Single-family house with two full floors, shed roof, no basement

I was thinking of moving it a bit to the east.

I still don't get it, sorry. So leave the house standing straight inside and move further to the right property boundary?

... and the garage comes in handy as a privacy screen.

I see... Another advantage of separating garage and house...

That really looks like a chamois tuft in pink or overknees with a dirndl. Exactly Disneyland-Bavarian.

I will tell the lady that!

Have you ever thought about pushing the house significantly towards the street and creating a north garden? Possibly also with a terrace accessible from the kitchen?

No, we haven't. Only wood or the rotary clothesline should go in the north.

We currently have less shade in the north than we first thought and want to make a terrace in the northeast at some point because the evening sun shines there the longest - in the south, the western sun is shaded by the neighboring buildings!

Evening sun in the northeast? Apparently I didn't pay attention in geography. I will rethink that... The sun cannot be taken away from us in the south. There is the street.

Regarding the garage: as it is attached to the house now, I wonder if there is still enough space for a proper platform in front of the front door or if you have to drive around it every time?

I haven't questioned that so far... I will ask about it. Thanks.

Also, I think that the second passage to the utility room costs you too much storage space there. If you have such a constellation of house and garage, I would rather consider giving the garage a nice canopy that also covers the house entrance.

That's planned. But you would probably also remove the access if the garage stays where it is?

The morning sun will probably be blocked by your own garage.

Bigger windows won't change anything if building structures cast shadows - and your neighbors alone will do that.

The floor plan is designed so that we "only" have sun in the kitchen between 10-11 am. The garage doesn’t influence that much. We would have to move the kitchen further back for that...
The neighbors on the right can't take sun from us. There’s a field above and a street below. Only on the left it gets tight with the western sun.

The costs for paving stones admittedly already give us a bit of a stomach ache, but for the lady it’s important to come into the house with dry hair.

I just stared at your property for a little eternity and thought about how to better position the garage and house so that the driveway would be shorter. I couldn’t think of anything. Of course, you could place the garage facing the street. Then you always have that garage block right in front of you on the south or west side. With a double garage 6m deep, that thing is less than 10m directly in front of the terrace. I’d find that a pretty poor view at first.
Terrace on the north side and house moved forward? In this case, you wouldn’t even get a bit of west sun in the evening – no, I wouldn’t do that either.

If it was only a carport, then maybe place it by the street, but like that I would actually prefer to spend the money on all those paving stones.

About the house:
I still haven’t really understood why there is a second entrance door to the back. That would somehow make me nervous, because of fear of burglars.

I would probably start planning in the ground floor in this way. For the upper floor, it’s too late for me now. Good night!

You also have to like many neighbors, that wouldn't be for me. You have absolute peace at the back. The streets and sidewalks with 40 buildings are also quite lively.

11ants' suggestion is not bad.

The idea of placing the garage at the front is growing on me, I think. A small north-facing terrace for slides, etc., would be possible without changing the floor plan. A door to the outside (north side) is planned at the stairway.

The neighbors don't bother us. On the contrary. We have lived in the city center of a larger city for ages and were actually afraid it would be too quiet for us. Currently, buses run right outside our door, sirens everywhere, etc. We are used to quite a bit.

Please draw the furniture in the dressing room... no matter where it is supposed to be located.
In other words: what should go in there and has no space?

I'm too lazy on my phone for quotes. But you yourself say that the western neighbor could take the sun.

It's the same with us - all the houses west of us are in a row. That casts a shadow on the south garden. But the northern part is then accessible from the west for the sun, because they are all in a line and the sun can "break through the canyon of houses."

You basically would have to try to find out how and where your neighbor is building.

In the utility room, I would first look at where which appliances will go and whether it works space-wise with two doors.

If it were just a carport, then maybe put the thing on the street side, but as it is, I would actually also prefer to spend the money on the many paving stones.

About the house:
I haven’t really understood yet what the second entrance door to the back is for. Somehow that would make me nervous, because of fear of burglars.

I would probably start the planning like this on the ground floor. For the upper floor, it’s too late now. Good night!

So still keep the garage at the house? I have attached the exact dimensions of the plot. The north-south axis goes from top right to bottom left. The street runs winding and the sidewalk is on the other side of the street. The blue lines are the building boundaries.

The second entrance door was also born out of necessity, because our architect feared that without large glazing back there, not enough light would come in and the whole stair area would then be too dark.

Now we thought that one could put up a rotary clothesline behind the house and then use this door to hang the laundry....

I’m too lazy to quote on my phone. But you say yourself that the western neighbor could take the sun.

It’s the same with us – all houses west of us are lined up in a row. That casts a shadow on the south garden. The northern part, however, is accessible to the sun from the west, since they are all on one line and the sun can “break through the canyon of houses.”

You basically need to try to find out how and where your neighbor is building.

In the utility room, I would first look at where which appliances will go and whether it works space-wise with two doors.

Well, if the western neighbor also puts their garage on the eastern border, it could get dark indeed. Basically, we could only avoid that if we separate the house from the garage and slide it further to the east, so that there is more space in between. According to the current plan, we would be 8.6 meters from the western border. That somehow doesn’t sound like much to us...

You basically need to try to find out how and where your neighbor is building.

Yes, we already thought about that. But it’s like this – among the 40 houses there, not a single one is built yet... The city is just starting to build the streets and at the beginning/middle of next year we want to start. Within three years, everything should/must be built. So basically, everyone is starting almost simultaneously, I hope. It’s like a lottery. That was also a reason why we chose a plot facing the street. We depend on only two neighbors concerning the planning. The nightmare would be if we put the house down and after three years the whole garden is dark.


Thanks for the floor plan, we had a very similar design in mind at first. But in the end, we wanted the staircase to be a real eye-catcher and therefore rotated it. We actually really like the room layout on the ground floor. The door in the utility room naturally depends on whether the garage remains attached to the house. The door behind the staircase has also been under discussion since yesterday.

We are also puzzling over whether to keep the ceiling height as is or rather go down by one row of bricks, thus shortening the staircase and also the exterior dimensions. We think that would save quite a bit of cost, because then the windows/blinds etc. would also be smaller. What do you think? Our architect says one has to consider that the kitchen ceiling is dropped a bit to accommodate the exhaust system for the cooker hood. But couldn’t that just be done over the island!?

The upper floor practically came about because of the staircase...
Based on the opinions here, we will swap the dressing room and the bedroom. We only thought of doing that because of a “noise buffer” to the children’s room...
Probably get rid of the dressing room and also the second door into the bathroom.

Thanks already for all your responses!!!