Attic floor plan in the existing building

If family planning is not yet complete, I would suggest planning for 3 relatively equally sized rooms. Then you are more flexible. Two rooms can still be combined. I find buildings from the 80s/90s sometimes quite dark. You get used to light. Look at knee wall cabinets. I think you can use the space under the sloping roof really well with them, especially when the children are still so small.

I find 80s/90s buildings partly dark. You get used to light.

Yes, I think so too. They are darker. And besides, the view of the garden on the ground floor is a wonderful thing.

In case of emergency, there is still the plan to put both children in one room first and later the attic just for the children and the parents back down.

I don’t understand right now: you have space and rooms downstairs anyway: why isn’t the plan to enjoy that level and keep the parents’ area downstairs? Just let the kids have the attic, then there won’t be any too small, dark rooms full of compromises.

But don’t get me wrong,

Nope, but it’s not about preferences, it’s about human needs, which are partly even embedded in laws.

Is the existing sketch already completed as is?

You can hardly change anything sensibly there.

Is there a wooden beam ceiling on the ground floor?

I had sketched it similarly to ypg yesterday. Unfortunately, I only have access to the scanner today.

Sure, the hallway has no light. That has to be.

Whether the bathrooms work like this would still need to be checked.

For a proper conversion, a design by an architect is necessary.

For the conversion, a building application is required anyway. Service phases 1-4 are then the minimum.

I don’t understand right now: you have space and rooms downstairs anyway: why isn’t the plan to enjoy that level and keep the parents’ wing downstairs? Just leave the roof to the kids, then there won’t be any too small, dark rooms full of compromises.

That is a brilliant idea. It reduces the costs enormously.

Perhaps updating the EG floor plan might help here. I can imagine that the kitchen is completely different from the plan. Where the kitchen is, is probably the bathroom?

For if family planning is not yet complete, I would plan 3 relatively equally sized rooms.
Then you are more flexible.
Two rooms can always be merged.
I find buildings from the 80s/90s partly dark. You get used to the light.
Look at knee wall cupboards. I think you can use the space under the sloping roof really well with them. Especially when the children are still so small.

That was basically my original idea, unfortunately planning fails because there is always something in the way, stairs, beams, sewage, chimney. That’s why I’m here, in case someone else might be more creative.

Yes, I agree. They are darker. And besides, the view of the garden on the ground floor is a wonderful thing.

I don’t understand right now: you have space and rooms downstairs, so why isn’t the plan to enjoy that level and keep the parents’ area downstairs? Let the kids have the attic, then there are no too small, dark rooms full of compromises.

No, but it’s not about preferences, but about human needs that are partly even embedded in laws.

So in my opinion, parents basically downstairs is rather impractical and not necessary with toddlers if it’s just one child.

Regarding windows again. If I were building new (preferably with unlimited budget) I would also plan differently, but with an existing building there are usually compromises (that's why my note about bathroom or bedroom). Although we don’t have small windows on the ground floor as I think, our ground floor would probably be way too dark for you both (because it’s a bungalow and pretty overgrown).

Maybe it helps to update the ground floor layout here.

I can imagine that the kitchen is somewhere completely different than on the plan. Where the kitchen is, is probably the bathroom?

The ground floor looks like on my drawing (page 1 post 6) in terms of room layout. So no, the kitchen is where the kitchen is.