We also built a bungalow. Experiences from that with 2 small children:
Keep the utility room away from the children's bedrooms. The heating kicking in or the washing machine running wakes the little ones up and you too.
The children can look from their rooms into the living room. That wasn’t intentional, but it has led to both playing in their rooms very early on. Definitely not a must, but quite practical in the first years.
The bathroom next to the children's rooms apparently doesn’t bother them at all. Neither the baby nor the 5-year-old is disturbed by the toilet flushing. Still, loud singing in the shower should be avoided.
Leave out the stairs up for the beginning. You are young and can take the classic hatch. If you really need stairs later in life, you simply tear down the walls of one of the children’s rooms (which is easy in a bungalow) and put stairs there. Saves you money and space now. For a staircase to the attic, you either need a specially sealing door or you have to finish the attic above. Our neighbors didn’t know that and after a year there was already mold upstairs. But especially having the attic above as a buffer results in pleasant temperatures in the house in summer. The neighborhood liked to sit with us in the height of summer because they were roasting in their huts and we had a comfortable 24 degrees.
Then pay attention to good shading, that is worth gold and you can have somewhat bigger windows to let in enough light.
See if you can get a double door with glazing to the living room. Especially in a bungalow this brings pleasant light into the hallway.
Leave out the door to the living area. It just makes the hallway unnecessarily dark and will always be open anyway. We originally had that in our plans too and it’s somehow rubbish.
My suggestion: leave out the stairs, basically rotate the bathroom, and thereby create a wider hallway in the living area. That creates a more open living concept and feels so much nicer.
I can confirm that washing machines and dryers are disturbing when they are near the bedroom. We have 2 doors between bedroom and storage room in the current apartment and both devices stand in the storage room. I can also fully confirm your statements about the bathroom. Therefore, I would not keep the shower directly on the bathroom side.
The plan was to do an attic conversion later. As we get older, a 4-room apartment/house is more than enough and we don’t need the attic anymore. It’s really about now when the children are small. We need 2 children’s rooms and an office, the latter should then go into the attic. So leaving out the stairs is not possible.
Thanks also for the other tips. We will think about leaving out the door to the living area.
Really? No, that one is rubbish, you always have to go through the kitchen. I’d rather take the original one. I don’t even remember what is supposed to be better about that one than this one here:
https://www.hausbau-forum.de/threads/Bungalow-148m-Grundstücksplanung-grundrissplanung.31975/#lg=post-340231&slide=0
Dimensions are way undersold too, sorry.
Why that one now from the first post? There are also other floor plans where you have to go through the kitchen to get to the living room. Or is the distance simply too long for you?
Advantages compared to the one in the original post. L-shape for living, kitchen, and dining area. Clearly separated areas for private and living rooms. But there are also disadvantages.
I thought it wasn’t a bad design. Here below is your post... Only utility room and bathroom are swapped...
Is it rubbish just because it’s not perfect or why?
I would like to approach the living rooms in this direction:
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But then I can't fit any stairs anymore and the rooms are again adjacent to the “noisy” rooms. What do you think?