A villa for two children

I find many things oversized and exaggerated. I also do not see the need for over 30 sqm of storage space. Don’t get me wrong: I am also a fan of generous storage rooms, also generous living spaces, but for me something is being poorly planned here. Children’s rooms over 20... diligent readers know how I feel about that.

Well: everyone likes it differently, to each their own, but the architect’s design was a bit more realistic. In this respect, I also do not see a developed room program that was established _before_ the drawing and maintained in the attempts.

I can’t say anything about the design based on the drawing, it’s simply a catastrophic program and in my opinion should be banned.

Regards, Yvonne

The space requirement results from the consideration of where everything should be placed without a basement.

We now live in a two-family house with a basement.
In it, besides bicycles, sleds, a trampoline, a stroller, and the beverage cellar, you can also find a workbench including drill presses, a grinding machine, a TIG welding machine, and not to forget, the seasonal tires for now 3 vehicles, whereas in our own home there will only be 2 vehicles. The laundry room is also in the basement. Summing up these rooms results in the sizes as we have them drawn.
Unfortunately, it seems to be more expensive to put these rooms in the basement, which we would prefer.

Due to lack of experience, I also don’t know how to design the upper floor better. The children's rooms are too large for us as well. But with the goal of having them in the south, there really isn’t much room for a different design. The arrangement of the staircase is one of the most difficult things for us in our own planning.
We are satisfied with the basement so far.

The program used is unfortunately the only one I know that can be used for free.
Do you maybe have a recommendation for something better? Feel free to send it via PM.

So for the money that the QM space costs, you can store your bikes for many years. You don't have a stroller forever. A sled is seasonal goods -> attic. I would rather consider a 6x9 garage and possibly a garden shed.

You don’t have to add up rooms to accommodate what you had before. Half of it will be thrown away before the move anyway.
If you drink wine, you don’t need a wine cellar, a trampoline should be set up, otherwise you don’t use it. You also don’t need 8 sqm for doing laundry...

When building a house, it’s about planning and designing – that 90% of laypeople believe they can take over the work of a graduate is often incomprehensible.
And by the way: every architect first picks up a pencil and then rejects a lot of things. A layperson clings stubbornly and works their way into an even worse design with poor basic conditions, because a program costs time and deleting hurts.

Here the basis is a too large ground floor, resulting in oversized rooms.
The former freezer room, which initially represented a connection, is now only drawn because it was planned at the beginning. The cloakroom is a passage room to a hallway that is just under 20 sqm. So now there are two passage rooms if you want to go from the garage into the house.
In the hallway there is barely a wall where a chest of drawers can stand... in the living room you sit/have the view of two doors and the stove.

Regards, Yvonne

If I had the money lying around for it right now, I would build the very first draft exactly as it was. Only except for the fashion of the red-painted bay windows, which I can't stand.

Then somehow you got spooked, not trusting the planner and his experience, okay, that's legitimate to that extent.

Unfortunately, you stumbled upon model houses that are stylistically on a completely different page, and you got carried away.

In the meantime, the runaway stallion has calmed down again. The latest draft has once again clearly approached buildability in terms of proportions and differs from the original draft basically only in matters of taste.

My opinion is: now it fits (again). Whether your opinion now says: "yes, now it's our house," or "we find it more beautiful now than at the beginning," we participants in the discussion cannot judge.

I don't recognize the Viebrockhaus either in style or in the details in any of the drafts, neither at the beginning nor when returning to the harbor, and only as a donor of the rough floor plan layout during the turbulent phase.

In the storm and stress phase, there was a lot of nonsense regarding feasibility, so the wastebasket was well used — but as a maturation process, it was still good and important. Now it looks almost like at the beginning again, but only almost, and the probability is high that the changes have improved the subjective quality.

If you still want to continue planning, take a break and do something completely different for several weeks. Cinema or zoo or opera, whatever.

Generous, yes! But somehow I don't really like the hallway with the staircase and the layout of the kitchen and living room. What Yvonne already mentioned. I can't imagine sitting with guests in the kitchen at the dining table at all. The rest is... yes, generous. I usually like that very much. But this arrangement, I don't know.