Single-family house with double garage floor plan for the second house

Development Plan/Restrictions
Size of the Property: 549m²
Slope: No
Floor Area Ratio: 0.4
Plot Ratio: 0.5
Building window, building line and boundary: Marked in the picture
Edge development: One-sided 8.99m
Number of parking spaces: 2
Number of stories: Max. 2
Roof type: Any, as long as 20°-45° and NO single-sided shed roof
Style: Modern
Orientation: Any
Maximum heights/limits: Eaves height 7.5m, building height 9.5m

Client Requirements
Style, roof type, building type: Any
Basement, stories: No basement, 2 full stories
Number of people, age: 2 people, NO children yet
Office: Family use or home office?: 1x home office
Open or closed architecture: Open
Conservative or modern construction: Modern
Open kitchen, cooking island: Yes
Number of dining seats: 6 pcs.
Fireplace: No
Music/stereo wall: No
Balcony, roof terrace: No
Garage, carport: Double garage 7x9m
Utility garden, greenhouse: No

House Design
From whom is the plan: Remodeled design from the internet
Preferred heating technology: Air-to-water heat pump

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The development plan can be found under Development Plan No. 73 "Im Felsener Moor"
on the municipal homepage of the municipality of Ostercappeln.

Just a few questions:
- I assume an access road from below. Why is the garage set back so far?

I would like to keep as large a courtyard surface as possible so that parking is reasonable (cars, caravans,...)
Besides, I have to say, I really like the look.

- Where do your utility lines enter the property? If they come from below, then the technical room in the rear part of the house is suboptimal.

They come from below. I thought you could still go diagonally out of the house to get in front of the garage.

- If you want to convert the attic someday, where would the stairs go?

That’s a really good question... Maybe converting the attic is really just a whim of mine and offers absolutely no added value...

By the way, the property in question is property number 83. At the very bottom of the plans...

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And what do you particularly like? What do you not like? What do you wish for and what do you not like? Or is your will exactly what you posted here: a house from the internet, carelessly improvised and impersonal, simply built from a single-story into a two-story. Without personal furniture or adjustments to the property?

Besides, I must say I really like it visually.

WHAT do you like visually? The driveway? About a year ago we had a single person here who was actually more concerned with the driveway to the double garage than with the floor plan and the perfect orientation.

Ostercappeln

That is Lower Saxony. Overbuilding of the supply lines to the house is not allowed there.

I would like to keep as large a courtyard area as possible so that you can park properly (cars, caravan, ...)

Parking spaces are not planned as a driveway or courtyard area, but as parking spaces. They must be drawn in. Only in this way can you see if the parking spaces do not block each other. Actually, EVERYTHING about the design is rubbish: location of the entrance grants no privacy in the garden. Because it is in front of the house due to the location of the house. The garage just pushes the house forward so that a terrace is still possible on the north side. Otherwise, the house turns away from the garden. So you don’t really benefit from the garden. Neither fish nor fowl, terrace pushed to the northern edge where the neighbor’s pool and trampoline probably are. Not even windows to the garden. Toilet too small with shower, hallway with lots of space but no shelf space for a wardrobe in closet quality. The open space offers in the middle a lot (too much) space for the dining table, sofa and kitchen remain two narrow niches which on the one hand constrain the kitchen as a functional room in U-shape, the sofa is also squeezed with almost 3? meters around. Something has already been said about the upper floor windows, details do not need to be discussed here. At least the upper floor works.

By the way, the plot in question is plot number 83.
At the very bottom of the plans...

No numbers are assigned to the plots in the development plan. Show us the plot.

If this is the second house, I wonder: What was good about the first house? What was not so good? What did you manage well? What do you want to do differently this time?

If I now make the following assumption (I don’t know for sure, I don’t know the property): The street is to the south, Picture 1 was taken facing north, so here are some thoughts on the placement:
1. Be careful: A possible terrace in the south lies outside the building window! Some municipalities won’t accept this. Possibly only a north terrace would be allowed here. Whether you want it half enclosed next to the garage, I don’t know. It has pros and cons.
2. I would then place the technical room in the south of the house, or clarify in advance whether a side access is permitted (in some federal states, you are not allowed to lay anything under the slab/basement; and honestly: You shouldn’t do that even if you are allowed!).
3. By placing the house and garage like this, the property is practically cut up. With regard to garden design, maybe also the terrace, rather unfortunate.
=> my tip: Take some drink crates and ropes, go to the property and actually stake it out to see what remains. Then the question would be how important the garden is and whether the placement can/must be done differently.
4. And then there is also the question of how to design access and so on. A seven-meter-wide driveway across the property would be really a lot. If you make the driveway narrower, you still need to make sure in front of the house that cars can easily get into the garages.

Regarding the floor plan:
1. The windows have already been mentioned. They need to be completely reconsidered.
2. Ground floor: Entrance door in the south, garage in the east? Second entrance via the technical room, although the technical room might have to be moved for purely building code reasons? Here I would rethink the entire ground floor:
-> Technical room in the south (see above).
-> Entrance door in the east.
-> Redesign the all-purpose room (currently the space in the living area seems undersized to me, the sink against the interior wall doesn’t look nice either).
-> The staircase with storage underneath is missing the wall on the side (open storage? Or only half storage and therefore a wall in the middle of the stairs? You probably don’t lose much space through this).
-> If you move the entrance door to the east, almost nothing will work anymore with the corridor and the other rooms. If children are actually planned, I would keep a second shower in, and then the guest bathroom cannot be made smaller. Otherwise I would have said a long technical room with a WC alcove cut out there. But that would be too much for a room with a shower. Possibly technical room to the south, guest WC somewhat flattened to the north, and a little cloakroom area next to the door to the guest WC? This is brainstorming now. I would rethink and redraw everything here to see if you can get a nice corridor and entrance area.
3. I don’t understand the bathroom upstairs. You open the door and look at... what exactly? Is that a mini sauna? A large cupboard? The toilet nicely next to the bathtub. At night, if unlucky, you will bump into the bathtub more than once. I cannot judge the space between bathtub and sink, it seems quite narrow to me.
-> I like the large shower there. As for the rest, I would also consider again whether it can be arranged more nicely. Especially if there should indeed be a second window there.