City villa floor plan 160 sqm, without basement - Your opinions on that?

About the costs: it was just a hint and now also reads a bit more coherently. BB is also among the states that build below average costs, if you believe the forums. Otherwise, I agree with . Nevertheless, , our calculation worked like this as well: the shell with standard rooms costs so and so much, the rest — meaning what you then change — is usually cost-neutral for the BUs unless it concerns a more complex static structure.

About the smells: fish and frying odors will hang in all rooms if a normal extractor hood is used. Air simply distributes itself, as do the odor particles. Either a high-tech extractor hood or cross-ventilation. In my opinion and experience, a closed kitchen doesn’t help with that. Pantry: I am slim but couldn’t move in 40cm width if I also have to move my arms. An average man has 58cm in the shoulder area... Just think about what you want to store there. Usually, just a small shelf where a few appliances as well as pasta, canned goods, and flour are stored is enough. A freezer should also fit there. Nothing more is needed. And if you orient the kitchen to the south, you can also cross the hallway once in a while before the floor plan discussion revolves only around a pantry and everything else (-> hallway, wardrobe, shower toilet) is dimensioned too small. Shower toilet: what you described about the hallway situation also applies to the shower toilet when it’s actually in use. Put your thoughts about wide doors into this pot, and you’ll come to realize it yourself. Two doors in the bathroom: with 4 people you can control fewer doors. If a teenager locks both doors out of embarrassment, you’ll be standing in front of a locked door in the morning. A toddler has two ways to disturb you at night. Possibly the direct access is more likely to be used to visit the parental bed at night. The idea with the direct passage is great, as long as you are two and remain so.

About the hallway: there is much room for maneuver between a narrow RH hallway and the one you drew, which very well allows a living room as well as a wardrobe.

Kitchen facing south, the TV room can also drift towards the north... Think about it anew and then also with the upper floor.

So you mean that this internal sliding door doesn’t really make sense? It should also be a bit like being able to just close it off and not necessarily see the kitchen chaos or the prepared dishes beforehand. But how often does one actually need that? I need to think about it. I’m just a "surprise person." I’m happy when I whip up a big menu for friends or my partner without them knowing what’s coming. But designing the house around that… maybe that is actually over the top.

Well, the pantry could also be equipped with shelves on just one side. Then you have 50-60 cm of space to maneuver and still the option to fully equip the shelves to room height. In the village, you might still need to stock up on a few more things than now, where the supermarket is right next to the house.

Regarding the bathroom upstairs, yeah, there’s certainly something to consider when it comes to kids. I’ll think about that again, although I believe we would still want to keep it that way. The bathroom door can simply be locked at night from the bedroom. And I also think there will at least be good sound insulation, since the dressing room is between the bathroom and the bedroom, as well as a room and a sliding door.
The doors don’t necessarily have to be at the same height. That would actually be more advantageous because then you don’t have a direct view from the bathroom into the bedroom.

I’m going to try to rearrange the floor plans somehow.
Is there a possibility that someone could post a small sketch with an idea? For example, also with a half-spiral staircase? I’m not quite sure how to fit it best, but I think it saves space, or am I wrong?

There was also an attempt to place the kitchen on the other side. Here is a rough layout, without the measurements being 100% accurate. There is also a different type of staircase included, but I don’t like it there at all because it simply wastes too much space in the hallway, making it possible to enter the rather narrow guest room. Additionally, the access to the guest room would probably be quite tight.

I would also like to work on the upstairs area, but as long as I don’t know how everything is arranged downstairs or where the staircase is, I can’t make progress upstairs.

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We have already looked at several show homes and also found many floor plans online. But nothing really matches what we can imagine. We were not aware that the floor plan issue would be so exhausting.

There were even construction companies that said we can completely forget about a guest room with 160 sqm because it cannot be accommodated.
Our current construction company said, "Hello?? That's 160 sqm! Who says something like that doesn't fit there?"

Unfortunately, it will still be a while before the appointment with the architect. However, we would like to go there with good ideas as much as possible.

Is there a possibility that someone could post a small sketch with an idea?

Are the external dimensions fixed or is something like 8 x 11 also possible?
Is symmetry from the outside required?