maximally to the south for a small front garden. Photovoltaics also works with east-west orientation – I just learned that. Children get the south side. Why do you have to look into the garden when sleeping?
Thank you very much for the effort you put into the plans!! Which program do you use?
The living room is now wider, as is the bay window, and less space is wasted. We definitely like it better now, also thanks to the numerous suggestions here. What do you think about the new design?
