I also think the floor plan itself is quite good. I wouldn’t have much to criticize about it. However, I would also remove the pantry. I don’t like the slanted wall there; I think it ruins the nice, straight lines that run throughout the entire floor plan. But that’s probably a matter of taste. However, I would consider that you would probably have more storage space if, instead of the pantry, you placed tall kitchen cabinets (like a pantry cabinet, for example) in that spot. In my opinion, that would also make the kitchen appear more spacious. With the pantry, it feels more cramped.
Can you roughly say how much distance there is in the living room from the sofa to the TV wall? Our floor plan is quite similar in style (although we have a square city villa), also with kitchen-dining-living around the corner in an L-shape, stairs placed in the same spot, etc... with us, the distance from the sofa wall to the TV wall will be just 4.01 m. That is definitely anything but generous but should be enough for a cozy living room (we found this measurement very comfortable in show homes). Because of the L-shaped open area, it also doesn’t seem too small. But: 4 m was the absolute minimum for us! We made sure during planning that we would have at least 4 m. I can hardly estimate that for you, but I’d roughly guess it’s about 3.80 - 3.90 m? Consider whether that is enough for you. If yes, then all is good . I just wanted to mention it.
One of the most difficult things I find is the overall positioning of the house; unfortunately, the building envelope is not optimal. The access road runs on the south side. And to use the plot optimally (building envelope), you would actually have to place the house up against the northern building boundary, but then it wouldn’t be parallel to the road.
We faced a similar question. Our plot is slightly trapezoidal. Our plot is the only one in the row that isn’t aligned completely rectangular to the road. The northern boundary of our plot runs a bit diagonally; all other sides are parallel to the neighboring plots and the road. But we wanted to place the garage on the north boundary of the plot. So we had two options: Align garage and house parallel to the road, which would mean there would be a small, diagonally tapering area left between the garage and the property boundary (which would probably end up as a dirty corner, unkempt, hard to mow the lawn there, etc...). Or place the garage on the northern boundary and therefore not align the house and garage parallel to the road. We chose the latter and so we will not set our house parallel to the road. All other houses in the row will be parallel to the road, though. And you know what? It doesn’t bother us . On the contrary, I actually like it. Because this way, at the rear of the house, we have a bit more distance to the neighbor than if it were parallel (quite tight development). Also, the ugly dirty corner that would have formed between the northern boundary and the garage is avoided. Think carefully about what is right for YOU. Whether the house ultimately stands parallel to the road or not is actually not important if it fits better otherwise (unless it is prescribed in the development plan). At first, the idea that our house would be the only one in the row not aligned parallel to the road felt strange to me. But the more I thought about it, the more I liked the idea. So consider it carefully.
(I’m attaching a graphic here for easier understanding. The white part is the garage.)
