Bauhaus concrete villa with core insulation - experiences

The utility room fits. I have 8sqm and a small [Wäschspinne]. It is too small.

The library is still there as a separate room.
Yes, storage space, especially when such hobbies are present, is missing.

I just looked at the plans again:

The sauna in the basement would bother me. After a sauna session, you can never really go outside to "air out"; at best through the garage... but that's not really an option. A shower would be enough to rinse off after a fitness binge (or tinkering with the cars). You would have gained the space for storage instead of the sauna. I might also make the fitness area smaller (since the sauna is gone, no need for lounge chairs anymore) and treat myself to a small workshop, even if just to have tools readily stored. I miss that here too.

Then put the sauna upstairs in the private floor. Swap the bathroom and bedroom, carve the sauna out of the dressing room and then you can use that wonderful roof garden after sauna sessions. Put a few loungers there and bask naked in the sun after the sauna, very nice (as far as I see, the roof garden is not visible from outside, right?) In winter, you can get comfortable in bed and enjoy the view there. The roof terrace is big (and if you only sleep and dress up there, it probably won’t be used a lot), and I would probably also treat myself to an outdoor shower and possibly (if the statics allow it) even a plunge pool up there. Maybe also consider integrating the sauna as an outdoor sauna on that roof garden, then the dressing room can stay as is. I think an outdoor sauna is great!

For the bathroom, I would definitely go to a good bathroom planner again. As it is now, it works, but I think it’s absolutely not appropriate for the house. You can do so much more! There are such fantastic bathroom solutions, I wouldn’t let anyone build me a run-of-the-mill bathroom in such a great house.

The windowless toilets simply don’t fit in such a luxury house; it feels like being in an airplane toilet. We have a large window in every bathroom, and it’s also nice to be able to look at yourself in the mirror with natural light. Such a windowless room always feels somewhat oppressive to me. When you have guests, everyone can quite literally hear when, who, and how often the toilet is used, since the kitchen and dining table are right next to it—somehow not very discreet. You practically always have to disappear to the basement to visit the toilet inconspicuously.

Best regards
Sabine

The storage space is sufficient for us since we don’t have any hobbies that would require it. If I go skiing every two years or so, I just borrow the equipment.
The dressing room is large enough for us to store all our clothes there (including sports and winter clothes). We didn’t want to keep rearranging all the time.
All shoes go into the wardrobe area (the furniture in the floor plan does not reflect reality).

There are only two bicycles in the garage, and they certainly aren’t parked as shown. There is also space to neatly store tools here.
There is also a storage room. We don’t have many things that we never use, but we try to prevent too much from accumulating.

We have a guest room that can be used as a second bedroom. It’s not as if someone is renting it out...

We decided against an additional shower in the fitness area. Because even if you shower downstairs, you still have to go upstairs to change and put the sweaty clothes in the washing machine.

The bathroom has everything we want. Definitely not completely standard but not totally extravagant either. We don’t need a shower with 20 jets, illuminated water that pulses to the rhythm of the music... Just because you could doesn’t mean you should/must do everything.

Your suggestions regarding the sauna are good. But since we are not hardcore sauna enthusiasts, it doesn’t matter to us.
The roof garden in front of the dressing room is more an exit to air out clothes. So it will never be used properly.

I can understand that some people find the toilets too small.
But do I really need to look at myself in the mirror on the toilet and have daylight while doing so? At least I don’t.
I also don’t care how often or whether someone goes to the toilet.
If you go to the basement, it’s just as noticeable. You simply aren’t in the living room right now... You can hardly say "I just went for another round of training..."

You’re not a woman either... ;-D

Well, I do look in the mirror in the guest bathroom quite often. And I have to say, you don’t really care who disappears how often or that a soundproof door is installed – your guests (probably) don’t know that. I still cringe when I think about a visit to friends where I unfortunately had stomach problems. The bathroom was accessible from the hallway and also several meters away from the dining table. But when you’re sitting there, you have plenty of time to think about the missing door between the hallway and living area and the question of what the rest can hear. Maybe it’s more of a female problem, but I wouldn’t feel comfortable there either. :-(

You don't have a shower in the basement? Despite the sauna and fitness room?
Does that mean after every sauna session you have to go upstairs to the upper floor to shower??? At least in winter, in summer there's the pool area (but there are already showers outside, right?)
You must be kidding!
That is a total planning failure. Then leave out the sauna; it absolutely makes no sense like that.