City Villa Floor Plan - Feedback Desired

No glass blocks no rather staggered shed roof daylight spots open rafters

Attached is a slightly revised upper floor (Why don’t you like glass blocks?)

Skylights could still be added, for example, on the children’s room walls.

An open roof truss would of course be something... but wouldn’t I miss the storage space?

Additionally, 2 variants of the ground floor (kitchen alternatives and utility room/office swapped). Which do you think is better?

And an idea of how a fireplace could be incorporated. What do you think about it?

I immediately like EG Variante2. Personally, I would prefer a dark hallway over glass blocks. In my opinion, they are one of the worst sins in construction and urgently need to be eradicated.

Three bathrooms are nonsense, I wouldn’t differentiate more than two genders in terms of bathrooms, but partitioning off the toilet might make sense. I distinguish guests into two types: those for dinner (please shower at home beforehand, I only provide a toilet and sink) and those staying overnight (allowed to use the family bathroom). A third shower in case the dog loves puddles I would rather put in the utility room than in the guest WC. The excuse “senior bathroom in spé” was yesterday: at least as long as both builders are not yet in their mid-forties, building new when entering retirement will more likely be the norm than the still often heard idea of limiting oneself to the ground floor later on.

Glass blocks in the “original” 70s version are of course no longer used today, but their successors, the glass panels, I could well imagine in a single-family house. They wouldn’t be my ideal solution, but not as “yuck-spinach” as classic glass blocks.

Is the straight, single-flight staircase as a common theme also in the new designs just a coincidence, or a supposed must-have?

To be honest, I haven't followed the entire thread in detail, but I don't quite understand the hallway upstairs or the layout. If it's about daylight... why don't you rotate the utility room by 90 degrees and attach it to the bedroom and extend the hallway to the exterior wall?

Are the three children's rooms at the top of the plan a dogma? A bit of floor plan rearranging would probably do the upper floor some good.

Are the three children's rooms at the top of the plan a dogma?

Good question. The children are now five / one and a half / minus half, meaning at the age of majority of K1, K2 will be fourteen and a half and K3 twelve and a half. How was it again with the genders: K1 and K2 different and K3 still unknown?
The option to swap the room allocations for work and K1 in a few years could be interesting; and small children sometimes like to share a room.

A little floor plan reshuffling would probably do the upper floor good.

Panta rhei, even the "most optimal" floor plan should not have to last forever.