Classic single-family house 200 sqm (plus basement) tips?

Children's rooms upstairs will be bigger. We will take space especially from the bathroom and the dressing room. However, the orientation should remain the same. Of course, the children's rooms would be better facing south, but it is our house after all and children move out.

Hmm ... but first, 20 years will pass where you use the south side with the walk-in closet. And when all the children have moved out ... then the house is actually much too big and you could then reconsider ... maybe even into 2 master bedrooms (snoring, lifestyle) ... the former children's rooms, which you could now plan on the south side. The pantry is still not deep enough at 1.20 ;). And keep Yvonne's note in mind ... the natural terrace exit is now completely behind the table and the table will always have to be walked around. By the way, I would try to accommodate the washing machine and dryer upstairs, then you don’t have to carry everything up and down two floors.

Ok, those are already quite a few points. There will still be a laundry chute somewhere. Good point, the architect had forgotten that. Overall, we are afraid that the living room will be difficult to arrange. Maybe we will reconsider the atrium; then we would have a total of 3 terrace doors... Of course, the house is big and actually too big. But we want to afford the space even later on. What do you think about the price? To me, 800,000 doesn’t seem too much because of the windows. More like realistic? What do you think?

Floor area ratio: 0.10-0.24 Floor space index: 0.38

Strange values. I can still understand the floor area ratio as the current framework in the 34 zone, but why doesn't the floor space index value also have a range?

Parent bath directly above dining table could/will have an interesting drainage.

The garage that only protrudes into the house on the ground floor must be well thought out structurally and thermally.

Do you have 2 cars? If yes, where do you put your bicycles?

Floor area ratio and site coverage values I copied from the assessment of the building authority. I am not familiar enough with this and therefore have to trust that it is correct. For bicycles, indeed another corner of the property must be used. Somehow, however, I have not yet discovered a better way to integrate a garage. For our current fleet, it is sufficient though.

I also imagine that the drainage in the bathroom upstairs will be difficult. I am curious about the architect's line of thought. Even though the bathroom layout is not final at all yet. The upper floor still requires some adjustments overall. The list of questions is growing :D

Regarding the classic "A mix of many examples from various magazines..." I am personally of the opinion that the saying "too many cooks spoil the broth" applies 1:1 to "too many recipes." At the very least, this is regularly the root of the phenomenon that the result is neither fish nor fowl, but still does not do justice to any proper Wolpertinger. At least the statement of a regionally typical "normal" II + gable roof house is surprising in view of the floor plans, which I, not only I spontaneously, would assign to the "Bauhaus" faction.

A drainage system, where one is curious about the architect’s response, and a laundry chute that "will be somewhere," fit more with a general contractor servant not appropriate for the house budget than with an architect (and uncertainty about whether furniture can be placed not with a "actually too big" house). I do not understand the train of thought as to why windows should be a contraindication that the house has eaten up the eight hundred grand.

I copied the floor area ratio and site occupancy index values from the building authority’s assessment. I do not know enough about this and therefore have to trust that this is how it is done.

In a 34-zone area, it is by no means unusual that there are no fixed site occupancy index and floor area ratio requirements (because that would already be rudimentarily a zoning plan). The indication of a site occupancy index "from-to" presumably refers to an inventory. However, the floor area ratio is a size somewhat related to this, and accordingly very strange with such a wide range for one if only one value is given for the other. As expected, a similarly fluctuating value should be stated there—unless someone at the building authority is also unfamiliar and you got the values from an intern covering vacation. Because ignorance regarding the correlation of the two figures would have to be quite extensive for this information.