City Villa Floor Plan - Feedback Desired

However, one should already consider WHERE the path will roughly lead. You seem to be traveling from Italy to Portugal, although you are skiers...

I agree. This also includes that you become aware of what requirements you have for the floor plan on the upper floor. You have estimated 9 rooms that you want to accommodate on one floor (including dressing room etc.). That is quite a lot. I also believe that a central straight staircase in the square floor plan is not optimal for this.

Try another staircase or a square or rectangle

I will. Let's see what comes out of it. I already have an idea!

You’ve only rolled the dice 3 times...

Well, a bit more (without showing everything here)

more concept

I don’t want to deny that.

and take the time

But there is enough time and it is being used extensively

Haven’t you actually read this here?

No, I will do that later. Thanks.

Don’t think in compartments, break down boundaries, don’t let yourself be dogmatized by old customs, set out for new shores.

I understand what you mean; roughly summarized one could say that the very first floor plan was creative but not successful or rather impractical.

Now it basically makes more sense but is “boring.”

You seem to be traveling from Italy to Portugal, although you are skiers...

That describes me quite perfectly.

Many decisions in my life are made exactly like that, and often I am very happy in the end. Of course not always, but that would probably be utopian.

But certainly, especially the topic of house building should be handled much more planned, I absolutely agree with you!

Edit: but very often what you think you want... is not at all what you really want, and certainly not what you need (to be happy/satisfied).

...a very profound philosophical thread... I like!

If the staircase does not dogmatically have to have this shape, I would leave it more to chance where the rooms would prefer to have a staircase. A sculpture needs viewing distance to have an effect; too much channelling turns the straight one-flight staircase quickly into a chicken ladder – conversely, it quickly appears cramped to make it admirable from several perspectives through air spaces.

Regarding the children's rooms, I meant – as probably did – to conceive 2) rooms whose use can vary between two children's rooms / children's bedroom / children's playroom / a children's play- and bedroom as well as study / room for K1, and 1) not to cluster all three children's rooms on the same level.

Open roof undersides come from a time with considerably thinner insulation between rafters, i.e. visible rafter undersides. Today, one would have to double them as a fake or one only gets an inclined ceiling. From my point of view, this has become obsolete.

I rolled the dice again. Different staircase shape and started with the upper floor this time. For the ground floor, there are a few variants that I've come up with so far.

Feedback as always is very welcome!

Why do the rooms now have to be built in stone?

The requirements for the house will change several times in the next few years. And we are not talking about a 140 sqm single-family house where every meter really has to fit.

The ground floor gets an area
Wellness bathroom with access to the garden for a relaxation lounger, whirlpool
Connected to it, the guest/work room
Next to it, a spacious play area as a living space extension

Upper floor
Utility room (a bottle can also be prepared there)
2 or 3 children's rooms, bedroom, dressing room, family bathroom

Children grow up

Ground floor: play area loses significance. It is closed off with a wall, breakthrough openings are made in the guest/work room, and there is a parents' wing

Upstairs, the family bathroom becomes the children's bathroom
Guest room moves to the former dressing room
Bedroom becomes the 3rd children's room or living area for the teenagers

The space requirement on the ground floor is larger, allowing for work upstairs with roof terrace, etc. So that in the end the house doesn’t just end up being a box.