Another hipped roof city villa (240 sqm)

In my opinion, the open space won’t have any effect at all. You will just walk past it, yes. But why would anyone stand by the railing upstairs and look down? Or when coming in upstairs—you primarily want to get into the house, take off your shoes and jacket, and go into the proper living areas. For visual impact, in my opinion, it belongs, for example, above the dining table.

NOW I finally understand why you are all criticizing the gallery!!! There should be no open space there. It is closed, meaning ceiling over the entrance and floor upstairs. My wife wants a kind of craft/reading corner there.

Oh man, this is really ambiguous in the floor plan... I should have drawn in the furniture... Sorry

Why should there be another couch in the dining area? Is it just there because there was space left?

The couch there is very, very important! On the one hand, I want to comfortably look at the aquarium from there, and there is space to play on the floor with the children. When visitors come, guests can sit there. Especially those with toddlers who only crawl. THAT kind of couch is exactly what we are missing in the current apartment!

The couch there is very, very important! On the one hand, I want to comfortably look into the aquarium from there, and there is space to play on the floor with the children. When guests are here, they can sit there. Especially those with toddlers who just crawl. THAT'S exactly the kind of couch we are missing in the current apartment!

Just a thought:

The question I would ask myself is, how long would you need a crawling corner? I have 3 children myself and they quickly outgrow that age, and only for the visitors? Sorry, I'm not selfish, but in that regard, I kind of am.

The aquarium is important to me and I want to look at it often? Why not use the aquarium as a divider then... that way you can see it from all areas and you might be able to better design the living area because of it. I would do it like that..... it would be awesome.

Example:

Thank you for thinking about the optimal position of the aquarium. The tip to use the AQ as a room divider usually comes only from non-aquarists (really no offense meant). Because this has many disadvantages. Believe me: I have thought very, very much about the aquarium (maybe even more than about the house ) and the current position is pretty perfect: I can look at it from the sofa and the dining table. It stands centrally without much "through traffic" in front of the glass. It has no direct sunlight. The equipment (e.g. large filter tank with approx. 500L) can go down to the basement, etc...

I also wonder how you can access the basin in the picture to work on it.... do you have to somehow climb over it from the back/top, so to speak "in the wall"? I don't think that's very practical

Please upload a site plan. And mark where the supply lines enter the house. If I remember correctly, you mentioned at the beginning that everything related to bathrooms has been bundled for short pipe runs? The technology in the basement is on the other side of the stairs, though? By the way, I would really like it if the stairs were moved a bit more towards the center of the house and the aquarium was positioned differently on the ground floor so that you would have access to the dining area opposite the stairs (then when going downstairs you wouldn’t always walk into a wall). On the upper floor, the reading nook would be opposite the stairs and both children's rooms in the west. The children's bathroom would have to move accordingly, although you should be aware of two things: is the room layout on the living floors important enough to you to possibly spend a bit more money on the pipe routing? Where will the pipes run in the basement? (If the technology and bathrooms are on different sides of the stairs, they could possibly be in the basement hallway). The redistribution upstairs would have the positive aspect that no child's room borders the bedroom directly and the reading nook becomes more present—so far it looks a bit like a “leftover” because there was just space left over. Oh, before I forget again: it would never occur to me in my life to plan my bedroom so that the door is at the head of the bed. That feels so eerie.