Single-family house with 156 m² floor area (2 children's rooms + home office)

I agree with the participant that the strength of the posted draft lies in the "mix of openness and closedness." I would also be interested in the floor plan of the inspected show house (preferably as a private message).

I agree with the TN in that the strength of the posted draft lies in the "mix of openness and enclosedness"

One could rave about any floor plan that includes a kitchen with a door and a gallery :-)

I would also be interested in the floor plan of the model house that was visited

Yes, the original Brad could gladly be named sometime :-)

I primarily meant the double doors on the ground floor :-). For a gallery, I would rather do without it in normally sized houses.

Here is the floor plan we saw and found good.



I want to make it clear once again that we liked this very much, but we are by no means saying "It has to be like this and not otherwise." That impression seems to have arisen here... it only served as a starting point for us. Now, with the apparently found plot of land, one has to go into the planning in more detail anyway, but that is exactly why we are posting here.

Nothing is set in stone (well, except the double doors leading from the hallway, I simply fell in love with them) and I am still happy to receive constructive criticism. Discussions about Brad Pitt and Co. unfortunately do not help me here. If we were not open to changes, we would not have reached out here.

Thanks for the constructive contributions, especially the comments regarding orientation, which I found very helpful. We are already busy drawing...

Hits noticeably. But it could be difficult if you have fallen in love with Brad Pitt to now spontaneously switch to Leonardo DiCaprio. ;)

But a monster comes out of the cosmetic surgeries.

Here is the seen and considered good floor plan.

It's quite nice, but you also have to consider the orientation – in that respect, it even fits better. But I only glanced briefly and had the plot with a north orientation in mind?!

That's nonsense, and in three ways: First, such a high knee wall doesn't help with "full-storey avoidance"; assuming the corresponding maximum heights of ridge and wall/eaves, you can just put a full-height upper floor with straight walls. Second, raising the knee wall also pushes the kink between wall and roof slope higher – with the consequence that you either have to duck to look out of facade windows or stretch to look out of roof windows; or as a third option, build dormers. Third, a house styled "northern German" (with clinker brick, third gable, etc.) doesn't "work" if you give it significantly more than 1 meter of knee wall.

Yes, that was a quick shot. You are completely right that it doesn't make sense. In Lower Saxony, however, a knee wall of 1.80 m probably does not yet count as a full storey. Still, it would look stupid. So it's discarded ;)