Single-family house on a slope on a large plot

Thanks for the tip, I think we'll do that in the fall as well.

How do you actually plan to get out through the staircase at the top floor, are you putting in a dormer or do you have such a high knee wall that you can stand up?

Hello Solveigh,

I also really like your floor plan. No wonder, it is very similar to our house, which we built 14 years ago.

However, we have 3 kids' rooms upstairs. Your library is my study.

I would like to share a few brief notes with you from our experience:

Galleries in the children's rooms: these were no longer used as sleeping areas just a few months after moving in, but rather as play or workspaces. Our children wanted to be able to see the sky or the garden when falling asleep and waking up and moved their beds back to the lower area. Plan for each bed space to be 1.40 m wide. Sooner or later this may be necessary.

It is also relatively warm upstairs in our house. We also did not plan any skylights. Today I would make a shed roof and illuminate the galleries through north-facing windows – that would also be nice for ventilation on warm days.

Consider placing the study on the wall of your bedroom to create a noise buffer from the children. We sleep wall to wall with our now 17-year-old son. Neither he nor we find that particularly pleasant.

Otherwise, I am looking forward to your further planning. It will definitely be a beautiful house!

Best regards...

Staggered desk provides window areas facing south as well as light from the north - and has a gable roof

Thank you for the hint, , then this should not be a problem from a building law perspective. I will report back, also regarding the costs!!

Is there any news about the costs? We are starting the first meetings with two (out of six) architects this week and are curious...

We had a conversation today with a well-established architect who builds solidly around here and enjoys a good reputation (as far as I know), but also builds standard and is rather not creative. She quoted us ~460 euros per cubic meter of built volume, plus earthworks. I think it won't be possible to go below 2000 euros per square meter here either.

What are the cost drivers according to your architect (apart from the size)? Because 2400 euros per square meter is already quite a lot, but probably the earthworks are not without cost, right?

Then your architect isn’t entirely wrong: I come to 657,372.20 euros for 1,429.07 m³ of renovation space in the residential building. Without garage.

Cost drivers for us are certainly:

- the size of the building and the garage
- excavation
- wooden house
- KFW 40+ standard (heat pump-controlled residential ventilation-photovoltaic system-storage)
- wood-aluminum windows
- external blinds on all windows
- parquet wide plank flooring throughout the building including bathroom and WC
- all those little extras like flush skirting boards, flush doors, recessed curtain rails, window seating, folding staircase (builders wife’s farts :cool

We have already had the kitchen quoted: there is a price range from 40,000 to 78,000 euros. Actually, I didn’t want to buy 2 houses!

Including additional construction costs, etc.?

So everything (really everything) included?