City villa subtly modern 218 sqm

The fireplace is in the way and not really a room divider. You have also built in a lot of corners. On the left side of the plan, the small recess. To box in the kitchen, the exterior wall will be shifted at great expense.

I would also like to recommend the [KI Forum] for your kitchen planning. Best before all walls are fixed :)

Even in my opinion, the position of the fireplace is not optimal. If you also consider the planned furnishing of the living room (sofa in the middle of the room / backrest towards the fireplace / partially placed in front of the sliding door), enormous walking distances arise when I want to serve food, which was prepared in the kitchen on the stove, on the terrace. Past the kitchen island / elegantly around the fireplace / a detour around the sofa corner in the middle of the room / a turn around the next sofa corner and then through the sliding door). One could hold championships in living room slalom to entertain family and guests. Who can get the full bowl of soup to the terrace the fastest without any loss ...

Depending on which fireplace you choose, it can get very uncomfortable on the cheap seats there. No joke, fireplaces sometimes emit quite a bit of heat, plus the passage there is very narrow. Depending on what is stored in the cabinets there, it can also get quite warm inside. I don’t have your entire floor plan in mind right now, but I would perhaps see the fireplace rather as a real room divider between living/dining/kitchen (if technically feasible) or at the corner of the living/dining area or in the living room corner. Now it looks pushed in there and will heat the seats. I don’t see a real, desired separation between kitchen and living areas.

Due to the radiant heat, we don’t want the fireplace to be in immediate proximity to existing seating areas either. As a genuine room divider, the fireplace seems to me to restrict the pathways as well as the line of sight too much. It should also not become a 100% separation, otherwise we would have chosen a closed kitchen from the start. This would be the variant in 3D. The flue would be invisible. Around the cooking island there is about 1.2m of space.

A sauna of 2mx1.4m is doable but the internal dimensions have to be effective. Built-in closet right next to the WC... hmm... and the toilet all the way back in the corner, far from the window...? Why is the shower slanted?

The shower and bidet will be swapped and we are still considering adding a small window. The closet at the back should also include the laundry chute. The slant of the shower is meant to soften the otherwise sharp 90° corner in the room.

The fireplace is in the way and also not a real room divider. You also have really many corners built in. On the left side of the plan the small projection. To box in the kitchen, the exterior wall will have to be moved expensively. I would also recommend the KI forum for your kitchen planning. Best before all walls are fixed :)

Thanks for the tip, I will have a look right away. The projection serves, besides boxing in the kitchen, also as a clean termination for the terrace roof in the exterior view and as a relief for the planned light cove, which will extend about 50cm into the room. Exterior corners simply look good here. (see post from our current living room a few pages before)

your utility room is huge, but you don’t have space for the necessary installations!

Actually, yes there is. The exterior door will be moved about 15cm, but there are already 140cm available for the heat storage and brine-water heat pump. Both from Viessmann, each requiring about 65cm of space. Opposite there is ample space for the enlarged electrical panel including some KNX actuators.

This would be the variant in 3D. The extractor would be invisible. There would be about 1.2m of space around the kitchen island

That is too tight - believe me: it looks like a block, stands there like a block. It is visually disturbing and also fundamentally. It not only makes the seating places unattractive, no one will want to do anything in the kitchen voluntarily when it is on. Another downside: the cook can’t even see the fire.

In my opinion, the position of the fireplace is not optimal. If you also consider the planned furnishing of the living room (sofa in the middle of the room / backrest facing the fireplace / partially placed in front of the sliding door), huge walking distances arise when I want to serve food prepared on the stove in the kitchen on the terrace. Passing by the kitchen island / elegantly circumventing the fireplace / making a detour around the sofa corner in the middle of the room / a turn around the next sofa corner and then through the sliding door. You could hold championships in living room slalom to entertain family and guests. Who can get the full soup plate to the terrace fastest without any losses...

Mhh, I see it differently. Aesthetics is one thing, but the paths are not blocked. We rather expect to use the 1.2m single door as the main access to the terrace. This makes the path about 6m without obstacles, aside from the central island. In any case, less than our current 9m. Neither is a reason for complaints from guests.

It's too close – believe it: it looks like a block, stands there like a block. Visually disturbing and also fundamentally. It not only makes the seating areas unattractive, no one voluntarily does anything in the kitchen when it's on. Another downside: the cook can't even see the fire.

Alternatively, completely without a fireplace also seems unfinished to me. Where would you put the fireplace, or with which design?