Advice and tips on house plans (single-family house 1.5 stories)

Oh, and a window on the south side in the dining area is a must!!! Light from the south has to come into the living room!!! And I don't think there is that much visibility because of it. Bright rooms are living comfort plus... So, I can't have enough window area. My husband said we would live in a glass house, but now in practice it is not the case at all.

Hello @all,
In the meantime, we have had our penultimate long house planning meeting, so we are shortly before the planning finale . I would be very happy if you could take another look at the house floor plan and give us feedback on whether and which changes would still make sense. Or if you have ideas for the bathroom planning on the upper floor, please feel free to let us know .
Regarding our previous changes:
Ground floor
- Door to HAR 88.5
- Landing stairs with a 25 cm stair well, which has made the guest WC narrower
- Window in living/dining with low sill height and higher, now 145
- Terrace door now wider 176
- Window in the kitchen bay now wider and two-leaf at 151

Upper floor
- Every room except the bathroom now has a skylight
- Stairs to the attic without a door, the room behind it will be added to the bathroom (it is still marked as Child 2 on the floor plan, but we urgently need storage space for towels etc. in the bathroom.)

The light strip above the stair landing was not sensible because it would be exactly under the roof overhang and no sun would come in. But we have a skylight above it.
We are still pondering the distribution of the mullions in the windows and terrace doors. Preferably as equal as possible or simply allocate the terrace doors differently right from the start?
Where the unfortunately necessary and decorative towel radiator should best go in the bathroom is also still a topic. As well as raising the knee wall to 110 to get more headroom in the attic. Unfortunately, this would exceed the allowable ridge height and we would have to apply for an exemption.
So, but now first the pictures .

Hm, all files are unfortunately too large.

I have made the section small enough, the ground floor and upper floor are now without dimensions. I can't get the ground floor and upper floor with dimensions under 1 MB.

Morning

A clear improvement compared to the original product.

But what else I notice:
What is the large area in the kitchen for?
With the crippled hip roof, access via the attic stairs becomes critical.
If the washing machine in the bathroom is moved to gain access under the stairs,
a cupboard fits just as well there and the storage room can remain in the children's room.

Olli

Roof windows in bedrooms are, in my opinion, not acceptable at all. They are super loud... Have you ever slept in a room with a roof window when it rains... I would definitely leave them out and rather make the normal windows bigger. I would swap Child II and the parents and make both children's rooms about the same size, while making the master bedroom a bit larger to have more space for wardrobes. With this swap, at least the children's room windows would need to be made significantly bigger. Ideally, I would then mirror the upper floor both vertically and horizontally... Then both children's rooms would be on the west side, the bedroom in the northeast, and the bathroom in the southeast... I just don't know how the bathroom drainage would work then, but maybe it could go down between the living room and kitchen and then be connected to the kitchen drain... I think the bathroom design itself is very well done. Or what don't you like about it? On the ground floor, I am still missing a window in the southern dining area. And the kitchen is really badly planned. I would plan it more like in my picture. The tall cabinets at the top of the plan and the U-shaped kitchen rotated. I hope I could help.

Thank you and for your feedback. Regarding the kitchen: what is drawn there is just a placeholder. The actual kitchen layout looks different. Kerstin’s plan looks similar to yours, Kisska, just not as a U, but as a simple two-row layout. This plan is really optimal, but my husband doesn’t like it . As a compromise, I now have an L with an island, which he can accept. The access to the attic and the crouched hip roof are really tight. With the steeper angle and a custom staircase with the last upper step as a small platform, we hope to manage it. The architect and staircase builder are still planning. I don’t understand the mirroring of the upper floor – the bedroom is already in the northeast in our plan. Bottom left is southwest, top left northwest. Therefore, we thought we’d give the children’s rooms the nice sunny sides with lots of light. Bathroom in the bottom right would also be difficult with the drainage. The roof windows are the only way to comply with the 1/8 daylight regulation valid for us. The windows on the gable would otherwise have to go across the entire width and be even higher. At the moment, however, we are already living under the roof with roof windows in the bedroom. You get used to it. I advocated for the window on the south side in the dining area, but we are now foregoing it in favor of more floor space. What bothers me about the bathroom is that we have relatively little storage space, even though it is already quite large. The idea of the right wardrobe instead of built-in under the stairs is of course correct, wrobel.