Feedback on single-family house floor plan, 222 sqm desired

I am really sorry, but I have to join the general consensus.

On the ground floor, I see 6 through rooms, which in my eyes represents the opposite of coziness.
1. Cloakroom
2. Storage room
3. Kitchen
4. Living room
5. Ominous storage room, where you pass through the junk room storage room to the pantry
6. Hallway – OK obviously and only for completeness.

Actually, the whole ground floor is traffic area and only the dining area is cozy in the classic sense, if it were not relatively cramped. Window radii have already been mentioned.

The design strikes me as if the clients went to the general contractor with a very precise idea and then the filler areas and additional corridors were added. The passage room from the garage to the pantry only appeared when work and household in the upper floor could no longer find space in the floor plan and was then welcomed as a solution, or have I misinterpreted that?

It really helped me back then to clearly formulate the MUST requirements and put the CAN requirements up for debate and, if necessary, only implement them suboptimally. Our floor plan was made increasingly complicated by the architect (= draftsman) of the general contractor – whose numerous clients are all satisfied – I do recognize myself in the awkwardness.

We pulled the handbrake and started completely anew from scratch and thus broke the knot in our heads. In my floor plan thread, I didn't even attach the botched general contractor floor plans, as we became increasingly unhappy with every revision.

Questions, for example:
Do you really need 3 bathrooms with showers, and 2 of them upstairs?
Do you really need the energetically very unfavorable dining room?
Do you really need 2 work rooms?
Do you need the huge storage room or can you use the crawl space under the roof? 90% of the other clients also manage with the utility room?

Please clearly state which rooms you REALLY need.

Some things have already been mentioned. Did I actually overlook a north arrow?

I didn't find it either. According to the text, the entrance is NE.

There are some very creative minds here.

Yes,



If I forgot someone, sorry.

Is there anyone who is considering an alternative, preferably also a partial alternative

There are no partial alternatives.

As I already wrote in the first post:
the "replanning" is far too complex and it affects the entire house, I’m out.
And the frequent readers here should be surprised by that.

I don't find the planning completely catastrophic. Many areas, especially on the ground floor, would be too tight for me, but I like that the open space is not just a long hallway or a blind alley L shape. The staircase step is very inconveniently located next to the front door – the utility room between the garage and the house has four doors, and the guest WC – pantry labyrinth corner is a bit claustrophobic and reminds me of the American 60s bungalow of my grandparents – I once got lost there crying as a child when I couldn't find the light switch. The master bedroom would be way too tight for me, but apparently it’s trendy to plan bedrooms so that when you're drunk, you can only fall into the bed, which is at most 1.80 meters wide, because you bounce off walls everywhere. ;) And the utility room behind the dressing room is indeed a bit absurd.

Some points have already been raised. Did I actually overlook a north arrow?

In my view, it would make sense to clarify this point, unless I have already missed the answer. Before moving towards individual rooms, first clarify whether the orientation of the house can make sense.

Yes, @Würfel* @hanghaus2000 @ypg

...surely someone forgot, but I think it's okay to mention yourself once in a while! ;)

I don't find the planning completely catastrophic.

I did have to smirk a bit when you then went on to list almost all the criticism points that had already been mentioned :D

Much of it is a matter of taste, nevertheless many points here are repeated very often that are simply impractical. In addition, quite inefficient and probably costly. The building itself already looks a bit like an older house to which two additions have been made. But as already mentioned, the question remains what is still worthwhile here, because if I understood correctly, the maximum changes are a bit of moving furniture and shifting an interior door. Everything else has already been done, approved, and is actually not wanted to be changed... or?

Plot size: 5 a
Slope: no
Floor area ratio: ?
Floor space index: 0.4
Building window, building line and boundary: Building window has already been exceeded and approved as such. Building boundaries have been fully utilized except for the boundary to the neighbor in the southwest (max 3 m).

Has the building permit already been granted?