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One more question: is the position of the entrance mandatory? If not, I find it suboptimal where it is now. I would prefer to have it accessible from the parking space. This could also be easily realized by swapping the kitchen and the living room: remove the guest WC there, place the entrance there, and put the guest WC in the niche next to the stairs, if they are to remain as they are now (if space permits, I would prefer a landing staircase rather than that strange double-winded form).

The entrance where it is now consumes unnecessary circulation space.

Overall, I would reconsider the positioning. If I see it correctly, the terrace is currently on the right side of the plan, so to the east. However, if the house is positioned as shown in the site plan, there is only a small strip of garden there. This means the terrace borders directly on the path that is drawn there.

I would orient more towards the bottom of the plan (south?), basically rotating the house 90° clockwise. Then you would have the terrace on the side with the larger garden.

Hello everyone,
I’ll dare to make a new attempt, here first the completed questionnaire which I thought was covered with my description:

Bebauungsplan/Einschränkungen

[*]Size of the property: 482m² +30m² usable area
[*]Slope: no slope
[*]Floor area ratio: 0.6
[*]Plot ratio: 1.2
[*]Building window, building line and boundary: Blue dashed line in the ground floor plan
[*]Edge construction: possible, except for the strip “usable area”
[*]Number of parking spaces: 1 garage, 1 parking space
[*]Number of floors: 2 + attic
[*]Roof shape: gable roof
[*]Style: conventional/modern
[*]Orientation: terrace facing south
[*]Maximum heights/limits eaves height: max. 6.75m, total height max. 10m

Requirements of the builders

[*]Style, roof shape, building type: detached single-family house
[*]Basement, floors: no basement, 2 floors + attic
[*]Number of persons, age: 2 adults 35 years, 2 children 4 years and 1/12 year
[*]Room requirements ground floor, upper floor: min. 2 children’s rooms, 1 study, expansion reserve
[*]Office: family use or home office? both
[*]Overnight guests per year: 4
[*]Open or closed architecture: rather open
[*]Conservative or modern construction: both
[*]Open kitchen, cooking island: open kitchen, see ground floor plan
[*]Number of dining seats: 4-6
[*]Fireplace: no fireplace
[*]Music/stereo wall: existing
[*]Balcony, roof terrace: -
[*]Garage, carport: garage with annex (3x3)
[*]Utility garden, greenhouse: -
[*]Further wishes/special features: 2 full bathrooms in the house, study, open ground floor, bedroom away from the children’s rooms, washing machine and dryer on the upper floor

House design

[*]Who is the planner: architect
[*]What do you especially like? Basically, all our wishes have been considered. There is a lot of expansion reserve in the attic for a study and possibly a 3rd children’s room
[*]What do you not like? The strip “usable area” to the left of the garage bothers us, here we have no idea for reasonable use apart from garbage cans. The stair solution is rather unpleasant, it was chosen because of the HAR and the two children’s rooms in the upper floor
[*]Price estimate according to architect/planner: Land: €140,000 including ancillary purchase costs. House + incidental costs: €300,000 (only essential work planned for the outdoor facilities)
[*]Personal price limit for the house, including equipment: €460,000
[*]Preferred heating technology: planned: gas with solar thermal with decentralized ventilation system

If you have to do without, which details/extensions

[*]- can you do without: outdoor facilities, garage
[*]- can you not do without: instead of garage a garden house

Why has the design become what it is now? For example
The design was created according to our wishes. However, due to the short planning times, there may have been errors or oversights.
What do you think makes it particularly good or bad?

The design takes all wishes into account. Overall, the terrace area is somewhat large, or rather the concern is large that there will be little garden available.

Do you really want 40cm railing height on the upper floor? Especially in the children's room, I would find this too dangerous.

I would cross off the attic living space expansion: otherwise the storage room would be missing

Well, the area under the roof is relatively large, so we plan to implement 2 "living rooms" and 2 small storage rooms. Together with the garage, that should work. Since we have had only one cellar room with 10m² available for "stuff" for years, that is okay for us.

nd, it would be nice if the house were correctly located on the plot (blue or circle?)

The circle marks our plot. However, the access and garage driveway are from the "main street". The entrance is oriented towards the north, the terrace towards the south.

What do you mean by usage? You are allowed to use it for the garden, nothing more and nothing less. What do you want to know? Put the trash bins there or plant a hedge

I am afraid that is how it is supposed to be. A pity, really. Are there no other possibilities? We lack creativity here..

With more than 2 children, you should consider carefully. In any case, a fixed real staircase should already be installed

A full staircase, underfloor heating, electrical wiring, etc. is already planned.

The entrance area is too tight for me

We also have concerns here and hope for space in the utility room for a closet, together with space under the stairs and a small cloakroom near the guest WC.

The bathroom doesn’t seem optimal yet. You practically stumble over the "T"

Maybe we can still move the door here... We will definitely think about this again.

The entrance as it is now uses unnecessary circulation space.

We positioned the entrance there because we prefer access from the street. This is due to the detail that the access to the dead-end street goes over a (not visible here) speed bump. We don’t want to drive over that every time. What do you mean by "circulation space"? For us, that area is more useful for greeting/farewell, etc.

then the terrace is now on the right side, so in the east.

The terrace is oriented south and extends "around the corner" to the west. The entrance is oriented north.

Overall, we hope for further impulses, as due to the short planning time we may have overlooked details. We find the usable area of the plot unfortunate and feel that besides work it serves no purpose :-(

Utility strip from front (north) to back (south): Pave everything up to the garage. Trash bins next to the garage. Behind that, a rose trellis with climbing roses on the wall, finally an original pile of stones with sand for lizards and low-maintenance rock garden plants. :)

Do you really want 40cm window sill height on the upper floor? Especially in the children's room, that would be too dangerous for me.

Thanks, hanse! I had to measure again. We only expressed the desire not to have bars in front of the windows. Measuring showed that the bottom edge of the fixed window part starts 40cm above the planned screed. Overall, we then have about 80cm "fixed," which is okay for us.