matte
2016-04-21 10:30:40
- #1
Sorry, but I kind of get the feeling that you just want to be prepared for every unlikely eventuality and have a room for it.
The first thing that strikes me is the issue with the children's rooms. You write about wanting 2 children but want to be prepared for 3 children. So you are planning from the start to have 3 children's rooms with at least 15m² each.
Now you write regarding the room above the garage that it could also become a guest room if another child is expected.
So 4 children after all?
In the original post, under space requirements, you write that you need 2 children's rooms and 1 guest room, which could later be used as a 3rd children's room.
But now you have 3 children's rooms, 1 guest room, and the huge room above the garage, which not only makes the whole building project enormously expensive but also requires you to accept quite a few compromises since the room also needs an access.
You have almost 32m² of hallway area alone on the ground floor and upper floor!
That makes a total of 5 rooms for guests/children and other eventualities.
First, you should consider how many children you actually want. There's nothing wrong with 2 OR 3. But there is a huge difference between 2 and 4, also regarding overall life planning.
Have you actually received a living space calculation?
If I roughly calculate:
Basement: 89m² + 51m² basemented garage
Ground floor: 90m² + garage
Upper floor: 90m² + 34m² *above the garage
So that makes 180m² for the house alone + 89m² basement, including the garage 214m² + 140m² basement.
But with 400,000 € that gets really tight - especially here in the south. I would even say that it won’t work; even in the version where I didn’t count the garage, it’s already tight.
The problem is not that the house cannot be smaller, but that you end up with such a size due to the aforementioned eventualities.
Regardless of whether 2, 3, or 4 children, the upper floor would at least benefit from a separate toilet. Ideally even a 2nd (children's) bathroom.
What’s interesting about the plan, despite the immense size, is that I find the house could still handle a few more square meters on the ground floor.
Are the living room furniture your actual ones? I know architects like to use such seating groups, but not everyone has that.
It’s best to furnish with your desired furniture.
I already mentioned the kitchen earlier, but if I hear that you cook fresh every day, it must be a room you also enjoy being in. The pantry simply takes away so much potential from the room, I don’t understand that.
I know the ground floor layout from my cousin, but they have a door from the hallway to the kitchen. Without that, I (and especially they) would go crazy if I had to take the detour every time. Consider this carefully.
All in all, I believe that if you don’t basement the garage and also don’t build over it, you won’t miss the rooms because you already have enough storage/hobby/basement space anyway.
What will happen with the basement rooms 1-4? Are they intended for something, or are they just there because you want to build with a basement?
Why not put the honey kitchen in 2 of these rooms and have an external basement staircase?
You would still have 2 rooms left.
No matter how I look at it, the house is way too big, while the most important rooms - living/cooking/eating - are just standard.
If you can and want to pay for all of this, no problem at all. However, not for 400,000 €.
The first thing that strikes me is the issue with the children's rooms. You write about wanting 2 children but want to be prepared for 3 children. So you are planning from the start to have 3 children's rooms with at least 15m² each.
Now you write regarding the room above the garage that it could also become a guest room if another child is expected.
So 4 children after all?
In the original post, under space requirements, you write that you need 2 children's rooms and 1 guest room, which could later be used as a 3rd children's room.
But now you have 3 children's rooms, 1 guest room, and the huge room above the garage, which not only makes the whole building project enormously expensive but also requires you to accept quite a few compromises since the room also needs an access.
You have almost 32m² of hallway area alone on the ground floor and upper floor!
That makes a total of 5 rooms for guests/children and other eventualities.
First, you should consider how many children you actually want. There's nothing wrong with 2 OR 3. But there is a huge difference between 2 and 4, also regarding overall life planning.
Have you actually received a living space calculation?
If I roughly calculate:
Basement: 89m² + 51m² basemented garage
Ground floor: 90m² + garage
Upper floor: 90m² + 34m² *above the garage
So that makes 180m² for the house alone + 89m² basement, including the garage 214m² + 140m² basement.
But with 400,000 € that gets really tight - especially here in the south. I would even say that it won’t work; even in the version where I didn’t count the garage, it’s already tight.
The problem is not that the house cannot be smaller, but that you end up with such a size due to the aforementioned eventualities.
Regardless of whether 2, 3, or 4 children, the upper floor would at least benefit from a separate toilet. Ideally even a 2nd (children's) bathroom.
What’s interesting about the plan, despite the immense size, is that I find the house could still handle a few more square meters on the ground floor.
Are the living room furniture your actual ones? I know architects like to use such seating groups, but not everyone has that.
It’s best to furnish with your desired furniture.
I already mentioned the kitchen earlier, but if I hear that you cook fresh every day, it must be a room you also enjoy being in. The pantry simply takes away so much potential from the room, I don’t understand that.
I know the ground floor layout from my cousin, but they have a door from the hallway to the kitchen. Without that, I (and especially they) would go crazy if I had to take the detour every time. Consider this carefully.
All in all, I believe that if you don’t basement the garage and also don’t build over it, you won’t miss the rooms because you already have enough storage/hobby/basement space anyway.
What will happen with the basement rooms 1-4? Are they intended for something, or are they just there because you want to build with a basement?
Why not put the honey kitchen in 2 of these rooms and have an external basement staircase?
You would still have 2 rooms left.
No matter how I look at it, the house is way too big, while the most important rooms - living/cooking/eating - are just standard.
If you can and want to pay for all of this, no problem at all. However, not for 400,000 €.