Cube floor plan: final tips desired

Hello forum and many greetings from BaWü!

I have been reading here for months and have already been able to take away many helpful suggestions and tips. So, many thanks in advance to everyone who is so active here!

Now about us, we live in a town of 3,000 inhabitants between Stuttgart and Lake Constance at the edge of the Black Forest, and it is exactly here that we want and will build (have built) our house. We are 35 and 27 years old, childless, which will not change earlier than in 2-3 years...
As the thread title suggests, we are already very far along with the floor plan and hope to get some last suggestions or perhaps warnings from you about things we may have overlooked or things that can simply be done better.

Below is a short questionnaire:

Bebauungsplan/Einschränkungen
Plot size: 726m2
Slope: no
Building window, building line and boundary: surrounding development, minimum distance 2.5m

Anforderungen der Bauherren
Style, roof shape, building type: cube, flat roof
Basement, floors: no basement, 2 full floors of 2.75m
Number of persons, age: two persons, 35 + 27 years
Space requirement on ground floor, upper floor: see floor plan
Office: family use or home office? no need
Overnight guests per year: 1-2
Open or closed architecture: [I]rather open
Conservative or modern construction: modern
Open kitchen, cooking island: open, peninsular
Number of dining places: 2-6
Fireplace: yes
Music/stereo wall: no
Balcony, roof terrace: no
Garage, carport: double carport
Utility garden, greenhouse: no
Further wishes/special features/daily routine, also reasons why this or that should or should not be: pool 7x4m, L-terrace, garden shed, electric gate, a lot of privacy screen, separate parents’ bathroom

House design
Who is responsible for the planning: [I]initial draft own, current plan together with builder
What do you particularly like? Why? layout of parents’ sleeping area, open and bright living area
What do you not like? Why? placement of the TV in the living area is nowhere ideal
Estimated price according to architect/planner: 270,000,- excluding electrical trade
Preferred heating technology: air-to-water heat pump, underfloor heating


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As mentioned, I am grateful for any feedback, positive as well as negative.
If anything is unclear, just ask...thanks in advance!

First question that arises for me. Why have 2 small rooms (pantry/storage) instead of making one room?

Good point, which I passed directly on to the lady of the house. According to her, she wants to install shelves all around the pantry. After discussion, the version without this partition wall is now an option...

What can I say:
Slowly, I can't stand looking at these houses anymore, but I want to contribute neutrally to the floor plan.
First of all, congratulations on the pool design, it's great and I would love to have one too!
Regarding the floor plan itself:
From the exterior view and the specifications, I expect more than what is found in the hallway. I expect a nice cloakroom solution and not a staircase that behaves restrained.
The slanted wall _does not_ fit at all.
In the kitchen, the island should be at least 90 cm deep, otherwise it looks puny or the stove causes greasy trouble.
I really don’t like that the dining table extends into the relaxation area. Where would the TV unit be?

I would design the complex rather longer and narrower.

Upstairs, square meters are wasted in the parents’ area, and the closet space is rather sparse. This also supports the idea on the ground floor to design everything narrower but longer.

I am deliberately not going into detail because, in my opinion, fundamental issues would still need to be worked out.

Best regards, Yvonne

Thank you for the quick response and the criticism!

I expect a nice wardrobe solution and not a staircase that behaves behavely.

I don’t quite understand, what does the last part of the sentence mean?

The slanted wall doesn’t fit at all. In the kitchen, the island should be at least 90 cm deep, otherwise it looks puny or the stove causes greasy trouble

I put the slanted wall up for discussion, thanks for the note. The island will be 1 meter deep, sorry, I forgot to mention that.

I really don’t like that the dining table extends into the relaxation area. Where would the TV system be?

Yes, the table with the dining table is also my problem! The couch is wrongly placed in the design and should be on the living room wall at the top of the plan, so you look towards the window front, the TV is planned to hang on the left wall next to the corner glazing.

I deliberately don’t go into detail, because I think fundamental things still need to be worked out.

But of course, I’m all the more interested in that understandably. Maybe you’ll reconsider and go into detail after all, I’d be happy.

But even so, many thanks in advance!

I find the draft acceptable. Visually, it bothers me that the house is a modern flat-roof house, but the carport looks like one from the 1980s. Its wall made of exposed sand-lime brickwork does not match the plastered house, the attic does not match the modern roof finish of the house, and the slanted front edge bothers me the most. Likewise, the chaotic window arrangement on the street side does not match the pleasantly structured garden side. The 45° corner around the storage room - where I agree to leave out the partition wall - is also 80s style. The chimney actually is too.

Conceptually, I find the house successful, the parent suite well solved, and I like the window arrangement around the sofa area best.

What I dislike is the wall-mounted nonsense box, which is currently hyped as the royal way of heating technology - but when I was little, people also wanted to find glass bricks beautiful.