A country house combines universal ideas about comfort, the ability not to share the nearest territory with neighbors, and also to organize a spacious dwelling entirely to your taste.
For the construction of a country house, a ready-made project is most often used, where the owners, under the guidance of specialists, can make changes, but not so significant. A house of 9x12 m can be one-story, two-story (but very rare), or, which is already more common, consist of one floor and an attic.
Advantages and disadvantages
If the idea of building or buying such a house is already in the air, the characteristics of such a structure are first of all brought up for discussion. They, as a rule, are always decomposed into pros and cons. These are the advantages of a 9x12 m house.
- Comparative savings. Since most of these houses have one floor, and they are usually erected faster, and they require much less money than houses with two floors. A two-story house will cost more due to increased spending on walls, on complex and increased distribution of utilities and much more.
- The convenience of one floor due to the request of the family. Not all people, in principle, are impressed by houses with stairs. If there are elderly people in the family, daily ascents and descents of the stairs are not the most convenient option for them. In addition, many people like the feeling of the unity of space, including in a level sense: to feel the ceiling above oneself, and even with living rooms on top, is what many people flee from apartment buildings.
- Comfort for an ordinary family. It means that if this is a family of 3-6 people, such a house will be enough so that none of the household members feel constrained.
- An attic can easily become an attic. As already noted, not everyone will like the daily use of the stairs, but equipping a guest room in the attic is a great option.
If the house is one-story, it will have a simple structure, and any adjustments in the project, improvements will be easier than if the house was two-story. And this is also an indisputable plus. In addition, projects are being adapted, standard documents are developed with an eye to the climatic conditions of the region, to the peculiarities of the local soil, and so on.
In terms of the cost of service and energy efficiency, the purchase of a 9x12 house can also be considered profitable.
What are the disadvantages of such a house?
- Architectural Constraints. This means that the expressiveness of one-storey buildings is not so much as that of "competitors" in two or even three floors. Even the space on the facade is corny enough to use the external decor widely and brightly enough.
- Visibility. In a one-story house, there is no way to see a river or some kind of beautiful landscape that opens exclusively from a certain height. At least from the height of a full-fledged second floor.
All other pros and cons will be 100% conventions, because they can no longer be called universal advantages and disadvantages. It's just that someone likes a structure of this type, he knows how to use its capabilities and adapt it to his needs, and just takes it and does it. If you want to find more flaws in a house for such a project, it is better to immediately pay attention to other buildings.
Projects
The design features of such one-story buildings will be taken into account at the design stage. Plans, diagrams and drawings change often, but if you want to change almost everything, it is better to turn to other options. And if typical and common projects are nice, just modify them for yourself.
Typical
In a one-storey house of 9 by 12 meters, there can be two large bedrooms, and one additional room, which the owners equip at their discretion. This area can be used for a nursery, a playroom, an office combined with a library, a mini-gym and more. If a person works from home, he can make a personal office there or arrange a workshop.
And also the house will have a fairly spacious kitchen-living room, which is the best solution possible. And at the intersection of these two zones, you can arrange a dining room - this is usually done, although options are possible. Among the typical offers, of which there are many on the market, you can find such houses on a strip prefabricated monolithic foundation.
The walls of such a structure are often made of aerated concrete and ceramic blocks, and the issue of the roof is solved with the help of ceramic tiles or metal tiles, cement-sand tiles. What are the advantages of typical projects, so it is in the convenience of the location of all living quarters in the house. You don't have to run from floor to floor. There are practically no internal load-bearing walls in it, that is, you can change the layout as you like. Thanks to the open kitchen, the space of the living area visually increases.
The house has a fairly spacious utility room, where you can equip a boiler room, from where you can bring access to the kitchen or arrange a pantry there, a room for garden tools.
With garage
There are buyers who wouldn't even consider a home project without a garage. Of course, if there is one, a number of topical issues are removed. One such house with an approximate area of 165 squares (of which there are about 100 residential) can have 5 rooms, of which 3 bedrooms. In typical versions, the walls are erected from foam blocks or aerated concrete, and the house can be finished with plaster.
The foundation is often a monolithic reinforced concrete slab under the entire house. Internal walls are often made of aerated concrete, ventilation ducts and chimneys can be finished with stone. How large the rooms are can be judged by the following data: the hall will take 7 m2, the living room is more than 25, the office is 10, the kitchen is more than 8, and the garage is almost 19 sq. m. But the bedrooms and dressing room in this case will be located in the attic, and will occupy about 20 meters each.
There, in the attic, there may be a separate bathroom, a six-meter hall and a wardrobe of 5 meters or a little more.
With attic
The area of the house can reach 120-140 square meters, this will be determined by the shape of the roof and the features of the stairs. Arrangement of a terrace or veranda also counts as additional living space. A gable roof may have to be replaced with a sloping roof (symmetrical or asymmetrical). Thus, the slope of the walls, and, consequently, the size of the "dead zones" will be reduced.
