Bungalow floor plan, approx. 120 m²

I don't have the exterior view on hand at the moment and would upload it later. The idea was that the side light would fall directly on the TV and thus disturb more than the light coming from behind. Besides, this way you also still have some view of the garden. How much the light behind the TV then disturbs while watching TV is difficult to say.

Our TV is positioned sideways to the window, the light incidence does not disturb us or the TV picture. I believe with modern TVs it also does not reflect or barely does.

In the meantime, a lot has happened and we have had the first planning meeting with the architect.
I have attached the result.

You’re really holding on to old habits there.
This is what happens when a layman gives the expert his draft with "please improve." The desire for an open living space is not new and almost every bungalow floor plan has it.
I don’t understand then placing a narrow hallway as the entrance. Leo is now in the entrance area... where everyone passes or rings the bell.
The only idea I find successful is the cloakroom. So good that I will try to remember this idea for other designs. However, that does not mean you have to hold on to it if you do it differently.
After all, you sacrifice storage space in the utility room.

I would put the architect’s creative abilities to the test and say: “fine, but now do something completely different.”
The problem here seems to be that all functioning designs with a hallway for privacy are rejected.

I don’t find the mentioned windows great either. 1. It’s hard to look outside with 50 cm, then 2. they frame the TV, 3. they distract as well, 4. they are placed too far to the outside on the facade, 5. they restrict the furniture arrangement. I find the side window more necessary.

The old routine theoretically appealed to us. But we are aware that in practice, maybe not everything is that great anymore. Previously, the room layout was especially suboptimal for Leo; now I like it much better. We also briefly swapped the office and the child's room, but the TV is probably louder more often than the front door closing. Sure, that is the entrance area, but we don't get visitors that often, etc. Of course, one might have to be careful to close the door quietly in the evenings, but all in all, he has more peace there than before, and I think this also has more advantages during the teenage years. Yes, at the moment I haven’t seen a solution with a larger hallway that I can get used to. You just take away space at the expense of the main living area. We are, after all, limited in living space. I would also appreciate it if the entrance area were more open, but how without throwing everything else overboard.

If at all, then I see Leo in the bathroom, the bathroom in the utility room, the utility room in Leo's room, without having the site plan in front of me. And then, wasn't it the case that even earlier the objection came up to rotate the house on the plot so that it wouldn't be so cramped?

wäre aber wie ohne alles andere über den Haufen zu werfen.

I see no reason why one should not throw everything overboard.

I could still imagine Leo in the current bathroom, but when he is older he would have to go across the house at any time of day or night again. Unless he goes through the wardrobe passage. The bathroom in the current utility room would be way too small again. Overall, I don’t think that’s good.

The house could also be rotated and even torn up again, but I haven’t seen any floor plan that justifies that. In the current floor plan, as a layman and new build owner, I only notice minor things I could live with. At least I think so, but maybe it will look different once the house is built; at least I have respect for that, hence not only the architect but also the thread here. I’ll write what I personally like and don’t like about the floor plan:

Pros:
- open living area/family room
- the "living" in the living area should not disturb the child at any time
- relatively little hallway (dead space)
- the bathroom can also be used when guests are present without everyone at the dining table hearing the toilet flush

Cons:
- the entrance area (tunnel)
- maybe too small utility room?
- the living room area looks a bit cramped on paper (although 3.70 x 3.70 should work)