City villa single-family house floor plan after 6 months of planning phase...

Development Plan/Restrictions
Plot size 555sqm
Slope no
Site occupancy ratio 0.4
Floor space index 2 full stories
Building window, building line and boundary Distance street/s 4m 3m neighbor
Edge development Yes Garage
Number of parking spaces 2
Number of floors 2
Roof shape no restriction
Architectural style City villa

Client Requirements
Architectural style, roof shape, building type City villa
Basement, floors no basement, 2 full stories
Number of people, age 2 adults, 2 children (2 & 4 years)
Office: family use or home office? no office
Guest overnight stays per year 2
Open or closed architecture open
Conservative or modern construction modern
Open kitchen, cooking island open without island but as U
Number of dining seats 6 to 8
Fireplace yes
Music/stereo wall no
Balcony, roof terrace yes
Garage, carport Garage
Utility garden, greenhouse play and chill garden

House Design
Who designed the plan: by us with additions from the general contractor/seller

What do you like especially? Why? open ground floor because we spend a lot of time there and in the garden
What do you not like? Why? guest WC possibly too small and bathroom on the upper floor difficult to plan everything in
Price estimate according to architect/planner: 280,000
Personal price limit for the house, incl. equipment:
Preferred heating technology: air-water heat pump with residential ventilation

If you had to waive, which details/extras
-can you waive: difficult maybe balcony
-can’t you waive: open construction

Why did the design turn out the way it is now? e.g.
Standard design from planner?
mostly self-crafted by us

So hello first of all,

We have now been planning our house for some time and I urgently need honest, constructive opinions, since everyone in our private circle always tends to hold back criticism, which I find very unfortunate...

Just write what you think I’m really looking forward to it
Attached our plan, however we are still considering extending our house 1m to the back towards the terrace to give our living/dining area 0.5m more room and push the other 0.5m back, meaning the stairway etc. 0.5m towards the terrace to thus provide the upstairs bathroom and master bedroom 0.5m more space along the entire width…

Many many thanks in advance…

What would you change why and how?

Does our proposed living concept work as it reads on the plan to someone with more professional knowledge?

I forgot a few pictures...

Budget what should be included?

Garage too narrow. Just barely can the slim driver open the door. Buckling children in not possible. Better a carport then.

Draw in all the furniture to scale including movement space.

The entrance/hallway/WC area needs to be revised. Feels cramped due to the squeezed-in WC.

The upper floor is okay. Possibly swap the rooms and give the bedroom the north/west room.

I would consider a small additional room. There is a lack of a storage/ironing/gaming/I want my peace room, often called an office.
You watch football and your wife is on the phone, one has to go to the bedroom otherwise you bother each other.

I don't like the space for the kitchen. Square kitchen rooms are usually very difficult to furnish. I also find the space wasted, as there is additional empty space towards the dining table. Unfortunately, I can't think of a solution off the top of my head without completely overhauling the entire floor plan.

On the ground floor living/dining/cooking is yawning emptiness, a table and a couch.

open kitchen, cooking island open without island but as a U

this is an unfavorable kitchen layout for a multi-person household, you block drawers, trash, you have to walk a lot. Kitchens without corners are always the better alternative, max one corner.

the kitchen width is okay, but way too deep at almost 6m. I would plan a pantry horizontally at the bottom of the plan. The children's rooms are too large, a small room upstairs, office, ironing, simply separate TV watching. There is no privacy on the ground floor.

It’s not nice when you enter the living area and look at a wall.

You can omit the door from the garage to the utility room, because if you drive the car in there, you will block it directly.

Is the balcony or roof terrace really used, or is it, like many, a nice addition without use because people prefer to be in the garden?

Wardrobe small.

Personally, I would miss an additional room for office, hobbies, sports, ...

Will there be an attic crawl space?

Furnish the living room and kitchen properly with furniture.