Draft single-family house with garage/carport - please provide evaluation

First the positive: I quite like the floor plan except for a few tiny little details. Now to the little details:

No door between the living room and the hallway? I don’t find that very advantageous. The noise level from the living room spreads throughout the whole house and is always audible upstairs. Not so good with children. Also, the view from the dining table to the toilet door. This could also cause unpleasant odors. I would put in a nice glass door.

I think the upper floor is quite good so far. I would move the doors of the children's rooms about 70/75 cm away from the wall so that you can still put a wardrobe behind them. For a small storage room, you wouldn’t even need to reduce the size of the bathroom. Simply add a wall upstairs by the stairs between the stairs and the bathroom; you don’t really use that corner anyway.

A window above the bed is not really my thing. There can always be an unpleasant draft effect here because glass panes are generally cooler than the walls and this causes small air turbulences.

I don’t like the basement at all. I find it very fragmented. If you want to get out of the laundry room, I would make the storage room by the light well into a laundry room and straighten that wall. I would make a bigger storage room out of the laundry room and workshop.

Thank you very much for your answers. Our assessments on this:

Regarding the hallway on the ground floor: The plan is to design the staircase as open as possible so that the hallway on one side up to the bathroom allows natural light to enter from the direction of the vestibule/stairs and otherwise is supplied with natural light from the kitchen/dining room. In our assessment, this should prevent any feeling of a narrow corridor. I hope we are not too wrong about that. Attached is a 3D view of it.

We would need to furnish the vestibule to see if the space is sufficient. If necessary, a bit more space would need to be created there.

Rotating the bed on the upper floor by 90° seems much more sensible to me than the current arrangement. The dressing room is 2.10m wide and will be fitted out by my father-in-law (master carpenter). We were thinking mainly open shelves, which are 45cm deep on the long sides and 60cm deep on the front side where you can also hang wider clothing items (jackets, suits, etc.). Hopefully, this leaves about 1.20m of sufficient room to move.

We are aware of the openness of the floor plan on the ground floor and have already considered variable options to close it. Since the two walls of the pantry and living room meet in their extension, sliding doors, for example, would be conceivable here. This way, a change could possibly still be made later.

We will think about moving the children's room doors on the upper floor, but I don’t see a really compelling reason for it. After all, you lose continuous wall space where you could, for example, place a dresser.

A storage room in front of the stairs on the upper floor is not possible, as hardly any light would then be able to enter. At the moment, the staircase is also reversed so that you reach the top on the outer wall side. I probably should have added an arrow in the plan.

As mentioned, the basement is not finished yet. However, I wonder if the laundry room shouldn't be closer to the stairs, since the path between stairs and laundry room will probably be frequented more often than between laundry room and light well. The idea behind the storage room at the light well was also that bulky items like garden tables, grills, etc., which you want to store over the winter, do not have to be maneuvered around a tight corner but can be brought straight into the storage room from the light well.

I have also created a walk-in closet for myself. However, I have 58 cm deep carcasses there because I now hang everything, T-shirts, blouses, pants, dresses, jackets, etc. Much more practical than always folding and stacking everything. And that's all you have left if the wardrobes are only 45 cm deep.

Really? You even hang up T-shirts? Tops? Jeans? Etc... I’d love to see that sometime :)

The dressing room is 2.10m wide and will be furnished appropriately by my father-in-law (master carpenter). We thought mostly of open shelves,...

We’ll think about relocating the children’s room doors on the upper floor, but I don’t really see a strong argument for it. After all, you lose continuous wall space where, for example, you could put a dresser.

If the dressing room is furnished openly, I would consider a partition (sliding door) to the bedroom. In the bedroom, shaking out the duvets and making the beds stirs up so much dust, I would protect the clothes from that.

Relocating the children’s room doors, since wardrobes are usually placed/hidden behind doors, because they look quite bulky. The rooms still offer enough space for a dresser. I don’t think this is the final furnishing either – is there even a final furnishing in children’s/teen rooms? ;)

Otherwise, I like it.

Really? You even hang T-shirts? Tops? Jeans? Etc... I would like to see that sometime :)

Me too; I do have other hobbies besides ironing ;) Rhineland greetings