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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Oh, I see - it's going to be a terrace, but of individually designed houses. So there are houses to either side of you, and windows are only possible at front and back. Presumably this also means that you do have a limit on how deep the house can be.
I would hope that they would accept full-height walls to each side, but allow you to have a smaller (say 1m) wall in the front. Of course, perhaps f's enclosed but exterior bike shed with room above it will be sufficient in terms of closing the row.
In a terrace, having a corridor from front to back may well be a good plan, since there's no exterior access to the back garden. But why on the longer side of the house? Perhaps putting the corridor down the short side of the house would give more space to the rest? And with the bikes outside, there should still be enough room to get the downstairs toilet and laundry room in.
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I hope so too, but not every municipality is that lenient. It's a gamble if we decide to go for this idea. I really really like the bikes at the front, but right now I'm thinking it's too risky and we'll lose too much time.
The idea of the corridor front to back is really growing on me, I can really see the advantages. I was also thinking to make a bike shed in the back, and take the bikes through the corridor to the garden. Right now it's in the middle of the house. Whether you walk 4 meters through the hallway to the middle and bang the bikes into the walls while you try to get them into the storage room or walk 8 meters to the end ... It's going to be a mess anyway
Really good idea about putting the corridor on the short side of the house! Weird that we hadn't thought about that yet. But then what do you do with the tiny place at the front right? It's 2m wide and 1m long. You can't use it for anything. So maybe it is more logical to have the entrance and corridor on the long side after all ...