I just came across the term "two full stories" in the initial thread about the development plan.
Does it have to be or can it be? The house is not a two-story building, you know that yourself.
Then I don't know if your stair planning is that common. Intermediate landings change the gait, which is not practical but can be dangerous. You should get informed about that, especially in combination with a change of direction.
In the living room, I would place the sofa against the exterior wall and install a floor-to-ceiling window facing north or east.
Basically, I would remix the ground floor if your wife also likes to read in the sunlight.
Of course, for other reasons too. Katja has nicely conjured up the upper floor [emoji4]
I also don't find the dormer at the edge of the roof that great.
And another note about the knee wall: 60/70 cm is not much. You can't squeeze a bed with a headboard in there... the children can't move around underneath either if there's a bed with a lying surface about 40 cm high.
I know it like this: if a knee wall is under about 100 cm, you build forward inside the rooms. That makes the floor and usable area smaller but gives a higher knee wall inside.
There were already enough comments about the bottleneck in the dressing room...