Dream house floor plan - 173m² with 3 children's rooms

Have you requested offers from regional companies? We have offers in the range of 60k to 70k for 144 sqm floor area + 17k for 56 sqm (garage), totaling 85k, + 4k drainage pipes, + 3k drain, + 2k inspection shaft, + 6k insulation KfW40, + 2k graveling driveway and terrace = approx. 100k which seems very high to me currently, soil survey report unfortunately still pending, maybe that will have a bigger (hopefully positive) effect.

We have partly in regional companies. Most offers were requested by the house builders from external sources. I don’t see it as unusually high now. The garage is our cheapest currently at 30k. The base slab for our house area is between 30-40k.

The hallway should invite you to go and live in the main rooms. I only see closedness – it just doesn’t open up. And it is very dark, as you can see.

A hallway must, in my opinion, be able to do a lot more. For me, first and foremost, it would be to provide rooms as efficiently as possible and to create an area where you can dress and undress comfortably. I recommend the book: "A Short History of Nearly Everything" in which Bill Bryson beautifully describes how the function of the house has changed over the centuries. Especially the hallway has melted from the entrance hall into the transit area. Culture is changing, and with it, the function of the house.

Sufficient... ok. Certainly sufficient is also a 90x90 shower with sliding door etc.

Exactly. That is the point. Depending on the needs, some things are more important than others. For example, we could have made the study smaller or done without the second shower. It is always a balancing of interests. Ultimately, you can only try to anticipate your preferences (which can also change again) as best as possible (we currently live in an apartment that is too small) and optimize your floor plan accordingly.

I would make the hallway on the upper floor a bit more spacious and clear the access nose in the bathroom and pull the access door into the bedroom. It would also have a homely advantage if you place the bed on the inner wall like here. The hallway gains size and appears friendlier, without drawbacks to the rooms.

Thanks for the input. We have already considered this idea. We want to put a small, medium-high cabinet in the small niche in the bathroom. I also find it better to enter the bathroom like this, if you do not have the wall immediately to the right of you.

I find that rather unnecessary if you no longer want to allow any changes. That can only lead to dissatisfaction on all sides.

You can read in the construction blog to what extent thoughts have already been made. At some point, a project maturity is also reached where the client has to stand protectively in front of it and curb attempts at influence. After all, a forum community is a special kind of in-law relatives with whom you are not even related by marriage.

I recommend you the book

Funny!

The culture is changing and with it the function of the house.

Exactly! And you don’t have to adhere to the change of function yourself.

You are welcome to critically question the draft.

You just have to ask, I’m happy to answer.

To clarify: I did not ask. Everyone here assumes that you or you all respectively your architect had a reason for it and there are reasons for having implemented it that way. However, there is not only the "one right". Even if the optimal function is present, it can still be done better: visual highlights, sightlines, emotional effect... and all that at no extra cost. It cannot be denied that the house has little to none of that. My only question is:

The balcony is planned for drying laundry.

You don’t really want to present your laundry on the street, do you?!

At some point, a project maturity reaches a level where the client has to stand protectively in front of it and curb attempts at influence. After all, a forum community is a special kind of in-laws, with whom you are not even related by marriage.

Haha very good. I have also described my experience with the in-laws.

You really don’t want to hang your laundry out on the street?!

Let's put it this way: I see it similarly and the balcony was not an idea from the architect either.

On the garage. (See OG)

Ah, all right. I didn’t search there.

I let my computer run for another 5 minutes and tripled the light intensity for you.

First of all, I think it’s good that you visualize it. That way you can somewhat prevent disappointments. However, increasing the brightness on the computer doesn’t help you much in reality. Yvonne already described it well. This hallway doesn’t lead those arriving into the living space; instead, it narrows down to an unpleasant bottleneck. And instead of feeling liberating in the living room, you end up between the dirty pots, pans, or standing in the cook’s way.

In my opinion, this sums up the problem I see in many posts here quite well. Personal preferences are absolutized. In my opinion, that is neither a good tone online nor offline.

That is the mistake many make. They think we are discussing personal preferences. The "discussants" here are far from that. The recommendations always apply and for everyone. It’s not about whether you prefer the walls white or yellow. The aesthetics, spatial perception, or practicality of rooms in life are universally valid.

What do YOU find uncomfortable for YOURSELF?

Well, my knockout criterion is the hallway. The narrowing in front of the stairs is horrible to look at as soon as you enter. You are led nowhere. On the contrary, the doors and paths remain hidden. Then turning the corner into the kitchen is, in my opinion, a design flaw aesthetically. The limited space by the staircase is just as bad. Anyone coming down the stairs with momentum risks crashing into the wall.

The technology is not yet 100% drawn in. Will there be a ventilation system for the living space? What all needs to be put in there? I also consider it sufficient if you don’t want to place anything else in there. But I would definitely furnish it realistically once.

Upstairs, I completely agree with Yvonne and would also widen the hallways. I would also remove the recess at the bathroom and rather redesign it. It all feels quite mouse tunnel-like.

The rest is okay for me. But that doesn’t mean much because a knockout criterion always means failed to me.

At some point a project maturity is reached where the client must protect themselves and curb attempts at influence. A forum community is, after all, a special kind of in-laws you’re not even related to by marriage.

Maybe still justifiable for this design. But generally, that statement is nonsense. I don’t build a rocket costing tens of thousands just for it not to fly to the moon because I planned for so long.

My problem here is primarily the recommendation for others, which I don’t see at all with this floor plan.

At least remove the double door and let the single door open towards the kitchen unit. The double door leaf facing the dining area is always in the way; you dance around it your whole life... if you leave it as it is, you will replace this leaf with a glass element in no more than six months...