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

In my opinion, that sums up quite well the problem I see in many posts here. Personal preferences are absolutized. In my opinion, that is not a good tone either online or offline.

Oh, completely overlooked. That can almost be taken as an insult.
As Katja also says: with those who have something to say here, you can tell whether these are general recommendations and you have to differentiate whether you would just solve it differently yourself because you have preferences. The difference is not in the detail, but in the mission with which everyone is here, and that is obvious.
That is why I also posted the questionnaire to fill out, so that one can respond even better to the builder.

But it is also not easy to deal with justified criticism that is not a question and therefore does not have to be justified.

And yes, you may also say that the balcony has the worst position for its function.

Well, my knockout criterion is the hallway.

As I said: for me, both.

The rest is fine for me. But that doesn't mean much, because for me a knockout criterion always means failed.

I would have planned as long as the hallways combine practicality and the function of positive feeling. However, here it wouldn't even be a puzzle, but obvious, possibilities exist. And there would still be enough space for the bathroom chest of drawers.

Thanks again Katja and ypg for your contributions. As already mentioned, we don’t quite see the hallway situation the same way. On the contrary, I find the rendered image quite inviting. We actually visited dozens of prefabricated houses during preparation and focused exclusively on the spatial feeling. What neither I nor my wife liked was:

[*]coming in and facing a wall (which is not so uncommon)
[*]being able to see through the entire house
[*]looking from the living room into the hallway

We also communicated this to the architect.

The aesthetics, the spatial perception or practicality of rooms in life are universally valid.

I would fundamentally disagree with that on a basic level. Even practical aspects can look different for everyone. Just think of the kitchen and who does what, when and how much there.

At least remove the double door and have the single door open towards the kitchenette. The double door leaf facing the dining area is always in the way; you end up dancing around it your whole life... if you leave it like that, you will replace that leaf with a glass element no later than in half a year...

We are actually pondering that right now. I’m trying to convince my better half.

(...) I would fundamentally and basically disagree with that on a fundamental level. Even the practical aspects can look different for everyone. Just think about the kitchen and who does what, when, and how much there. (...)

No. Even if everyone considers themselves terribly individual and unique, in the end people all tick similarly. Of course, you can arrange yourself with everything according to the motto "Yes, we planned it stupidly, it can’t be changed now... but we sell it externally as if we find it super great..." But why, if you are already making the effort of individual planning with an architect? You simply do not enter your living area through the kitchen... that is incredibly annoying, especially with children who constantly have to run through the kitchen when they want to go to the living room or onto the terrace or into the garden. I try to keep the children or visitors out of the kitchen as much as possible, you lead them directly through... for every trip you make...

I would fundamentally and basically disagree with that on a fundamental level. Even the practical aspects can look different for everyone. Just think of the kitchen and who does what, when and how much there.

Great argument. If everything were that fundamental, all kitchens and houses would look the same. Luckily, they don’t. I also don’t always find the tendency here in this forum to somehow want to standardize all plans and partly talk builders out of their wishes very nice. Much more than the content, I don’t always like the tone. But that is another matter. On the other hand, admittedly, they just shouldn’t ask if it’s annoying what kind of answers come. It was like that for me in part, too, and at some point, I stopped posting changes and optimizations and that was that. The whole hallway and stairs, access to the living-dining-cooking area, the door to the garage in that tiny utility room, wouldn’t be my thing either. The parking space would be way too valuable to sacrifice like that. The balcony is not my thing either. A few little things upstairs wouldn’t work for us either. But, I don’t have to build it like that and that’s that.

Great argument.
If everything were that fundamental, all kitchens and houses would look the same. Luckily, they don't.
(...)

I can't remember ever entering a living room through the kitchen. There must be reasons why no one does that.

In that respect, that's just not true. Certainly, houses all look individual, but well-planned, well-functioning layouts follow certain rules and principles, which are based on the habits of the vast majority of people.

Whether you build it like that or not—that's not my problem. But why post a floor plan here if you can't handle any criticism?
Then stand by your decisions and do it as it is on paper.

But to present this as a good example—that simply doesn't cut it. Every Town & Country standard floor plan gets more out of it, is more practical in everyday life, and simply works better than this here because a lot of thought has been put into how to get the most utility out of as little (sqm) as possible.

That shows me that you do not understand at a "fundamental level" what I am talking about. Individuality does not stand in the way of good floor plan design. It is part of it. Explaining that would probably go beyond the scope here. I would try it with one word: harmony. One fits with the other - everything complements each other functionally and aesthetically and together forms a total work of art. Then it is good.