Cultivation instead of cellar - Your opinions on the ground floor

Hello everyone,

attached is the plan of a single-family house – here I am only concerned with the ground floor. The upper floor is not really an issue.

Total living area of the house including the extension (without basement): just under 192 sqm.

My main concern upfront is whether everything has been considered for a single-family house for 2 adults – 2 children, or what else you might notice.

There is a storage space under the stairs. The attic is accessible in the middle section; some clutter can also be stored here.

I am grateful for any criticism.

Best regards

First, the very long distances catch my attention. I especially find the kitchen placement poorly solved. Also, the staircase is not really my preference; I prefer stairs that are at most once winding, as this makes walking and especially carrying furniture upstairs easier. And do you really need 2 showers/toilets on the ground floor? I would rather use one of them as a utility room, so the technician as well as the electricity meter reader don’t have to walk through half the house and also past the washing machine and possibly the dirty laundry. I would add the utility room to the [Haushaltsraum-Raum]. And I also find the guest room as a trapped room an unfortunate solution. In your place, I would rethink the entire plan, at least regarding the ground floor.

Oops... if this were a pencil sketch on graph paper, I would say: try again or consult an architect. I see: more secondary and utility space than living space, I see 2 uncoordinated WCs (if at least one were next to the guest room with a shower...), I see a guest room that is accessed through a hobby room (i.e., storage room for PC, exercise bike, and go-karts), a kitchen miles away from the entrance or a pantry shelf, a convoluted hallway, and a long living corridor with a small door. To bring groceries into the kitchen, you have to turn five times – that’s poor planning. The windows also seem as if the facade wasn’t really considered. I can’t see any measurements. Sorry for raining on your parade. A lot of money is going to be burned here. Or is this a farmhouse that’s being restored???

It also seems to me like the conversion or expansion of an existing building. Then it would of course be interesting to know what is already there in order to consider where and how to start. If this is not the case, I find the floor plan catastrophically convoluted. Huge areas are available as hallways and ancillary spaces, but the individual living rooms still become passage rooms (hobby-guest) and the kitchen is sidelined. But to answer the question: many things were considered (even the shower bath twice), the most important functions are present. The question is rather which rooms are hidden on the upper/attic floor in order to be able to answer whether everything has been thought of...

Thank you very much for the (honest) feedback so far. The extension serves as a cellar replacement in second place. In the "Gast" there will be a study, the larger part of the extension (hobby) is the actual guest room and also houses a closet for, for example, winter clothes. The extension bathroom initially only has a toilet and a shower preparation. It is intended to possibly rent the extension once the two children have left the house as a separate apartment. There is enough storage space under the stairs; the rest is accommodated on the right side of the utility room in the form of shelves. It is not an old building but the plan of a new building, designed by an architect of a prefabricated house supplier on a spacious 820 sqm plot. On the upper floor there are 2 children's rooms, a bedroom and a walk-in closet as well as the family bathroom (with built-in closet and laundry chute to the utility room).

New construction, architect, planned ... There must be better solutions. This planning consumes a huge amount of space due to the many ancillary areas, and nothing remains of your "spacious" 820m² plot. Take another neutral look at your ideas, design the draft more compactly, leave out plenty of square meters of corridors, save money, and have more open space on the property. And find someone who can do it better - that shouldn’t be so hard! Have courage - the first draft is not always the best! And the simple, beautiful ideas take some time but are more livable in the long run.