Bungalow floor plan 160-170 sqm with basement

True, burying €250,000 is pretty close :cool:

I think it's about the fact that an empty basement can be better ignored than an empty attic? That's how I understand the argument. Basically buried and gone. :)

That’s probably where the problem lies: the OP fell head over heels in love with the Weiss Vita model house. Unfortunately, its overlap with personal needs is only about thirty percent (which is why even I don’t “recognize” the “template” in the self-design). Understandably, the fear now is that an architect might give even more significant weight to the seventy percent of needs outside the overlap than we do here, and as a result, the recognizability itself shrinks below the measurable threshold even in the eyes of the OP – maybe only the door handle would remain (Daffy Duck fans know what I’m talking about *LOL*).

Honestly, I see only a very minor “difference” far after the decimal point whether then a floor or a wing stands empty – just because the client hesitates to build the house for a friend and for themselves and wants the house to be inhabited for a foe no matter what until death or at least care level IV, just because it has a symbolic resemblance to the youth love Weiss Vita. Yes, that people evolve is only a common experience and not a law – one can also put all one’s energy into resisting it and prefer, like Oskar Matzerath, not to grow anymore. My late grandmother used to say in such cases that the will of man is his kingdom (funny enough, she worked at Edeka).

Well, not with these words exactly. But I do seem to remember that we repeatedly tried to advise away from this whim of “having everything on one floor at all costs.”

You can put everything on one level - but not sensibly with the closed bungalow floor plan. If you want a parent wing, a living wing, and a children’s wing, then you need a different floor plan - or you have absurdly large corridors or an atrium.

No one wants to impose a roof on you that you don't like. It just seems that you consider the children's living comfort as secondary to a design ideal - which is surprising. You banish the children to the entrance area, so they better always close the doors nicely. Then you banish them to the basement to the technical rooms and the laundry room. ;) It's a bit like the child seat in the Porsche 911. You can do it, sure.