Two-family house, optimize?

  • Erstellt am 2020-07-13 08:33:43

Anson Argyris

2020-07-13 12:12:25
  • #1
The short introduction, the children all get along well (no joke). Moving the granny flat to the basement meets with very strong opposition, and there are already the technical room, storage room of the granny flat, and the garages, which I would otherwise have to place on the property and thus would have to remove even more soil.
 

Climbee

2020-07-13 12:38:32
  • #2
Do you now have a plot facing the valley or the mountain?

To be honest: you have a limited budget, so everyone has to make some compromises. If my parents built me my own apartment when I was 18, that would already be really great - but I would also accept some compromises.

Then: in such a slope, the basement is not unusual. I would say, especially with a valley-facing plot, that's the cream of the crop: direct access to the garden, far away from the street.

One option would also be to place the granny flat in the attic. If desired, its own access via an external staircase. Is a recessed floor allowed? Then the footprint upstairs can be reduced in favor of a larger terrace. Great view, absolutely private.

Then I would make the following layout:
Attic as a recessed floor, large terrace, access from outside, bathroom, living room with kitchen, bedroom, small storage room, possibly another bedroom. And the roof truss open, then you could create wonderful teen living spaces with a gallery for sleeping.

Ground floor:
Option 1: Here the private rooms, i.e. bathroom, bedroom, dressing room, children’s room (unless outsourced to the attic), no balcony or terrace necessary (no one goes from the bedroom onto the balcony - floor-to-ceiling windows with a French balcony are enough there)
Option 2: Kitchen, living room, dining room with a magnificent view. Pantry and guest toilet at the back, possibly office/guest room. Here I would also plan a balcony or another recessed floor, so that you can also get outside from the living area and then make a staircase from this terrace/balcony to the garden. (So upper floor with the smallest footprint, ground floor a little larger footprint but leaving space for a terrace, basement then full footprint)

Basement:
Option 1: Kitchen/living-dining with direct garden access, pantry at the back in the subterranean part, freezer, storage. Advantage: direct access to the garden from the living area.
Option 2: Bathroom, bedroom, possibly children’s room, dressing room, freezer and storage at the back. A sauna could be planned here as an outdoor sauna and the bathroom designed so that you have direct access to the garden. Then you can initially consider a sauna and prepare accordingly (piping etc.), think about an outdoor shower and a plunge pool or whirlpool outside (and make corresponding preparations if desired) and initially leave the whole "wellness" topic aside and return to it when finances look better again.

Both options have charm and their pros and cons. You have to decide what is more important to you.

But if the children get along well, then I would definitely plan one or two more rooms for the soon-to-be adult children in the floor that the son occupies, that will relax your space concept on the other levels.
 

pagoni2020

2020-07-13 12:46:46
  • #3
...the wish of the 18-year-old is understandable. Is he in the situation or does he present himself as an adult there to responsibly support this wish? Will he soon have completed his training so that he can commit to paying his financial share? Or is it only an understandable but nice wish for a pleasant life. You write "decision," so he must be able to finance his part, otherwise it would again only be a pious wish of a ...may we also wish for something and you pay for it? First, a ruthless check of finances and determination of what is realistically possible must be done, not dreamed according to wishes. Whether the kids get along or not matters little for the household matter, since people, situations change— you, the kids, everyone. I am surprised that all the floor plans received so far were probably rubbish (from architects?) and you now announce at the beginning, as an obvious layman, to have found even the final solution yourself. Your project will fail without professional support, that is what everyone here wants to tell you.
 

Ypsi aus NI

2020-07-13 12:56:52
  • #4
What are you doing with your other three children? Where is their [Einliegerwohnung]?
Keyword equal treatment...
Or are all children supposed to live in this apartment one after the other starting at the age of 18?
 

haydee

2020-07-13 13:09:36
  • #5
What should happen to the basement then? Your budget does not match the slope and house. It must and can be smaller. Do you have 3 or 4 children now? Why does the granny flat have to be so big? A small apartment would be more than generous. Somehow the planned design does not fit the [B‘Plan] at all. How did you imagine that?
 

Matthew03

2020-07-13 13:17:26
  • #6
WHY does it meet with rejection (again, yes!)? Is that justified or can no one imagine a nice living basement with you? It was shown to you how something like that could look. This is not a typical cellar, it can turn out really well...
 

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