City villa floor plan - children's rooms with floor-to-ceiling windows

Hello everyone,

I wanted to get your opinion on this floor plan.
What is good, what maybe not?
I am only uncertain about the children's rooms because of the floor-to-ceiling windows.
The terrace is drawn incorrectly and should actually open upwards towards the kitchen.

Additionally, I have little space for furniture in the living room and am considering changing the double window on the left to a normal one.

Unfortunately, I do not have a site plan.
The living room faces south.
However, the plot continues towards the kitchen, as it is long and narrow along a street.


Development plan/restrictions
Plot size = 650 sqm
Slope = No
Building window, building line and boundary = 3m from the boundary
Edge development = No
Number of parking spaces = 2
Number of floors = 2 full floors
Roof shape = hipped roof
Style = urban villa
Orientation = south
Maximum height/limits = 12m

Client requirements

Style, roof shape, building type = urban villa
Basement, floors = 2 full floors
Number of people, age = 2 adults and two small children
Room requirements on ground floor, upper floor
Office: family use or home office = home office, later to have a bed in it
Guest sleepers per year = 0
Conservative or modern construction = modern
Open kitchen, kitchen island = open
Number of dining seats = 4-6
Fireplace = no
Music/stereo wall = maybe
Garage, carport = carport
Utility garden, greenhouse = utility garden

House design
Who designed the plan: do-it-yourself
Price estimate according to architect/planner: 300,000
Personal price limit for the house, including equipment:
Preferred heating technology: heat pump

If you have to give up, which details/extensions
-you can give up: pantry
-you cannot give up: shower on the ground floor

Thank you very much

Be sure to include plans with measurements (you had them in the other thread after all)

An idea is recognizable.
Here are a few tips for further tinkering:
- A city villa doesn't have to be square. On the contrary - the coffee grinder is, in my opinion, rather a special thing in a negative sense. You lack depth in the living room. So pull a bit here and push on the other side.
- It's best to place the pantry under the stairs (there's no basement, right?). For that, move the WC to the corner and create a wardrobe in front of it - you urgently need that.
- Room 7 has a poor spatial feeling - do you need it as an office?
- How long is the staircase now?
- A trapped dressing room is rather disadvantageous - often discussed - think about it.
- You save a lot of money on furnishing and use space optimally if you align the interior room dimensions with common furniture widths. So, for example, 2m closet + 5cm plaster on left and right = 2.05m for wardrobe, depth 0.62m etc. - check Ikea.
- Window views still look very chaotic - but that comes last.
- Apart from that, always go to the architect without your own plan, lean back and just let them do it! They studied this and have to be paid anyway.

Unfortunately, I don't have a site plan.

If you have a plot, you also have a site plan! Make sure to draw it yourself, marking pros and cons, sun, orientation, wind, and road. Then slide the house with carport onto it. Don’t forget dimensions and building envelope.

"Room 3" is supposed to be the HAR, I assume. With >10sqm very tight, if this is also your only storage room. Minimum distances to the heater and fuse box must also be observed here. Also think about where you want to store, for example, seasonal stuff, tools, etc. In the attic?

Apparently, you either have a strong preference for narrow rooms or you are somehow trying to fit a certain number of rooms into a format that is not suitable for it. Funnily enough, you doubt the slightly wider rooms.