Architect Floor Plan Draft - Feedback and Critique Welcome

Is that a freelance architect? Then I would find it pretty weak.
Except for the attic, quite solid, but wouldn’t win any beauty prizes with me.

Yes, it is an architectural firm.
We knew that we wouldn’t have a star architect here in the village. However, some of the proposed solutions are sometimes not enough for us.

Ground floor:
The hallway to the living room is long and dark.
Only a similarly narrow shelf fits into the narrow pantry.
If two men want to enter through the front door, one has to go upstairs or wait in the living room until the first one has hung himself up due to lack of space in the hallway.
In my opinion, the utility room is huge. The space under the stairs is also added. Ok, if you need a lot of space for technology, but I would prefer more freedom of movement in the hallway.

The hallway is long, yes, but isn’t that usual with fairly straight stairs? That’s what we wanted. Straight or at most a quarter turn. Hopefully, it’s not dark though. The living room and kitchen doors will be glass doors to brighten up the hallway.
But now that I think about it, it could be quite tight in the hallway.

We took measurements of the pantry at my in-laws. So we know what width to expect.

The utility room is simultaneously the household room and storage room – since we are building without a basement. Therefore, I think it shouldn’t be too small, right?

Upper floor:
Solid thing. I would check some distances again. Do you have, for example, 60 cm behind the bedroom door for a proper bedroom wardrobe?
In the bathroom, the narrow paths around the sink would annoy me a bit.

Yes, thank you, we will inquire again about the distances.
We actually liked the bathroom as it is. Maybe we’ll measure again here as well.

Attic:
For me, out of the question. I’m afraid I would discard the floor plan and choose a different staircase (half-turn) (something similar to the Medleyplus 300 -> google). Then the room layout upstairs would be simpler and nicer, I think.

We also consider the attic unsuccessful. We will probably make the roof pitch a bit steeper, then the space might be more usable.
We want to keep the staircase as it is.

Thanks very much for your graphics. Now we know what we need to measure.

I don't like the window views either. I think the kitchen is great, but kaho is right about the pantry. In the bathroom, I would swap the sauna with the toilet, maybe then also swap the toilet with the shower...

Somehow the windows discourage me a bit...

Yes, we feel the same way. We look at the floor plan and are basically satisfied overall (except for the attic), and then you see the views and think, what a 'crap'.

Swapping the sauna and WC might be an idea to avoid having to circle around the sink so much. Thanks. However, the shower should stay where it is. The partition between the shower and bathtub should only be the built-in tub and a glass wall.

I would still - sauna down below on the plan - with a partition wall above the shower. Half-height wall behind the tub, behind that the toilet.
Stairs on the ground floor without a storage room -> open. That way it is not so oppressive. Instead, windows (from memory) in the upper floor hallway, possibly a band of windows like on the left and right. Did that also affect the opposite side, the dressing room? I had a look... yes: too many floor-level windows. Also shorten them in the attic, if the light incidence works. For the appearance, it is probably better with shortened windows. It can also be a parapet height of 50 cm, try it out (have it tried out).
The children’s room windows can probably also be aligned with the windows on the ground floor (same alignments). That can also be done by a somewhat more ambitious architect ;)

The room under the stairs is accessible from the technical room as storage space - therefore the staircase is enclosed. The passage is 1.26m, so I would say it's a normal hallway.

Just as a reference: In our currently inhabited semi-detached house, we have a hallway width of 1.45 m. And that is quite narrow when you want to go in and out with groceries or with the stroller.

@ypg: Yes, I think you are right. It seems that the floor-to-ceiling windows at least in the attic "disfigure" the whole thing because the proportions then no longer really match. We will work on that.

@Wadenkneifer: The hallway also occupies me nonstop! Until the house is built, the stroller topic is settled, but our current hallway here in the row house is also very narrow and I find it terrible!

We have now considered swapping the stairs and hallway. As a result, the stairs would be pushed a bit into the dining room (where we wanted to install a shelf at the end of the stairs anyway), then with technical room and hall more can be varied. In the upper floor, only the dressing room would become smaller (which probably had to happen anyway because of the wardrobe space in the adjacent rooms) and the attic has to be changed anyway. What do you think? We will probably discuss it again with the architect.

Regards

On the topic of DG: would a swap possibly be an option? Swap the bedroom with child 3 and turn the annex in the room into a large built-in wardrobe under the slant, making it the dressing room. Also possibly sauna moved upstairs into the cozy parents' bathroom (extending the bathroom). The office remains upstairs, then you have a parents' floor :) The leftover dressing room on the first floor can serve as a guest nook :D The large windows of the kitchen and dining area can be matched with the ones above (same width, same alignment)