Consider what a typical layout of such a structure can offer
- 1st floor. Here is the so-called day zone, that is, the kitchen and the living room (either separately, or combined). Their footage also includes a dining room. The ground floor will also have a storage room, a bathroom and a boiler room.
- 2nd attic floor. This is a sleeping area or sitting area. There will be 2 or 3 master bedrooms, one more bathroom, maybe a balcony or a terrace.
But in each standard solution, you can make an author's change. For example, a guest bedroom can be set up on the ground floor, or one of the bedrooms can be replaced by a study. A fireplace can be installed in the living room, and this is done at the design stage. And also the bathroom and kitchen can be placed closer, which will simplify the plug of utilities.
The dimensions of the stairs leading to the attic will depend on how the latter is used. If this is a full-fledged housing, you need a staircase in two flights, a comfortable handrail, a platform between the flights. And if the upper floor is not often used, there is either a guest room, or a workshop, or something else that is used only in summer, for example, a staircase can be spiral.
With terrace
This option is certainly very attractive. The glazed terrace will allow you to use your area all year round. If the room is insulated, it will serve even in cold weather. Usually the terrace becomes a small living room, its area is on average 17 square meters. When choosing a competent lighting scheme, style, design, there is no better place for the whole family to gather or to receive guests. And what views will open to those gathered in the room - snow-covered trees on the site in winter or a blooming site in the summer.
Let's list what else will be in a 1-storey building with a terrace
- Hall. It is often combined with a dressing room and makes it a walk-through for several rooms.
- Kitchen. On rare occasions, she is taken away from the living room. Increasingly, open spaces are being made with the merging of the living room, kitchen and dining room. And this is very convenient, if only because households spend more time together in this way, and do not run away from room to room.
- Cabinet. Usually identified at the back of the house. And if there is a guest room in the house, the office should be removed from it.
- Sleeping rooms. Usually in such a house there are two or three of them, but one can be given for a nursery, or even organize a full-fledged playroom instead of one bedroom.
- Bathrooms. If there are 5-7 people in a family, the need to organize two bathrooms is practically not disputed.
- Household premises. One boiler room is not enough; a storage room is also needed. And it is also worth saying that in such a large house it will not be possible to do without a corridor, but it can be quite modest in size.
If the living room is brought out onto the terrace, its meters can be occupied by a small gym or another bedroom. Or maybe there will be a greenhouse on the terrace or a room for gatherings and conversations, and in the place where the living room should be, there will be a space merged with the kitchen where you can work at a large table, play with children or use it in some other way. In a word, a large free area filled with light and air.
Interior Design
A few expert tips drawn from large and informative reviews may guide future homeowners towards a beautiful design decision.
We offer 8 recommendations for the interior design of a country house
If people do not know what they like and do not understand at all which way to go, only views and more views will help them. Sites, magazines, social media groups and specialized accounts will present thousands of pictures. The best ones are printed and hung on the wall. Some will surely sink into the soul, so from her and "dance"
The architectural features of the house are taken into account first of all. If the owners want the pompous Victorian style, and the scale of the dwelling must match
They always count from the beginning, therefore, when distributing funds for the arrangement, you need to start with the most demanded room in the house
You need to start with the color palette, not the floor, ceiling or sofa. A typical mistake: a burgundy sofa or a black self-leveling floor is looked after, so everything else adjusts to them. And it may happen that everything else will be far-fetched and not quite loved. Therefore, first you need to decide on the color palette as a whole, because building an interior means creating a favorite appearance of a space that does not fall apart into heterogeneous parts
Where you can - save. It is not a shame to buy replicas of famous brands today, rather than overpay for a brand. And all the more, it is not a shame to order something from young firms and craftsmen, who are not nearly as famous as huge furniture corporations, for example, but do cool things. And for an organic, cozy decor, vases are not needed at the price of a sofa. The days of such reckless spending of money are gone, now rational consumption is in vogue
More natural materials. Wooden tables are warmer than plastic tables, glass with questionable printed images. You should take a closer look at eco-style, its tendencies are very democratic, easy to implement, and beauty and harmony will not go out of fashion
If the house is made of logs, it is stupid to do high-tech inside, if it is brick, is it worth arranging everything there in the style of a Russian hut. Or, in a narrow corridor, dark walls rarely work out: stylistic rules, like design principles, can only be broken by tough specialists. Most ordinary people do this extremely unsuccessfully, therefore it is better to make a small space lighter and not use textured materials, for example
Use every meter effectively. So that the walls are not empty in the basement, racks are placed to them and super-spacious storage is organized. Or the bay window in the living room is not empty with one vase by the window, but becomes a corner for the living room
You should not dwell on what you saw once. It is necessary to look more, to feel the passage of time and its tendencies - more often they coincide with the needs of a modern person.