Single-family house – new construction project from day one - and the planning begins

Attached is the revised ground floor plan

Not just revised, but even ready for a vacation, I would say: the second car is parked with only the driver's side up to about the windshield under the carport corner of the garage building? ? ?

Not only renovated, but even in need of a vacation, I would say: the second car is parked with only the driver's side up to about the windshield under the carport corner of the garage building???

I think that's quite good. The furniture in the living room seems a bit tiny to me. The entrance area would be too narrow for me. The upper floor should work. I find the garage nonsense like that. I see no reason not to attach it to the house and make it bigger. The passage is useless and only causes storm effects in the wind tunnel.

Below is a sketch of the property so that you can better imagine it...

Hello everyone,

With this post, I would like to keep you updated...

We now have an initial meeting with a total of 9 companies. In addition to the major prefab house providers (Fingerhaus, Schwörerhaus, Bien-Zenker, Hanse), there are also two regional medium-sized prefab house providers (Büdenbender Haus and Zimmermann Haus), a small regional company (Quasthaus), as well as two regional planning offices (solid construction) involved. On April 3rd, it continues with Büdenbender Haus. Since our initial meeting with FingerHaus at the beginning of February, we have not heard anything more from them...

In the meantime, we have already had a conversation with our house bank regarding budget determination. The bank approved our total cost budget amounting to 610 TEUR (of which 65 TEUR is land) and also already provided an offer as the first indication for the house bank loan portion. 10 years were offered to us at the current 0.99% p.a. (standard condition for loan-to-value ratio < 120%).

Independent of the non-binding promise from the bank, my wife and I have decided that we

a) either build according to the following presented plan for the construction cost budget (including additional construction costs) of 545 TEUR

or

b) build a classic (and smaller) catalog prefab house in a high-end version for 150 TEUR less (=395 TEUR).

Price and performance simply have to match from our point of view. Therefore, we are now very curious about what the first meetings from April onwards will bring...

We have meanwhile distanced ourselves, especially for aesthetic reasons (in our view it simply does not result in a nice exterior appearance), from a knee wall height of 215 cm and 2 full floors. Instead, we are currently considering 140-160 cm as well as 1.5 floors, which should of course significantly reduce construction costs. The pitch of the gable roof will accordingly probably also increase significantly, which will give us important storage space in the attic.

A photovoltaic system has also been added to our special equipment wishes.

Your many good ideas have prompted us to revise the floor plan draft once again.

Below, first of all — for better understanding — the planned location of the single-family house on the plot:



Ground floor plan:



Upper floor plan:

What we do not like so much about the upper floor plan is that the children's rooms are not located on the garden side, and the children also look out of their (floor-to-ceiling) windows onto the garage. Due to the location of the stairs, unfortunately, this is not possible otherwise — or does anyone have an idea?

The long sides have no windows as roof sides. We would like to equip each room with a roof window here. In addition, there are currently considerations (for aesthetic reasons) to install one dormer at the corridor height on each roof side.



Thank you in advance for your suggestions, your praise, and your criticism!

I find the arrangement on the property much better now

Green the garage for the children?!
Mirror the upper floor including the stairs?!

Dormers from an optical point of view from the outside -> can be done, but in the hallway you don’t have any meaningful gain of space for the cost, that would be much more relevant for the children's rooms or bathrooms, if at all -> and take a look at that with a knee wall of 140-160 cm? Maybe rather a transverse gable?

Roof windows in bedrooms/children's rooms bring wonderful light (with the appropriate size), but also a certain level of noise

On the topic "big always works":

We have used the meantime to optimize the floor plan a bit more.

I'm curious to see what you think about the following ground floor plan including a single garage...

Please discuss with the necessary case data in the floor plan thread.