Bungalow floor plan ~16x9.5m (outside) on 1000m² with existing old building

Hello forum community,

after we were able to collect a few more ideas – and I received good feedback from previous posts and tried to incorporate it – I ask you for your feedback on the current floor plan or a general opinion on the bungalow on our 1000m² plot with existing buildings.

The floor plan was created with RoomSketcher. I tried to include relatively many pieces of furniture (kitchen is missing) as a reference. Windows for the bedroom and bathroom are not yet precisely fitted; I also don’t have any ideas for that yet.

Attached
1.) Picture of the plot + orientation
2.) Original of the BU after I designed/modified the draft
3.) My draft (with RoomSketcher)

Development plan/restrictions
Plot size: 1000m²
Exterior dimensions of the house: 15.87 m x 9.50 m (these are specified by the BU to stay as close as possible to the price)
Slope: No
Number of parking spaces: 0
Number of floors: Bungalow
Roof type: Hip roof or gable roof (BU has hip roof in the price)
Orientation: Entrance west, living room southeast orientation, dining room southwest orientation
Maximum heights/limitations
Further requirements: must adapt to existing buildings

Requirements of the builders
Number of people, age: 4 persons (2x 40 years, 2x 3 years)
Office: in the outbuilding
Guests per year: max. 2
Open or closed architecture: undecided
Conservative or modern design: doesn’t matter
Open kitchen, cooking island: sliding door, probably L or U-shaped kitchen
Number of dining seats: 4 in kitchen, possibly 6-8 in living room
Fireplace: possibly Swedish stove
Garage, carport: on driveway

House design
Who designed the plan: based on the bungalow 131 floor plan from Town & Country. Draft self-planned with RoomSketcher
-planner of a construction company

What do you particularly like? Why?
- Access from the west
- simple & compact

Price estimate according to architect/planner: 215,000

Personal price limit for the house, incl. equipment: 250,000

Preferred heating technology: air-to-water heat pump (either Vaillant aroSplit or Vaillant recoCompact)

If you have to give up, on which details/additions
-you can do without: size of the living room
-you cannot do without: 2nd bathroom

Why is the design the way it is now?
- Location on the plot
- Location in relation to the existing outbuilding

What is the most important/basic question about the floor plan summarized in 130 characters?
- Is the west orientation of the children's rooms sensible compared to an east orientation?
- Is the bedroom too narrow, since the bed is approx. 2x2m?
- Kitchen with its own small dining area?
- Size and number of windows for the living room with southeast orientation
- How should the furniture be arranged in the living room?
- Should living room and dining room be swapped? (SE <-> SW orientation?)
--> Dining room has southwest orientation so you can see who is coming
- Is it better to have one floor-to-ceiling window (what size) in the children's room or 2 windows in the children's room?

3.) My draft (with RoomSketcher)

0) the origin of the thread:

Four kinds of nonsense that immediately catch my eye:
- the dining table in the living room is practically maximally in the way
- the dining table in the kitchen is a "redundancy"
- the fact that the kitchen has no other furnishings makes the plan almost unassessable / indisputable
- the bathroom fixtures are, to put it kindly, only a sketch.

Thank you for the link to the original thread. Ultimately, I am posting exactly - this unfinished floor plan/furnishing - to get opinions on it.

However, it is not clear to me whether the general idea itself is okay or if I really need to plan my kitchen first before I can create a kitchen floor plan, like "Design follows function."

Dining tables are almost redundant everywhere, or does the majority here really only have one dining table, which is used both for occasions\visitors and daily meals?

Dining tables are almost redundant everywhere, or does the majority here really only have one dining table, which is used both for occasions/guests and daily meals?

I don't understand why anyone would put two dining tables right next to each other. With a separate dining room, okay, but in this case, in my opinion, it makes no sense.

understood. that means you would choose an open kitchen in this floor plan?

how is the orientation in general?
- is it okay to have the children's rooms facing west with a view of the "Hof/Garten"?

Dining tables are almost redundant everywhere

It is particularly "noticeably annoying" when the duplication occurs within three meters.

or whether I really have to plan my kitchen first before I can create a kitchen layout like "Design follows function".

The arrangement of appliances and surfaces already has a fairly dominant say in how the room should be best sized.