First contact and presentation of our plans

With your wishes, at least the office and the WC should be combined within a short distance. For me, the sequence of the rooms and the quality of life would be more important than the few meters by which the supply under the ground would be longer. The cold storage room with its storage shelves should also be as close as possible to the entrance and kitchen for daily routes. There is very little space for the wardrobe. Where will you put your bed? Should the doors really be angled, or are planned niches for wardrobes and straight walls not better after all? I don't like the floor plan very much. As mentioned above, you walk from the stairs into a wall. If a fireplace is planned there, one should consider whether this is really the final phase of considerations. Often one gets too fixated on half-baked plans, making it very difficult for the architect later to enlighten the clients for the better. The entrance area/entrance door is far too narrow. What seems to have priority here is the passage from the double garage to the wardrobe.

Every region has special characteristics / architecture, for example due to available building materials, techniques, etc. Many people travel halfway around the world and then enjoy the appearance of the houses on site. However, the same people decide, when building their own house, to take no account of the regional building style. And that is a pity.WD

...ok good argument but we will still build like this.

As mentioned, due to the loss of comfort and the increasing demands in old age, this option doesn’t really exist.WD

...Loss of comfort? Because we no longer have a dressing room? Because we only have one bathroom with a large shower and no bathtub? ...I think it’s a matter of opinion.
But: as said, a stairlift would also be an option and I still have the possibility of a fully functional apartment on the ground floor.

Access at the head area creates unrest, and the dressing room should work in such a way that it can be used without disturbing the person sleeping.WD

OK. Good points. We will think about whether an additional door to the hallway still makes sense.

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With your wishes, at least the office and WC should be combined on a short route. For me, the sequence of the rooms and quality of life would be more important than the few extra meters that the supply would be longer underground. Also, for the daily routes, the TK room with its storage shelves should be as close as possible to the entrance and kitchen.

We will reconsider that. We just thought it would be an advantage if the bathrooms and the utility room are "close" together.

There is very little space for the wardrobe.

The wardrobe should find a place in the area between the house and the garage. And that should be sufficient, right?!

Where are you putting your bed? Should the doors really be placed diagonally or aren’t planned niches for closets and straight walls better?

So the bed should stand on the wall to the dressing room, we thought. What do you mean by the doors being placed diagonally?

I don’t like the floor plan very much. As already said above, you walk from the stairs into a wall. If a fireplace is planned there, one should consider whether this is really already the final phase of considerations. Usually, one becomes too fixated on half-bad plans, making it very difficult later for the architect to convince the clients otherwise.

Yes, right, you walk into a wall, but you still have about 3 meters to brake before ;) Just kidding. Yes, we thought of a fireplace integrated in the wall with 2 panes. So one on the hallway side and one on the dining room side. (Filling from the hallway side)

The entrance area/entrance door is way too narrow.

Why is 1.7 meters too narrow? What would be an appropriate width?

What probably has priority here is the passage from the double garage to the wardrobe.

I don’t understand, what do you mean by that?

Regards and thanks for your thoughts

But it is always the same again and by now quite amusing. Criticism points are raised (and several people criticize the same points) and yet everything stays the same...

So why your contribution in this forum?

milkie

But it’s always the same and by now quite amusing. Criticism points are raised (and several people criticize the same points) and yet everything stays the same...
...
milkie

Well, , we don’t know that ;)

At least it’s being considered... whether it will have any effect later on is unknown to us, since usually no feedback (except from a few) comes back. Often the wishes (e.g. dressing room, passage garage/house, open fireplace, T-variant in the bathroom, etc.) are copied from others (oh fancy + extravagant, I want that too), and often no thought is given to the sense of it. For example, I always wonder why you need a passage to the garage if the entrance and the garage door are next to each other. Has anyone ever gotten a wet behind from the 50m parking spot to the apartment/house door??? I mean, that door is also a thermal problem (expressed as a layman, because I read about it), and takes up parking space...

Still, some here deal with developers and unproductive architects, whom you can really help here, because financial limits play a role.

Regarding this planning: I’m curious where the cardinal directions are. Either utility rooms are planned in the south or the double garage will get the best part, namely the west side. And just a temporary suggestion for improvement: shorten the hallway by half and gain spaciousness in the dining area by openness to the stairs (of course swap utility room with office and shorten the WC with a small hallway at the front, from where the office branches off ;)) Kitchen door right at the front, opposite the utility room door. Upper floor: swap bedroom with child 2, I suspect that the scaffold balcony is supposed to go there, which would then connect child 1 with the master bedroom?!